“People recognizing where life is happening feel location as a catalyst for organizing experimental practices.”

Found on LinkedIn. I’m not sure, but compelling, nevertheless. I think it’s a reference to evil bosses that want their employees to work in the office.

It makes you realise though that LinkedIn really is just a site for employees, with their amazing ability to be glamoured by bullshit.

Oh and the hustlers that hunt them, as well.

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Possible alternatives…

“When you realize presence is more than proximity, you stop clocking in and start showing up.”

“Location isn’t just a place — it’s a mindset.”

“An office is not a building, it’s a becoming.”

Great news; book archeologists (that’s a thing apparently) have just uncovered the missing last book in the Merlin and King Arthur series, from the 1200’s. It was found hiding in the binder of a 1700s tax report.

In it, the magician becomes a blind harpist who later vanishes into thin air. He then reappears as a balding child who issues edicts to King Arthur, wearing no underwear.

Arthur had no filter, it seems.

The shape-shifting Merlin – whose powers apparently stem from being the son of a woman impregnated by the devil – asks to bear Arthur’s standard on the battlefield.

The king agrees – a good decision it turns out – for Merlin is destined to turn up with a handy secret weapon: a magic, fire-breathing dragon.

Crikey. I gotta get me some of that.

Tests onboard the Mars rover have found rocks that contain long-chain alkanes.

However the researchers don’t want to claim they have found a biosignature – a “smoking gun” – indicating life that was once present on Mars.

But I’m going to go out on a limb here; microplastics?

One of the problems with the current breed is that they’re second order experts.

As soon as they get a salary they stop doing and start managing research.

Give them 5 years of that and their skills are atrophied.

Makes them completely useless for startups.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with low competence in a specific area tend to overestimate their abilities, while those with high competence often underestimate theirs. skills

Those people high on the Dunning-Kruger scale are right at the bottom of the Turing scale; that is, they are the easiest to be fooled by AI into thinking they’re talking to a human.

Excessive affluence can  lead to:

Social comparison: Constantly measuring oneself against others who have more, leading to feelings of inadequacy.

Entitlement: Expecting special treatment and becoming dissatisfied when expectations aren’t met.

Isolation: Wealth can create social distance, making it harder to form genuine connections with others.

Anxiety and stress: Managing wealth and maintaining a certain lifestyle can be a significant source of stress.

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Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

It’s a case of a whole region being self gaslit.

Root cause? It’s easiest to explain with a portmanteaux of masturbation and schadenfreude. Schadurbate

It might be worthwhile to create a database of people that regularly repost rubbish on LinkedIn, i.e. every repost, ever.

It’s a simple scrape for a few weeks.

If they repost at least once a week, they’re in the database.

That database would be valuable as the “do not hire” list. Or even as the “make redundant” list.

That’s a free tip for DOGE.

A slider button on the side of a TV remote (like the Apple silence slider) that locks the remote.

Thus avoiding all ghost button pushes that turn the TV off.

For Nicola:

“I recognize that the courage, determination and effort made by many generations of feminists in the 19th and 20th centuries in removing the systematic bias against women in Western societies.

I feel, in the 21st century, that women like me are reaping the benefits of their efforts, and I thank them for that.

In my life I have had just about all the choices open to me that my male colleagues have had, and in some cases, more And I have made the most of these opportunities, at least where I wanted to.

This is why I eschew the current women’s clubs and the like that are still promoting further “rights” for women. I have the rights they claim they are missing. It seems disingenuous to me to continue asking for more, especially when more has been delivered.

In effect, you can call me a post-feminist. And I do not tolerate well faux-feminism in an age where it appears to be solely self-serving. Even if it is self-delusion, I see no excuses.

I also differentiate between equality in opportunities and equality in outcomes. If some women have had the opportunities and not made the most of them, then it is especially unethical for them to call for more rights, absent effort or capabilities.

I recognize that men and women have differences and I have no interest in denying these differences. I like being a woman and have no interest in suppressing my basic womanhood just so I can access some privilege that has supposedly been denied to me by the patriarchy.

When I look at rights around the world, I note that many people of both genders had have far fewer opportunities than I have had. I do not feel comfortable wanting more by right, when there are other far more deserving.

Finally, rights must come with obligations. I would like to see those calling for more rights to state what new obligations they plan on adopting.”

Sure, the US spends more on military expenditure than all of their former allies put together.

But this allows them to consume with debt, and repay that debt in their own currency, which they can just print to their heart’s content.

If they isolate themselves, eventually they won’t be the centre of consumption.

Poverty coming up!

Myopia is now known to be linked to excessive “nearwork”, like reading, studying and computer work during the developing years. And more recent studies have found that increased outdoor time is a crucial protective factor.

90% of young people in Taiwan have myopia, the highest in the world.

You could say that the country is short sighted.

The deft hand of the Deathstar…

When Microsoft bought Skype in 2011 for $8.5bn after outbidding Google and Facebook, its largest deal at the time, the service had about 150 million monthly users; and “Skype” was the commonly used verb for all video conferencing.

By 2020, the number of subscribers had fallen to roughly 23 million. And now they’re turning it off.