Scots told to wear face mask if you feel ill

Scots advised to wear face #masks & stay away from #work, #school, #hospitals until they are better as flu cases across the country continue to rise

Public #Health #Scotland has advised anyone with flu symptoms to stay away from public settings and to wear face masks in high-risk parts of hospitals. Some #NHS trusts have also asked anyone with flu symptoms to avoid visiting hospitals entirely.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25677864.scots-told-wear-face-mask-feel-ill-flu-surge/

#illness #PublicHealth #OurNHS

me at work today
#catsofmastodon #cats #Humor #work #monday

«The global AI industry is fueled by hidden and precarized labor: workers who collect and annotate data, keep data centers running, and mine rare earth minerals—not to mention the artists, translators, writers, and actors whose work fuels so-called generative AI» 📢 This paper redirects attention to those workers.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36667

@milamiceli
@timnitGebru
@DAIR
@alex
@Weizenbaum_Institut

#Paper #AI #IA #IAgenerativa #generativeAI #data #workers #datacenters #labor #work

Scots told to wear face mask if you feel ill

Scots advised to wear face #masks & stay away from #work, #school, #hospitals until they are better as flu cases across the country continue to rise

Public #Health #Scotland has advised anyone with flu symptoms to stay away from public settings and to wear face masks in high-risk parts of hospitals. Some #NHS trusts have also asked anyone with flu symptoms to avoid visiting hospitals entirely.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25677864.scots-told-wear-face-mask-feel-ill-flu-surge/

#illness #PublicHealth #OurNHS

me at work today
#catsofmastodon #cats #Humor #work #monday

Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-chief-adam-mosseri-announces-five-day-office-return-2025-12

#HackerNews #Instagram #Office #Return #Instagram #News #Work #Culture #Remote #Work #2026

How to Attend Meetings – Internal guidelines from the New York Times

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l7s1aAsNPlNhSye8OsMqmH6pMR32OYGGdLT6VKyFaQE/edit#slide=id.p

#HackerNews #How #to #Attend #Meetings #Internal #guidelines #from #the #New #York #Times #meetings #productivity #guidelines #NYTimes #work #culture #communication #tips

Datacenters in space aren't going to work

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

#HackerNews #Datacenters #in #space #going #to #work #space #tech #datacenter #challenges #future #technology #space #exploration

«The global AI industry is fueled by hidden and precarized labor: workers who collect and annotate data, keep data centers running, and mine rare earth minerals—not to mention the artists, translators, writers, and actors whose work fuels so-called generative AI» 📢 This paper redirects attention to those workers.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36667

@milamiceli
@timnitGebru
@DAIR
@alex
@Weizenbaum_Institut

#Paper #AI #IA #IAgenerativa #generativeAI #data #workers #datacenters #labor #work

Happy No US Clients Want Meetings This Week Week to all who celebrate!

Also, prepare yourself for "We're going to have to push this into Q1 2026" season!

#work #consulting

#Utility #prices have risen roughly 3X faster than overall #inflation this year, at a precarious time for the #economy. Businesses are announcing #MassLayoffs, & it’s taking #unemployed Americans much longer to find new #work. There are also signs that lower- & middle-class families are pulling back on spending.

#affordability #CostOfLiving #Trump #recession #trumpcession

@Wtebbens Yes, we should stop AI-fanatical marketing.

But we shouldn't stop warnings that #AI can destroy #jobs and also the #work of free-lanced. Pls regard e.g. the situation of artists and creatives: Big corporations steel their work for training, #AISlop makes their work invisible in search machines, you find the bad pseudo-work, the loss is already big.

And: radiologists/medicine use #machineLearning. That's something different than #LLM or #GPTs!

@Wtebbens Yes, we should stop AI-fanatical marketing.

But we shouldn't stop warnings that #AI can destroy #jobs and also the #work of free-lanced. Pls regard e.g. the situation of artists and creatives: Big corporations steel their work for training, #AISlop makes their work invisible in search machines, you find the bad pseudo-work, the loss is already big.

And: radiologists/medicine use #machineLearning. That's something different than #LLM or #GPTs!

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@Mara/115575199307766755

I have seen so many production incidents at `$FAANG` triggered because of the liberal usage of `unwrap`, and it always comes down to the same thing

It's the _culture_ in these companies which is constantly pushing workers to do more with less, and deliberately failing to allocate enough time and resources for the deliverables being requested

Changing the name of `unwrap` isn't going to have any impact on this problem; everybody working on these codebases at companies of this magnitude knows that denying the use of `unwrap` or `expect` is a simple `deny` annotation away

Even if they had to write `or_panic` instead of unwrap, they would still do it, because the problem here is not a technical problem, it is a problem of working conditions

This is what we get with an economic model which is centered around making every worker "fungible", and no amount of safety guarantees in the Rust compiler or standard library naming decisions will ever be able to address this fundamental underlying issue

#rust #work #faang #cloudflare

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@Mara/115575199307766755

I have seen so many production incidents at `$FAANG` triggered because of the liberal usage of `unwrap`, and it always comes down to the same thing

It's the _culture_ in these companies which is constantly pushing workers to do more with less, and deliberately failing to allocate enough time and resources for the deliverables being requested

Changing the name of `unwrap` isn't going to have any impact on this problem; everybody working on these codebases at companies of this magnitude knows that denying the use of `unwrap` or `expect` is a simple `deny` annotation away

Even if they had to write `or_panic` instead of unwrap, they would still do it, because the problem here is not a technical problem, it is a problem of working conditions

This is what we get with an economic model which is centered around making every worker "fungible", and no amount of safety guarantees in the Rust compiler or standard library naming decisions will ever be able to address this fundamental underlying issue

#rust #work #faang #cloudflare

This is a busy week for me, as I try to wrap up a good amount of work before some travel for the holidays. I'll be very close to the computer throughout most of it, so you should see me more active online. As part of that, I'll be hanging out in the Remark.as Café all week long. If you're a Write.as Pro user, come stop by and say hello to everyone!

#work #RemarkAs

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