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  I had a solid living standard as a kid because my parents were both fortunate enough to work union jobs. (UAW and Michigan Teachers unions). A job on the shop floor paid enough to raise a family. Mom helped organized and bargained so that teachers had healthcare and solid wages. As unions were systematically weakened by corporations, propaganda and government interference over the years the standard of living and job security in my hometown area fell. Profits and costs shot up. Workers still...

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  There’s a bot sitting in some of my meetings now telling us crap like we’re on topic or spitting out summary notes nobody will read. Meanwhile half of rural and or poor SE Michigan is being bought up for loud, polluting data centers. https://mastodon.online/@billyjoebowers/116954109691249901

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  The cluster fuck around executive function and dinner. Hungry but if I order something it’s expensive - I should buy groceries. But the Power went out last week so everything in the fridge needs to be tossed first before I put new things in. I’m still hungry. And as of yesterday the fridge is on the fritz so maybe I should replace it before I buy groceries.. I want a retro fridge but I should research them before buying one. And maybe mine will be fine a while longer… Also there’s some su...

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  I am too old and responsible to rage quit things 😑

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  When someone tells you who they are by naming their company this, you should believe them. https://mastodon.social/@angusm/116440441795952952

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  Ordered myself an overpriced breakfast sandwich. As a little bribe for coping with reality.

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  A good list at the end of companies still making good products, including Detroit’s own Carhartt https://thepit.social/@ebooksyearn/116444216493018163

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  This particular type of generated content is pointedly noxious - it exists entirely to trick people into believing a lie for attention. Not as a statement or commentary, but entirely as a capitalistic scheme to get clicks and therefore money. Thats not art - it’s a scam that robs photographers who ARE doing the work of blending real skill with the kismet they find in nature to bring awareness to how special this planet is. I hate it. https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/116452475774038820

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  By Thursday it always looks like a raccoon has been living on my desk.

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  Lilly of the valley is pretty but I wish it hadn’t been planted in MY yard. Have to constantly keep it in check

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  Budget item for ICE to get smart glasses. No shock there. They’re building a database of everyone, obviously, for the purposes of widespread government surveillance. For every “yeah I guess that’s neat” use for smart glasses I’ve ever heard there’s a squadron of creepy abusive patriarchy control and abuse use cases. Guess which ones the people in power are going to fund.

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  While we’re at it. Pingree Detroit makes well crafted goods right here in the city, with materials that would’ve been wasted after car manufacturing. They employ Detroiters and veterans. https://pingreedetroit.com I am not a purse girl. I own two. They’re beautifully made. https://hachyderm.io/@amcvittie/116445942071325782

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  Woah. YES. THIS. This is the thing. It’s not that I’m “depleted” exactly. I’m not doing nothing. My brain is making defrag noises for the next several hours processing ALL THE INFO and feelings. https://sfba.social/@oldredsubby/116434176431374032

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  I am once again begging you to stop making AI reports of your user research because I’ve seen three different versions from 3 diff tools this week on the same research and they’re all making very plausible sounding, expensive and incorrect conclusions. How do I know that they were bad? I actually analyzed the data myself. In my brain. Cuz it’s my job.

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  TIL Slap Widgets also live rent free in @noleli ‘s head https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1518701.1518779

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  “Amandeep Jutla, an associate research scientist at Columbia University studying the impact of AI chatbots, believes that one of the main reasons for users to spiral is the “anthropomorphic nature of the interface”. He adds that, unlike human conversations, which feature pushback and different perspectives tugging at each other, a user doesn’t receive any pushback during their conversations with chatbots: “The design of the product is pushing you away from reality. It’s pushing you away from oth...

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  The Trump administration just started giving away 93 MILLION ACRES of YOUR children’s and grandchildren’s lands. Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever. Logged. Mined. Paved. Gone. No more hunting, fishing, hiking, camping or biking. Sold off to billionaires. Stripped of beauty and value. If a nation doesn’t maintain its natural heritage and beauty wtf is the point of a country? I am so angry and fucking exhausted from their endless greed and evil and stupidity. This is a country in free fal...

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  Without unpacking all that’s going on here - and there’s a lot but this isn’t Reddit - I found this to be a great little piece of narrative. https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116291873463688573

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  Gandalf be like: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116292223238071246

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  Just realized “Final Fantasy” is like “Final.PSD” FinalXXIV.PSD

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  “Judgment is politically vulnerable. Rules are not. The procedure exists to make discretion disappear, or seem to. The system’s actual flexibility lives entirely in this unacknowledged interpretive work, which means it can be removed by anyone who mistakes it for inefficiency.” https://mastodon.scot/@patrickhadfield/116295080773606177

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  Look closely at the second half of the article. What it says about process and human judgement and the metrics and assumptions we measure with. This isn’t really about AI. It’s about accountability and system design and power. My brain is jumping up and down at all the YES. THIS. https://mastodon.scot/@patrickhadfield/116295080773606177

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  I’m so tired. https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070

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  Tried to impulse buy something this morning and no less than 6 hard to dismiss popovers annoyed me so much I quit. The irony. #ux

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  Remember when people just tried to put accurate information up on the web instead of smashing the Big Auto Correct button hoping for real info? How’s this better than a few pages of info and search engines? How much did it cost financially and environmentally? Why is everything stupid? https://zeroes.ca/@tantramar/116289430399825981

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  Sigh. It’s another “just bring me a sandwich because I’m busy and there’s nothing to make fast” day.

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  Thank god I’m watching this video on how to not compromise a company phone that I don’t actually have.

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  Stress and overstimulation migraine since yesterday. I’m afraid to go look at my calendar right now and find meetings

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  I have 90 mins today that aren’t meetings 😑

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  There’s some software dev/ Moriarty Sherlock “death by waterfall” joke here in my head but I can’t find it. You get the theme.