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RickRussell_CA

@ RickRussell_CA @beehaw.org

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  • Amazon Workers Launch Largest Strike Yet: 'It Doesn't Feel Like a Job That Should Be Legal'

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  • Unfortunately the strike ended just a few days ago -- organizers have vowed to come back with a new plan, since Amazon refused to negotiate.

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  • Well, game journalists need to sell gaming hardware and AAA games. Those guys have the ad money.

    Just play what you like.

  • AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

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  • Perhaps, but I don't read anything on Substack unless I'm subscribed. Reputation is the entire point on Substack, without it, the content will get no traffic.

  • Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres

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  • AI with dedicated nuclear power? I can't imagine anything that could possiblye go wrong in this scenario.

  • molded by the dark chocolate

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  • Ssssssmokin

  • molded by the dark chocolate

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  • "Do you feel... in charge?"

  • Thoughts on Space Games, Part 1: Top-5 AAA Games

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  • Outer Worlds has no space-based content. Yes, you have a spaceship, but it's essentially a fast-travel device. One of the locations is a space station, but it's no different than a large building (e.g. it's not shaped like a torus or anything interesting like that).

    Outer Worlds is a really fun take on the Firefly space western concept, though, as long as you understand all of your activities will take place on worlds/moons with basically the same gravity & atmosphere.

  • Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down

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  • Oh good, now when I search I'll have to wade through the effluent of AI-produced pablum to find an actual human journalism product.

  • What Are a Museum’s Obligations When It Shows a ‘Problematic’ Artist?

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  • I feel like there should be a line of intention. The artist described in the article was essentially racist by ignorance. She didn't really know any Black folks, and fetishized them from afar. Doesn't excuse her offense entirely, but perhaps ignorance mitigates her offense somewhat.

    I was pleasantly surprised that Professor Appiah's take was so nuanced.

  • Beavers Are Back in London — and They're Thriving

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  • Haberdashers rejoice!

  • When Do We Stop Finding New Music? - A Statistical Analysis

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  • Research has shown that adolescents exhibit higher levels of open-earedness

    I feel like this reasoning is a bit fallacious. By definition, ALL music is new when you're young.

    Sure, as a guy in my 50s, my typical shuffle playlist has like 30% of songs on it from when I was a teen, and another 30% or so from ages 20-45. But that's because my musical tastes have grown somewhat steadily, but I haven't stopped listening to stuff I used to like either. By simple statistics, the "variance" in my music selections has to go down over time, since I'm not discarding old music from my collection. Some kind of "regression to the musical mean" has to happen as you add more music without removing old music.

  • Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable

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  • Remember when Substack, the home of many excellent journalists, started to defend fascist and white supremacist content on their platform?

    Oh, wait, that's happening right now.

  • Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot

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  • \3. Asserting that their IT system is a "separate legal entity" and that they are not responsible for the accuracy of the system. They are eating legal loco weed.

  • how's your year going, Beehaw

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  • I know I'm lucky -- I'm in a senior position in my career, so it's likely I'll find something new for the same or similar salary.

    Still, it was completely unprovoked. I had nothing but glowing performance reviews, nothing like an HR writeup or anything.

  • how's your year going, Beehaw

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  • I'm to be dismissed from my job Jan 3.

    I guess I have prospects. Still, it's a hell of a kick in the teeth, I've never been involuntarily terminated from a job in my entire life.

  • Country music recommendations

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  • Plenty of decent country before the 1990s. Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride, Ray Charles, the Statler Brothers, Mel Tillis, Roy Clark, John Denver, Willie Nelson. Later country artists with pop sensibilities like Kenny Rogers, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Reba McIntire.

    I'd argue that Roy Clark ranks as one of the most talented American guitarists/banjoists of the 20th century, easily in the same class as Jimi Hendrix or Prince.

    Today, look for specific types of country music (e.g. Bluegrass) to find more authentic stuff, or just bite the bullet and listen to stuff with different genre labels like "Americana" and "Folk". A lot of good modern country music ends up in those genre classifications because the marketers can't figure out how to fit it into the stadium country ecosystem.

  • Disenchanted with the democratic party due to Gaza, where do I go now?

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  • Sure, I guess that's a... very long term?... solution to the OP's problem.

  • Disenchanted with the democratic party due to Gaza, where do I go now?

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  • I'd like a citation on the funding from Iran. Iran is mostly Shi'ite, and doesn't generally get involved in Arab or Sunni affairs. And this article from 2021 (prior to the current conflict) points out that the bulk of Hamas funding comes from Qatar and Turkey, respectively.

  • Disenchanted with the democratic party due to Gaza, where do I go now?

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  • FPTP

    Can you explain in more detail? I'm unclear on what First Past the Post voting has to do with the OP's concerns.