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  1. #Amazon has told managers to incorporate projected #AIEfficiencies into headcount planning for the year, according to two people familiar with the matter.

    This has led to pushback, including an open letter signed anonymously by current and former #staff members, which argued the company was investing in a #future where it would be easier to discard #employees.

    “Here’s what we’re actually experiencing: higher expected output and shorter timelines, mandates to build #AITools for wasteful use cases, and massive investment in #AI with little investment in career advancement,” the letter, published last November, said.

    “As soon as AI got introduced, #deadlines started shortening, and people were expected to do more as quickly,” said one signatory who was made #redundant last year. “It was heavily implied we would be graded on use.”

    Multiple current #AWS #software #developers said they were being asked to take on new #roles with the assistance of AI tools. They noted technical writing teams had been laid off, with engineers now required to complete these tasks. AI use had also been formally written into some workers’ promotion criteria, the developers said.”

    #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <archive.md/c5NGK> / <ft.com/content/433f41f2-bf6d-4>

  2. Crow With No Name: Part 2

    #Wss366 Redundant #MastoPrompt Lung #ScribesAndMakers Hogwash

    I was definitely tripping. Wings? Feathers? I’d been dosed!

    The world was full of psychedelic colors, some of which I couldn't identify. The sidewalk wasn't flat anymore. It was layered and cross-hatched with patterns and shadows that I had walked over a thousand times without ever truly seeing. The witch’s vial rolled lazily, a drop of liquid still in it—its taste bitter on my tongue.

    Meaning flooded me. The shiny wrapper fluttering in the wind: sweetness clinging to foil. The neighbor—I already knew her: yelling, sudden hands, jerky steps that cut the air wrong. Her form shrieked like a warning siren.

    She seemed to offer me a bag of treats: nasty-yellow; awful-gritty-browns; tasty-soggy-golden-flakes; yummy-meat-hollow bones.

    It was #hogwash! Best to stay away. I didn’t decide that. I just knew.

    None of it was #redundant: motion-sight, all saturated with meaning.

    I was in the air before I knew it: Threat-Motion-Arm! I filled my lungs and let out a warning screech so that everyone would know. “Warning, Bad lady!”

    I was free of the earth. “Caw, caw,” I cried. “I’m here!”

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy

  3. Had to turn my LinkedIn job notifications off. I’ve been practically hyperventilating at the wall of job noise I’m met with every time I open my email.
    #redundant #redundancy #job

  4. I should have moved to org-re-reveal sooner. It helped me eliminate a bunch of my own #redundant #elisp #functions for formatting the title page of a #slidedeck.

    Coincidentally, I should have reread the #orgroam #manual sooner, so I could have eliminated a bunch of my own redundant elisp functions related to capture #templates earlier than today.

    Sure, we’d all like to get better faster, but sometimes the impetus is just not there until an appropriate task arrives.

    #emacs #org #orgmode

  5. 1 parcel done so far, a large white van arrived and the driver comically handed me the 'envelope' with the 8x kmart 6x4 prints in it.. an entire van & trip out from the depot for one DL envelope.. 🤣 Good job Kmart.

    #Redundant #CarbonOffset #OverProduction

  6. “…as for Homan’s ‘fresh’ idea of creating a hotline, well, there is already an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tipline where you can report crimes like document and benefit fraud, illegal immigration, human trafficking, and many other offenses. It has existed for more than twenty years, and it takes 15,000 calls a month.”

    Homan is cruel and incompetent.

    thebulwark.com/p/the-fear-is-t

    #immigration #deportation #homan #ice #foolish #wasteful #redundant #cruel #USpol

  7. Dear UN-Friends of #politics,
    As we may know rules and rulers, are fine in
    #maths and #measuring genitalia. Otherwise they are just a #waste of #misdirection:

    1.
    ​:anarchy:​
    2. power is self-determination
    3. all politicians are
    #redundant

    In other words, for most of us. It just does not work
    #adequately. What are the #alternatives?

    1.
    #Cooperatives of #equals
    2.
    #Local organizations, #shared #effort
    3.
    #Educated plebs

    In other words, if you know who
    #benefits. Sometimes called, 'follow the money', the #trail always leads to #exploitation instead of #sharing. ​:ablobcatcoffee:​

    ...meanwhile: I went for a great walk this
    #morning. About 04.30AM it is already light. #Tooting Common was mostly #deserted and I was able to enjoy the #pond, #wildlife and sounds of the #morning. 🎶

    I had a great
    #breakfast on return. Sat in the #garden before the urbanites emerged to moan about life, the #universe and politicians... ​:ablobcatpopcorn:​