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KDE lets me change the TV brightness now! Yo! Amazing!

:hahe: It makes me happy when you are hurt! ha he!

labor is not being automated 

@thufie pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.

labor is not being automated 

This isn't universal, this is just a pattern I've noticed.

I think a lot of people think they are being replaced by a machine. Whether it is creative workers or everyday laborers, in more and more of their tasks. I would like to offer an alternative explanation, as technology is not magic, and often comes with a huge maintenance burden.

Modern labor issues ought to highlight how much corporations want to replace a mass of moderately-trained employees with an extremely specialized and overextended set of maintenance specialists. It's not "AI" it isn't "IoT", it's not "self-service", it is small traveling crews of IT maintenance people. Sometimes in combination with outsourced menial IT tasks instead of purely mechanical compute. Labor is not being automated, it is being replaced with tech workers who are at once being stretched thin and also exploiting everyone around them in shittier system maintenance roles. This is attractive to corporations because they can subcontract the tech work and use them as pawns in disputes with labor, later throwing the sub-contractor under the bus if the ploy doesn't work without losing much of anything. This can be a very incremental process, with only very small parts of work becoming pure IT maintenance at a time.

uspol , silly subtoot 

Hey you're stupid! Go vote for Jill Stein!

(and unlike you I am gonna use a cw for uspol and spare the rest of the world our bullshit)

What if Mozilla asked me to draw their new Firefox logo

we don't call people who leave social media websites refugees, just as a reminder, that's not what being a refugee is. deleting an account on a social media website is not what being a refugee is. it's not cute or funny.

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getting the boys at the auto shop to add raised cock vein decals to my pickup truck so that when people see it they know it's erect and throbbing and not limp and pitiful. this is important to me and my family

so, due to change in icelandic law regarding unemployment benefits, our household is officially without income. this has made us very angry, and it was widely regarded it as a bad move.

but we have bills to pay and are, frankly,
fucked at the moment. if you'd like to help in the long term, please hire me, i have a decade of tech support experience in wildly different fields and i am Very Good At What I Do. please get in touch in DMs if you have concrete leads, or know a guy who knows a guy.

however, right now, i need short-term help, so here i am, rattling the collections tin.

thanks. love you.

https://ko-fi.com/unregisteredhypercadence

EDIT need met

Also have another #MutualAidRequest for Darieon, a COVID orphan who I've been materially supporting for several years. He's trying to get $30 so his little brother DJ can make it to his basketball game on Tuesday, can anyone help out?

Cashapp $Darieon2
Venmo @/darieon-Williams
Paypal paypal.com/paypalme/DarieonW

@mutualaid

Why are so many weather control conspiracy theorists German?

it's just so funny to be talking about how neural networks work, and being intentionally oblivious about how OCR uses these methods and works great and thus nothing is wrong, and then try to find a source on computational complexity by following the citations from papers only to realise that, no, there is no paper by Martin Davis called Computability and unsohabili

If you are the kind of person who switches between apps in a cycle waiting for new stuff to appear, consider adding an app which does not depend on a feed of live user-generated content to that rotation which will let you break the loop. Ebooks, podcasts, language-learning and practice apps can all provide a healthy and productive way out of that cycle. I like using KOReader to pull up a book while I'm out and about and don't want people looking at my timelines and feeds anyways.

New KDE power menu panel widget shows the battery charge state and the selected performance mode in one icon you can check at a glance. This was sorely needed, no more tapping the panel to know both! 🥳

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