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JoBo

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  • Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women

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  • But they're not telling men that, only women. And that is unreasonable no matter how hard you struggle to justify it.

  • Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women

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  • Surely there's a legal way to carry on fucking women over.

  • You Need Way Less EV Range Than You Think: Study

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  • This is such a bone-headed approach. Averages are meaningless. People don't have one car for short trips and a different one for long trips.

    You're worried about range but did you know that range is only a problem for 3% of the journeys you make? Just stop visiting people, going on holiday, or travelling for work and it's fine!

  • Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else

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  • Yes! Phones with small screens are not useful. Phones which don't fit in pockets are not useful. Flip phones solve the problem and I've been wanting one for twenty years.

  • Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else

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  • Removable batteries for sure, but I spent 20 years waiting for the clamshell design to make a comeback and I love my Flip (4). Phones need to fit in pockets and have a decent sized screen.

  • Sunak attacks Starmer on trans rights as Brianna Ghey’s mother visits Parliament

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  • It's not even like he was caught unawares doing his usual schtick without realising Ms Ghey was present. Not that it would be OK anyway. But Starmer literally introduced her at the start of PMQs. Grotesque. Absolutely grotesque.

  • A famous climate scientist [Michael Mann] is in court, with big stakes for attacks on science

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  • Hotez says he's glad Mann is fighting back in court. But he doesn't think a bunch of lawsuits is a sustainable solution. And he says he wants to keep working in the lab.

    "We have a new human hookworm vaccine that'll come online soon," he says, "That's how I want to spend my time. I don't want to spend my day making cold calls to plaintiff lawyers."

    Brandolini's law comes to mind. It's such a ridiculous waste of time and money but these people are funded by billionaires to waste our time and money with FUD so that we never get around to regulating them.

    Bankrupt the fuckers and then maybe we will all get some peace. G'luck Prof Mann. And any other near/in retirement academics who are willing to waste their last few years on using the courts to get the word out.

  • Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’

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  • They could certainly do with a control group or three. The point they're trying to make is that over 5 days of watching recommended videos the proportion that were misogynistic grew from 13% on day 1 to 52% on day 5. That suggests a disproportionate algorithmic boost but it's hard to tell how much that was caused by the videos they chose to view.

    A real world trial ought to be possible. You could recruit thousands of kids to just do their own thing and report back. It's a very hard question to study in the lab because it's nothing like the real world.

  • Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN

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  • I spend hours and hours a week in video meetings. If the scammers had access to the footage, it's easily done. Easier, even, given that all the available footage would be from the right context.

  • UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts

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  • Increases in life expectancy accrue primarily to the better off. Whose longer retirements are being paid for by robbing the poorest of any retirement at all.

    Tax the fucking rich.

  • TIL it's better to charge a little every day than let your battery get low before recharging.

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  • No.

  • Can I just convert to Judaism tomorrow and get a free vacation to Israel?

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  • Conversion is a long process, made considerably easier since Israel came into existence but still not overnight. So no, not tomorrow. But yes, you could probably do it if you were determined enough, or had the right help: How 90 Peruvians became the latest Jewish settlers

  • Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO

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  • Not really.

    The valuations under consideration demonstrate the extent of tech’s retreat from the heady days of the private funding boom that peaked in 2021. Reddit raised funds that year at a $10 billion valuation, and could potentially have been valued as much as $15 billion in an IPO, Bloomberg News reported in 2022.

    I'd like to think we all had a little bit to do with it also.

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  • It's a publisher, not a book store FWIW.

  • A man opened an emergency exit and walked on a plane's wing. Passengers are supporting his action

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  • It's framed perfectly. Did you just not bother to read all of it or something?

  • Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, 245,000 Jewish survivors are still alive

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  • Chomsky ignores lessons of wars on Kosovo

    I have no idea if this is a fair book review but it does at least explain where the claim comes from.

    And, FWIW, it does chime with the blindspots of late Chomsky, and a particular flavour of 'left' anti-imperialism which has developed over the last 30 years. His political writing is valuable but the man is not infallible and, of late, he has been very much the man with a hammer who only sees nails.

  • Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens ‘wrongly fined for driving in London Ulez’

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  • Weirdly enough, that wouldn't come across as a rape joke. I know, it makes no sense.

  • Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens ‘wrongly fined for driving in London Ulez’

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  • Oh, you're a troll. Fuck off.

  • Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens ‘wrongly fined for driving in London Ulez’

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  • In the context of eating spicy food, it is fine.

    In the context of law enforcement, it is 100% a rape joke.