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When the government guts worker protections, we all pay the price. Eliminating TSA unions is a move that endangers both workers and travelers. Read the full blog from PM author Jenny Brown and @labornotes here: https://blog.pmpress.org/2025/03/28/trump-tries-to-blow-up-airport-screeners-union/
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One has to wonder, that if by rejecting scientific methods of software metrics (like FPA), software developers have hastened the use of automated activity metrics to judge productivity (like keystrokes, mouse movement, and lines of code).
Metrics like function point analysis take into account time spent in thought, documentation, quality, etc. outside of coding. Those areas where real software development occurs. (Coding should really be automated.)
#SoftwareEngineering
#Metrics
The zany world of computers. A computer application is what you need to perform actions on a computing device. With the advent of mobile computing and the need for instant gratification replies [1], "application" got shortened to "app", but if you use "app" in reference to non-mobile usage, people assume you're talking about mobile. Illogic in computer conversations is ???
[1] OK, so "app" was likely used way before mobile existed, but the current convention says it couldn't have been. ;-)
I think, that through Trump earning a second term, Putin has started operation #RedDawn. Remember that in the movie, the richest were the collaborators. All these government cuts will kill off enough poor people to make the USA unable to defend itself.
#ConspiracyTheoryIdeas
absolutely deranged
[AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers]
Sanctioned #Russian and #Belarusian wood being #smuggled into UK, study suggests - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/russia-belarus-sanctions-wood-smuggling-uk-illegal-imports-laundering-certification-fsc-pefc-research-aoe "‘Chemical fingerprint’ shows 46% of wood samples certified as sustainable did not come from labelled country of origin"
Design tool appreciation day. Thank you Maxmiliano, Felix, Zander, Bilal and everyone caring and helping us whiny designer folks out. Thank you, you are amazing!
Gov't officials mustn't use Signal to evade public records rules. "If you decide to have your communications...in a way that is not trackable or retrievable in response to a FOIA request, what you are doing is circumventing the law," @evacide told @axios. https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/signalgate-encryption-trump-administration-downloads
I drew this three weeks ago, but this guy sucking shit is an evergreen topic. https://brianmcfadden.org/2025/04/05/elon-musks-suck-cess-seminar/
@mcfadden Schrodinger's Tariffs; only the cat knows when to buy and sell stocks.
Conservative economist is a fake job for otherwise unemployable dummies. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/4/11/2315873/-Cartoon-Republican-economic-innovations
"Great news, Americans! Thanks to your god-emperor and his loyal billionaire sidekick, your Freedom Milk, is now fortified with listeria and brain parasites!" - https://boingboing.net/2025/04/22/got-contamination-fda-skips-milk-safety-tests-after-elon-fires-20000-health-and-human-services-employees.html another reason not to visit #murica: the poor quality, untested milk
The underlying premise is that the state is the default mode of social existence—that is, to explain how humans can achieve anything cooperatively, we must first make reference either to the state or its absence.
What I would like people to be able to do is to think about questions of community, cooperation, and sociality entirely on their own terms, without a default and automatic reference to the state.
Hi @steveediger
The link is https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-conference-2025/
I'll be sharing some stories about using Sociocracy (without calling it so) in design, tech and innovation teams.
Hope is useful to someone. :)
Best...
What do recent prior restraints on a book author in Texas and a newspaper in Mississippi have in common?
Both were entered without hearing from the author or newspaper first.
Judges must do a better job protecting the First Amendment.
https://freedom.press/issues/free-speech-suffers-when-courts-rush-to-impose-prior-restraints/
"Do you have to see the body bags
Before you make a stand
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
Just a little bit too late"
#Minutemen
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa