Ideal productivity, under capitalism.

Sure…I mean a play without asides? The temptation and effect can be glorious if used appropriately.

Isn’t it wild what humans are capable of? Someone can understand human nature and history to the degree to write some of the things in HP and yet completely have blinders on to their own biases that would enable the same things?

Just read “the Hearing” with my kid tonight, a chapter early in HP 5, when one of the better villains in popular literature is introduced, Delores Umbridge. First time I read HP5 was 20 years ago, reading it again today only for the second time with current context is instructive.

The Hearing is an important chapter as it, for the first time, lays out that the institution running the wizard world might not be on Harry’s side, that there may be political motives behind processes, treatment and proceedings, and overall pulls the adolescent curtain down on the assumption right and good are running everything in the world of wizarding. Umbridge becomes the embodiment of propaganda, misuse of position, and how much damage motivated actors can do when handed power.

Been thinking about this and political implications of climate-driven migration this week.

Here’s the VP of Reddit’s community cited in the article, Laura Nestler, preaching super engagement from a platforms most fanatical users to power content for the 90%.

She suggests, intrinsic motivators such as “autonomy”.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUMW6Ovf6o

She was at Yelp prior, which if you want to look at a steaming pile of a wasted company, man give reddit 5-10 years.

You’re saying he’s a synthetic fiber and not the traditional cotton plain weave? The textile industry will be shocked!

By design. It took me a long while to realize that coming off the “cut middle management, they don’t do anything” 80s and 90s outsourcing then “globalization”(outsourcing), and then startup culture that evolved “we’re lean startup”, the entire last 4 decades of management practices based on BS spewed by Big 4 consultancies all boils down to pretending you don’t need people to do work and it will magically be completed by someone else.

When you don’t design a process with failsafe staff, when something changes or goes wrong, you’re immediately in the red. Most companies, and many of the processes they use have never had full staff to even see what the world would look like. Quarterly margins are too important.

That 8pm workday? Someone should have been there to deal with it, instead it’s you. Maybe it was a QC person, that was never hired, or your engineer was rushing, or you went with a cheap supplier, your your Corp wants to pay absolute minimum wages so you have incredibly high turnover…these are all costs and get to be born by you, their employee. Sorry, can’t approve your life outside of work. From there, when capable, willing you finally reached exhaustoln says fuck it, the cost gets passed onto the consumer.

Boeing doesn’t even put doors on planes correctly anymore. I had 3 recalls for my car in the last 2 years. Any company or industry from grocery to insurance is in the same spot by depending on magical labor.

Don’t be a wizard nor witch and take your time off.

Tim walz–level confession

Well captalists sleep easier when they have a “labor” president who broke the railroad strike last year. All they did was print some scary news stories for a month, get the public opinion whipped up and suddenly the Dems were happy to play Reagan.

Yeah. I didn’t watch DVC in NY last year. NY definitely didn’t lose this trade, MN seems like lower odds of this being a good tradeoff for them. Unless Randle is exactly the same quality and fits the team, or they get super lucky on a mid first round pick, they basically gave away a big piece for multiple less good pieces.

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Hopefully the whole site!

But perhaps exactly what was (unfortunately) needed;

Don’t assume institutions and those in power or authority are anything more than fallible efforts. Ever.

My first thought was MN won, but didn’t know Randle was hurt. Randle coming off injury and surgery is a pretty big gamble to take trading one of the top 3pt shooters in the entire league, forget among centers. In a league where it’s more valued each year, giving that up is enormous.

Divencezo, yes shooting 3 is great and a scrappy defender is high value but now who plays with/off Rudy?

Towns was kind of the odd man out in the playoffs with MN, his skills are wild but can see why MN let him go.

Toxic climate change and toxic masculinity-- don’t mess with Toxas.

Healthcare, education, transportation…it’s like the opposite of the Life of Brian scene about the Romans, talking about what they brought areas they took control of.

“just have AI do it”

We’re 5 years from someone proposing “smartwall displays” where the entire wall is your display. No more messy cables or creaky mounting brackets. They’ll, of course also have removed the on/off button and you won’t get to control the volume, but just think of the stimulation!

Fahrenheit 451’s technology just around the corner of the next shitty planned community coming soon near you.

If what the article quotes for the CEO and CHRO are accurate those dispel any of that defense I’d think.