Just to highlight the good actors too:

For one thing, Arctic announced a price rollback after securing its refund, saying this will continue until “every single dollar Arctic received […] has been paid back to our customers.”

Panic, maker of the Playdate handheld, has taken a bolder stance, offering refunds to those who bought its console and were charged extra for its tariffs. Company co-founder Cabel Sasser said last month, “It’s just not our money to keep.”

Ever watched The Platform?

If someone came up to me and said they were going to shoot one cat or two and if I didn’t choose one they would shoot three I still wouldn’t play their game. Don’t negotiate with terrorists or whatever.

I agree it’s impolite to photograph or take video of people without permission regardless of the rules where you live. It’s additionally impolite to post it online without getting permission first.

What expertise did they rely on to come to this particular set of limits?

I would have hoped the list would look more like

-Meta must divest entirely from the social media arm of their business

-Prosecutions for each decisionmaker who ignored internal evidence that their products were causing harms

When you find out are you allowed to care in retrospect?

You’re welcome! It stands out against its citation chasing peers by having no sign in necessary or freemium functions. This blog is a bit dated but it’s a librarian who’s been keeping a list of the citation chasing options incl. their database coverage and such.

Zotero is great! I love how many tools and integrations people have built for it. Inciteful (citation chaser) is a favorite. It lets you graph paper associations from a folder of related papers and then suggests related papers based on that. It’s designed to help people build bibliographies, but it also functions as an interesting way to visualize a paper’s impact and genealogy.

impressive indeed

And semi-trucks

I dream of a Bottom Up Logistics software that would enable us to thoughtfully connect and eventually scale grassroots resource sharing efforts. If Farmer Bertha had unsold crops she could list them. Communities in need of certain resources would indicate this. People could commit the use of their time, equipment, etc. The software would do the work of calculating efficient routes and assignments to get everything where it was needed.

My inspiration is the various pet rescue consortiums I’ve found in every city I’ve lived in. People crossing the country to pick up a single dog from rural alabama to bring it to a shelter in california. People pooling money to buy trucks specifically so volunteers can cart needy dogs around. They don’t use fancy logistics but they make it clear to me there’s a lot of uncaptured goodwill out there, and I think that given an organized way to engage, people would jump at the chance to participate in scaling a sharing economy based on empathy for our fellow creatures.

I do think individual (not species) inclination played a bigger role than people usually imagine. We frame evolution as kind of a mechanical inevitability when we teach it in schools (at least when I was taught) and this misses some important complexity.

It also misses an opportunity teach the species problem in biology which I find super intriguing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AHqvA4Is0Aw&t=2m14s

Ohh that’s cool

My local Ace hardware is great for cleaning supplies and random hardware, way less overwhelming than home depot or lowes.

Ebay is great for used clothes if you want to update your wardrobe. New clothes tend to be low quality or overpriced. You can get excellent condition used clothes that are high quality for a fraction of their original cost.

What kinds of things are you looking to update?

I would just say I’ve been working here a long time and thought it was policy that I could eat because that’s what I’d been told in the past. Now that I know it’s against policy, my bad! Apologies! Thanks for letting me know.

A small breath of fresh air

I have location services turned off in windows on my work computer and MS word really dislikes it. Whenever I do a side by side window with word included I get a notification (from word) that I should enable my location services in settings

I agree with your assessment. You’re creating healthy boundaries around your work. You’re taking your breaks legally. You’re doing your job. A job it sounds like you took specifically because you didn’t enjoy the other roles. Those other roles probably do need to be reformed. The more people that put up healthy work boundaries, the more likely policies will be adjusted to actually accommodate for (usually legally mandated!) break and lunch periods. If everyone skips lunch that becomes defacto policy and ruins it for everyone (including the patients getting worse care because their team isn’t in top form).

I held on to mine longer than I wanted to but got fed up. There’s definitely friends I don’t keep up with as well now though. Wish there was a simple and secure way to share updates and photos with friends/family aside from group chats.