another day, another headline complaining GenZ isn't "loyal" enough to their employers
my dudes you created a hypercapitalist environment in which people are "resources" and have barely any agency as to how and when their skills are applied for the betterment of society and you complain that the new generation aren't LOYAL enough??
you get your filthy fuckin mitts off their souls
Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it
The opposite of “return to office” advocates isn’t “work from home” advocates. It’s a rich tapestry of “open offices are distracting” people and “I’ve never gone this long without being sick” people and “commutes are a waste of time I don’t get paid for” people and “I’m an introvert and playing house with coworkers sucks the life out of me” people and “I have a family and appreciate the flexibility” people and “I primarily communicated with coworkers through Slack anyway” people and “no one wa…
A shorter list of music stood out for me in March than did in February: https://musicthread.app/thread/2MPLc047HoGBoSeJlqCT42j6rBk
Whenever you see a post of someone wearing AR/VR-glasses and go "man, this looks silly", remember that your parents' or grandparents' generation still got made fun of for wearing glasses.
A lot of stuff that looks embarrassing or silly just looks that way because it's unfamiliar. In the 1800s it was "people are asocial, they're reading the paper on the train", today it is "people are asocial, they're absorbed in their phones".
It repeats forever.
A little morning ramble about #TerryPratchett, #audiobooks, and sharing your passions.
No idea who this is but its a pretty darned good cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLR029D2myI
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