The FTC wants to ban non-compete contracts, which are exploitative and unfair to workers. (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld)
Workplace coffee gets weird and ugly. the $15,000 coffee fund, the cheapskate executives, and other stories of office coffee wars (Ask a Manager)
I went indy three weeks ago and since then I’ve had many discussions about about potential full-time and freelance opportunities.
Pluses:
- Exciting new opportunities
- Income means we can buy proper food and not have to eat the dog or cats.
- Videoconferencing shirt is getting a good workout.
Minus:
- I have to shave every day.
Teaching generative AI to give factual answers is going to prove as difficult as teaching it to write credible answers has been.
Even human beings have difficulty distinguishing information from bullshit on the Internet. We can’t even agree which is which.
I’m continuing my project of relearning how to read books. Remembering that as a voracious teenage reader, I would discover an author and read everything I could find by him, until I was caught up or had at least read everything by that author in the local mall bookstores and libraries. Asimov. Clarke. Heinlein. Ellison. Niven. Joe Haldeman.
I am adopting that strategy now, starting with Michael Connelly. He’s written about 40 books. I’m now reading his fourth. This is going to be a while.
In 30 years as a journalist, I’ve never been part of a crowd of reporters shouting questions while chasing a public official or other famous person. I’d probably trip and fall down.
Wyoming Republicans are fighting to keep child marriage legal.
Wyoming Limiting Child Marriage Sparks Republican Outrage (Nick Reynolds / Newsweek)
Mars Wrigley fined after workers fall into vat of chocolate (AP)
Have we learned nothing from Augustus Gloop?
Codebreakers have been able to read a cache of more than 50 encrypted letters written by Mary Queen of Scots more than 400 years ago. (Jennifer Ouellette / Ars Technica)
Bernie Sanders Has a New Role. It Could Be His Final Act in Washington. (Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The New York Times)
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Sanders has a platform to go after Moderna for price-gouging on the taxpayer-funded Covid vaccine, and Amazon and Starbucks for union-busting.