Cory has his principles and he stands by them: I respect him for that. Selling out is certainly much easier, and probably more lucrative.
Plus he's an author that actually responds to emails.

Good article. That being said, the examples provided against remote work ("salespeople were taking calls from the top of mountains on hiking trips") don't paint a true picture of what remote work has become. There is much opportunity for scheduled collaboration, and still some incidents of unscheduled collaboration (aka water cooler moments) via remote work.

Best quote in the article: "The number one thing people want out of a workplace is concentration space.. You're not going to get them into a place just built for social interaction. You've got to be able to concentrate...." That's where most workplaces are shockingly deficient. Most offices are designed to keep workers precariously balanced between concentrating on work tasks and the threat of immediate distraction by coworkers. "Open Office Design" necessitated more space for meeting rooms, and overbooking of meeting rooms necessitated off-site meetings.

Every article arguing for Return To Office conveniently overlooks several shockingly obvious points: PRODUCTIVITY WENT UP when people worked from home. Workers didn't have to spend hours of time commuting to/from work. Workers didn't have to spend money on gasoline and parking and day care for their kids or their dogs. Workers didn't have to lose an entire day of work if they felt sick but were unsure if they were contagious. Workers Didn't Have To Work From An Office. They still don't.

So don't.

every time they say it's to "protect the children" or "protect freedom" it is invariably neither.

anything with the word Reddit in the title would be a healthy start.

FTA

Mr. Giuliani, insisting that he still had “legal defenses” in the case, said that he continued to believe his accusations about Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss were “constitutionally protected” under the First Amendment. He also refused to acknowledge that his statements had caused the women any damage — a key element required to collect a judgment in a defamation case.

It's such obvious bullshit to claim First Amendment protection for slander. His only path to victory is a GOP win and a pardon.

America, please do the right thing.

In other news, the world's wealthiest people are running out of money after burning through the entire planet. Sources say one of the world's multi-billionaires purchased a law firm that was in bed with the RIAA roughly 10-15 years ago when music piracy was supposedly costing more money than the GDP of all the peoples of the world, combined. "The Owners" (as they have recently rebranded) have decided to collect on this unpaid debt from every living soul, and from all the multinational companies who have been long-established as having no living souls whatsoever. A nameless, faceless, pitiless representative was quoted as saying: "Resistance... is futile. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service... us."

"That'll be one billion quid, please."

yeah they should at least mention how allowing America to easily get Online caused a dramatic downturn in the quality of online discussion at the time.

Between this and the CMU soda machine, The Internet used to be so geeky
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/...

When asked which flavour of potato chips they enjoyed, they replied that they enjoyed damaging peoples' lives the most. When informed that wasn't actually a flavour of potato chip, they screamed and started punching the camera.
Now here's Dave with the sports.

In Canada in the 1980's there was a short TV commercial about media literacy portrayed as a nature documentary, about the endangered Canadian House Hippo. After 15 seconds the commercial pauses and a voice asks if you actually believed what you were seeing, encouraging viewers to think critically about what they saw on TV.

These days the closest thing to that is snopes.com , and people have to actively seek that out. Without the House Hippo it is us who are endangered.

I wish I'd read this article before Social Media destroyed my soul. Oh well.

and hey, seeing as the soulless need music now more than ever: go listen to my band's second album! https://songwhip.com/thethreeleonards Even if your soul has also been lost to Social Media I'm sure there will be something you enjoy.

See? Only a soulless artist would plug their art this shamelessly. :)

they seemed to be leaking in from one particular instance I was subbed to. I unsubbed from that instance before coffee this morning and now I can't even remember which one it was, so I'm seeing fewer of them, at least.

what's this? an anti-corporate message that sneers at cable TV companies??? CANCEL THAT SHOW!!!

that show was so amazingly prescient: the theme of the first episode was how advertising literally kills its viewers and the news covers things up. No wonder they didn't get renewed. ;)

They mostly all look like that one girl from that show, whatever it was.

Sue stood up against the puritanical and the tyrannical. She helped us feel understand our bodies, and feel better about ourselves. What better service to humankind can there be?

Canada got rid of pennies (one-cent pieces) over 10 years ago. Now millennials can't buy houses. Coincidence? ;)

millions of wasted hours of effort. For nothing.

aah, Social Media in a nutshell.

I still say his hard-on for defunding the CBC goes all the way back to The Mercer Report.

I had people challenge me on that belief awhile back, saying that nobody could hold a grudge that long. And yet we find out today that one producer stopped Babylon 5 in its tracks for 20 fucking years. So yes, Internet, people in power can hold a grudge as long as they goddamn please.

about as inspiring as Canadians that WANT to be ruled by American laws.