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If “The #Wellerman” was a swag-bearing representative of a #Whaling contract company, that means the #Whalers were #GigEconomy workers? #SeaShanty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weller_brothers#Folklore The sea shanty “Soon May The Wellerman Come” [c.1860-70] continues its chorus with “And bring us sugar and tea and rum,” and thus illustrates that Weller Bros were major suppliers of shore whalers supplies. “The workers at these bay-whaling stations were not paid wages, they were paid in slops (ready made clothing), spirits and tobacco.”[6] The shanty went viral…
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This man has a better standing desk than your standing desk:
This table is so fun to weld on! pic.twitter.com/5AmegVGMIF — Jeremy Fielding (@jeremy_fielding) January 15, 2021
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“The Peculiar Origins of the Performance Review, and Other HR Bureaucracy” # this is funny, politically-incorrect business dynamite – and I fear that it’s true:
The Peculiar Origins of the Performance Review, and Other HR Bureaucracy It is the second- and third-place performers (Class 2) who will clamor the most loudly for the institution of a performance review process. Their thinking goes like this: First, they will ask (or somehow subtly inquire) as to why they were not the ones…
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…one idealistic administrator was so unhappy about this that he said he would unlock the Bush page and look after it. After eight hours of dealing with nonsense, he said: “I’m locking it, that’s fine” #contentModerationInANutshell
Wikipedia at 20: The encyclopedia in five articles https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55667711
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Sometimes I have to pinch myself and remind myself that Rudy Giuliani served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001
And then I think: what the hell must also have happened in that timeframe?
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Quote from: Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on earth – scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children on television and radio and in movies, newspapers, magazines, comics and many books -might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many…
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Y’all remember when the general public in liberal Twitter used to complain about the risks of (Tinder, etc) geotracking?
This is funny but actually serious. There are DOZENS of men on DC dating apps right now who were clearly here for the insurrection attempt yesterday. Some say it directly, others are obvious from MAGA clothing, location tags, etc. Is that info useful at all for law enforcement? I assume some used Tinder in DC…
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I implore that people, @IanDunt included, would not say “Trump’s admirers are wrong to pretend that free speech has no *limits*” and instead say “…wrong to pretend that free speech has no *consequences*”
This, from politics.co.uk: and also: I agree that Twitter (et al) should have had the integrity to dump Trump a long time ago, rather than waiting until he was/is weak and “down”, but I also find it entirely understandable that they would hesitate to block a mid-term sitting American president and suffer the consequences of…