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'Earn $20K EVERY MONTH by being your own boss' by Brian David Gilbert

(I swear to god this is not spam 😆 It's really a great video that is both funny and spooky)

EDIT: okay, I see now the URL is already in your list, but I'm gonna let it stand. Honestly, people, paste the titles as well!

"It's a big club, and you ain’t in it."

They ingested it, but only as a joke.

Super Meat Boy?

This article is from December 2022.

Wayback archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230312112812/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11494991/Switzerland-BAN-electric-cars-roads-power-shortages.html

Switzerland will ban the use of electric cars for 'non-essential' journeys if the country runs out of energy this winter, the government has announced.

I'm sure they have the same plans in place if there is a gasoline shortage, and this will have been prompted by a methane shortage due to sanctions on Russia. Hardly grounds for a hit piece on electric cars.

Go as the Blue Screen of Death: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death

Now that's spooky! 🟦😱

Wear all blue clothes, and get a copy of the screen printed (not on your home printer) to wear on your chest.

https://archive.is/JdcyX

Well, because the daylight time switches are on different dates, you would have to adjust 1 hour, then another hour a month later, then 6 months later adjust an hour, then a month after than another hour 😆

Here's a table to describe that:

So when we go back you go forward?

Well, not actually on the same dates. In Australia, the current period of DST runs from 1 Oct 2023 to 7 Apr 2024 (see here for details: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/australia?year=2023). I see Canada is switching back to standard time on 5 Nov 2023 then switching back to DST on 10 Mar 2024 (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/canada?year=2023).

But essentially, yeah, anywhere that uses DST will switch to DST (i.e. moves clocks forward) at a time of year when the sunrise is getting earlier (typically some time in spring), and switches to standard time (i.e. moves clocks back) at a time of year when sunrise is getting later (typically some time in autumn/fall).

The seasons are opposite in Canada and Australia, so the times of the calendar year when we change to and from DST are roughly opposite (Canada uses DST uses for about 8 months of the year, whereas in Australia it's only about 6 months, but the point is we both 'spring forward').

you guys have opposite seasons

Which is why we have opposite daylight time 🙂

No matter where in the world you are, your daylight time change is 'spring forward' because in spring the days grow longer, regardless of which calendar months your spring occurs in.

Would have been better if it was just the minimum wage in general that was raised, of course, but pay rises in one industry will push up pay in others, and hopefully this union victory will help to motivate union efforts in other industries.

I'm guessing the nominal justification may be 'because fast food workers don't get tips', but the actual reason is in the article. In short, the fast food workers unions were getting somewhere:

Newsom’s signature reflects the power and influence of labor unions in the nation’s most populous state, which have worked to organize fast food workers in an attempt to improve their wages and working conditions.

It also settles — for now, at least — a fight between labor and business groups over how to regulate the industry. In exchange for higher pay, labor unions have dropped their attempt to make fast food corporations liable for the misdeeds of their independent franchise operators in California, an action that could have upended the business model on which the industry is based. The industry, meanwhile, has agreed to pull a referendum related to worker wages off the 2024 ballot.

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Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union International, said the law capped 10 years of work — including 450 strikes across the state in the past two years.

Whether someone will somehow find a way to extract profit from this system is remain to be seen.

I think it's inevitable that someone will find a way to profit, even if it's just scraping the data for training LLMs, or for something like those shitty sites that just duplicate GitHub issues.

The question of enshittification isn't whether someone can find a way to profit, it's whether someone can find a way to change the platform to increase their profit.

I think that the FOSS Fediverse platforms are significantly resistant to enshittification.

That same article explores what enables enshittification and what precludes it:

The Netheads wanted to build diverse networks with lots of offers, lots of competition, and easy, low-cost switching between competitors (thanks to interoperability).

Fediverse platforms:

• are highly interoperable - e.g. you can use Lemmy or Kbin and still see the same posts
• mostly FOSS, so anyone can fork them whenever they want if they don't like some particular change
• most instances currently aren't operated for profit - certainly if your instance started displaying ads you could switch to another instance (or set one up) and still access all the same content as you did previously

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, holding each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

From https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

FYI, from the rules:

• The entire showerthought must be in the title

WE'RE RICH!

Well, for starters, that depends on which way you're looking at the earth.

if this is to protect kids on your network

Sadly, I suspect this is to protect adults on the network...