So What?

Better line managers are linked to lower work intensity. The drop tied to higher perceived manager quality is 70% greater than the intensity gap between managers and nonmanagers. doi.org/hcf5tw

I know Claude's tone and writing style well enough that I can see when colleagues are posting lightly edited Claude notes in Slack. But the execs eat it up with a spoon!

It is a mark of how silly reality is, that one of the writers I will read anything by is called Argus the Cat. Adorable name, but it's the intense torrent of love that they funnel through their books that I enjoy. Kitty Cat Kill Sat, The Daily Grind and now, Sublife Crisis.

Ah, here is Monday, to welcome me back to the hellscape of corporate life

They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

How much I like people correlates very closely with whether they've let me lecture them on the concept of a probability space.

Stephen Colbert closed out the final episode of The Late Show with an emotional performance of “Hello, Goodbye” alongside Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney symbolically switched off the studio lights one last time to the Ed Sullivan Theater. 🥹🥺

Sometimes I get really worked up about the petty indignities of life. Loud, idiot coworkers, petty corporate bosses... but then I remember we are all flying at breakneck speed towards death. It's all just worm food flapping meat at each other.

The Department of Homeland Security has circulated a “Be on the Lookout” alert to law enforcement nationwide, targeting a comedian whose satire of US immigration enforcement went viral, @aurabogado.bsky.social of @injusticewatch.org reports.

Prompt engineering for survival: Pretend you are my manager's AI, how would you tell them to respond ...Provide the correct response to each of those

New strategy for eliciting leadership buy-in: ❌ Based on my experience... ❌ My analysis of the data suggests... ✅ Hey, the AI said we should ...

Every day I die a little inside.

Sometimes, when explaining or translating, I fixate on finding the exact right word. Like it would be so correct that I have to be understood. Substack reads like that. Like the authors, aside from shameless self-promoting, are trying to write the one post that will Change Something.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Yes, it would bring down Maduro, but it would likely help Russian oil exports in violation of their sanctuons. Meanwhile,doing the same for Russian oil would bring down Putin and terminate his invasion of Ukraine. Why isn't Trump will to do that? www.economist.com/the-americas...

Why did a middle of the night panic attack sharpen my mind far beyond what a good night's rest can achieve?

Invasive-iguana-skin purses could solve a lot of Florida's environmental issues in the most Florida way

Spending time with family ought not require an antidepressant prescription, and yet

I'd like to propose a plugin that renames copilot to clippy.

Is it bigotry that I am 0% surprised by this just based on her name? Or is it my lived experience? variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Checking in on the feed. Content 30% virtue signaling 70%. Back to my audio books.

“Most people would experience the least circadian burden under permanent Standard Time, which prioritizes morning light.” #DitchDST #SaveStandardTime

Ugh, these middle aged geezers at the office! Who are younger than me!

Miami ska-punk trailblazers celebrate 25 years of prescient 'Resistance' - one.npr.org/i/g-s481-317... Hometown heroes

I honestly never questioned wanting to have kids. The world was always on fire, so what does this flavor matter. But lately... Lately I feel like I need to apologize to them for this being the world they get. This is far beyond anything I expected.

Defunding by audit. Ukraine weapons on hold to audit stockpile, education funds on hold to audit utilization. They are clever little fascists, I'll give 'em that.

The 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent vaccine advisory committee are being removed from their posts, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday afternoon.

I think 'rona knocked this out of the news much too fast. For reference: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Larry David delivers an instant classic www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

As autistic advocate Julia Bascom @juststimming.bsky.social reminds us, “There are no voiceless people. There are plenty of people who are spoken over, ignored, or not given an accessible way to communicate.” autisticadvocacy.org/2021/01/tran... 15/

My mostly non-speaking autistic son has become several magnitudes happier, and my own parenting experience has become significantly less fraught, thanks to autistic guidance. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20... 10/

I 👏 am 👏 not 👏 a 👏 disease ♾️🌈

Evil is alive and well in this world. Cluster bombs thrown at civilian centers on a major (shared) faith holiday. Where is karma when you need her? abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

So I'm Judaism, addition access is a right and requirement in case of health concerns. How is broadly about religious bias going to consider that scenario www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Anecdotally, fucking spot on

The shrinking support for civil society and free press in the face of rising global threats risks undermining democracy and security, particularly in Ukraine, where strong communities are vital for resilience, writes 2402 Foundation’s executive director Katerina Sergatskova in her recent op-ed.

100,000 Russian orcs have been killed in Ukraine, by the most conservative estimates. They could've lived normal Russian lives instead. Beat their wives, peacefully acquired cirrhosis, died of alcohol poisoning in a snow drift at the old age of 42. But their czar needed glory and conquest, so 🤷

"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order" from @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

Putin couldn't be prouder of his little orange bitch right now

Looking forward to finally reading some good news today

I am years out of my league in physics but dark energy has always irked me as an arm-wavey, "well something " excuse for a theory www.livescience.com/physics-math...

⚡️'Putin will breach' peace deal without security guarantees, Starmer says. "We know that because it's happened before, and I am absolutely clear in my mind that it will happen again," U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said at a meeting of military planners from 31 countries.

Never thought I'd be cheering the decline of a major EV line but here we are www.thestreet.com/technology/t...

Marci Shore being clarifying on Russia and the US – the Silicon Curtain. @marcishore.bsky.social youtu.be/GHJIwBGcbR8?...

Pass it on: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Reports of our demise might have been premature

I made friends for n LJ whom I didn't know irl and one was a polisci PhD candidate at LSE I think and I wonder what they're making of the world now.

The Ides will be upon us in days and I yearn for a traditional commentation of the day this March. Shall we assemble in the proper place with the appointed instruments?

This what I ask

JFC they're not even trying to pretend that trump isn't a puppet