mhoye (@mhoye@mastodon.social)

I feel like the four-day-workweek proposal lacks both ambition and seasonal nuance. My proposal is this: "The 30 hour work week". That is: Five shortened 6 hour days in the winter, when sunlight is scarce and we'd probably rather be indoors more often than not anyway, and four 7.5 hour days in the summer, when the sun gets us moving earlier and we'd rather have an extra full day outside.
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I like this! I do think that focusing it on hours instead of days gives people a bit more control on when they work. I can imagine that the helicoptering management types would be upset with a more granular metric that's not something they (should or) can control.

This (archived at https://archive.ph/88iZr to avoid direct traffic) is a real article from The Atlantic. Wow. "Us old folks know better than you" (but also this is a bit of age clumping?)

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I have been STUCK on this article. Granted, it's a year old, but truly amazing.

Wielding power in a sprawling institution like Congress is difficult, to say the least. National leaders must manage the ambitions of their members while balancing competing ideologies and divergent interests. Even simply gathering the votes to become a leader can be a challenge, as Kevin McCarthy is now graphically demonstrating in his quest to become speaker. Younger people can, of course, competently perform these gigs, but their complexity is suited to those with the deepest reservoirs of experience.

But this isn't gatekeeping? How does this not do anything but breed resentment for a class of people who are literally holding power not only from the people via the State but are lining their pockets? Pelosi's as rich (if not richer) than some industry CEOs. Like go HOME! Leave us alone!

Can we get free healthcare?

I got a comic book from PM Press today, as part of their Friends of PM Press collection. It's called Addicted to War. To be honest, if you give this to a high-school student today, this would do more to teach American history with a facet that's really left out in a meaningful: its foreign policy since the inception of the country.


I want this for more colonial countries because it's plain, focuses on enough such that folks can then start to ask more questions. Questions like how, and what did America gain in constant invasion? Has anyone tried to fight against how institutions of finance play into the role of the world's development? What contributes to the reinforcement of notions of society that can block people from seeing alternative perspectives on what America is and how it's perceived outside itself? Is America aiming to extend and commercialize this experience as a service?

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It's a very explicit comic book (in terms of what it's talking about). And it reminds me of some of the works I've seen others do, like The Private Eye; an amazing alternate dystopic world with its own way of talking about what we're doing with the information economy we live in now — the surveillance world and how it's warping how society operates.

I got a comic book from PM Press today, as part of their Friends of PM Press collection. It's called Addicted to War. To be honest, if you give this to a high-school student today, this would do more to teach American history with a facet that's really left out in a meaningful: its foreign policy since the inception of the country.

I want this for more colonial countries because it's plain, focuses on enough such that folks can then start to ask more questions. Questions like how, and what did America gain in constant invasion? Has anyone tried to fight against how institutions of finance play into the role of the world's development? What contributes to the reinforcement of notions of society that can block people from seeing alternative perspectives on what America is and how it's perceived outside itself? Is America aiming to extend and commercialize this experience as a service?

I want something that runs locally, collects OpenTelemetry metrics and allows me to view them in a browser (or in a native app — not picky but lol Linux). I'm not terribly versed with the OT ecosystem.

I'm thinking about making my own frontend for Neovim. Something that'd lean heavy into a graphical interface, where it'd be using mappings to build menus, notifications to show some status region — sounds like one's just building an IDE around Neovim. Which isn't the worst idea in the world.