Bah Humbug, I'll Sit And Pout In My Dark Morning Kitchen While The Rest Of You Celebrate More Light In The Evenings. Also, RIP My Productivity After Moving That Clock Forward đ˘
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Poppets! Happy Monday my loves, how Iâve missed you. Last week was the week of 6:30 AM calls, and boy am I just tired in general. So here is a mixture of long-ish and no-so-long reads because my Instapaper queue is just unwieldy. BTW, it was only in typing the word âunwiedlyâ three times to try and get rid of the red squiggly lines underneath it did I realize I may have been saying âunwieldyâ wrong for much of my life, and now that word has lost all meaning as I mutter it under my breath over and over. Language is fun.
TO THE INTERWEBS
So let me get this straight: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is normally vehemently anti-union, unless said unions are organizing in a tech company with a left-leaning CEO because that company is âwaging a culture war against working-class values?â (USA Today) As Intelligencer points out, Rubio has previously co-sponsored âright-to-workâ legislation, opposes the $15 minimum wage, and was all gung ho for anti-Labor Trump appointees, but now heâll go all Norma Rae if how a company dares to choose what it sells as a private business is counter to his delicate GOP feels? Am I reading that right? I do not understand âconservatismâ anymore, this op-ed is full-on bonkers and the intellectual dishonesty is head-spinning and Iâll just leave you with the only image in my head I ever have of Rubio.
LOUDER, FOR THE FOLKS IN THE BACK: Friend of the Missive Hunter Walk makes the point that tech companies will not be able to effectively tackle âMisinformation, trolling, harassment, polarizationâ if they donât decouple those efforts from revenue/monetization key performance indicators (KPIs). But that begs the question, Walk asks, what are KPIs that will incentivize real change while keeping shareholders happy, especially, as Walkâs subhead points out, âFacebookâs Responsible AI Team Needs To Be Able To Lose Money In Order To Do Its Job.â
Whatâs happening to female journalists online is scary and unacceptable: Online harassment of female journalists is real, and itâs increasingly hard to endure. (Washington Post)
And finally, someone on the tweeters posted this 2019 NPR piece and I cannot remember who, but itâs not just you, Brussels sprouts do taste better now than they did when you were a kid.
Oh oh oh one more, this drone commercial is the coolest damned thing and you must watch it: A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed. (NYT)
Youâre lovely. Wear a mask, be kind to each other, and donât forget to drink water today.
xoxo Amy