I can't quit, there's nowhere to go and the job still has important perks including a good life/work balance. But I feel dirty and angry whenever I engage with work now and I hate it.
Maybe, just maybe, after this bubble implodes and the people responsible for these institutional decisions are sent off with their golden parachutes, we can make some better choices.
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I work in research computing department at a large university. That is, using large computing resources for research, not researching computing. Of course the university is a violently capitalist and hierarchical entity but I used to be able to feel at least somewhat good that my work was contributing to knowledge production and dissemination.
Today the ITS newsletter came out, featuring
The ITS homepage is all AI. The department I work within has become an extension of the marketing arm of Microsoft and OpenAI and it makes me literally nauseous.
This is in addition to the fact that MS has completely colonized our infrastructure. Outlook, Teams, everything runs on MS hypervisors, our entire security apparatus sits on active directory. Needless to say, it's all terrible.
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The existence of Leningrad implied the existence of Lenindiv and Lenincurl.
None exist anymore as they have all been replaced by the more general exterior Lenin derivative.
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The only video game achievement I've ever cared about
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at what stage of transition does dress topology begin to make sense?
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more technical books should have covers like this
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I don't love Vivaldi but it's not terrible. Unfortunately while I was focused on Mozilla's enshittification I forgot that all Chromium-based browsers will "soon" lose the ability to run ad blockers, at least in any useful way.
As I understand it Librewolf is just Firefox with better defaults, so when Firefox wudges AI into everything Librewolf users won't be spared.
Fuck Brave.
No other browser is close to production ready.
This is all infuriating and deeply sad.
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