Ben Serber

Standards

Situation: we have 14 Excel sheets.
"14? Ridiculous! We should merge them or get a real database!"
Situation: we have 15 Excel sheets.

xkcd.com/927

All that blue reminds me of Dimitri Jaskin

United Academics of KU Secures Historic First Collective Bargaining Agreement for All Faculty and Academic Staff LAWRENCE, Kan.—Today, faculty and academic staff at the University of Kansas, represented by United Academics of the University of Kansas, announced that they have reached a tentative first contract a...

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We will never solve the fundamental tension between the field organizers who want an Excel sheet so they can stop screwing around with not-Salesforce and get back to work and the people who want to make sure that the field organizers can't accidentally delete the Excel sheet!

USL emails players about union resignation procedures as strike looms The email, sent to all USL Championship players, includes an ‘FAQ’ section on crossing a potential picket line

The USL Championship League's season starts tomorrow, but their soccer players' union contract expired on NYE.

The players voted to authorize a strike last week, so the league is using textbook union-busting tactics to intimidate them.

Solidarity with the USLPA. Union-busting is disgusting.

Resign.

That doesn't mean that using an LLM for target selection is good, that it *didn't* happen in this case, etc. It means only that this is not a reliable source for those claims. If you think LLMs are shit, don't rely on their so-called self-reports to determine what they did and how they did it.

That's an LLM summary of independently reported information, not a report of the LLM's decision process or confirmation that Claude was used in this strike. And the prompt isn't shown, which makes it harder to tell if / how strongly the LLM was pushed into the "something went wrong, explain" frame.

I was literally about to object that Tampa is the worst, but it's neck-and-neck either way.

Yeah, that seems like what the dev's going for - take some of those mechanics, drop them in a much more standard fantasy setting, and see what happens even if it turns out different, not trying to replicate the Disco vibe 1-1.

If you play D&D or similar TTRPGs, having the big six stats yelling at you hits different than Shivers or whatever in Disco. Not better really, but it feels like a clever riff and not just copying. And the setting is cool.

Brave as hell - when I dropped out for my first gig I think the only person who knew where I went was the department admin! Never even considered telling my advisor or anyone on my committee that I was applying for staff jobs.

Resign.

U.S. Soccer Players Authorize Playing Strike Amid Tense Labor Talks The American second division could be moved from its scheduled 2026 start date.

The USL players deserve professional standards for their professional talent, and it’s time for the USL to deliver.

The players are ready to strike and fight for what they deserve. USL: do the right thing and bargain for a fair contract now.

IMO, the majority of pro-AI arguments made by academics are about the economics of working in a neoliberal university. The constant call is to do more with less--less time, less funding, less peace of mind. AI promises to "solve" these problems, but I'd argue it'll actually intrench them further.

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

But you said you want to get Yoshihiko, who would obviously bathe in the blood of the whole Mystery Wrestling roster???

Harvard is fighting Trump. UC president says he wants to try ‘a better course’ UC President James B. Milliken defended the university's decision to not sue the Trump administration over funding cuts and said it was the university's responsibility to engage.

Faculty + unionized workers are the real leaders of the University of California, repelling funding cuts and attacks on research and teaching. The UC President and highly-paid administrators sit on the sidelines with harebrained dreams they can negotiate with Trump. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Whatever else you say about Gorsuch (nearly all very bad!), nobody trolls a lawyer like the lawyer child of two lawyers.

The quote as given seems pretty clear, the confusion comes from the framing.

Resign.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social Of course, the Sanguinary Utnapishtim have long since institutionalized this.

I don't think you should be allowed to declare that combo unless you were already a GitS fan lol

Resign.

Resign.

For some reason I thought they were from Singapore, which would explain a lot, but this explains even more.

Well now I need Evil Uno to go on Very Important People made up as Good Uno

ICYMI: The staff union at the WGA has been on ULP strike for over a week. WGA management gave their last, best, and final on Tuesday after this rally and threatened to cancel the Writers Guild awards if they didn’t accept

Workers to WGA: “Walk the walk!”

This is why we need to run recognition campaigns at private universities, and demand that tenure stream faculty have the right to collective bargaining. Yeshiva is dead but we can’t win this in the courts we need to win it on our campuses

How to spot unfair labor practices with the TRIPS method Is your boss interfering with your organizing efforts? How can you know for sure? Check against this list of TRIPS tips.

How to spot unfair labor practices with the TRIPS method

Is your boss interfering with your organizing efforts? How can you know for sure? Check against this list of TRIPS tips.