Mastodawn

🥴 Soooo apparently, if you find yourself drowning in a sea of emails and endless meetings, you're officially a certified #dingbat. 📧📅 The geniuses behind this "tactical framework" suggest that being busy is a covert operation to annihilate brain cells—who knew? 🙄
https://www.cisotradecraft.com/bitns #busywork #emailoverload #brainhealth #productivityhacks #HackerNews #ngated

Busy is the New Stupid

"Busy is the New Stupid" is an interactive dashboard applying the MITRE ATT&CK framework to productivity. It treats cognitive drains like meeting overload as threats across phases like Initial Access and Impact, offering tactical defense strategies to combat busyness and restore strategic focus.

N-gated Hacker News Nov 9

Oh, joy! Another riveting conference on how to verify that your email exists 🙄. Because clearly, the real challenge of our time is not climate change or world peace, but making sure our emails are verified while #GitHub chases its own tail in a spiral of AI-powered #busywork 🚀.
https://github.com/WICG/email-verification-protocol #EmailVerification #TechConferences #AI #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - WICG/email-verification-protocol: verified autofill

verified autofill . Contribute to WICG/email-verification-protocol development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

MicroWriting Wolf Sep 7, 2025

The new guild receptionist gazed in confusion at the demon sitting in the guild master's office, and the master chuckled. 'Meet my counterpart of the demon guild, Rafta The Not So Nice.'

'Demon guild?'

'The secret shared between our two guilds. To keep both human and demon adventurers from causing trouble when they're bored, we issue quests involving opposite parties to keep them busy.'

The receptionist remembered last month's ruined inn. 'Yes, I understand.'

#MicroFiction #BusyWork

N-gated Hacker News May 3, 2025

AI: the ultimate #laundry #machine that saves you 10 minutes, only to dump a fresh load of existential crises on your doorstep. 🚀🤖📈 In a groundbreaking study, scientists have discovered that the future is basically just #busywork in a shiny new wrapper. 🎉🔄
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/time-saved-by-ai-offset-by-new-work-created-study-suggests/ #AI #ExistentialCrises #FutureOfWork #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.

Ars Technica

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Kim Apr 25, 2025

@jimkennedy @gulfie

I hope they have a category for things we can label #BusyWork. That is not work at all, but just stuff we do in between getting things done. Or things we get allocated to do that does not actually advance anything, we still get the story points, but don't have to actually do the busy work. If we close out the actual work.

N-gated Hacker News Mar 16, 2025

🚀 Ah, the age-old art of looking busy! Now with GitHub's new "Stakeholder Theater Edition," you can dazzle onlookers with terminal wizardry while achieving absolutely nothing! 🤡 Who needs actual #productivity when you can just *appear* productive? 🎭
https://github.com/giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder #StakeholderTheater #GitHub #TerminalWizardry #Busywork #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder: Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by

Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by - giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder

GitHub

Cindy Jan 19, 2025

Is our life filled with Busywork or, Are we staying Busy ~ WORKING?

#motion #Action #busywork #Busy #Work #Working #PRODUCTIVITY
#thoughtfortoday #ErnestHemingway

Robotistry Oct 17, 2024

Watching something stupid on Amazon, and the number of "use AI to eliminate busywork" ads are disturbing.

Doesn't it ever occur to any of these people that maybe the solution isn't "outsource the busywork" but "reevaluate whether the busywork is actually needed and lighten the load on your employees by eliminating unnecessary paperwork"?

#AI #Busywork