Heliograph
thanks 
JPI suppose I'd better think of something to write about for #TheCrux. Tech stuff is all a bit depressing lately, though.
from #TheCrux
"Three day weekends are excellent and I think we should have more of them. I am far from alone.
A trial across multiple countries found a four-day work week reduces burnout. The World Economic Forum found four-day work weeks to be good in 2022. There’s also groups that run training courses on how to move your company to a four-day work week and they have a bunch of research also.
Since we’re all about data-driven decision making these days, I guess we’re all moving to adopt four-day work weeks as fast as we can, right? Given all the benefits and the research showing it’s a good thing to do? No?
Apparently it takes around 20 years for research to fight its way out of the dry prose of academic journals and into the wider populace.
A four-day work weeks seems weird only because we’re used to five, but there’s nothing natural about a two-day weekend. It’s remarkable how quickly people adjust to sudden changes in timekeeping, after all. Weeks aren’t real in the way that days are, and yet we make weird and arbitrary changes to how long a day is all the time and call it #daylightsaving.
Maybe we could start calling #fourdayweeks “#weekend saving” and start doing it for six months at a time to get people used to the idea. Once the people closer to the equator figure out what to do with their curtains and cows for half a year, we could suggest that this changing of the week twice a year is silly and we should just move to a permanent four day work week.
Then we can move on to the next goal: the three day work week.
Who’s with me?"
🖐️ man being already a #4dayweek practitioner i am *SO* with you on this @daedalus
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-22/four-day-work-week-health-burnout/105555392
Working a four-day week without taking a pay cut improves health
A new peer-reviewed study finds a four-day work week improves both physical and mental health, reduces burnout and boosts job satisfaction. It's led some experts to say the federal government's productivity round table in August could help reframe work from being focused on hours to outcomes.
also from #TheCrux - "NASA released the Starliner Propulsion System Anomalies during the Crewed Flight Test - investigation report last week. It has redactions, but there’s a lot left in.
As reported in #SpaceNews, #NASA Administrator Jared #Isaacman had some blunt words to share during a press conference:
“#Starliner has design and engineering deficiencies that must be corrected, but the most troubling failure revealed by this investigation is not hardware. It’s decision-making and leadership that, if left unchecked, could create a culture incompatible with human spaceflight.”
Politely phrased, but big oof.
agreed @daedalus
https://spacenews.com/starliner-investigation-identifies-flawed-nasa-decision-making
from this week's #TheCrux
"Samsung TVs will stop spying on people in Texas without their consent. Allegedly.
It is entirely possible for a TV to not spy on you. This used to be a feature of all TVs, in fact, for those too young to recall a time when surveillance of everything everyone was doing all the time was something only repressive authoritarian regimes did. Oh wait.." 😆 @daedalus
"#Windows11 users (I'm sorry) may like to use this script that removes all the AI features. Well, it tries to, as best as it can, since Microsoft keeps finding new ways to override what you, the purchaser of the product, want the product to do."
Paul Williams@haruki_zaemon I don't plan to stop doing #TheCrux, at least not yet.
Andy Todd