This line from The New York Times this morning kind of blew my mind:

"The game industry now accounts for significant chunks of the economy. It is larger than music, U.S. book publishing and North American sports COMBINED. Microsoft’s game division and Activision Blizzard *each* make more money annually than all U.S. movie theaters."

(Emphasis mine)

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in #Ukrainian hands.

Russian military forces hit #Ukrainian grain facilities for a fifth day this week. Our main character today is Katrya, who saved her sourdough starter from her hometown while on the run from Russian forces.

Are you finding Mastodon to be less vibrant/active?

I’m worried that we are not getting as much engagement on our Ukraine war reporting as we used to.

We’re trying to decide which social media platforms to continue posting on, given how much effort it takes to replicate across all of them.

If you want to send a signal to us that we should keep posting here, will you sign up for our newsletter? http://Counteroffensive.substack.com

I’m only asking Mastodon users today so we can gauge impact.

Many people have switched from Twitter to Mastodon, but not everyone who followed me before on Twitter knows that I'm active here also. Will you help me increase my reach on Mastodon? Share this post, boost it or comment and let me know why you're following me. Maybe with some smart hashtags. Thank you! 👍 😊

#Ukraine #NAFO #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiaWar

When companies say things like "if you are not in the office three days a week we will penalize you at performance review time" they are inherently contradicting their own claims that remote work results in reduced productivity.

If remote work were bad, you wouldn't need to add an artificial penalty for working remotely, it would show up IN the performance data.

If you have to threaten people with artificially lowered performance scores for not coming into the office, you are admitting that performance has nothing to do with RTO.