Renate Oude Nijeweme

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Finally, a real use case for JavaScript

Researchers from Cornell University have developed what they call "the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale," a tool designed to measure how impressed people are by business school-style jargon that sounds strategic but says very little.

The findings, described in a recent study, suggest that employees who rate this sort of language as insightful are more likely to struggle with analytical thinking and workplace decision-making.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/15/corporate_jargon_research/

#Bullshit #IntelligenceTest

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

: Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth

The Register

🛠️ Nominate your favourite tools for the seventh edition of the Coolest Tool Award.

Nominations are open until 2026-03-23. The top tools will be announced at #Wikimania 2026.

🔗 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award#Coolest_Tool_Award_2026

#CoolestToolAward #Wikimedia #wmhack

I had to get in on this DLSS5 meme run.
Why are Fedora stickers so difficult to come by? My laptop needs several.
Why are mastodon stickers so difficult to come by? My laptop needs one.
Gender is a spectrum, and that means we can run a genderwave through a fourier transform. In this paper we

WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW BANKSY'S IDENTITY

STOP INVESTIGATING BANKSY FFS

INVESTIGATE LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE