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Adam John Mar 9, 2025

LeoBurr Oct 22, 2024

If you have been out of work for a while, and are asked why by a company in a hiring process, here are my suggestions:

1) If it’s on their form for employment, don’t apply. Every single company I’ve seen that wants explanations for any gaps in employment are shit places to work. Just don’t.

2) If someone asks during an interview, tell them that you took time off to pursue personal projects and spend time with family, but now you’re ready for your next challenge and long-term home.

Firstly, no one needs to know why you’re looking or what happened at your last role as long as it wasn’t illegal. Also, messaging this way coveys that you are in control of your career and you are looking to find the right place for you to contribute. Not that you are “desperate OMG please hire me now.”

It’s also the start of you actually taking control of your own narrative by setting ground rules. It’s good for your mental health. You’re where you are because you want to be and you can leave if you need to. Even if you don’t have the funds, this is a way to build the perceived and actual value that can help lead to you getting those funds.

Adam John Mar 8, 2025

Today my experiences make me consider the following concern...

I fear we're raising (our youth in America) an increasing number of ideological orphans. By that I mean, many of the social constructs (clubs, orgs, societies) that granted support in order, established shared values, and provided interaction with one another were withering before this "digital age" and it's difficult to imagine how many of them turn it around. (to be clear: this seems to be an urban and suburban centered erosion)

Adam John Feb 21, 2025

JA Westenberg Feb 21, 2025

Veterans fought in combat zones.

Now they're fighting their own government for basic healthcare while Trump (who dodged the draft) and Musk (who has never served anyone but himself) dismantle the VA.

It's a disgrace that will go down in infamy.

https://www.theindex.media/elon-musk-and-donald-trump-have-declared-war-on-veterans/

Elon Musk and Donald Trump Have Declared War on Veterans

America's "Co-Presidents" are gutting veterans' healthcare while waving the flag they never served under.

The Index.

Adam John Feb 20, 2025

The hard truth is that much of human creative work is synthesis. What #AI will teach us, fundamentally starting in #technology is the kernel of creativity... Those much more rare moments of pure creative inspiration that beget the truly NEW. It's a hard truth because many people don't have those moments often, or even at all - in the field they work. Each and every one of us has felt the fire of creating, and the joy in a novel idea... inspiration, and human creativity - they are #amazing !

Adam John Feb 18, 2025

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Melanie Bartos Feb 9, 2025

⁂ Public institutions, especially universities, can play a pioneering role towards a public-interest and data protection-friendly digital future.
Public institution = open communication.
⁂ At the University of Innsbruck we have set this out in the position paper Open Science Communication: https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/public-relations/kommunikation/open-science-communication/
⁂ The concept of #Enshittification is a helpful framework for explaining why a move towards self-governed online communication spaces is a good idea - on so many levels.

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Open Science Communication

Positionspapier des Kommunikationsteams der Universität Innsbruck

Adam John Feb 18, 2025

BrianKrebs Jan 19, 2025

I love that I've been on Mastodon more than 2 years now as my one and only social media platform (apart from LinkedIn, sorta), and I can say with some confidence that most of the accounts I'm interacting with are not bots, but instead are real live human beings with fascinating lives and interests. Thanks again everyone, and may we continue to enjoy this remarkable achievement for a long time to come.

Adam John Feb 18, 2025

Warner Crocker Feb 18, 2025

Meanwhile in Ohio (and I'm sure other places)…
#politics

Adam John Feb 14, 2025

I've been contemplating ways the #Fediverse can and/or needs to expand. I'm working with schools in partnership to use #Mastodon for instructional purposes. I'm also thinking about where my business can lead the way with commercial applications. I understand the historical norms for the community here. However, there comes a day where things must come together. Question is - what do we want that to look like? Brand accounts seem most logical direction from where we are now - but there is more...

Adam John Feb 10, 2025

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🐦‍⬛Feb 10, 2025

@GottaLaff Trump is such a dummy [edit: or he's preparing us for a militaristic vision of some kind]. Tariffs are a weapon of trade war, employed only in a situation where your opponent relies on your goods but you don't rely on theirs. It's a finishing move, used to force them to accept a deal or to starve them of the goods as a preface to actual war.

The market is global. It is too tightly bound together to be playing with weapons like this. We all rely on each other. Ultimately, all this does is weaken the US, strengthen our competitors, and piss everybody off.

Adam John Feb 3, 2025

Ben Ramsey Feb 2, 2025

If you work in government and are asked to remove content from websites (as a result of executive orders), please use the HTTP status code 451 instead of 404.

451 is the correct status code to use for these cases, and you'll be doing the rest of the country a service by using it.

Addendum: you should also include a Link header with the link relation "blocked-by" that "Identifies the entity that blocks access to a resource following receipt of a legal demand."

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7725.html

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump Have Declared War on Veterans

Open Science Communication

RFC 7725: An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles