Business leaders: We can't find enough workers!

Workers: You could pay more.

Business: Nope.

Workers: Better benefits?

Business: No.

Workers: More flexible hours?

Business: No way.

Workers: Treat your current employees better to build your employer brand?

Business: Never.

Workers: Well, what's left?!

Business: Child labor!

https://apnews.com/article/iowa-governor-child-labor-laws-e8cb29e2a45b956489c4a192b7ddeba5

Mastodon has reached the milestone of 10 million accounts! 🎉

10M Mastodon accounts is great, but what does that exactly measure? And according to whom? One side effect of being a decentralized network is that usage and activity is hard to measure. In this article I take a look at the different data sources that count Mastodon account numbers, and some of the open questions regarding which number is actually correct.

Read more at: https://fediversereport.com/10-million-mastodon-accounts/

On the "All Hands on Tech" podcast, Mat Pancha did a review of Mastodon.

It's seems like he's not a big fan.

Specifically, he doesn't like that Mastodon isn't conducive to passive zoning out. He wants a service you can use without thinking.

However, to me, the appeal of Mastodon (and the Fediverse) is that this is social media that requires you to turn on your brain.

Mastodon is a bicycle for your brain.

https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/all-hands-on-tech-mastodon-review-the-decentralized-online-communities-platform/534214

@fediversenews

One of my favorite animals is the very rare blanket octopus. Few people have seen them firsthand. https://youtu.be/QJcXMPJ9XN8

The female has a spectacular ‘cape’ enclosing her tentacles, making her look larger to predators. She can grow >6.5ft or 2m!

The male is smaller than a walnut. He weighs 40,000x less than the female measuring 2.4cm.

Blanket octopus are the most extreme example of female vs male size discrepancy across the (non-mircoscopic) animal kingdom. #nature #science #SharedPlanet

Left: White male Trump supporter named Larry Brock violently stormed the Capitol w/zip ties
•2 years prison

Right: Black woman named Crystal Mason filed a provisional ballot on the advice of a poll worker
•5 years prison

The system isn’t broken—it’s working as intended.

Mileva Marić Einstein was a physicist born in Serbia in 1875.

We remember her husband, Albert Einstein, as one of the most celebrated physicists of the 20th century, but I suspect most folks haven’t heard of her.

However, Albert & Mileva’s letters & other accounts suggest they worked together on his groundbreaking scientific contributions. They collaborated from the time they met in 1896 until their separation in 1914.

This is her story: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotten-life-of-einsteins-first-wife/?fbclid=IwAR2O8bwlDiEBgJLYbjKo-Kdy_3jhi7tvyCl2edzpzpI_pIcPv7iVOc1zC-E #science #history #HistoryRemix