Transformational technologies like microcomputers and smartphones were so obviously useful that rank and file workers were smuggling them into their workflows despite the best efforts of CEOs to stop them.

The "transformational" technology of LLMs is so obviously anti-useful that CEOs must resort to threats and coercion to get their rank and file workers to go anywhere near them.

In today’s “terminology matters”:

❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.

✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.

We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.

TIL Mercedes Benz deleted what3words functionality from all their cars.

This would be the same Mercedes Benz who ***invested*** in w3w.

And why did they disable the functionality? Didn’t wanna renew the licence.

Whichever way you read it it’s a shit show.

Madcap CnaM age verification plans won't meet voters before the election.

"The general obligations contained in the code will apply from next month and platforms will have an implementation period of up to nine months for certain detailed provisions, which require IT build, to come into compliance."

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/1021/1476505-technology/

Weakening #encryption will only help predators, criminals, blackmailers & scammers.

Since many service providers have stated that they will refuse to comply, this proposal will mean:

❌ No Signal
❌ No WhatsApp
❌ No iMessage
❌ No Facetime
❌ No Element

https://www.brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/1209673/controversial-chat-control-back-on-eu-agenda-this-week