Bathroom design advice: don’t hang mirrors facing toilets.

Curious.

I keep a close eye on the job listings posted to Mozilla’s job board. They don’t post new job openings very often, so I always want to be tuned in when new listing pop up. All of a sudden, a lot of new job openings have appeared for a company that just laid off 36 people…

Oct 30 2024:

• Senior Product Manager, Sync Ecosystem
• Staff Software Engineer - Credential Management

Oct 31 2024:

• Fixed Term PR/Communications Manager

Nov 1 2024:

• Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
• Senior Software Engineer, Services
• Staff Test Engineer
• Senior Director of Product, Firefox Growth
• Senior Product Manager, Sync Ecosystem
• Staff Software Engineer, OS Integrations
• Senior Data Engineer
• Client Analytics Manager
• Senior Machine Learning Engineer, øDin GenAI Bug Bounty
• Staff Desktop Systems Specialist
• Staff Fullstack Engineer, Anonym
• Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads
• Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Fakespot
• Staff Mobile Product Manager

Nov 4 2024:

• Senior Staff Fullstack Engineer, Solo
• Senior Software Engineer
• Senior Staff Product Manager, Search
• Principal Product Manager, Generative AI
• Senior Front-End Engineer, Firefox

Nov 5 2024:

• Staff Technical Program Manager, Firefox Enhancements

fucking hell i hope not

I chatted with Boeing strikers about this.

The contract proposal was announced on Halloween, with the strikers getting contract details in a conference call that night (while many were either out trick or treating with their kids or otherwise having fun). The vote was scheduled for Monday, the day before a massively monumental election.

They didn’t get the pensions they wanted most. This entire thing was timed for maximum anxiety and distraction.

Where are you shopping?

This is what voter suppression looks like.

I grew up in Missouri before moving to Washington state. When I reached voting age, it was (and still is) ridiculously common to see polling places in rural and suburban areas with no waiting to vote. Meanwhile, in the cities (which happen to vote more democratic), you’ll see loooong lines extending outside. When voting facilities and staff are not proportionally distributed to accommodate voter density, you get shit like this; voters in different districts receiving different treatment. And people who live there never know any better to ask for something different.

This all blew my mind after living first in a suburban area, then an urban one, and now living in a state that has done voting my mail for decades. I love voting by mail. It’s unconcionable to me at this point for people to stand for in-person voting anymore.

I see Pitch; I up-vote.

Seattle started the movement for a $15 minimum wage in 2014. It passed and was slowly phased in, finishing the rollout in 2021. It’s also aligned to inflation, so the current minimum wage (in 2024) is $20.76 per hour.

Any minimum wage legislation not tied to inflation is a half measure. Demand what you deserve.

Top 50 anime openings

Obligatory:

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher from McSweeney’s Short Imagined Monologues June 15, 2010

Here’s the spotify link for the full album: https://open.spotify.com/album/4wtt08wXfDLUecMnqdZQsF

The new offer would not restore a traditional pension plan — a key demand of the 33,000 striking workers — but it would increase the amount of contributions to 401(k) retirement plans that Boeing would match.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-striking-boeing-workers-near-042024828.html

Do the studios just hate the US exhibition industry now? There’s no way movie theaters can survive this kind of home viewing turn-around.

Or is it simply our inability to function like reasonable people in large groups, making it impossible to assume you’re going to be able to watch a movie in a theater all the way through without being disturbed by phones, talking, screaming children or whatever else people do in theaters?

As someone who studied Latin based on the Cambridge Latin book series, I wouldn’t mind seeing a disaster movie about Pompeii featuring Caecilius, the banker at the center of the training course (and a real person whose home and records were discovered by archeologists).

He popped up in the Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeii, but that’s not quote the same as a legitimate Hollywood disaster movie treatment.

I also can’t tell what is in the bowls beside Roy and his sons - to the top left of Roy’s plate, right hand side of Toby and top right of Brad’s plate. Maybe Ronnie and Silvia have one of these bowls too but I can’t tell. You can see Brad eat out of his bowl at one point and it looks like something pale (I wondered coleslaw or macaroni).

It looks like everyone at the table has a bowl on one side or the other. This was a time when a common middle-class American family dinnerware place-setting might include a salad bowl with a simple salad: chopped iceberg or romaine lettuce with a store-bough salad dressing (ranch, blue cheese, 1000 island, etc). Probably not the most appetizing thing in the world, but totally legit given the era and setting (with Roy being a electrical line worker).

acrypol-pasta

Agreed. The days of Warners being a destination for auteur directors died when David Sazlav wound up in charge. All the talent is bailing.

Consider also meat floss: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_floss

It’s legit, just super desiccated. Babish made some while recreating Khlav Kalash from The Simpsons.

https://youtu.be/jiFcNVfbY5A

And that’s how psychopaths win.

Don’t be like Jet Li.

I listened to the 404 Media podcast about this yesterday and the author argues that the subject of the article’s ire is intended to be the researchers themselves. Specifically, the bad ethics of testing this integration on non-consenting individuals (even though it was seemingly done with good intent).

Luckily the researchers realized what the fuck they had just made and pivoted the project to being about how to break the integration (ie: opt out of facial recognition systems and freeze your credit score).