If you know COBOL, New Jersey wants you.
https://qz.com/1832988/covid-19-results-in-new-jersey-desperately-needing-cobol-coders/
Important Twitter PSA
I don't know how many of you still use birdsite, but if you do this is important. https://twitter.com/JulieSmithM/status/1246637774381305857
Seems if you respond to a tweet, twitter shows you liking the main tweet.
This means it shows you liking tweets you might otherwise not have liked.
Like for instance fascist propaganda.
— Xander (They/Them)
I have recently been reminded of the greatest Wikipedia edit in history.
(original from https://twitter.com/alanferrier/status/808764211648200706/photo/1)
covid-19, bezos, absurd 'essential' work
Jeff Bezos' space tourism outfit is requiring employees to travel from WA to TX to test launch a space vehicle for rich tourists: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/2/21198272/blue-origin-coronavirus-leaked-audio-test-launch-workers-jeff-bezos
"Dear readers, this is the Last Leah Letter.
The wonderful amazing website The Outline, which has hosted Leah Letter since 2016 and of which I have been executive editor, has laid off its staff, including me. So I have decided it is time to close up shop at LL HQ (my bed)."
https://mailchi.mp/theoutline/goodbye?e=1c95b32ce2
:(
covid, DIY mask, no sewing req'd
Christian Schrock, an infectious disease doctor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, says this version simulates a surgical mask and doesn’t require sewing skills or glue.
Amazon, labor organizing, firing, -
“Leaked notes from an internal meeting of Amazon leadership obtained by VICE News reveal company executives discussed a plan to smear fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls, calling him “not smart or articulate” as part of a PR strategy to make him “the face of the entire union/organizing movement.”
“He’s not smart, or articulate, and to the extent the press wants to focus on us versus him, we will be in a much stronger PR position than simply explaining for the umpteenth time how we’re trying to protect workers,” wrote Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky in notes from the meeting forwarded widely in the company.”
are you enjoying #DREGDAY2020
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