@draNgNon Not really—the employee will often lose trust in the manager directly, regardless of why that feedback comes down.

It can be entirely from upper management, but unless the manager either buffers it or recognizes what is happening and couches their explanation accordingly (which most aren't willing to do, though I've met exceptions), the employee is still going to lose trust in them.

@epilepticrabbit 🤘

Even the microplastics don’t taste good anymore.

One thing I thought of and explained as contrast to all the vibey stuff going on is the demoscene. Pushing the limits of old computers as art. There's no reason to do it except craft and joy.

But of course, this weekend I saw an article where someone tried to do just that. Even on HN people were saying, why? You're missing the point of the demoscene. There's nothing to "gain" from the demoscene other than community and craft.

If you're using an LLM to try to understand and explain to you how a technique works, I suppose that's one thing. But if you're using it to build a demo, why? Exploring the limits is only there for community joy. There's no other reason to do it.

But every community, the joy and artistry is torn out of it. Intellectual strip mining.

Что-то это уже начинает утомлять.

@darth_hideout

It's the episode when Trip and this Alien crashland (seperated) on a planet, they cannot talk to each other (no Hoshi) and first steal from each other, try to kill each other and in the end they become friends and help each other until they get rescued.

@startrekgifs

@Byte I have yet to delete my lobsters account. Too busy with other things to take care of that. :(

It is sad, though, yes. I had some great chats on both HN and lobsters in the past, same both of them decided to shovel some shit in.

@rolle Take all the time you need

@daemonspudguy Yes, we can also write a custom driver to for software without full MastoAPI support

"The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which was designed for a five-year mission to observe Jupiter and Saturn, is about to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth after nearly 50 years in flight."

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/space/voyager-1-probe-to-hit-historic-one-light-day-distance-from-earth-in-17-days-49-year-old-spacecraft-travels-16-billion-miles-and-survives-nearly-ten-times-the-length-of-its-original-five-year-mission

#news #science #space #voyager

Maine, you deserve better. Now is your chance to send someone who fights for you to Washington.

@TroyJackson207 is a fifth-generation logger who knows working families' struggles. As Maine’s Senate President, he fought to raise wages, lower the cost of prescription drugs, and provide free lunch to every student in the state.

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🧵So I need dental work & it’s not getting covered by Canada’s Dental Plan. 😭 I need to raise $ for it, so I’m offering a sale of some of my paintings 25% off.
If you’ve wanted a painting, now is a good time to buy.
(I also welcome commissions, but cannot discount those.)
I am putting a thread here of them.
Paintings are grouped by price & size, highest to lowest. Something for most budgets. Info & Prices in alt text. Boosts appreciated.
#art #artwork #mastoart #mutualAid

@geekysteven I'm too poor to have a mouse, but I can wait for the cat to drag something in if it's really important

@aral Just call them America Centres.

@algernon it’s a shame both hn and lobsters are shit.

I used to find genuinely interesting stuff worth commenting on, on lobsters.

Now it’s mostly slop.

I deactivated but I suspect pushcx also banned me because I can’t reactivate my account lmao

I may have got a bit heated with him about him letting Nazis into his “garden party”

@ProPublica @lisamelton Here's another ProPublica article:
https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights

#ICE #DHS #USPolitics

👀

AP: Washington state resident dies from bird flu following exposure to infected cattle (Nov 2, 2026)

https://apnews.com/article/bird-flu-death-yakima-washington-c170f95d65a5ffe966ec52d7dae56f3d

#birdflu #h5n1 #publichealth