#Box Building Service

[carpboy3000]

having zedaph & tango brainrot again so...

Aerial Sheep Service AU! Zed and Tango are recently-reconnected friends who are both down on their luck after budget cuts cost them their research jobs.

Rent is obscene, and with government regulations tightening by the day, finding a job is looking more and more like an ill-fated endeavor. ...So they start picking up odd jobs. Plumbing; fixing lights; setting, on one memorable occasion, a gangster's broken nose. If they can figure it out, they'll do it!

Through word of mouth, Tango and Zed end up delivering something across the City for someone. And then then they do another. And then another. It's, like, all they're getting hired for at this point. Zed suggests they call themselves the "Aerial Sheep Service", off an old joke, for all of the delivery they seem to do. Tango thinks it's funny enough to get Zed to design a terrible logo, so Tango can get them access to an old printer and make them some posters. They stick them up wherever they can, and, well, if it just so happens that a lot of those places are crappy bars? Money is money is money, and feigning ignorance does a lot for them.

Eventually, Tango's old buddy Impulse hears about their business and hires them to start running packages for a company he's a part of. They're both horrifically underqualified to be runners for these guys (they had cushy lab jobs not three months ago!), but they always end up just barely managing to dodge any sort of law enforcement or.. other people who don't want that package delivered... every time trouble stirs, and the packages are never harmed, and.. all things considered? They're almost financially stable at this point!

But the jobs are increasingly dangerous. Nothing has happened yet, but their insane luck streak isn't going to last them forever. Plus, Impulse is clearly lying to them about what they're delivering, and who he's associated with, and if they'll ever be able to deny a job from him. Something is happening. But it isn't like the Aerial Sheep Service can do anything about that, so they'll just keep delivering packages and escaping death by the skin of their teeth. Hopefully.

[treesah]

I’m starting the day on hold with Verizon for 53 minutes because my grandparents’ landline has been down since at least Monday (maybe longer; it was only discovered when I called them to get buzzed in to their building). Verizon techs were apparently out there twice, did not fix the issue, and instead charged my grandparents $102 for a FiOS installation, which my grandparents say did not happen and which I can tell did not happen because their account doesn’t show a start in FiOS service.

My grandparents, by the way, do not speak English and I specifically set up the appointments and notified the building’s Chinese-speaking social worker so she could be there for interpretation if needed. It appears Verizon showed up HOURS late to both appointments, after she’d already left for the day. If Verizon hoodwinked and bullied two nonagenarian non-English-speakers into signing up for something without fully explaining with an interpreter what they were signing up for I am going to scream.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAGE.

[alistair-blackwood]

not wanting to say definitively in my fic what bal and ambrosius would do for work in a post-institute world while still alluding to them Having A Job of Sorts

[avalontec]

System Integration

Railway Signaling Systems

Power inverters

Controllers for industrial equipment

Medical devices and equipment

Fuel dispensing systems

Telematics modules

Camera and Vision Systems

Sensing and detection systems

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So. Storytime for guerilla gardeners and solarpunk enthusiasts. This story comes to me 3rd hand but I believe the basic shape of it is true, even if details may be off.

So there’s this guy who lives in my parents’ town. Wanted to have a pocket farm but lives on an urban lot in a small city instead because y’know jobs and stuff. He could definitely get a few raised beds in the backyard but nothing all that impressive and the front yard is on a very busy road with the expectation that it’ll look reasonably traditional (plus planting food by busy roads isn’t always a good idea).

However

After he’s lived there for a while, he realizes his neighbors are all older people who maybe have more challenges taking care of their yards than they used to. So he goes to his next door neighbor and offers a deal: I’ll mow and maintain your front yard for free if you let me knock down the fences between our backyards and plant them both with food. And you’ll get a cut of the produce.

Presumably the neighbor already knew and trusted this guy because he said yes. So he starts mowing and maintaining his and his neighbor’s front yards and planting food in their now-shared backyards. After a season or two this goes well enough that the next neighbor down the street asks if he can be in on this too.

So now there’s 3 front yards to mow and three backyards full of produce. And it keeps going from there. Dude gets a rider lawnmower and does everyone’s front yards, and meanwhile he’s maintaining an entire block’s worth of produce in the back. His yields got so high that he was able to start offering boxes of produce outside of the block’s residents too. This is how I heard of him: my parents’ next door neighbors were picking up a regular box of produce from him.

I love a couple of things about this story:

Offering to maintain people’s front yards for them allows baby boomers to feed their thirst for keeping up appearances while still getting food production into the neighborhood

As homeowners age offering services like this is legitimately good community building

BLOCK-LONG POCKET FARM

These exact circumstances might not be replicable everywhere, but I love thinking about how these principles could be applied.

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[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[inyantratechnology1]

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Explaining the Box Build Assembly Process

The concept of a "box build" includes the assembly of an entire electronic system, which can range from a basic PCB enclosure to an elaborate setup featuring multiple PCB assemblies, along with associated wires, cables, and other electromechanical components. The box build process is an expansive endeavor that involves more than just assembling PCBs; it encompasses the comprehensive integration of all components to forge a fully operational unit.

Delving into Specialized PCB Assembly

At the heart of the box build assembly lies specialized PCB assembly, a crucial element in the entire process. This task transcends mere component placement on a PCB, aiming to meet high standards of quality and performance. In sectors where the failure of even a single component could lead to severe repercussions, the precision and dependability of PCB assembly become essential.

Key Elements of Specialized PCB Assembly:

Component Selection: The choice of high-quality, reliable components is essential, taking into account their source, specifications, and compatibility with the intended application.

Soldering Techniques: Advanced soldering methods, such as reflow and wave soldering, are crucial for establishing strong and dependable connections.

Inspection and Testing: Intensive inspection and testing protocols, including Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) and In-Circuit Testing (ICT), are vital to detect and correct flaws.

Advancing Assembly and Electromechanical Integration in Box Builds

Beyond the realm of PCB assembly, box builds frequently necessitate advanced assembly and electromechanical integration. These processes are essential for installing PCBs into their enclosures, linking them with wiring and cables, and ensuring that all mechanical and electrical interfaces operate correctly, which is critical for delivering a deployable product.

Components of Advanced Assembly:

Enclosures: Tailored to shield internal components from environmental and mechanical stress.

Cabling and Wiring: Ensures precise connections for consistent electrical conductivity and signal integrity.

Power Supplies: Crucial for providing the necessary energy to the units.

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Post-Production Services: Includes repairs, reworks, and upgrades to sustain the product’s functionality and extend its lifespan.

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Adopting a thorough box build strategy presents multiple advantages, especially for industries that adhere to strict standards.

Efficiency: Streamlining the assembly process reduces both production time and costs.

Quality Assurance: Extensive quality controls on every component of the assembly enhance product reliability.

Customization: Facilitates tailored solutions to meet specific needs, boosting functionality and performance.

Risk Reduction: Engaging with a seasoned provider reduces the risks of errors and inconsistencies.

Case Study: Box Builds in the Medical Industry

In the medical field, the precision and reliability of equipment are paramount. Box builds play a crucial role in assembling devices such as diagnostic machines and life-support systems, ensuring a compact and functional integration of units.

Example:

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Conclusion

The box build process, with its focus on specialized PCB assembly and integrated assembly practices, is vital for creating sophisticated, high-performance products across various sectors. By leveraging expert knowledge and a comprehensive approach, manufacturers can attain the highest standards of quality and reliability, enhancing product performance while minimizing production costs and time, thus securing a competitive advantage in the market.

[hexhomos]

isnt it wild how jayce is the most heavily misunderstood arcane character..everytime i see takes about him being upper-class and rich or mean and condescending or not caring about viktor in s1 or whatever other garbage ppl say about him i lose a year of my life

It's crazy to me that I've been saying jayce is working class for years and this got confirmed in the draft 1 board for arcane christian linke posted on twitter sometime ago lol

house Talis is a MINOR HOUSE of toolmakers whose most prominent contribution is the 'collapsible pocket wrench'. They're literally blacksmiths. This is a service and labor position. Jayce can't even afford to use gold in his inventions in act1 because he relies on the Kiramman money for everything. This is not the life of a rich guy in Piltover this is middle class at best lol his drive to finish up hextech and succeed academically is him trying to build a better life for himself!

Blacksmithing is historically a very intensive work position. The work wears you down & eventually disables you very early in life (jayce's injury in act3 seems to be a metaphorical speedrun of that, in some ways) we're never told how jayce's dad died but it is very fair to imagine it was a work related. he's fucking aware of this, its true In Real Life and it brings such an interesting context to his interactions with Viktor and how they want to create things that help common laborers and make the work better if it wasn't for the council. (in s1 act2 their progress day showcase to heimerdinger BEGINS with jayce complaining that they've been stuck fulfilling the council's demands these past 10 years and now, finally, *finally* it's their time to decide what to do with hextech. and they're not even allowed that.)

Also, the perfected hexgems in s1 are kept in Kiramman-crest boxes. I noticed this just the other day. JAYCE AND VIKTOR DON'T OWN SHITTTTTTTTTTT they're getting exploited big time while all that 'investor' money is charged back with deep dividends

just like real life academics they probably spent most of their life writing up grant proposals like dogs and begging for funding that will wring them dry later on. Where the hell is all my jayce and viktor class solidarity 'getting drunk off their mugs and complaining about their dipshit bosses' content?

[related post]

MARCH 2025 UPDATE: just got my Arcane artbook and it directly confirms the Talis family legacy is not big industry, because those weren't even part of the world. It is only post-timeskip that we start to see ramped up production + Jayce's focus is giving magic to the common people.

[g-k444]

okayy so what about free-use trains? free-use Ubers? free-use transport?

You order your uber and it comes to you with a freshly needy slut on her knees with a collar around her neck and chain binding her to the backseat where you can do as you please to her as you commute from place to place.

Perfect, right?

Well, perfect for you at least - not for me. I'm a working woman. I have a job I need to get to and when it just so happens to be an early 7am morning, so what if I accidentally type the last number of the cab service wrong?

the line should go dead, i should look down and reread the number and realise that ive typed it out wrong and correct it and properly order my transport.

what shouldn't happen, is for an uber to be placed regardless - and for when i enter the vehicle, there to be a chain and collar snapped open on the floor of the uber.

i realise my mistake as soon as i step in - i accidentally ordered one of those horny fuck-taxis instead of my normal cab to work - but it's too late to back out and reorder my cab as the driver speeds off without asking for my destination. S'pose he just remembered it from the phone call.

but no.

instead he pulled up outside a block of flats, and the door i sat besides was opened as a man entered and frowned.

why's she sat on the seat? that's not very obedient - is your quality dropping? And why is she not collared up?

my own look of confusion was slowly replaced with horror as i realised that both the driver and passenger thought that i was a... worker.

i stuttered to correct the man's misinterpretation, but before i could get the words out, he had slapped me around my face, shocking the words out of my mouth as i was dropped to the larger-than-average footwell.

and then all control was out of my hands as the man's hand wrapped around my neck and forced me onto the ground, struggling against my wriggling and helpless body that screamed for help as he snapped the collar around my neck - binding me to the godforsaken taxi as a slut for his helping

my breaths came out fragmented and i could feel tears pooling in my eyes in horror at what was happening - what he was doing.

His arms wrestled with my blouse, not caring to undo the buttons of my delicate white dress shirt - instead ripping them open like a box of biscuits, pulling my decency away from me and leaving my heaving breasts in nothing but a bra that swayed to accustom my bust as the car turned a corner.

his cock came out then, as he used my neck to push me and hold me on my back, his fingers pushing against my clit through a pair of tights and panties - pulling the both of them off and to the side before plunging his cock into my pussy without any lube - forcing a scream from my throat as me began shagging me against the car floor, nudging my nipple into view from behind my bra before his cold breath enveloped the bud and began playing with it

he leaves almost perfectly in time for him to reach his release - cumming inside my pussy whilst i still cried and covered my face with hands - however i felt no relief as another man entered the back of the car, with his cock already released and swinging like a weapon between his two legs as he shut the door behind him with a wide grin at the "office worker themed wear" i seemed to kinkily sport.

and this man seemed to think that my cries and pleads for helps and screams and weak pushes to get him off me were-

Wow! You really like cnc huh, more of your sluts should do this gig!

After multiple men - multiple rounds - multiple cumshots that left my skirt wet and stomach twisted, the car stopped and no man entered the car... and even the collar unlatched from around my neck!

i couldn't believe it... was i free?

i didn't give myself a chance to second doubt myself.

i pushed myself out of the car despite my weakness, my eyes adjusting to the brightness of the world i was thrust into outside of the cab- realising i was outside my work building!

a shiver ran through my body as the cool wind seemed to illuminate the hot trickle of liquid down my leg, and as i looked down i realised that there was cum leaking from my pussy.

blushing and realising i was in public like a wreck, i hurried into the building just as i heard the bell going off - indicating the midday break...

i ran to find the nearest toilet as the rumble of feet comign down stairs became louder - finally finding a WC sign on a door and launching myself through it - breathing a sigh of relief as i found a safeplace to open my eyes and look into the mirror to see....

fuck. i looked like a fucked out mess. my bra had been flipped on one side so that teh cup was squashed beneath my tit that was free and lay like a pillow against my chest, free of its material constraints - my stomach with white stripes of cum that lead to a wet skirt and more cumstreaks that fell down my thighs and tights.

the door squeaked and i whipped my head around, freezing in shock as i made eye contact with a...

a man. multiple men. coming to use the toilet during their break and freezing in shock at the cum-soaked girl stook half-naked in the middle of the men's toilets

their eyes raked up adn down me and i felt myself turn fearful once more as i noticed their expressions of... hunger.

A squeak left my mouth in shock and pain as both of my tits were grabbed in handfuls by a pair of hands from behind me, pressing up my tits and squeezing them, presenting them to the men that stood in the doorway before i heart a-

"i think we got our lunchtime treat right here, huh?"

[jcmarchi]

Gou Rao, CEO & Co-Founder of NeuBird – Interview Series

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Gou Rao, CEO & Co-Founder of NeuBird – Interview Series

Goutham (Gou) Rao is the CEO and co-founder of NeuBird, the creators of Hawkeye, the world’s first generative AI-powered ITOps engineer, designed to help IT teams diagnose and resolve technical issues instantly, enabling seamless collaboration between human teams and AI.

A serial entrepreneur with a proven track record, Rao has co-founded and successfully exited multiple companies. He co-founded Portworx, acquired by Pure Storage; Ocarina Networks, acquired by Dell; and Net6, acquired by Citrix. He is also an accomplished inventor with over 50 issued patents spanning computer networking, storage, and security.

NeuBird is developing generative AI solutions for IT operations to help address the shortage of skilled professionals needed to manage modern, complex technology stacks. The company focuses on simplifying data analysis and providing real-time actionable insights, aiming to enhance efficiency and support innovation in IT management.

What inspired you to launch NeuBird, and how did you identify the need for AI-driven IT operations automation?

NeuBird was born out of the growing complexity of enterprise IT stacks and the shortage of skilled IT professionals. Traditional tools weren’t keeping up, forcing IT teams to spend 30% of their budgets navigating siloed data sources instead of driving innovation. We saw an opportunity to create an AI-powered ITOps engineer—Hawkeye—that could instantly pinpoint IT issues, reduce time-to-resolution from days to minutes, and enable enterprises to scale IT operations without being bottlenecked by labor constraints.

How is NeuBird pioneering AI-powered digital teammates, and what sets Hawkeye apart from traditional IT automation tools?

Unlike static, rule-based IT automation tools, our AI-powered digital teammate, Hawkeye, dynamically processes vast telemetry data and diagnoses issues instantly. It eliminates the bias of pre-programmed observability tools by pulling insights from diverse enterprise data sources—including Slack, cloud services, databases, and custom applications—giving IT teams a holistic, contextualized view of their infrastructure.

Hawkeye doesn’t just surface alerts; it actively collaborates with engineers through a conversational interface, diagnosing root causes and proposing fixes to complex IT issues. This fundamentally changes how IT operations work, helping them minimize downtime and respond to IT incidents with unprecedented speed.

Enterprises often struggle with data overload in IT operations. How does Hawkeye filter through massive data sets to provide actionable insights?

Traditional IT tools struggle to process the flood of telemetry data—logs, system metrics, and cloud performance indicators—leading to alert fatigue and slow incident resolution.

Hawkeye cuts through the noise by continuously analyzing real-time data, and detecting patterns that signal performance issues or failures. It complements existing observability and monitoring tools by going beyond passive monitoring to take proactive action. Acting as an engineer on your team, it interprets IT telemetry and system data from your current tools, diving into issues and resolving them as they arise.

It delivers clear, actionable insights in natural language, reducing response times from days to minutes.

Hawkeye’s unique approach leverages the power of LLMs to guide incident analysis without ever sharing customer data with LLMs, ensuring a thoughtful and secure approach.

Security and trust are major concerns for AI adoption in IT. How is NeuBird addressing these challenges?

Hawkeye’s unique approach leverages the power of LLMs to guide incident analysis without ever sharing customer data with LLMs, ensuring a thoughtful and secure approach.

Hawkeye operates within an enterprise’s security perimeter, using only internal data sources to generate insights—eliminating hallucinations that plague generic LLM-based systems. It also ensures transparency by providing traceable recommendations, so IT teams maintain full control over decision-making. This approach makes it a reliable and secure AI teammate rather than a black-box solution.

How does Hawkeye integrate with existing IT infrastructure, and what does the onboarding process look like for enterprises?

Hawkeye seamlessly integrates with enterprise IT environments by connecting to existing observability, monitoring and incident response tools, e.g. AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, and PagerDuty. It works alongside IT, DevOps, and SRE teams without requiring major infrastructure changes.

Here’s how it works:

Deployment: Hawkeye is deployed within your environment, connecting to existing tools and data sources.

Learning & Adaptation: It analyzes historical incidents and real-time telemetry to understand normal system operations and identify patterns.

Customization: The platform adapts to enterprise-specific workflows, tailoring responses and recommendations to operational needs.

Collaboration: Through a chat-based interface, teams receive real-time diagnostics, solutions, and automated resolutions where applicable.

This streamlined integration process accelerates incident resolution, reduces MTTR, and enhances system reliability—allowing enterprises to scale IT operations efficiently without adding headcount.

 What role do human engineers play alongside AI teammates like Hawkeye? How do you see this collaboration evolving?

 Hawkeye supplements, rather than replaces, human IT professionals. IT teams still drive strategic decisions, but instead of manually troubleshooting every issue, they work alongside Hawkeye to diagnose and resolve problems faster. As AI teammates become more advanced, IT professionals will shift toward higher-value tasks—optimizing architectures, improving security, and accelerating new technology adoption.

Hawkeye claims to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 90%. Can you share any real-world examples or case studies that demonstrate this impact?

 A national grocery retailer integrated Hawkeye to handle the growing complexity of its e-commerce platform. Their SRE team was overwhelmed by massive telemetry data and slow manual investigations, especially during peak shopping periods.

With Hawkeye as a GenAI-powered teammate, they saw:

~90% MTTR reduction – Instant data correlation across AWS CloudWatch, AWS MSK, and PagerDuty.

24/7 real-time analysis – Eliminated after-hours escalations.

Automated incident resolution – Pre-approved fixes deployed autonomously.

During their holiday shopping surge, Hawkeye optimized capacity, detected early issues, and made real-time scaling adjustments, ensuring near 100% uptime—a game-changer for their IT operations.

What is your vision for the evolution of AI agents from passive assistants to active problem-solvers in enterprise operations, and what key advancements are driving this shift?

 AI is shifting from passive observability to active problem-solving. Hawkeye already provides root-cause analysis and resolutions, but the next phase is full autonomy—where AI proactively optimizes IT operations, and self-heals infrastructure in real time. This evolution, driven by advancements in GenAI and cognitive decision-making models, will redefine enterprise IT.

Where do you see AI-driven enterprise automation in the next five years, and what major challenges or breakthroughs do you anticipate along the way?

 AI will shift from assisting engineers to fully autonomous IT operations, predicting and resolving issues before they escalate. Multi-agent AI workflows will enable seamless collaboration across IT, security, and DevOps, breaking down silos between departments. The biggest breakthroughs will include self-healing infrastructure, AI-driven cross-functional collaboration, and stronger human-AI trust, allowing AI teammates to take on more complex decisions. The main challenges will be ensuring AI transparency and adapting the workforce to work alongside AI, balancing automation with human oversight.

Having led multiple startups to success, what advice would you give to entrepreneurs building AI-driven companies today?

 Entrepreneurs should focus on solving real, high-value problems rather than chasing AI hype. AI must be built with enterprise trust in mind, ensuring transparency and control for businesses adopting it. Adaptability is key—AI systems must evolve with business needs instead of being rigid, one-size-fits-all solutions. Rather than replacing human expertise, AI should be positioned as a teammate that enhances decision-making and operational efficiency. Finally, enterprise AI adoption takes time, so companies that prioritize scalability and long-term impact over short-term trends will ultimately emerge as leaders in the space.

Thank you for the great interview, readers who wish to learn more should visit NeuBird. 

[hrrtshape]

things that my boyfriend does in my better cr that truly warms my heart ( aka emma yaps about coryo . . again )

i just have to say that like every time i am with him it might as well be raining rose petals because GRAH . i love this man so bad fuck

he steals the hair tie off my wrist mid-conversation just to snap it lightly against my arm. menace behaviour. then kisses the spot he snapped like it's reparations. it's not. but okay.

he uses my perfume when he misses me. pretends it was "accidental" because he was "in a rush" but i literally caught him spritzing it on his pillow. okay scented softboy.

him scribbling my name in the margins of his physics homework.

when i'm sitting on the counter he stands between my knees like it's just. where he belongs. like we're in a 2007 coming-of-age movie starring people with tumblr edits. which we are.

he bought a stupid little charm for my pandora bracelet when he went on a trip without me. i asked why that one. he said "it looked lonely." shut. UP.

he hates when i'm crying, like. goes feral. paces. brings me tea and tissues and then blames the weather. he’ll be like "it's always cloudy when you're sad" like okay shakespeare.

he always knows when i'm cold before i say anything. he'll just silently drape his jacket over my shoulders like it's a cape.

he keeps the receipts from our dates in a box. they're relics. we're going to bury them under a tree one day and kiss above the grave.

he'll grab my wrist when we’re crossing the street. dramatically. we're in a victorian and there’s a carriage hurtling toward me. we're literally on a suburban sidewalk.

he kisses my knuckles. ALL. OF. THEM. slow. one by one.

he makes me playlists with stupid names like "songs for when you're being dramatic (but i love u anyway)" or "music to study the divine tragedy of your smile to" and then says "it's not that deep." shut up it IS.

his mom super duper likes me because i helped carry the groceries once and he hasn't stopped bringing it up like i saved a child from a burning building.

he'll just. rest his head in my lap. no words. he's safe there!!!!!!!!!! that's home.

every time he kisses my temple i lose two years off my life expectancy. every. single. time.

he eats around the onions in my burger. without even saying anything. and then gives me the side-eye like how did you not check for onions.

he always opens my drinks for me. bottle caps, soda cans, vitamin waters. he lives to hear the hiss-pop and hand it to me like some sort of carbonated chalice. boycoded service.

he lets me pop his zits. i don't even want to unpack this one. i think it means we're married.

he pulled a leaf out of my hair and kept it in his wallet. it's still there. crunched and dry and maybe disgusting. romantic rot. ROMANTIC ROT.

every time we're walking past those claw machine games he makes me stop. wins me a plushie.

he saves the voice notes i send him.

he fixed the chain on my necklace with his teeth. we were running late. i was spiralling. and he just said "come here" and bit the clasp back together. yea. yea.

he let me win at chess once and i knew.

if i fall asleep anywhere near him, car, sofa, bench, airport floor, he'll tuck something under my head. his hoodie. his bag. his own arm. i'm never on tile. i'm on love.

i dunno if i ever said that....but yes....he has...indeed....put his jacket over a puddle.

he wrote "ema was here" in the dust on the back of his car. left it there for days. weeks. i checked. he washed everything else. not that. (p.s., i have an obsession with him writing ema instead of emma. just something about that.)

he carries my water bottle like it's his cross to bear but also refills it without me asking. i’m not a girl. i'm a beloved houseplant.

he figured out my coffee order before i told him and now i feel unsafe (in a romantic way).

my phone dies and he lets me use his. like "here. text your mom." and i'm like ??? i'm texting my pinterest mutual actually but thank you!!!

he keeps gum in his glovebox just for me. like i asked once. in january. and now it's always there.

when he walks behind me he'll tuck my tag in.

sings along to my favourite songs under his breath while driving even though he acts like he's too cool for them. you know. he knows every word.

when i wear lip gloss he won't kiss me right away. just stares. and says something stupid like "you're too pretty. it's a trap."

sometimes he picks me up and spins me like we're in a musical. usually in the kitchen. mind you, i'm just trying to get juice.

he learned how to tie a silk ribbon in my hair. doesn't talk about it. just does it when i can't get it right.

once i got mascara in my eye and he said "blink at me. i'll get it out" as if i was a disney princess.

he has my shampoo. doesn't use it. but. it's there. help.

he never lets me carry a takeaway bag. even if it's like. one (1) croissant. "you're not meant to suffer," he'll say, already loading five things into his arms.

he lifts me onto countertops. regularly.

he puts my earrings in his wallet if i take them off.

every time we hold hands he presses his thumb into the back of mine.

if i fall asleep in his bed he'll put socks (his!!!!!) on my feet and act like it's just something that happens.

when i talk about something i love, he looks at me instead of the thing. full eye contact. the whole time. THAT one image from pinterest. you know the one.

when i'm talking and he wants to kiss me, he just. does. mid-sentence.

once when i was crying he wiped my tears and went "you're gonna get dehydrated." (hrrtshape dot com is malfunctioning currently i need a moment)

knows how i take my tea. knows what brand. knows i like the ugly mug.

he put the 'emergency chocolate' in his bag. for me. not himself.

told me he dreams about me. casually. just said it.

when i send a selfie he'll say "come home."

he walks slower when we're holding hands so our steps match. who does that. freak behaviour. soulmate behaviour.

sometimes i catch him just watching me, smiling, and when i ask why he says "nothing." MHMHMMHMHMHMMmmmmmmm.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Amazon illegally interferes with an historic UK warehouse election

I'm in to TARTU, ESTONIA! Overcoming the Enshittocene (Monday, May 8, 6PM, Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, University of Tartu Library, Struwe 1). AI, copyright and creative workers' labor rights (May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building, Lossi 3, lobby). A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation (May 10, 3PM, University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037).

Amazon is very good at everything it does, including being very bad at the things it doesn't want to do. Take signing up for Prime: nothing could be simpler. The company has built a greased slide from Prime-curiosity to Prime-confirmed that is the envy of every UX designer.

But unsubscribing from Prime? That's a fucking nightmare. Somehow the company that can easily figure out how to sign up for a service is totally baffled when it comes to making it just as easy to leave. Now, there's two possibilities here: either Amazon's UX competence is a kind of erratic freak tide that sweeps in at unpredictable intervals and hits these unbelievable high-water marks, or the company just doesn't want to let you leave.

To investigate this question, let's consider a parallel: Black Flag's Roach Motel. This is an icon of American design, a little brown cardboard box that is saturated in irresistibly delicious (to cockroaches, at least) pheromones. These powerful scents make it admirably easy for all the roaches in your home to locate your Roach Motel and enter it.

But the interior of the Roach Motel is also coated in a sticky glue. Once roaches enter the motel, their legs and bodies brush up against this glue and become hopeless mired in it. A roach can't leave – not without tearing off its own legs.

It's possible that Black Flag made a mistake here. Maybe they wanted to make it just as easy for a roach to leave as it is to enter. If that seems improbable to you, well, you're right. We don't even have to speculate, we can just refer to Black Flag's slogan for Roach Motel: "Roaches check in, but they don't check out."

It's intentional, and we know that because they told us so.

Back to Amazon and Prime. Was it some oversight that cause the company make it so marvelously painless to sign up for Prime, but such a titanic pain in the ass to leave? Again, no speculation is required, because Amazon's executives exchanged a mountain of internal memos in which this is identified as a deliberate strategy, by which they deliberately chose to trick people into signing up for Prime and then hid the means of leaving Prime. Prime is a Roach Motel: users check in, but they don't check out:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/03/big-tech-cant-stop-telling-on-itself/

When it benefits Amazon, they are obsessive – "relentless" (Bezos's original for the company) – about user friendliness. They value ease of use so highly that they even patented "one click checkout" – the incredibly obvious idea that a company that stores your shipping address and credit card could let you buy something with a single click:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent

But when it benefits Amazon to place obstacles in our way, they are even more relentless in inventing new forms of fuckery, spiteful little landmines they strew in our path. Just look at how Amazon deals with unionization efforts in its warehouses.

Amazon's relentless union-busting spans a wide diversity of tactics. On the one hand, they cook up media narratives to smear organizers, invoking racist dog-whistles to discredit workers who want a better deal:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/amazon-chris-smalls-smart-articulate-leaked-memo

On the other hand, they collude with federal agencies to make workers afraid that their secret ballots will be visible to their bosses, exposing them to retaliation:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amazon-violated-labor-law-alabama-union-election-labor-official-finds-rcna1582

They hold Cultural Revolution-style forced indoctrination meetings where they illegally threaten workers with punishment for voting in favor of their union:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/business/economy/amazon-union-staten-island-nlrb.html

And they fire Amazon tech workers who express solidarity with warehouse workers:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-fires-tech-employees-workers-criticism-warehouse-climate-policies/

But all this is high-touch, labor-intensive fuckery. Amazon, as we know, loves automation, and so it automates much of its union-busting: for example, it created an employee chat app that refused to deliver any message containing words like "fairness" or "grievance":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/05/doubleplusrelentless/#quackspeak

Amazon also invents implausible corporate fictions that allow it to terminate entire sections of its workforce for trying to unionize, by maintaining the tormented pretense that these workers, who wear Amazon uniforms, drive Amazon trucks, deliver Amazon packages, and are tracked by Amazon down to the movements of their eyeballs, are, in fact, not Amazon employees:

https://www.wired.com/story/his-drivers-unionized-then-amazon-tried-to-terminate-his-contract/

These workers have plenty of cause to want to unionize. Amazon warehouses are sources of grueling torment. Take "megacycling," a ten-hour shift that runs from 1:20AM to 11:50AM that workers are plunged into without warning or the right to refuse. This isn't just a night shift – it's a night shift that makes it impossible to care for your children or maintain any kind of normal life.

Then there's Jeff Bezos's war on his workers' kidneys. Amazon warehouse workers and drivers notoriously have to pee in bottles, because they are monitored by algorithms that dock their pay for taking bathroom breaks. The road to Amazon's warehouse in Coventry, England is littered with sealed bottles of driver piss, defenestrated by drivers before they reach the depot inspection site.

There's so much piss on the side of the Coventry road that the prankster Oobah Butler was able to collect it, decant it into bottles, and market it on Amazon as an energy beverage called "Bitter Lemon Release Energy," where it briefly became Amazon's bestselling energy drink:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/20/release-energy/#the-bitterest-lemon

(Butler promises that he didn't actually ship any bottled piss to people who weren't in on the gag – but let's just pause here and note how weird it is that a guy who hates our kidneys as much as Jeff Bezos built and flies a penis-shaped rocket.)

Butler also secretly joined the surge of 1,000 workers that Amazon hired for the Coventry warehouse in advance of a union vote, with the hope of diluting the yes side of that vote and forestall the union. Amazon displayed more of its famously selective competence here, spotting Butler and firing him in short order, while totally failing to notice that he was marketing bottles of driver piss as a bitter lemon drink on Amazon's retail platform.

After a long fight, Amazon's Coventry workers are finally getting their union vote, thanks to the GMB union's hard fought battle at the Central Arbitration Committee:

https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/04/26/amazon-warehouse-workers-in-coventry-will-vote-on-trade-union-recognition/

And right on schedule, Amazon has once again discovered its incredible facility for ease-of-use. The company has blanketed its shop floor with radioactively illegal "one click to quit the union" QR codes. When a worker aims their phones at the code and clicks the link, the system auto-generates a letter resigning the worker from their union.

As noted, this is totally illegal. English law bans employers from "making an offer to an employee for the sole or main purpose of inducing workers not to be members of an independent trade union, take part in its activities, or make use of its services."

Now, legal or not, this may strike you as a benign intervention on Amazon's part. Why shouldn't it be easy for workers to choose how they are represented in their workplaces? But the one-click system is only half of Amazon's illegal union-busting: the other half is delivered by its managers, who have cornered workers on the shop floor and ordered them to quit their union, threatening them with workplace retaliation if they don't.

This is in addition to more forced "captive audience" meetings where workers are bombarded with lies about what life in an union shop is like.

Again, the contrast couldn't be more stark. If you want to quit a union, Amazon makes this as easy as joining Prime. But if you want to join a union, Amazon makes that even harder than quitting Prime. Amazon has the same attitude to its workers and its customers: they see us all as a resource to be extracted, and have no qualms about tricking or even intimidating us into doing what's best for Amazon, at the expense of our own interests.

The campaigning law-firm Foxglove is representing five of Amazon's Coventry workers. They're doing the lord's work:

https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/05/02/legal-challenge-to-amazon-uks-new-one-click-to-quit-the-union-tool/

All this highlights the increasing divergence between the UK and the US when it comes to labor rights. Under the Biden Administration, @NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has promulgated a rule that grants a union automatic recognition if the boss does anything to interfere with a union election:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/#if-blood-be-the-price-of-your-cursed-wealth

In other words, if Amazon tries these tactics in the USA now, their union will be immediately recognized. Abruzzo has installed an ultra-sensitive tilt-sensor in America's union elections, and if Bezos or his class allies so much as sneeze in the direction of their workers' democratic rights, they automatically lose.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/06/one-click-to-quit-the-union/#foxglove

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