#efficient email

[victusinveritas]

[catilinas]

my cardiologist seems incapable of communicating with my gp practice their emails to one another keep getting lost im going to become the jokerrrrrr. at what point does it make sense for me to physically take the form i need signing from the gp to the consultant and then deliver it by hand back to the gp. come onnnnnn

[northern-passage]

Hello, everyone!! I have officially sent emails out to all the raffle winners (be sure to check your spam folder). I'll be spending the next day or two linking winners with their respective author/artist.

Adding up all of the donations across all five gfms, I'm happy to say that we donated a combined total of €2,121.73!!! Thank you everyone for donating and sharing. Please keep doing what you can to support the people in Gaza. Keep spreading their gfms and keep talking about Palestine.

Huge thank you as well to all the contributors. Thank you for offering your art and writing to the drive and helping me get the word out. Much love to all of you!! 🫶 I'm very proud of what we were able to accomplish as a community.

[normcdf]

this truly has been shoko kaisen

[blueangelflights]

S2 EP3 SPOILERS!!—

are they… are they making severed people for the military…

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dave Jamieson at HuffPost:

The Trump administration sent another obnoxious email to federal employees ordering them to list their achievements from the previous week, making clear it intends for the bureaucratic memo exercise to be a new weekly ritual for more than two million workers. The email from the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, was titled “What did you do last week? Part II.” Like the previous one, it instructed employees to “please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets describing what you accomplished,” and gave a deadline of Monday at midnight. The first such email was paired with a threat from Elon Musk, the head of President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, who said nonresponses would be considered resignations. It prompted widespread confusion across agencies, with some department leaders telling workers to reply, and others telling them to ignore it and stay within their agency chain of command. Follow-up emails shared with HuffPost on Saturday showed some agency leaders falling more in line with Musk after OPM’s second “what did you do last week?” demand. Leadership at the Department of Homeland Security sent an email to employees Saturday telling them they were “implementing a structured process to submit a brief summary of their key accomplishments from the previous week.” They called the new policy “part of our internal accountability” efforts, and said it would align with OPM’s recent guidance.

Elon Musk still insisting on making federal workers email 5 accomplishments weekly, which is a counterproductive waste of time.

[namocchi]

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[kcscribbler]

TFW you started a 5-part AU series having plotted out the first 4 parts and having precisely [0] idea how the hell you were going to end the thing, and 100K words later finally figure out the evil twist ending after two weeks of writer's block

AND bust out 1200 words of a hug fic fill in the same day

[hahahafangirl]

spent all of my gray matters these past few days trying to read linguistics and psychoanalysis. why am i doing this? i dont know. i dont understand it myself. i understood least of all the material covered in the book.

[lilith-of-stardust]

ALSO. Software developers. I'm not telling you to stop making your ui nice and soft and colorful, but PLEASE make an easy toggle to a barebones setting for people like me who like my software in the brutalist style

[mistninja]

I wont be able to actually quit until wednesday because I have to go to the main office to resign fuck my life

[dykealloy]

im so sick of making other people uncomfortable because i cant hold a conversation without a heightened anxiety static scrambling my brain making me stutter every second sentence shifting my stance not knowing what to do with my hands trying to avoid eye contact but that's rude so i try to hold eye contact but now im staring into their naked soul as i try to search the empty cavern between my ears for words that will not manifest SOMEONE SHOOT ME WITH THE DE-AUTISM BEAM

[drurrito]

Siphoning resources from an already emaciated federal workforce to save money instead of taking it from the hoarders of wealth in this country is every expletive in the book marinating in horse shit

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sebastian Murdock at HuffPost:

A worker at the National Weather Service is warning of the devastating impact recent mass firings at the agency could have when the next natural disaster strikes. “I think people are nervous and very scared to see what happens next,” a general forecaster at the agency told HuffPost. “Hurricane season really starts to pick up midsummer, and we’re looking at a potentially — very unfortunately — active season coming ahead.” The employee, who has requested anonymity over fears of retaliation, was referring to last week’s mass firings of federal probationary workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the NWS. More than 800 workers, including weather forecasters, scientists and technicians, were fired. Thousands of federal workers have already been fired since President Donald Trump took office. Unelected billionaire Elon Musk, who now heads the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has vowed to gut the federal government of its power and much of its workforce. That includes perhaps crippling a critical government service tasked with keeping the public informed of dangerous weather events. [...] As a general forecaster, the source said, their job includes releasing weather balloons to collect vital data and tracking data in real time from the Doppler radar during severe weather events. Among the firings were electrical technicians whose job is to fix the radar if it stops working. “There’s so many different parts of the National Weather Service, and everyone is essential to making sure it can function,” the source said. [...] At an agency that a congressional analysis found to be understaffed last year, the cuts to the NWS could jeopardize its future efficiency. The NWS operates more than 120 offices across six regions and is staffed 24 hours a day, every day of the year. “One office already does so much that having to help other offices is going to become so much more work,” they said. “I think everyone is worried about what this is leading to, and it’s quite intimidating and scary.”

An NWS worker reminded that “we are here to protect lives” in the wake of the Musk/Trump Regime’s cuts to that agency.

[girderednerve]

A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be deployed by webpage owners to protect their own content from being scraped or can be deployed “offensively” as a honeypot trap to waste AI companies’ resources.

“Of course, these crawlers are massively scaled, and are downloading links from large swathes of the internet at any given time,” [Aaron B, Nepenthes' creator, said]. “But they are still consuming resources, spinning around doing nothing helpful, unless they find a way to detect that they are stuck in this loop.”