George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

My friend of 20+ years, Meri, really really needs a break. If you happen to need an old skool sys admin or a technical writer, she's quite good. If you feel you can help tide her over until she finds a job, that's also welcome. #fedihired #mutualaide https://gofund.me/efa1bb95

No Right to Medical Care, Compensation for #Injuries or Time Off: How Immigrant #Dairy Workers Go From Vital to Disposable
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Wisconsin’s dairy industry would almost certainly collapse without the #immigrants who do the dirty, dangerous work that #farmers across the state say citizens won’t.

But when #workers get hurt — and they get hurt with such frequency it’s considered a routine part of the job — the laws are stacked against them.

#News #Labor #Safety

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-farm-immigrant-workers-injury-safety?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Four Health Data Science jobs at Uni Glasgow

Prof (salary negotiable)
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=134990

Senior Lecturer (£58-65k)
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=136089

Lecturer (£39-44k)
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=134991

Engineer (£39-44)
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=135988

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Ergh, I always find #introduction posts difficult, because I don't know what to say about myself. I guess I'll start with the basics:

I'm a 38 year old Autistic digital nomad, originally from Toronto, Canada.

Two years ago, my wife and I bought a motorhome and moved in full-time with our German Shepherd, Beau. We picked up Zoe, our Husky, while in Las Vegas in the winter of 2022.

I post a lot about my experience being Autistic, as well as off-grid solar power and RVing. I also post a bit about tech and software development, since that's what I do for a living.

When I'm not in burnout, I love to tinker and dabble in a wide variety of interests, such as writing, drawing, playing guitar and making music, renovating and upgrading my RV, photography, game dev, 3D rendering and animation, ... did I miss any? Probably.

Some things I'm proud of:

- I completely rewired my RV to run off-grid from solar and battery power myself.
- I'm a certified scuba diver.
- I've lived in 8 different countries.
- I love learning and I've taught myself almost everything I know

Fairness is one of my most fundamental core values. I believe that all humans are equal and that everyone deserves joy and to live the life they want.

While I generally find being social exhausting, I love meeting new people. I express myself much more easily and comfortably over text than face-to-face or over the phone, even with the people closest to me.

On one hand, I don't know what else to say. On the other hand, I feel like I could probably ramble on forever with no focus at all.

Got any questions? Feel free to ask. 💚

Argentina’s new leader, President Javier Milei, has embarked on a series of aggressive steps to refashion the country’s economy since his inauguration on December 10, and according to senior officials in his administration, he is prepared to follow through with his promise to “dollarize” the country’s economy.

https://www.voanews.com/a/argentina-contemplates-major-economic-reforms-including-dollarization-/7403656.html

Several postdoc and doctoral student positions also in Bayesian modeling, inference, and workflow, Gaussian processes, Bayesian neural networks, prior elicitation, probabilistic programming, etc. at Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence, Aalto University, and University of Helsinki. I'm also one of the potential supervisors.

See more at https://fcai.fi/we-are-hiring

#Bayes #Bayesian #academicjobs

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67748813

Hey everyone! I'm guessing a lot of you will be buying last minute gifts for people, and those tend to involve gift cards. Be very careful when you're buying these off-the-rack at retail stores that sell gift cards for various popular restaurants and brands. Especially those that are not in particularly tamper-proof packaging.

A friend just shared some photos he took after buying a bunch of Dardens restaurant gift cards for some gifts to clients. They didn't discover until leaving the store that several of the cards had been tampered with, their PIN scratch-offs re-covered with look-alike scratch off stickers. Also, the phony ones seem to have goofy looking barcodes, like they were scanned and printed by a laser printer without enough ink.

The trick here is the thieves pull the card out, scratch off the PIN part, record that, cover up the pin with fake tape, and then shove the thing back in the packaging and put it back on the shelf. Then, when someone buys it, the thieves can access the value on the card the minute it is activated (purchased).

The image shows two of these cards that are non-tampered (left) and two on the right that were. These cards can slide right out of their packaging with a little wiggling, and slide back in the same way.

Some stores keep their gift cards behind the counter for this reason. Might be best going for those instead of the ones in aisle 19.

Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/18/24006062/flipboard-fediverse-mastodon-activitypub-profiles-social?utm_content=buffer9ed8d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

My oldest just brought in his Arduino and breadboard and said, "Look what I made! Press the button!"

I press it and it started playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" on the piezo speaker.

anyone looking to hire someone like me (Principal HW+GW+FW Engineer) for a job that doesn’t have periods of massive crunch? >.>

Daily Telescope: Tracking the Sun’s path every day across the sky

The image is a vivid demonstration of the changing of the seasons.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/12/daily-telescope-tracking-the-suns-path-every-day-across-the-sky/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Is there a community within Mastodon of folks who are technology minded but community / coop oriented? Like say some ‘tech for good’ kinda thing? I am really good at webdev and want to find other folks who want to help make the earth better, not burn it down with tech that only serves a small rich minority. #coop #community

2020 GOP assurances. Don’t believe them now when they claim Trump won’t be a dictator.

Your holiday reminder

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Trying to find my people on Mastodon. Please boost and follow me if you:

-Believe that mozzarella sticks are a right, not a privilege.
-Mentally greet each dog you see just in case they are telepathic.
-Think that airplanes are too heavy to fly and refuse to listen anytime someone attempts to explain the physics of it to you.
-Don't see why the government can't abolish Mondays.
-Want cats to eligible to run for president.

This is joyous and amazing. And apparently super triggering to the right. lol. Good on you, Dr. Biden! Link in top comment.