Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

There are ways the #executive class could make returning to the #office more attractive, of course—say by going back to the concept of an *office*, where everyone who works there has a room assigned only to them, with at least a desk, a chair, and a door they can close when they really need to concentrate. But that might give the #peasants ideas above their station, so don't hold your breath.

Really this may the one good thing to come out of #covid. The traditional office structure was already pretty rickety before the #pandemic: the #infrastructure was in place for half or more of "office" work to be done at home. I've been doing exactly that for coming up on four years now (!) and although I do sometimes miss the camaraderie of the #lab, for the most part I'm quite happy with the situation. I won't be at all sorry if the nineteenth crow turns out to be the coup de grace.

The new #nobility is going to have to adapt, and just like the old nobility, they don't handle that well. It's not about #money, and it never has been. It's about #power, and one way to make your power over your fellow human beings explicit is forcing them to be somewhere they don't want to be for most of their adult lives. #Duke #CEO and #Baron #MBA are quite reluctant to give that up. Things are going to be messy for a while.

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/5/15/23721410/return-to-office-remote-work-commercial-real-estate

Apropos nothing at all, if you hear someone say "we moved X to the client-side because agility", know that they are a hazard to themselves and others.

I don't use a DM screen - but right now I wish I did, just so I could roll this THROUGH the screen while saying "Oooooooh Yeah!"

"The constant diffusion of statements in snippets, the constant excitements of feeling unjustified by fact, the constant formation of hasty or erroneous opinions, must in the end one would think, deteriorate the intelligence of all whom the" ... wait for it .. "telegraph appeals." The Spectator 1889

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Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some creators.

I'm pretty sure @ZachWeinersmith wrote this one about me specifically 😂​

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gifted

SO GOOD

still breathless at the exactness of @david_j_roth's description of Elon Musk's sense of humor as "world-historically dire"

https://defector.com/burning-down-the-house

For all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”.

#EnglishIsHard