Microsoft reportedly offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as an attempt to trim costs
That's over a quarter of the company's global workforce.
https://www.engadget.com/2297175/microsoft-reportedly-offers-voluntary-buyouts-to-60000-employees/
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #Engadget [Engadget]
This is a very sincere question that I struggle with a bit. A local synagogue I travel by regularly has had a sign out with "we support Israel" next to an israeli flag. A few weeks ago the sign was burned.
My current view on it is this would be the equivalent of burning an american flag or a trump sign/flag or a confederate battle flag or something along the same lines.
So I'm trying to get clarity on this from anyone willing to engage the questions:
A) is the act of burning that sign anti-Semitic on its own, not knowing the thoughts of the person who did it?
B) In what ways is my thinking flawed on this one?
You should remember!
Gaza did not lose its freedom after October 7. It had been denied it for decades.
No functioning airport. No seaport open to the world. No freedom to leave, to return, to seek treatment or simply see a loved one without barriers and permission.
Under Israeli occupation and blockade, clean water, electricity and medical care were daily struggles long before the genocidal war.
Remember Gaza before October 7: children growing up with the world closed to them.
Their suffering did not begin when the world started watching.
Any team that can come back from 0-4 deserves to win the game #Brewers #WorldSeries
Maybe "self-sabotage" could have a new meaning: when our revolutionary spirits attack the internalized logics of capitalism, shutting down our participation in extractive labor. "Due to a devastating act of self-sabotage, I am quitting this job immediately."
RIP the popular account of the word "sabotage," which apparently does *not* derive from Belgian workers throwing wooden shoes into machines to disrupt production 😭 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage
Anyway, let's stop using "self-sabotage" to describe action (or inaction) that conflicts with our goals. In my experience, internal conflict is very common and usually just means different parts of me want/need different things.
in my experience accepting limitations tends to help your life become less of a mess. the more you try to reach over your limit, the messier things get. you have to learn to say to yourself "i'm limited like all living creatures are and just not capable of doing this much/in this pace"
New on Antidote Zine dot com: an open letter from prisoners of the ongoing uprisings in France.
https://antidotezine.com/2026/10/23/we-are-the-people-fighting-to-suffer-no-more/
"We are from every neighborhood, town, and city in the region. We are of every age, skin color, and nationality; we are Arabs, white people, Black people, Roma, Turks, Germans, French people...
We call on you to reject every division between us and to declare loud and clear what we are fighting for: revolution."
Very happy to have this come out with ill will editions during the present explosion of revolts. It explores how the order of capital and of the police now only produces a dying world, and posits the need to bring death upon this order that refuses to die.
https://illwill.com/disorder
I've been working on this project behind the scenes since, like, February, and I think I am finally ready to publish it.
🚔🚨 The Surveilled City is a project that covers high-tech police surveillance, smart city technologies that mission creep into policing, and policing-related AI for concerned residents, municipal policymakers, and journalists.
Expect accessible explainers, how-to guides, and related news coverage.
everyone wants a revolution but so many still refuse to acknowledge (and destroy) adult supremacy.
Anarchist Parenting Podcast – 2026-10-21
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/anarchist-parenting-podcast-2026-10-21
Annual reminder: voting is NOT harm reduction
https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/
The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.
— Johann Most
An interview with Champagne Song in Johnson County Jail, having received a 100 year sentence for charges related to the July 4th, 2026 noise demo outside the #Prairieland immigrant prison near Alvarado, TX, about their political development and assessment of the situation with the USA today.
https://thefinalstrawradio.mayfirst.info/2026/10/18/champagne-song-of-the-prairieland-antifa-case/
I wholeheartedly believe that every man should watch this video, because i bet none can grasp quite how terribly women get treated, even at work, without being challenged
@thisisjofrank:
“I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment.
With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording:”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/117424129397544193
"Liberals can't address the climate crisis because it means confronting capitalism."
BIG OL HOT TIP for folks like me using PiHole to block ads and trackers etc *and* devices on the latest iOS:
You’re gonna want to turn off “Connectivity assist” right tf now.
This feature used to be helpful when the wifi genuinely had no internet connectivity, but apparently iOS 27 uses it to *re-request DNS queries that failed because you intentionally blocked them*.
This feature bypassed my filters for **132MB** of ads and trackers while I was hunting this down 🤬🤬🤬
Stop calling ADULTS doing evil things "childish." Stop it!! They are not like children they are very clearly acting like adults, and specifically the kind of adults who abuse and murder children. It's obscene to think so poorly of children that *that's* the first comparison you think of for the worst adult people out there, who are ACTIVELY HARMING CHILDREN.
hi, bit of an odd thing for this account
my father has vaguely come across A Guy who has a supply of decommissioned retired solar panels but nowhere to offload them
how do i get him and/or The Guy in contact with some community-scale projects that can make use of them (e.g. small-scale backyard/balcony/etc systems, not a scrapper)?
location: Silicon Valley, California, USA
🔁 appreciated
edit: you can start by DMing me on fedi, or email r@arcanenibble.com