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"More than 8 million people will be at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage once the Medicaid work requirement passed as part of last year's reconciliation bill is fully implemented by the states, a study found."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/medicaid/120565
Study: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-04811
#healthcare #medicaid #insurance #ACA #work #research #HealthPolicy
What should I do?
I work as a music teacher since 2009, and since last year my students are mostly kids, and I go to their houses to give them private lessons. I got a car, and most of them live in the upper neighborhood, more than 12 kilometers away from my house (7.5 miles). That's cool, sure: I charge also the cost of transportation and time associated.
However, last week Gasoline prices rose dramatically.. I know, I know: everywhere in the whole world. But here in Chile our far-right president and his government didn't do sh1t, and we all have no protection at all. Besides, they are allies of the truck drivers (one of the most powerful unions in the country, known far-right people), and they decided not to do sh1t neither. We are completely abandoned.
We all know music lessons aren't a priority in a world in economic crisis.. Should I rise the price of my service? I am afraid if I do so, I'll lose my students. Should I resist and earn less?
Freelancers over there: what do you think? Are you suffering from this situation too?
#gas #gasoline #rise #crisis #world #worldcrisis #war #job #work #music #lessons #reflection
Unexpected good thing today: my boss is working from home, so there is no need for me to be in the office. I get to work within the comforts of home today. #work
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@greem/116295351835030134
It is done.
JFC I'm glad that's over. Two utterly critical foundational services, used by practically everyone in the University, in many cases every single day. Now running on a long-term support platform & OS, so hopefully I'll be dead or retired by the time that needs doing again.
Two years of work, finished.
I'm tired, boss.
We've fully integrated AI into our environment. ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini Pro, Copilot+, Claude Go. We're also working in AI Agent leveraging an automated platform with N8N. Starting with an agentic AI and some MCP.
Expanded reporting. Leveraging multi facet integrations. What a time to be alive.
#work #ai #sysadmin #agentic #chatgpt #gemini #claude #copilot #mcp
All too frequently these days, my boss does not communicate with me. This includes not showing up to work, as well as not letting me know he won’t be here. He is a micromanager, too, so I end up sitting around with Jack-all to do waiting for him most of the day. I mean, it sounds nice getting paid to do nothing, but since I can’t really do anything else with the time, it’s frustrating as hell. #work
Fatigue at work: hyper connected, oversollicited… exhausted!
// Article in French //
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Fatigue au travail : hyperconnectés, sursollicités… épuisés!
https://www.revuegestion.ca/fatigue-au-travail-hyperconnectes-sursollicites-epuises
Chaos isn't a discipline problem.
It's an infrastructure problem.
You're not scattered because you lack focus. You're scattered because your systems are held together by memory and stress.
Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia
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Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-jobs-indonesia-living-wages?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Ello chums!
I am now in a position to start looking for my next role.
I am a Frontend/JavaScript Developer.
Info:
I am UK based in the East Midlands.
Give me a 📱or 📩
Retoots more than welcome.
#FrontEnd #FrontEndDevelopment #FrontEndDeveloper #JavaScript #Work #Jobs #JobSearch
What is the single most ANNOYING thing you hear from customers/clients in your job, whatever that job might be? Like, the most repeated unfunny joke or complaint or whatever.
Let's hear 'em (so we don't repeat 'em!)
Jan » 🌐
@js@x0r.be
Corporations are crying out loud about switching from nginx ingress to an alternative, but have their heads so far up their own asses that they can't find the funds in their million $/€ budgets to pay developers to maintain it.
The joys of having a career without any form of accountability must be so great.
#opensource #hosting #corporations #work #programming #kubernetes #linux
“AI has convinced #ComputerScience students to shift majors and white-collar #workers to change careers, while some are embracing it.”
…
“ While AI is still just one factor among many that are leading to #layoffs, ADP, the largest payroll company in the US, found that professional and business services roles, alongside information services jobs in media, telecom and #IT, collectively lost 41,000 jobs in December 2025. In that same month, employment grew in healthcare, education and hospitality, per the firm’s data.”
…
“Many of those white-collar roles involve writing, #DataAnalysis and #coding – tasks #generative #AITools can increasingly perform. Hands-on, people-facing #work remains less exposed.”
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #ArtificialIntelligence <https://theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/ai-future-work-technology-white-collar>
Escaping the desk for a few. Just a quick walk and a coffee to reset the brain. Back at it soon!
#worklife #coffeebreak #officereboot #stretch #dailyroutine #workflow #work #office #breaktime
This is the expected outcome.
In the same way that the arrival of household technology, like vacuums and washing machines, meant that 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 were now higher, and 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲; and
in the same way that advances in green energy and technology tend to *𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲* 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, because now you have more of it, and you can 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘋𝘰 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.
> "𝘈 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘺 200 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘪𝘵 "𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵." 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴."
Check out:
- Ruth Schwartz Cowan, "More Work for Mother"
- Jason Hickel, "Less is More"
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
I'm up in Cumbria at the moment, and spent much of yesterday hauling and cutting firewood. It kept me pretty warm without needing to light a fire. 😊
I finally am able to share, that I have been promoted to Concierge Team Lead @ Skylight Calendar!
This has been in the works for close to a month now and I'm excited to finally be able to talk about it and share it with everyone.
I'm beyond honored and thrilled to help lead our amazing support team into the future, build new processes, refine current processes and bring quality support to each and every Skylight customer!
If you're on LinkedIn, you can like my post about this via the link below as well as connect with me.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7428076449384927232/
#Skylight #Calendar #SkylightCalendar #ConciergeTeamLead #Promotion #Work #News #WorkStuff
There is an ethical co-op (https://www.ourspaceworld.org/) looking to hire a grant writer, in case any of you Fedi writers are interested: http://bit.ly/grantwriterposition
Please boost for visiibility #getFediHired #job #cooperative #work #writer #grant #HelpWanted
@rl_dane @pfr I use #Teams at #work daily.
It's clearly designed by committee, taking the worst aspects of #instantmessaging, #filesharing, #collaboration, and #voip and then putting it thru a blender and then dumped into an .exe.
Granted, it is deeply integrated into #Microsoft #Windows but it's equally awful in a web browser.
The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
More of my work for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
An average worker at the foreign factories that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says.
None of the workers The Oregonian/OregonLive spoke with in Nike’s second-largest production hub said they earned that much.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-shoe-factory-indonesia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Speaking of loops, I posted a video of me making crackle tubes there-
https://loops.video/v/d5MMXWTXlK
The crackle tubes are for a neat job coming up in Manhattan. Some kind of restaurant in Soho on Norfolk street. It will have perhaps the most of these crackle tubes in NYC inside of it. It should be installing later this week (as soon as I fit check and make the last few tubes)
#glass #education #voiceover #loops #nyc #craft #lighting #work #specialeffects #restaurant #handmade #brooklyn #manhattan #madeinnyc
Almost a year ago around the start of my breadmaking journey, I tried making this Rye black bread, which ended up not getting fully eaten it was so dense.
40 breads later, I revisited the same recipe, this time the rise was very good and judging by its currently half eaten status, I would be surprised if any is still left in a few days.
While I failed to take any photos of it being made, I now have a neon sign I bent on display at the Swatch Store in Manhattan. Photo credit to my favorite installer Donald.
Maybe I should go see it in person an film myself doing a little dance in front of it to post on loops.
#neon #work #bread #improvement #ondisplay #craft #glass #nyc #commerce #retail #electric
It’s sure great that my own workplace relies on this gigantic corporation for mission critical stuff. I am not worried about it blowing up in our face at aaallll....
#Canada #DigitalSovereignty #Microsoft #Education #Work #M365 #Network #Cloud
After a really slow December and first half of January, I am now getting lots of calls, emails and work in.
If I get them all ready, I will be delivering three desktop computers this Thursday, plus a bunch of other service work.
I also applied to join a local business networking group.
Your personal non-dairy creamer in the common break-room fridge.
The Wandering Shop Stories #prompt for today, Sat-17-Jan, is #work. Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "work" in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work Join in and tag it with #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction h/t @NaraMoore
The #Zohar instructs us:
"...A person’s real work in this world
is the work of the Blessed Holy One"...
There is #work (as #job) & there is real work (what we are on the #Earth to accomplish: our #vocation therefore). We are here to do the #divine work on Earth in this time & place. https://bit.ly/3SZVL8J
Study: AI Successfully Completed Commission Work 2.5% of the Time… At Best
A study has come out and dealt a fresh blow to how well AI can handle replacing humans at various tasks.
https://www.freezenet.ca/study-ai-successfully-completed-commission-work-2-5-of-the-time-at-best/
#News #Technology #AI #ChatGPT #commission #Gemini #Grok #Manus #research #Sonnet #study #work
Big Tech with #AI isn’t going to make you #work less. It’s going to make you work more, for less, and with more responsibility for failures.
And like the ownership class always does, it’s going to gaslight you into believing it’s all your fault.
There are no plausible reasons to believe power wouldn’t work itself through same old human mind the same way it always has.
Employment Poll Results:
https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/115843471472822727
Obviously, this isn't a scientific study, but it's worthwhile talking about the state of how work is affecting our Fedi friends.
49.4% of employed people are burnt out. 50% of those burnt out people actually like their jobs.
Work shouldn't have to suck this much. We need to organize our way out of this, along with livability for everyone so we're not all just wage slaving our way through life.
1/n
@TheresaReason @hosford42 also #jobs #hiring #IT #Tech #Coding #Programming #Work and probably more
#Vacation ended and I went back to #work on #Friday. It was a low key day.
A couple things I've continued to do since starting vacation:
1.) The hour-long solo #winter hikes before work. This has done wonders for my #brain.
2.) Decreasing my "reliance" on #tech. Still using the flip phone for daily comms. My #smartphone is on silent, usage is significantly less, and only check in with notifications and messages a couple times a day.
Not that I am a sedentary person. Quite the opposite but as a #caregiver and #parent for a #disabled #child, self-care time is, by several orders of magnitude, significantly less.
#health #selfcare #mentalhealth #exercise #caregiving #disability
going with a "great" start of the year by being laid off, so looking for new job
I'm an embedded engineer with 6 year experience in complex bare-metal & RTOS development and wireless comms (Bluetooth but also learning others)
also worked on customising open-source projects for internal use (e.g modifying BlueZ & writing custom Wireshark dissector), and have experience with Python software development
ideally remote, otherwise preferably located in UK
Has #China Planted So Many #Trees It Has Changed its #WaterCycle? : Medium
#AI Is Changing How We #Learn at #Work : HBR
How recently have we understood the #Universe? : Big Think
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
This may be considered #HotTakes by some, I consider these #based: (no ragebait inteded!)
If you have a problem with these, please kindly fuck off in silence!
This list is non-exhaustive...
Serious question, do you postnominal your professional communications?
What I mean is: P.Eng., P.T., M.Sc., etc.
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Question sérieuse, est-ce que vous postnominez vos communications professionnelles?
Ce que je veux dire: ing., T.P., M.Sc., etc.
#Work #Travail #Poll #Polltodon #Fedipoll
| I’m required / Je suis obligé: | 0 |
| Yes / Oui: | 1 |
| No / Non: | 14 |
| How dare you / Comment oses-tu: | 2 |
What kind of out of office person are you?
a. "I'm unavailable, and will read your email when I return on January 5th. In the meantime I threw my phone and laptop in a frozen lake"
b. "Hi! I'm busy skiing in the Alps/ drinking hot coco by the fireplace/ having a jolly good time. Have a wonderful break with your loved ones!"
c. "Hi, I'm on annual leave so only checking emails sporadically once a day. Call me if you have an emergency."
#work
| a: | 22 |
| b: | 3 |
| c: | 5 |
🇨🇦 StatsCan is hiring for 32,000 jobs across Canada that pay pretty well--TEMPORARY JOBS
#Job #Canada #Work #Employment
https://dailyhive.com/canada/statscan-hiring-jobs-canada-census-2026
For Those Who Were Told This Is the Best We Can Do:
We were promised a #future.
What we got was a subscription.
The world told us: #Work hard, play fair, and you will rise.
But the elevator was always broken.
Only the penthouse keys worked.
#Capitalism did not #fail.
It did exactly what it was designed to do.
It turned human time into fuel.
It turned life into a cost factor.
It turned dignity into a luxury brand.
The #system says everyone can win.
This is like a casino saying everyone can leave rich.
The building exists because most people lose.
Once the ruling class wore crowns.
Now they wear hoodies, smiles, and stock options.
Once #exploitation needed whips.
Now it needs apps.
You are told you are free.
But your #freedom ends where rent begins.
Where debt begins.
Where #healthcare begins.
Where #survival begins.
This is not freedom.
This is The Hunger Games, except the Capitol convinced the districts to blame each other for the rules.
The poor fight the poor.
The middle class defends a system that is slowly deleting it.
The rich watch it all like a live stream, asking only one question:
“How do we monetize this?”
You are praised for exhaustion.
#Burnout is called ambition.
Rest is called weakness.
A system that needs you tired cannot afford you awake.
They say: Be grateful you have a #job.
As if survival were a gift.
As if obedience were a virtue.
This is the #Matrix, but instead of machines farming bodies, corporations farm attention, energy, and years of your life — and call it “career growth.”
First, it poisons the water.
Then it sells bottled #hope.
First, it destroys #community.
Then it sells “networking.”
First, it creates loneliness.
Then it sells algorithms pretending to be love.
It tells you:
If you are unhappy, it is your fault.
If you are poor, you didn’t optimize hard enough.
If you fail, you didn’t brand yourself properly.
This is not a system of opportunity.
It is a system of blame #management.
No billionaire earned their wealth alone.
They inherited leverage.
They bought laws.
They rented governments.
Every fortune is built on invisible backs.
Every luxury stands on unpaid overtime somewhere else on the planet.
This is Titanic economics:
First class debates wine pairings.
Third class floods.
And the band plays louder so no one hears the structure cracking.
They don’t fear protests.
They fear understanding.
Because the moment people realize:
* #Poverty is structural
* #Exploitation is intentional
* Inequality is profitable
The spell breaks.
That is why they flood us with culture wars.
That is why they keep us scrolling.
That is why they turn politics into reality TV.
A divided working class is the most efficient resource extraction tool ever invented.
We do not need heroes.
We need awareness.
We do not need saviors.
We need solidarity.
The future will not be built by billionaires.
They only know how to extract, not how to care.
A system that cannot imagine human worth without #profit
has already confessed its moral bankruptcy.
Another world is not only possible.
This one is already impossible.
It survives only because we keep mistaking endurance for consent.
History does not move forward politely.
It moves when people stop believing lies that no longer serve them.
And when that happens —
no #algorithm can suppress it,
no #market can absorb it,
no #empire can rebrand it.
Because ideas whose time has come
do not ask for permission.
They arrive.
#criticism #society #politics #protest #justice #change #ethics #humanrights #humanity #moral #finance
Location: Matrix
Oh boy. The fans on my #windows11 #work #laptop just kicked on full speed and are making short squeaking and chirping noises.
As long as humans bog down in addictive superficialities from #consumer-driven economic culture, we'll be locked in a squirrel cage of #work&spend w/ no time to ask: Why am I here? What can I offer? How do I give back my #love, #gratitude & #wisdom? #MeaningfulHolidays #Advent https://bit.ly/4kxtIcG