This is another from @bigissue.com and Tom Horn

Not behind a paywall

www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

Here's a recent one

It's excellent but might be behind a paywall

Byline Times is well worth the subs though, they have regular features on tech and the people behind it

Kyle Taylor is worth looking at, this piece isn't by him but he writes regularly

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/78/h...

Leave it with me and I will dig them out

Doesn't surprise me at all
Folks aren't looking back to learn they are often looking back to ignore the lessons of history and with some weird sense of nostalgia for a bygone era at the same time

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One of my fave film quotes Jack Black "High Fidelity"
Guy comes in to the record shop and asks for Hello for his girlfriend....he replies,"Why? Is she in a coma"

With obvious caveat comas aren't funny but this made me think of that scene

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This sums up so many things especially technology

There's been some recent articles in @bylinetimes.bsky.social & @bigissue.com on AI which are well worth reading

I especially liked the one exploring 'hallucinations' a polite word for known bugs

& don't get me started on Grok/ crock more like

Happy to dig some out if you're interested

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

I think you'd find this very familiar to the work that you do, in an artistic sense Doug

It made me think of you, Chris and the team plus a number of others who've inspired me to blur the lines & see creativity in and out of work a bit differently

Totally get it
Ceremonies, rituals, markers are important to signal change
and
I think we/ I could have done more to help that transition from a central perspective too but resources were always tight & that was a long time ago

This article showed the complexities in addressing & countering this including
Double standards (missing DBS checks)
The feeling of purpose or an absence of
Unemployment
Mental health
Online radicalisation or misinformation

That's a bit sad.
We had a number of celebrations - drinks on the 5th floor, names being shared along with congratulations, a salary hike, a practising certificate and probably more (I was only responsible for the central ones)

I think peeps forget about the comms & the rituals & the meaning

I hear you on the 'noise and distraction' front
I've just been away for a longer stint and spent time with people in real life & broke a bit of a pattern for a while
I get what you mean about savoring time

Good to hear this Rcahel
I ditched Facebook long ago
Stopped buying from Amazon & a no. of others I didn't like the practices of
Try & spend more money with indi's

Not off some apps & in no way totally conscious as a consumer but feel better by trying to do my bit

feel like I'm doing something

Yep, you've got the measure of the media these days