Just out doing tourist things on a business trip. I'm usually not very good at doing anything more than chilling at the hotel.
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UrbanEdm
@UrbanEdm@yeg.bike
mastodon 4.5.19Edmonton resident working towards a denser, less car dependent city. Posts about urban design, city politics, bikes, transit, and stuff completely unrelated to any of those things.
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@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social @uxMark@cosocial.ca Like "on" as in the cargo hold? I have done a couple trips that way. Just got boxes from the LBS and packed them into it, same as when they were new.
Not in the passenger cabin, though, nor have I ever seen someone try.
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@robyn@yeg.bike I haven't heard of this in particular, but I'm at the point where someone who came into our office and physically gives the receptionist a resume is pretty much guaranteed an interview (this has happened exactly once since I've been a position where I have to hire).
There's such massive quantities of applications that are just spamming digital application channels now. Even if they're real people, they're often fake resumes with invented qualifications and experience from an LLM.
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@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca @eclectech@things.uk I wouldn't even qualify it as "doing holiday stuff." If I take time off work but stay at my house, it's a staycation. If that means video games, building stuff in the garage, that kind of thing...it's still a staycation.
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@robyn@yeg.bike I have two theories on the business model:
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data harvesting to train a bot to churn out resumes that get callbacks (or maybe to build a customer list for an AI resume filtering solution...create a problem and then sell the solution?)
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intentional dystopia bots, funded by the same people who fund online troll farms. Making it both impossible to hire and impossible to get a job without a personal connection creates fertile ground for propaganda.
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@Kellyshenanigans@yeg.bike It may well be their plan, but I would think that anyone who looks at the US and does not want that - and I think there are many reliably conservative voters that can be included in that category - would see this as the opposite: this is WHY we need the courts.
So, I'm pretty sure this violates Section 3 rights, which can't be notwithstanding'd away. But...of course Dani is throwing out the boundary commission report and is going to try to gerrymander her way to a guaranteed win. I'm so tired of living here.
https://www.albertandpcaucus.ca/news/post/ucp-government-reveals-plan-to-cheat-rig-election-maps
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@AmeliasBrain
$36. I didn't see any indication of being sold out, so I assume they're still available. But it's possible I just didn't get to the step where availability is actually checked.
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@bpettis@mastodon.benpettis.ninja Meme creator has apparently never met someone who uses Linux.