#SLACK

[lucybellwood]

"Making systems resilient is fundamentally at odds with optimization, because optimizing a system means taking out any slack. A truly optimized, and thus efficient, system is only possible with near-perfect knowledge about the system, together with the ability to observe and implement a response. For a system to be reliable, on the other hand, there have to be some unused resources to draw on when the unexpected happens, which, well, happens predictably." (Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works, p. 209) Another way to look at this is that you cannot optimize for resilience. Resilience requires a kind of elasticity, an ability to stretch and reach but then to return, to spring back into a former shape—or perhaps to shapeshift into something new if the circumstances require it. Resilience is stretchy where optimization is brittle; resilience invites change where optimization demands continuity.

—Mandy Brown, from her post "Against Optimization" on A Working Library

[coeurdeverre82]

[enki2]

[zackslater]

Favorite Zack & Slater scenes: 7/?

[wouldyoufuckthis]

[starofthedawn]

Slack Conversations on a Friday Afternoon

[xenofact]

Your "Bob" for 10/9/2024

Your "Bob" for 10/9/2024

When "Bob" comes along/ give him money.

Or give it to "Connie"/ that's his honey.

Or give it to https://www.SubGenius.com/

[mrbopst]

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[beatsforbrothels]

Ohbliv - Striking Chords

[wormsngods]

Wasted my weekend.

Finished notes but then didn't study, revise or do anything and now freaking out realising I only have 4 days left until Friday. Didn't even do anything productive extra curricular. Overate by ALOT but it is what it is.

[fieriframes]

[Is someone gonna cut me some slack? Now that it's a quarter to ten. Come on, baby, gimme some sugar.]

[ralfmaximus]

Slack just changed their TOS to automatically opt your Slack instance in to LLM scraping. You have to contact them vial email to opt out.

Contact us to opt out. If you want to exclude your Customer Data from Slack global models, you can opt out. To opt out, please have your Org or Workspace Owners or Primary Owner contact our Customer Experience team at feedback@slack.com with your Workspace/Org URL and the subject line “Slack Global model opt-out request.” We will process your request and respond once the opt out has been completed.

If you're a Slack admin you know what to do.

If your workplace uses Slack, be sure to let management know that all their company chat (including company secrets & IP) is soon gonna be part of an AI chat bot that Slack can do whatever the hell it wants with.

[coeurdeverre82]

[alchemisoul]

"The "Socratic approach" is what you call starting an argument by asking questions. IS there an ESOTERIC ALLEGORY concealed in the apparently innocent legend of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs? A religion based on The Goddess of Confusion? Is that the answer to my question?

- Principia Discordia

#HailEris

[thanksgivingsandwich]

The vibe I’m putting out at work

[wouldyoufuckthis]