Richard Hellinga
@richhell.bsky.social
Books, running, and coffee. Turtle Mountain Chippewa. Protect trans kids. He/Him
Executives thinks LLMs are magic lamps with unlimited wishes. “Oh wise machine, tell me how to organize my meetings!”
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Executives thinks LLMs are magic lamps with unlimited wishes. “Oh wise machine, tell me how to organize my meetings!”
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Negan, but make it Catholic 🤣
I'm looking forward to the inevitable cascade of memes that will flow from this like a gift from His Holiness himself. Let's get this party started, shall we?
I'm looking forward to the inevitable cascade of memes that will flow from this like a gift from His Holiness himself. Let's get this party started, shall we?
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Negan, but make it Catholic 🤣
I'm looking forward to the inevitable cascade of memes that will flow from this like a gift from His Holiness himself. Let's get this party started, shall we?
I'm looking forward to the inevitable cascade of memes that will flow from this like a gift from His Holiness himself. Let's get this party started, shall we?
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
Yes! This is why I love to wander bookstores and used bookstores; to find something I didn’t know I wanted to try.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Yes! This is why I love to wander bookstores and used bookstores; to find something I didn’t know I wanted to try.
It can't be said enough that programs like SNAP are a form of corporate welfare.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It can't be said enough that programs like SNAP are a form of corporate welfare.
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My company recently unveiled in-house AI tools. Management's encouraging everyone to use them (to justify the probable eyewatering costs)
Meanwhile the database that everyone does constantly use is held together with gum and the development team's tears
Meanwhile the database that everyone does constantly use is held together with gum and the development team's tears
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My company recently unveiled in-house AI tools. Management's encouraging everyone to use them (to justify the probable eyewatering costs)
Meanwhile the database that everyone does constantly use is held together with gum and the development team's tears
Meanwhile the database that everyone does constantly use is held together with gum and the development team's tears
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"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
It’s staggering how many people in positions of leadership are cowards.
November 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
It’s staggering how many people in positions of leadership are cowards.
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jesus FUCKING christ
And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
November 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
jesus FUCKING christ
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This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
If you wanted to know how historically accurate the costumes are in the Muppet Christmas Carol, the answer is very.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If you wanted to know how historically accurate the costumes are in the Muppet Christmas Carol, the answer is very.
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Hidden, a TikTok-like platform operated by sex workers, is launching as OnlyFans is implementing background checks for performers and expanding beyond adult content. www.wired.com/story/sex-wo...
Sex Workers Built an ‘Anti-OnlyFans’ to Take Control of Their Profits
Hidden, a TikTok-like platform operated by sex workers, is launching as OnlyFans is implementing background checks for performers and expanding beyond adult content.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Hidden, a TikTok-like platform operated by sex workers, is launching as OnlyFans is implementing background checks for performers and expanding beyond adult content. www.wired.com/story/sex-wo...
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sex workers are multidimensional individuals. we are not strictly sex workers. we have entire lives outside of work. we have hobbies, interests, relationships. we're humans
if you can't respect that, you're not a real fan 🤷🏻♀️
if you can't respect that, you're not a real fan 🤷🏻♀️
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
sex workers are multidimensional individuals. we are not strictly sex workers. we have entire lives outside of work. we have hobbies, interests, relationships. we're humans
if you can't respect that, you're not a real fan 🤷🏻♀️
if you can't respect that, you're not a real fan 🤷🏻♀️
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
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Well, someone went out and made the song, and it is *chef's kiss* www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGw...
Ballad of Tom Bombadil
YouTube video by Old Growth Boreal
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November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Well, someone went out and made the song, and it is *chef's kiss* www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGw...
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It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
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It's got racism. It's offensive to people with intellectual disabilities. It's Islamophobic. Happy Thanksgiving from the president
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
It's got racism. It's offensive to people with intellectual disabilities. It's Islamophobic. Happy Thanksgiving from the president
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At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”!
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”!
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
The usual racist bullshit.
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The usual racist bullshit.
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To top it off, Custer and his troops also killed 800 of the Indians' horses in an effort to limit Indigenous mobility and subsistence. The US in its "Indian Wars" attempted to destroy not only Indigenous peoples but also entire Indigenous ecosystems.
#OtD 27 Nov 1868 a detachment of US troops under the command of General Custer ignored orders to kill only warriors and massacred 103 sleeping Cheyenne in the so-called "Battle of the Washita" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9950...
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
To top it off, Custer and his troops also killed 800 of the Indians' horses in an effort to limit Indigenous mobility and subsistence. The US in its "Indian Wars" attempted to destroy not only Indigenous peoples but also entire Indigenous ecosystems.
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Destroy them, pls.
Eight more news organizations have filed a new lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, seeking $10B in damages for violating copyright law by stealing their content to build and operate AI tools. The lawsuit joins a similar one filed by other news organizations that include the Sun Sentinel.
8 more newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging stolen content used in AI apps
Eight newspapers owned or managed by MediaNews Group filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the tech giants of violating copyright law.
www.sun-sentinel.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Destroy them, pls.
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This. It’s pathetic
If my partner were in the media and doing wildly unethical stuff for years I probably wouldn’t sit on it until I could use it to boost newsletter subscriptions.
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This. It’s pathetic