Johnathan Nightingale

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“…every time you answer someone’s hardships at work with “welp, that’s late-stage capitalism for you,” you make it seem inevitable. And that perceived inevitability is exactly what helps it persist.” ♥️ @rawsignal.ca

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

@sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social reading your book right now and chapter three is fucking 🔥. Really appreciate the integrative, inter-disciplinary approach you’re taking with it. Thanks for writing this.

Little known fact. This is how @johnathan.bsky.social and I write our newsletter every two weeks.

I am so upset.

Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Overhead photo of the Raw Signal Group HQ sticker bowl, with several of our favourites laid out on a coffee table, including the RACI knuckle tattoos, "Super fucking clear", Really just like this, and Swearing is caring.

Listen. Listen. @shappy.bsky.social and I are making new stickers and they're going to be very good. That is all.

Brett I gave a lot of stuff and rarely comment but you gotta know: your stuff has just been phenomenal this year. Wow. The lighting, the tracking in motion, the impossibly locked in focus — incredible work

It's about the e/acc chuckleheads, and we've already gotten a complaint about The Language and bsky I don't know how you could ask for more, really.

Woah!

I assume most BI software teams get tshirts at their annual retreats that say, “if you can do anything else at all in the universe you should.”

And powerBI JSON is weirdly structured and not a simple line-by-line result (plus the mapping is done through a separate API) so: if you need to regularly CSV-ify this particular dataset, or if someone else already has, it's definitely possible to do it with a few hours of work, but not trivially

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront | Toronto | The Guardian A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

wake up babe we’re rousing the creatures that have slumbered beneath our feet for centuries

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(Hey thank you for reading, and for sharing it!)

You're probably not that hardcore - Raw Signal Group You can drop a lot of frogs in that pot and very few will feel their feet get warm.

You can drop a lot of frogs in that pot and very few will feel their feet get warm.

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You are not a machine that receives tasks - Raw Signal Group Folks who study meaning at work have three buckets. We love a good three-bucket framework. Let's go.

Folks who study meaning at work have three buckets. We love a good three-bucket framework. Let's go.

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blue watercolor with brain and text: NO AI ONLY BRAIN

rainbow watercolor with brain and text: USE YOUR OWN BRAIN

purple and blue watercolor with brain and text: NO AI ONLY BRAIN

pink watercolor with brain and text: NO AI ONLY BRAIN

There's HEEEEEERE artologica.etsy.com

Original watercolors that reject AI. One of each, unique.

Today’s.

Beatrix: Nine and a Half Hey B, It’s back to school on Tuesday, and yesterday I shaved half your head in the backyard. You’re rocking an asymmetric bob right now, the right side buzzed down to a #3 clipper fade…

Beatrix: Nine and a Half

Yeah, love this. Thanks for sharing it

When I first started doing the "fixer" kind of work, it didn't take long to start feeling lonely. Which was really weird. I was talking to more people than ever before. And people were most certainly grateful! But no one really understood what it was that I did and why.

I hope they're paying you enough for this - Raw Signal Group The shift in this model is that we're no longer talking about a cofounder or a bestie or work spouse.

The shift in this model is that we're no longer talking about a cofounder or a bestie or work spouse.

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Bring your slop to work day - Raw Signal Group It's definitely giving some low-key asbestos vibes.

Yeah @shappy.bsky.social and I straight up hit the same asbestos metaphor for LLMs as a workplace risk here: www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.

one aside based on @rawsignal.ca:

I once heard it touted that AI would level the field for marginalised people, by ensuring people who'd never created a pitch deck/cover letter could make one now.

if VCs are no longer reading pitch decks because they're all AI, then they're going on "gut" = bias

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Also if you aren’t subscribed to their newsletter what are you even doing with your life.

None of this is real and it doesn't matter - Raw Signal Group The difference between the theater of work and actual work.

The difference between the theater of work and actual work.

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