🔗 Job for 2027: Senior Director of Million-Dollar Regexes – O’Reilly

From $15,000/day to $0.96/day - I do think we’re about to see a lot of companies realize that a thinking model connected to an MCP server is way more expensive than just paying someone to write a bash script. Starting now, you’ll be able to make a career out of un-LLM-ifying applications.

And so we go round?

🔗 Federal Judge Spends Most Of 233 Pages Calling Out DHS, ICE, CBP, Border Patrol For Their Lies

The freezing over of hell.

Last week I am listening to MTG and wondering why I am agreeing with her - and then this week Musk releases a new feature that seems pretty much ‘like - yeah - right on’.

Techdirt reports “ 🔗 Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’

Interesting🔗 read.

Or is it?

My ten cents so you don’t have to wade through the whole thing.

The report sketches a workplace where confidence has thinned, power has tilted back to employers, and employees are left carrying the weight. Trust in leadership keeps sliding as people call out misalignment, muddled communication, and a shift from occasional layoffs to something closer to a permanent drizzle. Remote and hybrid staff have stalled on career progression, which explains the quiet drift back to offices. AI anxiety is loud enough, but the actual impact on job satisfaction is tiny. Job seekers are taking whatever lands in front of them in a flat hiring market, though early-career workers are finally seeing real wage growth again, particularly in the up-and-coming second-tier cities.

So - same old same? B(S)AU.

Takeaways

• Trust in leadership keeps dropping as workers feel disconnected, insecure, and overlooked amid constant micro-layoffs.
• Remote workers might love the flexibility, but the career ceiling is showing, which will keep nudging people back into the office.
• AI disruption is mostly a storyline for now; the data shows only a faint effect on sentiment.

… no shit Dick Tracy.

And the big reveal?

• The real trust gap isn’t RTO or AI, it’s that workers no longer believe leadership acts in their interest.
  • Newsflash, they never did.
• Cities like Provo and Boise are beating the big tech hubs on early-career wage growth.
  • Well yes, after what those hubs were paying, reality was always going to bite.

Then again, it’s Glassdoor. What exactly was I expecting?

You know how they keep leaving New Zealand off world maps? Now we are disappearing from global surveys❗️Were NZ to be included in this survey, I believe they would surely be top right oo this graphic.

🔗 Ranked: Which Country Consumes the Most Coffee?

(No - not absolute - it is ‘per capita’)

For all of how well anyone can think that they know a city …

🔗 The King’s Chapel of the Savoy …

is clearly a gem that I have missed over several years of walking right by it and never even knowing that it existed - much less visiting.

🔗 Ranked: Wine Production by Country - it’s amazing how teeny tiny the Kiwi wine industry is - I mean GREAT quality - for sure - but presence on the world stage .. 1%.

🔗 Spying on People Through Airportr Luggage Delivery Service - Schneier on Security

The devil is the detail. Always in the detail.

📼🔗 Join ICE - Jesse says to ..

… via Colbert

🔗 Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com

… via @gruber … so clever.