<p>Thank you YouTube algorithm for the timely reminder</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/3i5r5_Pw_sY" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/3i5r5_Pw_sY</a></p><p><a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a> <a href="/tags/job/" rel="tag">#Job</a></p>
<p>For some months now I am actively hesitating to publish my work-related stuff on <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a> (or any other centralized social network for that matter) so I am thinking of using the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> for it.</p><p>Do you have any advice for using fediverse as your <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#work</a> -related social network? My use case for such a network would be: inspiring others to do good work, building and maintaining my professional "brand," and helping myself or my employer attract new talent.</p><p>Some topics to consider: Same account, separate account? Server software (Mastodon, Pleroma, ...)? Discovering (potential) colleagues, being discovered by them? Pointing existing LinkedIn users to your fediverse account? Adjusting language/tone of communication based on fediverse nuances?</p><p>I am eager to learn. Boosts are appreciated.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/remote-work-amazon-executives/680108/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/remote-work-amazon-executives/680108/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arch</span><span class="invisible">ive/2024/10/remote-work-amazon-executives/680108/</span></a></p><p>If you can only measure productivity by person hours in chairs, then you're doing it wrong. </p><p>There is no good reason why knowledge workers need to be in an office building. <br>It's a waste of real estate that could be used for housing and entertainment. </p><p>The only folks that I've seen that are adamant about "return-to-office" are older <a href="/tags/boomers/" rel="tag">#boomers</a> who need to feel control over another person. </p><p>And to all the <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#linkedin</a> folks that say we are slacking off, then prove it...</p>
<p>LinkedIn accused of using private messages to train AI <br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxevpzy3yko" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxevpzy3yko"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxe</span><span class="invisible">vpzy3yko</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a></p>
<p>Is there some sensible alternative to <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#linkedin</a>? So that I could at least link to my profile on a platform that does not disgust me in case a prospective employer asks.</p><p>Self-hosting is out of question for now.</p><p>Any suggestions? :)</p><p><a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#work</a> <a href="/tags/getfedihired/" rel="tag">#getfedihired</a></p>
<p>Librecast has closed its page on <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a> and will be closing the Matrix Room on Matrix.org.</p><p><a href="https://librecast.net/2025-07-31-matrix-and-linkedin.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="librecast.net/2025-07-31-matrix-and-linkedin.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">librecast.net/2025-07-31-matri</span><span class="invisible">x-and-linkedin.html</span></a></p>
LinkedIn changed how they code their landing page and I needed to adjust my uBlock Origin rules to hide the cluttered up "news" (really, ads) feed they put down the side of the page. If like me you want an uncluttered experience and use uBlock Origin, here's a rule that hides that feed:<br><br>www.linkedin.com#<a href="/tags/div/" rel="tag">#div</a>[componentkey="newsAndGamesCard"]<br><br><br><a href="/tags/ublockorigin/" rel="tag">#uBlockOrigin</a> <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a> <a href="/tags/cruft/" rel="tag">#cruft</a> <a href="/tags/clutter/" rel="tag">#clutter</a> <a href="/tags/ads/" rel="tag">#ads</a><br><br>This post is not an invitation to scold me for using LinkedIn or Microsoft products, nor to suggest I leave it or find alternatives.<br>
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<p>Following the success (sarcasm!) of my previous post "Battle of IMs", I decided it's time to write another post where I try to articulate in a technical but snarky way my view on the wonderful world of social media, and which one is best among the mainstream and non-mainstream ones. This is a long post, reviewing 14 different "socials".</p><p><a href="https://gagliardoni.net/#20250818_battle_of_socials" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gagliardoni.net/#20250818_battle_of_socials"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gagliardoni.net/#20250818_batt</span><span class="invisible">le_of_socials</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="/tags/social/" rel="tag">#social</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/selfsovereignty/" rel="tag">#selfsovereignty</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a> <a href="/tags/digitalsovereignty/" rel="tag">#digitalsovereignty</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/nostr/" rel="tag">#nostr</a> <a href="/tags/bluesky/" rel="tag">#bluesky</a> <a href="/tags/ssb/" rel="tag">#ssb</a> <a href="/tags/securescuttlebutt/" rel="tag">#securescuttlebutt</a> <a href="/tags/facebook/" rel="tag">#facebook</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#meta</a> <a href="/tags/tiktok/" rel="tag">#tiktok</a> <a href="/tags/threads/" rel="tag">#threads</a> <a href="/tags/x/" rel="tag">#x</a> <a href="/tags/twitter/" rel="tag">#twitter</a> <a href="/tags/diaspora/" rel="tag">#diaspora</a> <a href="/tags/friendica/" rel="tag">#friendica</a> <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#linkedin</a> <a href="/tags/xing/" rel="tag">#xing</a> <a href="/tags/instagram/" rel="tag">#instagram</a></p>
Bit of a content warning that I'm about to share some <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a>-generated slop. Just two short bits, to make a point.<br><br>I made an <a href="/tags/opentowork/" rel="tag">#OpenToWork</a> post on <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a> today partly as an experiment, and as before was immediately inundated with HR bots. I spent a few minutes from time to time stringing one along, out of curiosity. One way I know it's a bot is that no human recruiter would stick with me for that long a duration given the nonsense I was entering. Anyway, at one point it emitted that there was a job it was "recruiting" for, titled "Generative AI & LLM Remediation Consultant | United States (Remote/Onsite)" at a company named "Independent Consultant (Contract Role)". It's fairly clear to me that the bot was tasked with constructing fake job listings based off information people share. I can only guess what its actual purpose is.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/jobhunting/" rel="tag">#JobHunting</a> <a href="/tags/scams/" rel="tag">#scams</a> <a href="/tags/aiscams/" rel="tag">#AIScams</a> <a href="/tags/joblistingscams/" rel="tag">#JobListingScams</a> <a href="/tags/jobscams/" rel="tag">#JobScams</a><br>
I like to poke LinkedIn once in awhile with an "AI" critique to see what I can stir up. One reason I do this is to keep an eye on the changing form of the booster rhetoric. Nowadays a lot of folks respond to critique with some form of "today's LLMs are bad but tomorrow's will be amazing", the true believer/quasi-religious response with a touch of false humility for flavor. Yesterday I got a "AI critics are just as bad as AI boosters" false dichotomy, which by my read was a variant of the "AI critics are hysterical and irrational" with the twist that the speaker was suggesting that boosters are too. That felt new-ish to me. Granted, the hubristic "we're the smart guys in the room, you should do what we say" framing is ancient in the tech industry. Suggesting the boosters are also not the smart guys in the room is an interesting move because it's an attempt to go meta. Neither the boosters nor the critics are the smart guys in the room; the smart guys in the room are actually the ones who can see that (and so you should do what they say, which is more LLMs always).<br><br><a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/agenticai/" rel="tag">#AgenticAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a><br>
Another LinkedIn post breached containment. The mirror world one discovers when this happens is extraordinary, I'll give it that.<br><br><br><a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a><br><br>
<p>In my new article for <span class="h-card"><a href="['https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/assignedmedia.org', 'https://assignedmedia.org/', 'https://www.assignedmedia.org/support']" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>assignedmedia.org</span></a></span>, I share how <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a> moderators are allowing <a href="/tags/misgendering/" rel="tag">#misgendering</a> and other <a href="/tags/hatespeech/" rel="tag">#HateSpeech</a> against <a href="/tags/trans/" rel="tag">#trans</a> users following a recent change to their policies.</p><p><a href="https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/linkedin-allowance-hate-speech" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/linkedin-allowance-hate-speech"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.assignedmedia.org/breaking</span><span class="invisible">-news/linkedin-allowance-hate-speech</span></a></p>
<p>All right, we all love a good, batshit LinkedIn post. This is my new favorite. Maybe I'll just start blogging on LinkedIn for the heck of it. <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a> <a href="/tags/linkedingonewild/" rel="tag">#LinkedInGoneWild</a> <a href="/tags/watershipdown/" rel="tag">#WatershipDown</a> <br>Leadership Skills You Can Learn from Watership Down in 2023: The Year of the Rabbit <br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-skills-you-can-learn-from-watership-down-2023-amy-stewart" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-skills-you-can-learn-from-watership-down-2023-amy-stewart"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.linkedin.com/pulse/leaders</span><span class="invisible">hip-skills-you-can-learn-from-watership-down-2023-amy-stewart</span></a></p>
<p>Is there already an ActivityPub vocabulary for job openings, or cvs?</p><p>I'm trying to make my CV-webpage more visible, and also create a job-bot, that everyone can set up with their sources, and queries.</p><p>Obviously the idea is, to help people find jobs, and fill vacancies, without having to resort to a centralized network, like e.g. LinkedIn.</p><p>I'm aware of these efforts, though they're not ActivityPub related:<br><a href="https://microformats.org/wiki/job-listing" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="microformats.org/wiki/job-listing"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">microformats.org/wiki/job-list</span><span class="invisible">ing</span></a><br><a href="https://microformats.org/wiki/h-resume" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>microformats.org/wiki/h-resume</a></p><p><a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/job/" rel="tag">#job</a> <a href="/tags/cv/" rel="tag">#CV</a> <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a></p>
I put the text below on LinkedIn in response to a post there and figured I'd share it here too because it's a bit of a step from what I've been posting previously on this topic and might be of some use to someone.<br><br>In retrospect I might have written non-sense in place of nonsense.<br><br>If you're in tech the Han reference might be a bit out of your comfort zone, but Andrews is accessible and measured.<br><br><br><p>It's nonsense to say that coding will be replaced with "good judgment". There's a presupposition behind that, a worldview, that can't possibly fly. It's sometimes called the theory-free ideal: given enough data, we don't need theory to understand the world. It surfaces in AI/LLM/programming rhetoric in the form that we don't need to code anymore because LLM's can do most of it. Programming is a form of theory-building (and understanding), while LLMs are vast fuzzy data store and retrieval systems, so the theory-free ideal dictates the latter can/should replace the former. But it only takes a moment's reflection to see that nothing, let alone programming, can be theory-free; it's a kind of "view from nowhere" way of thinking, an attempt to resurrect Laplace's demon that ignores everything we've learned in the >200 years since Laplace forwarded that idea. In that respect it's a (neo)reactionary viewpoint, and it's maybe not a coincidence that people with neoreactionary politics tend to hold it. Anyone who needs a more formal argument can read Mel Andrews's The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal, or Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics (which argues, among other things, that this is a nihilistic).<br></p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/coding/" rel="tag">#coding</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/softwaredevelopment/" rel="tag">#SoftwareDevelopment</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a> <a href="/tags/nihilism/" rel="tag">#nihilism</a> <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a><br>
<p>🚨 LinkedIn runs a silent browser scan on every Chrome user who visits the site. 6,222 extensions. ~405 million users affected. No consent, no disclosure, no mention in their privacy policy. </p><p>The scan identifies your sales tools, VPN, ad blocker, job search extensions, and extensions tied to religion, politics, and disability.</p><p>The full technical breakdown, legal analysis, and searchable database of every scanned extension: </p><p><a href="https://browsergate.eu" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>browsergate.eu</a></p><p><a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a> <a href="/tags/browsergate/" rel="tag">#BrowserGate</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a></p>