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    Linked – Are employees getting enough mental health support in 2024?

    ByMike McBride December 3, 2024December 3, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    However, what I want to talk about is the 46% of employees who are not “confident that employers care at least moderately about their mental health.” 

    That’s a lot of employees at risk of leaving. After all, why continue to work for an employer who doesn’t appear to care about you? Consider the wording of that survey; they only asked if you feel confident that your employer moderately cares. Not that they care deeply. Not that you feel important to them, just whether there is evidence that you moderately care about their mental health. How much effort does it take to show that you care just a little? Yet almost half of employees don’t see it from their employers. 

    That’s a shame. The improvement is nice, but there’s a long way to go on this

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    Artificial Intelligence | SocialNetworking

    If it’s public data – someone is using it to train an LLM

    ByMike McBride November 27, 2024November 27, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Bluesky is developing an open protocol, and Mastodon uses an open protocol (ActivityPub). The idea seems to be that we can create a social media platform without a walled garden where users don’t own the data, which is also completely protected from someone grabbing that public data to build an AI model. 

    That’s not going to happen. We are all going to have to make a choice. 

    Once again, I’m left with this question: Why are so many Bluesky users pro-AI yet so opposed to using their public posts to train it? Where do they think the data has been coming from? 

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    Linked – The Gratitude We Need to Question

    ByMike McBride November 23, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    I’m amazed that we live in a world where we consider it lucky that we can attend our kids’ weddings, family gatherings, etc., without a work interruption instead of a world where work wouldn’t dream of expecting you to do anything but attend those events fully. 

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    Linked – Employees are hiding their AI use from their managers. Here’s why

    ByMike McBride November 19, 2024November 18, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    More importantly, I want credit for the work I do. If using AI is seen as cheating or cutting corners, I’m not likely to want anyone to know about it. In my opinion, this is on employers. They must set the cultural expectations that using AI is intelligent and efficient, not lazy. They also need to provide training on how to use AI effectively so that it is transparent and available to everyone. 

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    X-Twitter Uncertain Future

    ByMike McBride November 14, 2024November 18, 2024 Reading Time: 3 minutes

    I thought about these headlines yesterday. Maybe we shouldn’t consider X-Twitter’s market-value collapse a horrendous business decision. Perhaps this was always a $44 billion donation in kind to the Trump campaign in exchange for an oversized level of power and influence. Musk turned Twitter into X – a right-wing propaganda machine.

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    Linked – It’s Not Just in Your Head—Tech Companies Are Getting Desperate

    ByMike McBride November 7, 2024November 6, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    I’ve heard a few folks in the legal industry talking about how much more expensive renewals are becoming because every tech tool is adding AI, and as we know, AI isn’t cheap. Someone has to pay for it, and it looks like that’ll be all of us, in the form of higher prices for the tools we use to get our work done just fine the way they are now. 

    Not because we need it. They need it to show growth and satisfy investors. The fact they are likely creating a bubble that will burst and end dozens of perfectly profitable companies will be chalked up to bad luck. 

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