There are encyption methods in existence that are resistant to any likely implementation of quantum computing as it’s now understood. It may be that, in the future, quantum computing is developed to be better able to crack those ciphers, but it’s equally likely that other methods of encryption will be developed that are even more resistant to quantum cracking.

Since they’re incapable of happiness or wisdom, the next best thing for them is to make others suffer.

the UK has a lot of antisemitism

That’s all because of a campaign run by a heavily right-wing paper, The Jewish Chronicle, and other rightwing press outlets such as the Telegraph and the Daily Mail, to smear Jeremy Corbyn when he was leader of the opposition. The claim was that the Labour party had large numbers of internal complaints of antisemitism that the party wasn’t investigating. What wasn’t mentioned was that one guy wrote over half of those complaints. And Corbyn wasn’t effective at perception management.

When Starmer came in, he pushed out anyone in the party who had ever uttered “Palestine” or “ethnic cleansing.” That shut down the smear campaign. and got rid of some leftists he could replace with centrists.

Meanwhile, the covertly antisemitic Conservatives and the sometimes openly antisemitic Reform Party get a relatively free ride in the press, unless some candidate gets caught denying the Shoah in public or mentioning the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

We are only fucked if we let it happen.

That’s exactly his plan. So how are we going to stop him?

And don’t split up into competing trades-based unions. That enables divide-and-rule.

The House R’s have a very tiny majority

You’re assuming there aren’t 20 Dems who will join them.

Be the face-eating leaopard you want in the world.

So Bannon’s the Röhm of this administration? Interesting to see when and how they give him the shove.

Egypt’s gotten too expensive, it’s been moved to Borneo.

traditional middle management simply doesnt need to exist of you’re not baby sitting in person

I strongly disagree with that. Properly used, middle managers bring a lot. But I would say that, if a manager requires their staff to be on-site in order to manage them, they’re crap managers who should consider a career transition to frying fast food or gutting fish. They’re typically the ones who judge performance by perceived effort and how well the employee kisses ass, and their main focus is managing upwards by sucking up to their bosses. With remote workers, you need an effective way of assessing results or you’re hosed. I’ve been running remote squads since the 1980s, and for the most part, it’s only a problem if you’re an ineffective manager.

And they’re in panopticon bull-pen offices where it’s impossible to hear yourself because the people next to you are also shouting on Teams.

That’s very much my situation. 3/4 of my staff are from contracting firms based elsewhere. So regardless of where I work, most of my meetings are via video conferencing.

After the Black Death, laws were passed forcing peasants to remain on the land so that their landlords could keep wages down. But the numbers leaving were too great and enforcement was spotty because the enforcers also had staff shortages. So people gravitated to towns and wages rose.

It definitely sends a message that “we don’t know what those people are doing unless we can see the whites of their eyes and smell the fear-sweat.”

Oh yeah you do, since your revenue depends on how many asses they expect to be in those seats.

Commercial landlords collect rent regardless of how often employees are on site.

When leases come up for renewal, rational companies look at how much space they actually need and downsize their office requirements accordingly. That’s more or less what my employer is doing now. We own a vast building, but now we’ve sublet about a third of it.

It’s more that toxic, sociopathic middle managers can’t torment remote workers as effectively.

Back in the 1950s, Amazon and ATT would have been General Motors: an imagined safe, brain-dead corporate sinecure. Nobody entrepreneurial or innovative goes to work at such places. Just technocrats, cogs in the machine. Highly trained functionaries from brand-name universities keeping the juggernaut rolling on. Feeding Moloch.

What we need is one big union.

Someone needs to leak that number.