If they can’t hang, then maybe we’re better off with them gone.

GroupMe is still around? Fuckin hell.

Presumably that averages out over time, and any given person’s output over time can be compared with their peers. But that would mean management had to take an active hand rather than have some nanny-bot come tattling based on arbitrary metrics that may or may not have any bearing on the actual work being done. Much easier to treat their employees like children.

This is why we need unions. Shit like this should be a non-starter.

The amount of privacy you retain is directly proportional to the level of effort you expend.

Usenet, aka NNTP. I don’t think it exists anymore but… can a protocol ever truly die?

I agree. I’ve always thought that AI would be our successor species, humanity’s child. I like that I might be some small part of its heritage.