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Geriatric Gardener

“We Are Duped Into Blaming Our Problems On Everyone Except Our Rulers”

by Caitlin Johnstone in Caitlin’s Newsletter on Substack

“Your abusers are not some far away nation your own government doesn’t like, nor are they some marginalized group your government doesn’t care about. Your abusers are your government itself, and all its allies and assets around the world”

open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj

Caitlin’s Newsletter · We Are Duped Into Blaming Our Problems On Everyone Except Our RulersBy Caitlin Johnstone
#Press#Propaganda#Manufacture
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Santi Garcia

As #AI steps into managerial roles, do we judge it differently based on gender? A study using RCTs finds that AI #managers —like human ones—face #GenderBiases. Female AI managers, in particular, encounter greater skepticism when denying rewards.
#FutureOfWork
arxiv.org/abs/2502.17730

arXiv.orgGender Bias in Perception of Human Managers Extends to AI ManagersAs AI becomes more embedded in workplaces, it is shifting from a tool for efficiency to an active force in organizational decision-making. Whether due to anthropomorphism or intentional design choices, people often assign human-like qualities - including gender - to AI systems. However, how AI managers are perceived in comparison to human managers and how gender influences these perceptions remains uncertain. To investigate this, we conducted randomized controlled trials (RCTs) where teams of three participants worked together under a randomly assigned manager - either human or AI - who was presented as male, female, or gender-neutral. The manager's role was to select the best-performing team member for an additional award. Our findings reveal that while participants initially showed no strong preference based on manager type or gender, their perceptions changed significantly after experiencing the award process. As expected, those who received awards rated their managers as more fair, competent, and trustworthy, while those who were not selected viewed them less favorably. However, male managers - both human and AI - were more positively received by awarded participants, whereas female managers, especially female AI managers, faced greater skepticism and negative judgments when they denied rewards. These results suggest that gender bias in leadership extends beyond human managers and towards AI-driven decision-makers. As AI takes on greater managerial roles, understanding and addressing these biases will be crucial for designing fair and effective AI management systems.
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@Linknation @kevinrns @pschanen

Don't be that #asshole.

You understand your #computer. This makes you a member of a #minority. Unless you are going to #volunteer to be someone's #techSupport, do not tell them to do things with their #computers that they do not understand.

My opinion is informed by the thirty or so years I've had #Linux on my personal boxen. I help #boomers run blogs. These are not stupid people, but they struggle with #password #managers. There no way they can operate a Linux system without a fucktonne of support.

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

#Managers at #Suffolk #FireAndRescue service were roasted by His Majesty's #Inspectorate for poor decisions and creating a toxic working environment and low morale (they also fired their in house IT staff, causing extra costs in recruiting contractors, and may struggle to build the separate control room (they are splitting from sharing the control room with Cambridge, which causes confusion on 999/112 calls due to widely duplicated street names) #EmergencyServices

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e4jx

BBC NewsMorale lowest it has ever been at Suffolk Fire Service - reportFire service receives £1.6m from council after inspectors find improvements called for in 2022 not met.
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Mark

Royal Mail accused of faking deliveries

#RoyalMail #managers accused of #faking deliveries to keep their yearly #bonuses

#Postal #workers say they've been told to record some #parcel #deliveries as “inaccessible”, even if they never attempted to deliver it

Thus operations managers still receive their bonuses, understood to be based in part on hitting targets for the number of parcels that leave Royal Mail depots

msn.com/en-gb/money/other/roya

www.msn.comMSN
#corruption#CorporateGreed#PeopleNotProfits
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

As Louise Murphy (Resolution Foundation) points out:

'When we asked what young people would change about the world of work, they didn’t ask for big, flashy reforms. They wanted to have more human, understanding managers'!

Its a sad indictment (but no surprise) that young people entering work find managers are not friendly or supportive people... I've said for years many of the UK's workforce problems are linked to rubbish managers & this is what the young find out!

#workers #managers
h/t FT

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Chuck Darwin

Health insurance companies are notorious for exploiting prior authorization schemes to avoid paying for care and have denied claims at alarming rates in recent years.

However, corporate consolidation of industry “middlemen” that experts say are partially to blame for the prescription drug affordability crisis has received less scrutiny from the general public,
despite efforts by lawmakers and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to shine light on the notoriously opaque and confusing corporate bureaucracy that determines the cost of medicine.

We often hear about Big Pharma selling drugs at high prices
and insurance companies dragging their feet when it comes time to pay the bill,
but the prices patients pay out of pocket for pharmaceuticals is largely shaped by the connective tissue between insurers and drug manufacturers: #pharmacy #benefit #managers, or PBMs.

PBMs have been around for decades, but the largest PBMs have merged with major insurance companies to form conglomerates,
including UnitedHealth Group’s #OptumRx.

In theory, PBMs negotiate discounts and rebates paid by drug makers that are passed onto insurance companies and their patients,
but the lack of transparency in that process has long frustrated lawmakers and regulators attempting to contain the skyrocketing cost of medicine.

The PBMs say their secret negotiations with drug companies make prescriptions more affordable for consumers,
but this system has not shown to protect patients from sticker shock at the pharmacy counter.

Nearly 30 percent of Americans say they haven’t taken prescribed medication due to cost,
and an estimated 1.1 million Medicare patients alone could die over the next decade because they cannot afford the drugs prescribed by their doctors,
according to the American Hospital Association.

The FTC reports that in 2023, the U.S. spent more than $722 billion on prescription drugs,
💥nearly as much as the rest of the world combined.

Clearly the system is not working for patients or public health,
and policy makers in both parties have increasingly focused on the PBMs
and their recent mergers with major insurance companies.

According to a two-year FTC investigation on health care conglomerates released in July,
PBMs are “powerful middlemen inflating drug costs and squeezing Main Street pharmacies.”

“We’ve heard accounts of how the business practices of PBMs may deprive patients of access to the most affordable medicines
and how doctors find themselves having to subordinate their independent medical judgment to PBMs’ decision-making at the expense of patient health,”
FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement at the time.
truthout.org/articles/its-not-

Truthout · It’s Not Just Denied Claims. Insurance Firms Are Hiring Middlemen to Deny Meds.Lawmakers are looking to break up massive health care conglomerates that manage nearly 80 percent of prescriptions.
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→ -2000 Lines Of Code (via @nitot)
folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lin

In 1982, managers of the Lisa software team began tracking engineers' progress by the number of lines of code written weekly. Bill Atkinson, a key implementer, optimized Quickdraw's region calculation, reducing code by 2,000 lines and making it six times faster. He reported "-2000" lines of code on the form. Soon after, managers stopped asking him to fill it out.

www.folklore.orgFolklore.org: -2000 Lines Of Code
#managers#software#tracking
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