#DOGE can't explain why it wants sensitive government data : NPR
Fewer than 50 people have access to #SocialSecurity Administration databases containing hundreds of millions of people's private financial and personal information.
But only one also has access to the government's human resources and student loan files.
#ssa #ss #opm #privacy #security #ssn #hr #Musk #Trump
I'm shortly going to be attending a webinar, and had advance thoughts:
DEI practices are 100% about hiring based on merit. They require us to account for systemic barriers and identify and control our unconscious bias *so that* we can identify and hire the best person.
That the best person is not always (or often) a complacent white male is not a result of DEI. Speaking as a white guy to other white men: It's time to level up.
Hessen will private Handy-Nutzung an Schulen verbieten
Hessen will die private Handynutzung an Schulen flächendeckend verbieten. Ein geplantes Gesetz der schwarz-roten Landesregierung soll bereits ab dem kommenden Schuljahr gelten - und wenige Ausnahmen vorsehen.
HR isn't there for your benefit (No pun intended. Well maybe intended just a little bit.)
Watch out for #phishing emails. My client's #HR manager just received an email purportedly from me asking her to change my bank account details.
Fortunately I'm a contractor so "Payroll" was a bit off as a title, and she checked with me in person.
I'm assuming they made the connection between me and them by scraping #LinkedIn. Another reason to drop it.
Redefining Work in a Hybrid Society – Technology, #Leadership, and the Future of Employment
The way we work is changing—fast. Traditional employment models are being challenged by fractional leadership, the gig #economy, and the rise of remote-first collaboration. But is this shift making work better, or just more fragmented?
In this latest episode of Redefining Society & Technology on ITSPmagazine, I sat down with Sara Daw, author of "Strategy and Leadership as a Service" to talk about how technology is reshaping the workforce.
We dive into:
The rise of fractional C-suite roles and why executives are choosing autonomy over full-time positions How companies are shifting from payroll to access-based #employment The role of psychological ownership in a world where contracts no longer define commitment What this means for future generations, as they enter the workforce with an entirely different mindset
Technology enables this shift, but the real question is: Are we using it to empower people—or just creating a new kind of instability?
Teaser: https://youtu.be/8FGKB4kfCGQ
Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/fVAjiD85sYM
Listen to the full conversation: https://redefiningsocietyandtechnologypodcast.com/episodes/redefining-work-in-a-hybrid-society-technology-leadership-and-the-future-of-employment-guest-sara-daw-redefining-society-and-technology-podcast-with-marco-ciappelli
Sunscribe? Share? 
What do you think?
Are we heading toward a more flexible and fulfilling work model, or is something getting lost in the transition? Let’s discuss.
#FutureOfWork #Technology #Society #GigEconomy #Leadership #RemoteWork #DigitalTransformation #ai #socialmedia #tech #future #HR
Sean Martin
A mighty ay char with a tree speed and a smaller red motor (149 or 161).
There’s def a learning curve to #ObsidianMD. Especially if you want to do the kinds of things I’m trying to do. It really helps a lot to have a background in tech. It really helps a lot to have prior experience with YAML and Markdown.
Dataview is one of a great many community plugins, but it’s so ridiculously powerful it should almost be considered a core feature. It has a learning curve of its own. It helps a lot if you have some SQL experience. This comes back to my mention of YAML. If you’re mindful and proactive about consistently structuring your notes, I’m finding Dataview to be an extremely powerful way to query your notes like a database. Some of my notes have no content except Dataview queries, effectively acting as dashboards to help me get a summarized view of my notes as seen through different lenses. And I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface with it / haven’t really put in the work yet to get the most out of it.
If you’ve got #Javascript background, there is also DataviewJS which is a whole other level of power. Sadly I don’t have JavaScript background so I haven’t really tapped into this yet.
I’m definitely finding #ObsidianMD to have enormous potential. And there’s a lot of learning to do to get the most out of it. But I’m finding that taking the time to learn, to practice, to figure out and improve my workflow, it’s a really good investment. At some point I expect it’ll be about the same effort as the “brain dump notes” I was taking before, but with all of the benefits that come from a little structure and connective tissue in Obsidian.
There’s so much more I want to do with it in my personal life. I’m still in early iterations of how I will use it for capturing book/podcast/article/#Blinkist notes. And barely scratching the surface of how to use it to augment, accelerate, and connect my various interests.
I’m also now seeing, I think, the #writers potential. Very #ADHD of me, I have these big book ideas in my head, I start writing, but then I distract myself with something else and struggle to find my footing when I come back to the writing project. I think I’m starting to see a way to prepare myself in Obsidian to start writing within a curated & prepared framework, be able to walk away from it, but then return with enough cognitive context to pick it back up again.
I think I’m also seeing a path for helping my squirrel brain to break down bigger writing projects into a linear progression of smaller ones. Particularly for non-fiction content. I’ve had a really unusually successful career as an openly Autistic executive leader, and I often get feedback that there are some things I’m consistently really excellent at that most other executives really struggle with. I think that being Neurodivergent gave me an edge in figuring it out. But I also think my methods are entirely teachable and learnable.
One such area is having a moment in #HR circles right now. The cool kids are calling it #TalentDensity but I figured most of this out for myself when I was trying to be a positive change agent inside of #UnitedHealth and seeing how many around me were so wasteful with the latent potential of their existing staff. I was able to double down on this and prove it works through outcomes at scale. And I’m getting the same positive feedback at Lark.
I feel like I’m doing the world a disservice by only sharing my learnings with my senior staff and the mentees outside of my department. I’d like to leverage Obsidian to help me get this out of my head and into a format that others can add to their professional skillset.
Oh my goodness, it is hard to keep up with the firehose of Flood The Zone with shit that is the Trump way.
So, since last night, all of the #infosec people that were part of United States Digital Service, now Dodgy...er, #doge, have all quit, 40 of them saying: “We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services,” they wrote. “We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE’s actions.”
AP also reporting that 40% of Dodgy’s cut and slash of contracts and workers will not save any money. So, that’s fun!
Elon’s “email what you did last week or be fired” plan was disrupted by his own script kiddies not knowing how to secure an email, and thus our campaign of mailing random lists to #hr@opm.gov continues.
It’s a lot you guys. But we soldier on.
Judge blocks OPM, Education Department from sharing personal info with DOGE
The order is the most wide-ranging block on DOGE’s activities to date.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/24/judge-blocks-opm-education-dept-from-sharing-info-with-doge-00205699
"A federal judge has barred the #Education Dept & the Office of Personnel Management — the #government ’s massive #HR department — from sharing sensitive #information with Elon Musk’s “Dept of Government Efficiency,” saying the decision to grant #DOGE access appears to breach federal #privacy laws."
I am glad that hr@opm.gov is interested in everyone's week... But I couldn't fit it all into 5 bullet points. I'll ponder it.
![An email:
From: HR <hr@opm.gov>
Date: February 22, 2025 at 4:48:38 PM EST
Subject: [EXTERNAL] What did you do last week?
Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. - Deadline is this Monday at 11:59pm EST.](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/051/105/387/039/122/original/a3eb8bb944fc41d2.png "An email:
From: HR <hr@opm.gov>
Date: February 22, 2025 at 4:48:38 PM EST
Subject: [EXTERNAL] What did you do last week?
Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. - Deadline is this Monday at 11:59pm EST.")
‘ “It was heartbreaking," the former employee said. "When I went up to my computer, it was already locked down. I couldn't access anything. I'm still trying to reach out to #HR to find out, do I get a severance package? What is my #healthinsurance benefits? When does it end? Nobody knows anything.”’
Are there h r people cooperating? And can they be disqualified from ever working in the field again?
Ahaha, so HR makes surveys to help improve the company, but people don't trust them (rightly so) so they lie, painting an unrealistic picture of company health. Amazing job all around corporations!
https://www.hrdive.com/news/engagement-surveys-paint-a-distorted-picture/739260/
Nochmal ein kleiner Blogbeitrag, dass wir derzeit einen Headhunter suchen: https://fnordkollektiv.de/blog/de/headhunter-suche.html
Out of twelve major employee retention/attrition factors cited in a McKinsey report from 2022, only two are not directly targeted and addressed by No-BS OKRs: “Adequacy of total compensation, and “Geographic ties and travel demands.”
Read more 
https://lttr.ai/AVdjw
Henry Rollins (Black Flag) and H.R. (Bad Brains)
#music #HenryRollins #HR
