Remote Work is Officially Dead, Says the World's Largest Recruiter - Slashdot

"You have to be very special to be able to demand a 100% remote job," van 't Noordende told Fortune. "That's increasingly the story. You have to have very special technology skills or some expertise." The equilibrium appears to be settling at a hybrid model of three to four days in office for most workers.

That has been my experience too.

Also even before the Covid pandemic, the fully remote option was there for high performers or edge cases, where people had specific requirements to work from home and were good enough that they could not be kicked out of the job.

Our interfaces have lost their senses by Amelia Wattenberger

Think about how you use physical tools. Drawing isn't just moving your hand—it's the feel of the pencil against paper, the tiny adjustments of pressure, the sound of graphite scratching. You shift your body to reach the other side of the canvas. You erase with your other hand. You step back to see the whole picture.

A beautifully illustrated thing.

Everything happens on screens. There is no variability in our experiences of doing different things.

ChatGPT’s yearly recap sums up your conversations with the chatbot by Emma Roth

ChatGPT is joining the flood of apps offering yearly recaps for users. It’s rolling out a “Year in Review” feature that will show you a bunch of stats — like how many messages you sent to the chatbot in 2025 — as well as give you an AI-generated pixel art-style image that encompasses some of the topics you talked about this year.

The only one I did this year was the LinkedIn one. I did it because I saw a friend do it. I posted the one where it says who have you interacted with most this year. For me it was Prerna, and I guess hence the post.

James Webb Space Telescope Confirms 1st 'Runaway' Supermassive Black Hole - Slashdot by

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 million times larger than the sun, rocketing through space at a staggering 2.2 million miles per hour (1,000 kilometers per second)

This scares me. My metal image was that black holes were steady wherever they were in their frame of reference. But this.

China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to deal with their aging batteries by Caiwei Chen

Typically, one of two things happens when an EV’s battery is retired. One is called cascade utilization, in which usable battery packs are tested and repurposed for slower applications like energy storage or low-speed vehicles. The other is full recycling: Cells are dismantled and processed to recover metals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese, which are then reused to manufacture new batteries. Both these processes, if done properly, take significant upfront investment that is often not available to small players.

One of the countless other things where China has the lead and the world is waiting for them to innovate.

This is an interesting part of the equation. Ideally you want to be able to just replace the batteries. The whole design of the car should be based around that.

Or, the car makers need to subsidise people when they go back with their cars. And we are into a new she when people keep their cars for shorter periods, like phones. That can’t be environmentally sustainable.