The U.S. Library of Congress is hiring an enterprise architect, a rare non-supervisory GS-15 position:

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<p>This position is located in the Enterprise Architecture Division, IT Governance Directorate, Office&nbsp;of the Chief Information Officer.&nbsp;...

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The U.S. Library of Congress has an open fully-remote position for a DevOps engineer:

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<p>This position is located in the&nbsp;DevOps Section, Software Engineering Division,&nbsp;IT Design and Development Directorate, Office of the Ch...

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Remember when Eric Schmidt said that we should let AI solve climate change because we aren’t? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/08/google-meta-omaha-data-centers/

Beyond the obvious “don’t use Uber” lesson, this feels like an argument for antitrust breakups – ordering a burrito shouldn’t require a ToS which also applies to a taxi service.

Ars Technica

Uber beats crash victims’ attempt to try case in court instead of arbitration

Couple said daughter agreed to terms update when ordering food via Uber Eats.

The U.S. Library of Congress is hiring a GS-14 #accessibility specialist eligible for remote work:

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<p><strong>This permanent position is eligible for 100% distant or local telework.&nbsp; The salary range advertised is for the Washington, DC area...

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“there are concerns that these displaced communities may never be able to return to their lands. While weather extremes regularly displace whole communities in other parts of the world, this could be the first permanent mass displacement due to climate change.”

The Conversation

South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change?

Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes and might never return.

“Local farmers, authorities came to believe, were systematically destroying vital weather data in order to falsely claim millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded crop insurance, for a drought they made up.”

The Colorado Sun

Wrecked rain gauges. Whistleblowers. Million-dollar payouts and manhunts. Then a Colorado crop fraud got really crazy.

The sordid story of two ranchers who conspired to tamper with rain gauges on the Colorado-Kansas plains to get millions in false insurance claims

I am curious whether this will be a surprising #accessibility win because there are people who won't wear hearing aids but will buy popular earbuds which don't have a stigma (“they make me look old!” – certain people I knew who used to go to Who concerts without earplugs). If true, that would be a depressing little mirror on our culture.

The Verge

The AirPods Pro 2 will soon double as hearing aids

As soon as the feature clears it’s FDA approval anyway.

I am still chuckling about this:

Front-End Social

Large Heydon Collider (@heydon@front-end.social)

📼 What Is React.JS? Finally, a new video on briefs.video. https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-react/

This is a clever abuse of the way so many people have had their contact info breached:

Infosec Exchange

BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image Sextortion scams now include photos of your home. New, by me: "This week, several readers reported receiving sextortion email...