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Do all people who try to be "friends" with me on LinkedIn (and that I have never met) realize I will ping them for sponsorship for @ph0wn CTF? It only seems fair ;P

[My advice if you want to connect with me on LinkedIn: at least include a message saying why, or where we met, otherwise, I'll just turn it down]

And reminding my followers that we're looking for sponsors. Best way (in my opinion) to train your teams, reach out to talented people. Worth 100 CVs ;P

#sponsor#ph0wn#CTF

LinkedInissä nykyään oikeasti hyviä juttuja on ilmasto- ja luontoihmisten päivitykset. Tässä kiinnostava kirjoitus Niklas Kaskealalta toivosta ja vihasta motivoivina tunteina maailman muuttamisessa.

#LinkedIn #ToisetSomet

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www.linkedin.comUnohda toivo. Ilmastoviestintä tarvitseee pelkoa ja suuttumusta – oikein… | Niklas Kaskeala | 27 commentsUnohda toivo. Ilmastoviestintä tarvitseee pelkoa ja suuttumusta – oikein käytettynä. Tiedän, kuulostaa klikkiotsikolta. Mutta taustalla on tuore, 30 maata kattava tieteellinen tutkimus (Baum et al., 2025), jonka johtopäätökset ovat selkeitä: toivo ei ole kovin tehokas tunne ilmastotoimien kannalta. Pelko ja suuttumus, kun ne ohjataan rakentavasti, saavat ihmiset liikkeelle. Viimeksi tänään, puhekeikan päätteeksi, minulta kysyttiin jälleen: “Miten tärkeää on ylläpitää toivoa, optimismia ja positiivisuutta?” Kysymys on vilpitön ja ymmärrettävä, mutta sen taustalla on oletus, joka kaipaa ravistelua. Itse en mielelläni puhu toivosta. En siksi, että olisin kyyninen – vaan koska toivo usein sysää vastuun muille. Se perustuu oletukseen, että muutos tapahtuu, jos vain uskomme siihen tarpeeksi. Mutta ilmastokriisi ei ratkea sillä, että uskomme johonkin. Se ratkeaa sillä, että toimimme – ja että painostamme myös muita toimimaan. Toivo tuntuu hyvältä. Se antaa meille tunteen, että kaikki järjestyy – ehkä jopa ilman, että meidän tarvitsee muuttaa mitään. Mutta juuri siinä piilee sen vaara. Toivo ilman toimintaa on passivoivaa. Se tekee meistä sivustakatsojia, kun meidän pitäisi olla toimijoita. Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov kirjoitti hiljattain esseessään Beyond hope, että muutosliikkeet ovat jo liian pitkään rakentaneet tarinansa pelkän toivon varaan. Kauniita visioita paremmasta tulevaisuudesta, mutta ilman juurta tässä päivässä. Ihmiset eivät asu utopioissa. He elävät nykyhetkessä, arjen epävarmuudessa. Siksi tulevaisuusvisiot eivät riitä – tarvitaan tunnetta siitä, että omalla toiminnalla on merkitystä nyt. Bjørkskovin mukaan ihmiset eivät toimi siksi, että he uskovat parempaan maailmaan. He toimivat, kun he tuntevat vastuuta ja löytävät merkitystä tekemisestään. Baum et al. (2025) -tutkimus puolestaan osoittaa, että juuri suuttumus epäoikeudenmukaisuutta kohtaan ja pelko menetyksestä ovat vahvimpia liikkeelle panevia voimia – kunhan ne eivät jää kyynisyydeksi, vaan ohjautuvat toiminnaksi. Tämä ei tarkoita, että meidän pitäisi lietsoa paniikkia tai suuttumusta muita ihmisiä kohtaan. Päinvastoin. Meidän pitää oppia näkemään, että nämä tunteet voivat olla moraalinen kompassimme. Ne voivat kertoa, mikä on pielessä ja mitä emme voi enää hyväksyä. Ne voivat yhdistää – jos annamme niille luvan muuttua toiminnaksi. Tärkein kysymys ei siis ole, onko meillä vielä toivoa. Vaan: olemmeko valmiita toimimaan? Linkit Baum et al. tutkimukseen ja Bjørkskovin tekstiin kommenteissa. | 27 comments on LinkedIn
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As a service, LinkedIn Learning is useless, it's just a way for LinkedIn to train their AI shitty product on your profile. It also creates a dystopian reality in which me looking for a training is treated like a Tinder experience: 'find your best match', as if my work chronological history gives any hint of what I find good or not in a learning experience. Which highlights how who designed it didn't even understand the basic principle: "wrong data, wrong answers"

Before my university account expires, I use some of LinkedIn Learning courses for deepening some technical skills. It was a while since I used it, and today opened back to see if I could find a lesson on a specific software. LinkedIn Learning is now apparently only powered by AI, and for every query it insist in wanting to scan your profile first, supposedly to find the 'best match'. If you stop the scan & do a simple search, it returns verbose answers and no courses.

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#LinkedIn rollt ein neues Feature aus, das besonders für Content-Marketing-Teams interessant ist: Ab sofort lassen sich RSS-Feeds direkt mit der eigenen Unternehmensseite verknüpfen.

Inhalte aus externen Quellen wie dem eigenen Unternehmensblog können damit vollautomatisch auf LinkedIn gepostet werden – mit wenigen Klicks und ganz ohne Copy-Paste-Aufwand.

Wie das geht, verrät mein aktueller Blog-Beitrag: neu-bei-linkedin.de/jetzt-moeg

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“Microsoft will cut 3 per cent of its global #workforce, the latest round of #JobCuts at a #BigTech company, as it seeks to streamline operations and pare layers of #MiddleManagement.

The Redmond, Washington-based group said on Tuesday that it would eliminate about 6,000 roles, including at international offices and wholly-owned subsidiaries such as #LinkedIn. The moves follow #performance-related job cuts this year that affected about 2,000 #Microsoft employees.”

#WhiteCollar / #sackings <archive.md/Siork> / <ft.com/content/f453e330-1e56-4> (paywall)

“Learn, unlearn, relearn. Never be right about everything. Remain humble. Always be open. Show up excited to learn. Don't treat your team like a bunch of serfs. And remember, what people say about you when you're not in the room is more true than the annual company survey.”


:linkedin:
linkedin.com/posts/geoffreycol

www.linkedin.comThe one sentence I used to hear all the time that will continue to shrink… | Geoffrey ColonThe one sentence I used to hear all the time that will continue to shrink over time is: "I want to be a manager." I think people will want to continue to manage people but the opportunities? Becoming few and far between now. With the layoffs and cuts across companies targeting middle management and the recent one from two tech companies basically making it so senior titles have to have 15 to 20 direct reports in their new "spans and layers" model, the day of becoming a manager operating a team is diminishing. I have two tales of this from the recent past and it may help many of you reading this. 1. Manager A. Good manager, kept the team to a minimum of headcount, prioritized what the company had to do in terms of revenue and perception. Was an IC themselves leading by example that you can't just "manage" in a world of AI and automation. You have to contribute too. Great team morale and really helped keep things moving. Said AI would make everyone have to "experiment more." When I asked them if they ever could be an IC again by default they said, "Whatever I need to adapt to, I'll adapt." 2. Manager B. Terrible manager. Maybe the worst in my career. Never showed up to the meetings they were invited to. Just wanted a fiefdom where they kept acquiring headcount for a possible promotion. Toxic. Was not an IC and could not speak to the higher level areas of subject matter expertise. Was at the company for like 30 years but still had no clue what they sold. Had their admin do everything for them. Said AI would be a gamechanger but never tinkered with any of it. Terrible team morale. Said one time in a meeting, "I'm a manager, I don't do the work, I manage the people." What you can takeaway from this is this: when we say agile, think of Manager A. Go with the flow. Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty. Do the work. Have skin in the game. You're a true manager just not by old school definitions. You may not be managing any direct reports but people will look up to you across the business. Manager B is a prime example of what Yuval Noah Harrari noted as a member of the "useless class." Don't be that. Learn, unlearn, relearn. Never be right about everything. Remain humble. Always be open. Show up excited to learn. Don't treat your team like a bunch of serfs. And remember, what people say about you when you're not in the room is more true than the annual company survey.

“So, here's my TLDR (for now):

“I will only use social media if I'm going to be real. Otherwise, I will keep its use to a minimum.

“I will only use AI for non-authentic routine tasks to amplify productivity without eroding inherent skills and abilities.”

linkedin.com/posts/andrewjohns

:linkedin:

www.linkedin.comHow I'm thinking about AI. Social media was a vacuum for time and… | Andrew JohnsHow I'm thinking about AI. Social media was a vacuum for time and attention. It sucked you into a world of pseudo-identities and false representations of the world. That's led to widespread detachment from our inner knowing—from our authenticity. The detachment from our authenticity has become a meta-crisis. People feel lost and detached and continue to turn toward social media to find and understand themselves, which is the opposite of what they should do. They must put it all down and sit with themselves (and others) to get back in touch with who they are and what they want. There is a parallel with AI. It is also a vacuum not just of time and attention but of human skills, knowledge, and abilities. It will hoover up whatever information we give it. The same is true for the tasks we ask it to accomplish for us. If you hand over the skills and abilities that are unique to you, that you get paid for, and that fulfills you, then AI will consume another part of you, deepening the detachment from yourself. Social media can absorb your time, attention, and self-knowledge. AI can absorb the skills and abilities that are expressions of your gifts. Hand them all over to technology, and what are we? Who are we? What remains of us? I'm not suggesting we get rid of all technology—it has tremendous benefits—but I am suggesting a much more thoughtful engagement with it. For me, that means I only use social media for authentic self-expression and to get a message out that I think will benefit others. I only use LinkedIn and Substack. The rest are cut out entirely or kept to a strict minimum. When it comes to AI, I try to limit its use to only routine tasks that aren't core to my authentic gifts and abilities. I want to keep those to myself and sharpen them through ownership and practice. Writing is a good example. If you have AI handle most of your writing for you, your writing skills quickly erode. So, here's my TLDR (for now): I will only use social media if I'm going to be real. Otherwise, I will keep its use to a minimum. I will only use AI for non-authentic routine tasks to amplify productivity without eroding inherent skills and abilities.

Taking a quick scroll down the main #Linkedin feed (don't judge) I am 100% certain of one thing: LI's post-writing #AI assistant deploys the format of "Single, ostensibly attention-getting line - double line break - text body".

Of course, combined with LI's interface, which hides everything after the third line behind a "More" button this means the reader gets almost no indication of what any post is about.

Because this is not & never was about a better experience for people.

Bye Bye #linkedin !
Après beaucoup de réflexions sur son soi-disant intérêt professionnel, j'ai décidé de fermer mon compte linkedin.
(Au moins, je ne m'amuserai plus à lire la pauvreté des posts et des polémiques idiotes présent sur ce réseau.)

Merci @ploum pour ton article, qui m'a confirmé dans cette voie.
ploum.net/je-ne-suis-plus-a-ve

Peut-être qu'un jour nous aurons un fediwork fonctionnel et utile pour l'univers pro.

ploum.netJe ne suis plus à vendre sur Linkedin
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