#automation

Reposting from @apsap :
Been thinking about how #AI, #robotics, or #automation may impact archaeological labor in the coming years? Consider turning that into a Digital Review for @saa-aap.bsky.social of @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org for an upcoming theme issue on labor - call details:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-archaeological-practice/announcements/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-advances-in-archaeological-labor-management

Tip of the day: In a another post on smart rules, we discussed how to organize #DEVONthink documents in an automated fashion. In this post we briefly touched on the File action, but some people have wondered why not just use the Move action. Here’s the difference between the two. #automation #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20220802-filing-and-moving

PowerShell wizards, unite! The newest edition of PowerShell Weekly for July 25, 2025 is here. Unleash the power of automation with this week’s top tips and scripts.
#PowerShell #Automation #TechNews
https://psweekly.dowst.dev/?p=8036

Weil sie durch KI ersetzt werden sollen, legten Tiktok-Moderator:innen vorgestern in Berlin die Arbeit nieder. Nicht gealtert: »Marx und die Roboter« über lebendige Arbeit in Zeiten von KI & vernetzter Produktion und alte Herrschaft in digitalen Gewändern: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/marx-und-die-roboter

#ki #ai #digital #digitalisierung #kunstlicheintelligenz #kapitalismus #automation #ökonomie #buchtipp #lesetipp #bookstodon #buch #lesen

Megatrend **#22** - Cross-Disciplinary Specialists: "The greatest competitive advantage isn't knowing everything - it's knowing how to learn anything."- Futurist Jim Carroll

(Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found. The book is now in print - learn more at dancing.jimcarroll.com)

The highest career value is increasingly found at the intersection of previously distinct careers, knowledge, and skill sets. Hybrid expertise that combines technical, creative, and human skills will continue to command a significant premium in the talent marketplace. No one can know everything there is to know, but knowing how to get that knowledge is a key success factor!

The future is hybrid! You don't need to know much anymore - you just need to know how to know it! Not only that, but you need to know how to know many different things.

Makes sense? Let's dig into the trend of the 'hybrid workforce.'
Read the whole post at the link below.

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Futurist Jim Carroll explored the early signs of this trend in multiple chapters in his 1997 book, Surviving the Information Age.

**#Workforce** **#Transformation** **#AI** **#Reskilling** **#Jobs** **#Automation** **#Learning** **#Adaptation** **#Skills** **#Future**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/07/decoding-tomorrow-30-megatrends-22-cross-discinplinary-specialists-the-greatest-competitive-advantage-isnt-knowing-everything-its-knowing-how-to-learn-anything/

15 years ago today I started using Hazel from Noodlesoft. To this day, it provides me an automated way to offload old files to my NAS, and file away scanned documents with automatic naming from the contents of the documents. Developer and self-proclaimed Chief Noodler, Paul Kim, provides spectacular support.

https://www.noodlesoft.com

#MacAutomation #Automation

I love automating things.

It tickles my autism brain to reduce a complex process to a well-defined set of interconnected, repeatable, auditable steps.

Watching it tick off and walk through everything is mesmerizing and fills me with joy and wonder. It's like a magic trick.

Also, minimizing the number of steps and making each step more efficient is an obsession. It felt so good when I used jq to replace a set of nested loops and cut runtime from three plus hours to 45 minutes. Big dopamine hit.

Reminded me of the old meme that I saw printed out and stuck to a guy's cubicle over a decade ago: "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script." That's my job, basically now.

And it's great.

#ActuallyAutistic #Automation #HyperAutomation

mind the WCAG automation gap

"What can automated tools test without humans?"

#WCAG #accessibility #automation #AI #hype

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/03/27/mind-the-wcag-automation-gap/

So hm on unrelated topics does anybody know how to batch download your itch.io librar

#censorship #itch #itchio #scripting #automation

Megatrend **#21** - Career Obsolesence and Creation: "As technology redefines work, our most valuable skill becomes our uniquely human ability to learn, adapt, and create."- Futurist Jim Carroll

(Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found. The book is now in print - learn more at dancing.jimcarroll.com)

We are witnessing the simultaneous elimination of traditional roles and the emergence of entirely new professions. Organizations that can navigate this transition, focusing on re-skilling existing talent while attracting new capabilities, will have extraordinary advantages. The trend is being accelerated to a ridiculous speed as the impact of AI takes hold.

It's "The Great Rebalancing" of the global workforce, and here's the full PDF report.

https://pdf.jimcarroll.com/Megatrend21-CareerRebalancing.pd

We all know that jobs and careers are changing, but do we know how much? And how fast?

Hint: It's bigger than you think, and will happen faster than you are prepared for.

We've all become familiar with this trend, but suddenly, with the arrival and acceleration of AI, the speed of the change is now picking up the pace. What we thought might have been decades away - the disappearance of many careers and the rapid emergence of new careers - will now take years rather than decades. What's happening is this: there are now several simultaneous, accelerating trends at work involving demographics and technology:

- a demographic crisis in developed nations (a shrinking workforce)
- this creates a powerful incentive for technological adoption
- labor shortages are counteracted by AI productivity gains
- resulting in a desire or need to accelerate AI adoption to maintain economic viability
- which fundamentally challenges society to reskill the human workforce to effectively collaborate with machines!

How big a trend is this? Let's quantify the crunch. There are a tremendous number of studies and reports, but one rough estimate suggests that between 2025 and 2030, we will see:

- 170 million new jobs created globally
- 92 million existing roles displaced
- That's a net increase of 78 million jobs (a 7% expansion)
- This "labor-market churn" equals 22% of today's employment
- This means that early 1 in 4 existing jobs will be part of this massive rebalancing!

So what do you do?

Buckle up! Get involved! Keep learning!

**#Workforce** **#Transformation** **#AI** **#Reskilling** **#Jobs** **#Automation** **#Learning** **#Adaptation** **#Skills** **#Future**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/07/decoding-tomorrow-30-megatrends-21-career-obsolescence-and-creation-as-technology-redefines-work-our-most-valuable-skill-becomes-our-uniquely-human-ability-to-learn-adapt-and-create/

Check which services need restart (requires checkrestart package):

bastille cmd ALL checkrestart

Quick post-upgrade sanity check!

#BastilleBSD #automation

It's Technology AND Policy decisions AND Market behavior:

"The answer isn’t an AI-specific response, it’s to promote competition, expand labor rights, including intellectual property protections for artists and engineers, protect consumers, provide financing for farming and small business, while taxing and otherwise creating friction for the movement of financial capital. That’s not just good policy because of AI, it’s good policy if you want any form of democracy!

Yet, today, American policy is organized around juicing higher returns on capital, which means policymakers focus on cutting wages, squeezing consumers, and reducing taxes on finance. This choice isn’t hidden, most of our leaders really believe that experts and financiers know how to organize America better, and much of our economic model is now based on higher asset prices. But these choices have been in place for decades, which is why we are afraid of job losses, instead of seeing the possibility of new industries and prosperity. It’s also why Americans are scared of AI; we rightly assume technology will conform to the larger politics of our society. When American policy was organized to benefit most of us, technology meant The Jetsons. Since it’s now organized to consolidate power, it’s become Black Mirror.

All of which is to say that we really should pay careful attention to generative AI. If it can cure cancer or automate driving, awesome. At the same time, companies like Meta and Anthropic, who steal en masse, should be held accountable for doing so. But in terms of policy, we have to distinguish between “AI as a technology” and generalized Wall Street-friendly choices causing the problems ascribed to AI, aka lower wages, less job stability, and people without power getting screwed."

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we-pretending-ai-is-going

#AI #GenerativeAI #Monopolies #Oligopolies #Competition #PoliticalEconomy #Automation #Unemployment

https://www.europesays.com/uk/283200/ Greece pushes EU to take tough line on migration – POLITICO #Africa #Albania #Asylum #Austria #Automation #Borders #EU #Europe #European #France #Germany #Greece #Immigration #Italy #Libya #MagnusBrunner #Migration #Policy #Regulation #Surveillance

Now I need to maintain this server.

Updates every week, power outages to consider, and the need for service restarts, backups, etc.

It’s a bit much, but I’ve been through worse.

A little automation can help! #ServerMaintenance #Automation

Сравниваю автоматизацию n8n и скрипт на Python

На днях мне попался заказ на автоматизацию. Нужно было парсить письма из email и сравнивать тему и содержание письма с эксель файлом. В файле 3 листа и в зависимости от того, что было в сравнении с темой письма в первом листе - разный алгоритм дальнейшего сравнения. В общем, сделать я решила автоматизацию на n8n, так как она должна была работать исключительно локально на компьютере у заказчика. И я подумала, что так будет проще разобраться. Один раз настроить в терминале логин и всё.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/928800/

#n8n #n8n_ai #python #automation

I'm betting against AI agents in 2025, despite building them
https://utkarshkanwat.com/writing/betting-against-agents/
#ycombinator #AI_Agents #Production_AI #Software_Engineering #DevOps #AI_Architecture #LLMs #Automation #Technical_Leadership #AI_Economics #System_Design

Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)
https://utkarshkanwat.com/writing/betting-against-agents/
#ycombinator #AI_Agents #Production_AI #Software_Engineering #DevOps #AI_Architecture #LLMs #Automation #Technical_Leadership #AI_Economics #System_Design

Modeled after rich humans?

𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙍𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙬 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙊𝙬𝙣

https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/new-cannibalistic-robots-consume-other-machines-to-grow-and-heal-on-their

#tech #technology #robots #automation #TaxTheRich #billionaires #capitalism