jilleduffy

Writer covering work, women in midlife, some tech. Author of The Everything Guide to Remote Work. Global citizen; currently near the Mekong. Pro worker stance. (she/her)

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My WIRED author bio page: https://www.wired.com/author/jill-duffy

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2026-08-10 03:39:01 UTC

The Delight of a Breast Reduction
One of my favorite things about being a writer is exploring topics that I have no real connection to personally. Here, I became interested in data showing more than half of all breast reductions happen on women over 40, and I wondered why.
Let me share a few things that didn't make it into the article!
Also, no paywall 😜
https://hellogloria.com/essays/the-delight-of-a-breast-reduction/

2026-08-08 00:22:08 UTC

https://didtheyghostyou.com/
A site that crowd-sources information about job-ghosting
Please share

2026-07-14 00:27:54 UTC

"much token usage, or ‘chewing,’ is not from supercharged engineers creating lots of code, but people converting PDFs into presentation slides."
In other words, AI doing "grunt work" is too expensive. You cannot make this up.
https://www.404media.co/companies-are-throttling-employees-ai-use-because-its-too-expensive/

2026-06-01 04:44:33 UTC

What's the difference between a data center and a server farm?
Wrong answers only

2026-05-18 03:46:12 UTC

You know what else about AI?
People who hype it have no idea about diminishing returns
We have decades of research showing that when people only work on the hard stuff at work and don't get sufficient breaks, they burn out faster
If you're selling AI as a tool that "automates the mindless parts of work" then the worker is only left with the hard parts, and they burn out faster

2026-04-30 03:30:01 UTC

Tip: If you cannot locate an email address for customer service for a company, open the Terms of Service, search for (press ctrl+F) "@". Almost always, you can find an email address in there.

2026-04-15 08:44:10 UTC

How much does a typical cup of drip coffee, from an independent coffee shop, cost where you live?
Be sure to include your location in your answer!

2026-01-18 07:35:27 UTC

Boomers didn’t fail the younger gens
The wealthy & powerful did
Boomers created the Civil Rights movement, the Americans With Disabilities Act, climate science. They put solar panels on the White House & made the first wave of electric vehicles
The ones who let the world down from a lack of political will were and still are the powerful & wealthy
Don’t let stereotypes about generations divide us!

2025-12-04 23:47:52 UTC

Tell me you’re phoning it in without telling me you’re phoning it in
Like, someone at Pantone has covered their ears with giant headphones and spent the last year listening to Enya doing conflict-avoidance
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/663/958/381/637/749/original/2e3d9395b1571e58.png

2025-11-20 23:54:49 UTC

I'm still a little miffed that when an actual worldwide pandemic came, the bunker people didn't go into their bunkers
Instead they demanded haircuts and tickets to the cinema

2025-10-23 02:52:12 UTC

Chris Hoffman, whom I've had the pleasure to edit in the past, writes about the sausage being made in the VPN recommendation world
It's a good read
https://windowsread.me/p/the-best-vpns-no-affiliate-links
#tech #technology #VPN #journalism #ethics

2025-10-15 13:15:22 UTC

My first pieces of pottery made in Laos with clay sourced from a local farm. It was a learning process but I’m reasonably happy with these stupa-inspired shapes
#pottery #clay #handmade #laos
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/378/359/952/361/413/original/ff9948b0428c54bd.png

2025-10-14 01:43:21 UTC

I am really not worried about what AI is capable of doing and much much more concerned with:
1. the financial bubble of AI
2. what companies that create AI are not telling the public or government
3. the real cost of AI in resources
#AI #tech #technology #futurism

2025-09-28 09:10:21 UTC

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2025-09-27 08:21:22 UTC

AI* is trained on the stupidity of the internet, using text written to satisfy the ever-changing demands of Google search optimization. Certainly, I hope that machine learning can be used for good in, say, scientific models and medical diagnostics, but that will happen in private, closed systems using hand-selected data to train it. Otherwise, it's garbage in, garbage out.
(*Large, consumer-grade generative AI)

2025-08-31 02:26:44 UTC

A judge once said, “I don’t mind being told that I’m wrong, but I do mind being told that I’m stupid.”
It’s a good thought to remember in the world of Internet commenting and debate.
FWIW, Mastodon users are overwhelmingly already on board in my personal experience. I appreciate you all! 😘

2025-03-19 03:19:52 UTC

On the Washington Post homepage
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/186/917/886/011/638/original/1f260a4f67015dcc.png

2025-03-03 13:57:23 UTC

The fact that we still can't just buy a single article from a website that we want to read for, like $1 is just bonkers
I don't want a subscription. I want to read like 1 article every 2 months, and I will pay for that

2025-02-20 02:47:24 UTC

When candidates interview for jobs, I think they should ask the HR person, "The last time there were layoffs, how were they delivered?"
Maybe consider not taking the job if the answer is "by email."

2025-02-06 11:50:44 UTC

For everyone throwing around the words "ethnic cleansing," please remember it's a euphemism for genocide
You can just say genocide

2025-01-07 02:11:18 UTC

A friend was saying how Trump's previous VP was so forgettable, he couldn't even remember his name
My partner said, "You may remember him from such chants as, 'Hang Mike Pence'"
I think about that A LOT

2024-12-19 01:11:20 UTC

While none of this has been big in American news:
- the German government has collapsed
- the French government has collapsed
- the first round of the Romanian presidential election was annulled, citing Russian interference
Keep reading widely, friends

2024-12-16 14:24:55 UTC

What if AI-generated content and articles written by LLMs are so bad that we all get bored of the internet and leave it and go outside, and all the tech bros end up just making a normal amount of money next year, it could happen, right?

2024-12-04 04:59:27 UTC

Forbes is looking for writers to cover the wealthiest people and write The World's Billionaires List
It pays $24 per hour
You have got to be kidding me

2024-10-02 02:51:48 UTC

From my book, The Everything Guide to Remote Work:
"Undeniably, working remotely gives you flexibility, but it's unfair for other people in your home to assume you'll manage all the household responsibilities, including theirs, just because you can make yourself available when needed."
This book is filled with actionable advice on how to manage this stuff. You can buy the e-book right now for about the cost of 2-3 cups of coffee https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Everything-Guide-to-Remote-Work/Jill-Duffy/Everything/9781507217870