AI Ayo

Chill Political Economy, Tech

MIT report: AI can already replace nearly 12% of the U.S. workforce.

I agree with that assessment. No matter what you’ve read — particularly if you’re on the left and predisposed to hate tech and any form of knowledge advancement that doesn’t relate to a new, innovative gender — the newest AI models are quite good at many things. Certainly they could replace most of the juniors in my own field that I’ve worked with over the years and many of the mid-level folks too.

No one is reckoning with how quickly this fact is being weaponized by the MBA class or that it’s already demonstrably occurring. Predictably, economists are and will be in denial about this at least a decade after it is already happening.

Norm McDonot

Chill Annoying, Evil

When I try to use the internet like normies do — no adblock, no DNS filtering, no quality firewall — I’m like, “What the hell is going on? Why is all that crap flying around all over the screen? What is all that noise?”

I do not know how they do it. Couldn’t be me.

Chill Links

Private payroll losses accelerated in the past four weeks, ADP reports.

Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture capital ‘zombies.’

Space Truckin’ – the Nostromo.

A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science.

Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing.

‘Forever Layoffs’ Are A New Corporate Buzzword, In Reality, It’s Just A Way For Them To Skirt Regulations Around Mass Layoffs.

USPTO Wants To Make Bad Patents Unchallengeable. You Have Until December 2nd To Tell Them No.

The death of the living room: ‘It’s hard to invite people over – not everyone wants to sit on a bed.’

Why ‘Gender Dysphoria’ is a lie.

China is making trade impossible.

Research shows that in 2024, it took candidates an average of 247 days and about 221 applications to finally secure a new role.

The logical triumph of English.

Do What They Do

Chill Rant

AI is useful in many instances and for many use cases. Just like everything else in known existence, most people are not that smart and thus are bad at using it.

Intelligence is multiplicative. That applies to AI just as much as it does anywhere else. Perhaps more so.

(In other words, smart people do smart things with AI. Dumbasses do dumbass things. Just as it always was and ever will be.)

Propofol

Chill Regular-ass Post

Why does the internet today feel so much “softer” compared to the 2005–2012 era?

Tons and tons of censorship and aggressive moderation so as to not piss off corporate advertising interests, mostly.

Also, wokesters and their cancel culture made the internet a lot worse. Combine those two and you have the anesthetized HR-ized borefest we have now. Also, this person sounds too young to remember the earlier era (pre-2004) where it was even more Wild West.

Chill Links

The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your data.

Researchers Uncover How Sea Turtles Learn Locations Using Earth’s Magnetic Field.

Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world.

First recorded eruption of Ethiopian volcano sends ash plumes across Red Sea.

People with more muscle mass and less visceral fat have younger brains, study finds.

A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much.

Health Issues in Middle Age Can Be Linked to Pregnancy Years Earlier.

Warmed by Japan’s Support, Taiwan Takes Up Sushi Diplomacy.

When Home Sellers Set Prices Too High, They’re Paying for It.

Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy.

New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn.

Without a siren, toddler’s 39-mile ambulance trip still cost more than $9,000.

Landlords’ go-to tool to set rent prices to be gutted under RealPage settlement.

French Muslim boy jailed for rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl has sentence commuted in retrial. A French court reduced the sentence of a teen convicted in the 2024 antisemitic rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl, citing reintegration needs, sparking renewed outrage. Europe is toast; already effectively Islamicized.

Wolv

Chill Killin' It

Without artificial enhancements such as HGH and anabolic steroids, it takes 5-7 years of working out quite hard to get close to a Marvel superhero level body.

Probably a bit less if you’re younger. So I see why more people don’t do it. It takes continual, focused effort and eating well enough to get it done — all the while, people will tell you it’s “impossible.”

Luckily, I’ve made doing the impossible and laughing at the haters and losers my whole thing.

Deportable Generation

Chill Evil

Europe is done.

As I’ve posted before on this blog and will probably continue to reiterate, a long-term (known her for 15 years) online friend of mine was forced to flee her home city of Munich by North African migrants. The last straw was after she witnessed a gang rape perpetrated by those demons migrants from her apartment window.

It’s time for mass deportations and closing the border if most of Europe wants any hope of survival.