When will this market improve? Is my career already over?
Over? Probably not. Significantly curtailed.
If you don’t have at least 10-12 years of experience, tech is not a good career now. Jobs are being shipped to India/LATAM left and right and taken over by AI. And no, no one who “matters” cares that the jobs aren’t done as well, or that Americans will suffer because of it.
Tech is being hollowed out, like other fields before it.
End birthright citizenship. End all citizenship! You lot are not citizens of anything until you conquer the galaxy with me.
Get fucking started.
Guardian writers on their ultimate feelgood movies: ‘For when humanity lets me down.’
I don’t watch movies this way so I don’t really have a “feelgood” movie as such, but if I had to choose one it’d be Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
It’s just such a fun movie with a perfect tone that blends so much about humanity together incredibly well. The film feels like a pastiche because it is, and works all the better for it.
The FDA is about to make it a lot harder to get cheap weight-loss drugs. Another stupid mistake in a long, long list of them.
DOJ Issues Perhaps The Last Law Enforcement Investigation Report We’ll See For The Next Four Years.
Tech Takes the Pareto Principle Too Far.
Royal Navy Nuclear Submarine Surfaced Next To Russian Spy Ship To Send A Clear Message.
A new kind of urban firestorm.
The West’s Infernos Are Melting Our Sense of How Fire Works. Climate change hitting hard now. Deny it all you want; it’ll still happen. The only difference is, you’ll remain a dumbass.
Mississippi lawmaker introduces ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act.’ LOL.
Trump’s Immigration Threats Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry.
Scientists detect chirping cosmic waves in an unexpected part of space.
Men have grown twice as much as women over past century, study shows.
Restaurant worker chops meat on pavement outside of teriyaki restaurant in Kansas City.
It’s ok, he was just making some ground beef.
There is a lesson in that for sure.
5 girls ranking themselves by attractiveness pic.twitter.com/Nr0HfSL26Z
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) November 11, 2024
Leftists/liberals hate this stuff because it reveals social truths that they wish weren’t the case. But it’s incredibly interesting to me. And we should think about these things. It shows how much women actually do not understand what is attractive to most men aesthetically.
I would’ve ranked them similarly except the tall blonde woman with striking features I would’ve put first and changed her place with the short Asian woman. She’s the prettiest and has the most appealing personality to me (of the very little you can see of it). The blonde woman is being penalized essentially because she has short hair and has a somewhat masculine affect, and a lot of men hate both of those things. If she had long, flowing hair with those features she would’ve been chosen by almost all of them.
I am going insane. This company will lose $10bn this year! Generative AI has peaked! There isn’t a sustainable business model, and the products are mediocre and error prone and don’t even do anything cool despite costing billions and accelerating climate change and stealing everybody’s artwork!
— Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) January 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I like Ed, but this is a clueless take. He’s not thinking predatorily enough, like an MBA would. The point of GenAI is to eventually replace workers, not to be these little toys we have now. The MBAs simply DO NOT CARE if AI does not do work that is as of the quality that a human can do. If a GenAI costs 1/20 the price and does work that’s only 1/4 as good — that is still a net win. In MBA thinking, anyway.
Ed is wrong, wrong, wrong. “Mediocre and error prone” at a low price is just fine in capitalism. Preferred, even, if it never talks back, never demands higher wages and has no actual human needs.
Understand this or you understand nothing.
It’s odd that the corporate world is so dependent on email but people barely read theirs, especially if it comes from IT or HR. Which is doubly odd if you think about it, because emails from those two departments are the ones most likely to have a huge impact on your working life!
In my own field, I’ve sent out emails in quadruplicate about some system outage and then people are completely unaware there’d be any planned disruption. These days I’ve had people ignore 4+ emails, two notices in Slack, and a post on the company intranet.
Just…how? Why? Are these people awake?
Bluesky is a terrible place. Maybe Twitter is worse, but damn the absurd amounts of self-righteous liberal sanctimony combined with degrowther nonsense at Bluesky is…damn.
It’s a horrible place to be. Just like the rest of the web, I guess.
My pinky toe just had a cramp. How does that happen?
Seems not likely, but it occurred. I didn’t even work out today (rest day).
i broke up with my furry boyfriend cause he tried to force me into becoming a furry.
I’d be furrious. I’d be going totally animal. That just would not suit me at all.
Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract Information and Build Memories.
People are bad at reporting what they eat. That’s a problem for dietary research.
Trump is this generation’s ‘normal.’ Here’s what that means.
The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground.
It was weird whiplash coming back from China in the mid-2000s where girls considered me tall if they thought about it all, to the US where girls consider me short and are obsessed with height.
Of course, American girls are very fucked in the head, so there’s that.
Rainbow Disco
This 15 in hand embroidery piece took over a year to complete. Mostly satin stitch and just over 160 individual colors. She’s my pride and joy 🪩
#Januarty #embroidery #satinstitch #skytok— Blustery Morning (@blusterymorning.bsky.social) January 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
WTF that’s the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time.