We walked through a third-of-a-mile long lava tube yesterday, and that was pretty cool.
(It did not have any lava in it.)
Day: August 3, 2025, 2:23 AM
AI Hire or Lower
This wasn’t just corporate shills, though there were plenty of them. Despite the fact that AI has been used in all ATS platforms extensively for years now, clowns would climb down from the rafters to tell you how absurd it was that AI was being used anywhere.
I wonder why this propaganda op was so important, and why it was so successful?
By the way, I have firsthand knowledge of this, and yes ATSes and related systems (and hiring managers) use AI all over the place to sort, reject and classify candidates.
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse.
Unemployed Americans Endure Longer Job Searches in a Cooling Market.
AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’
RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026. NPR: Every community will be hurt by Corporation for Public Broadcasting closing. As with all degrowther MAGA bullshit, beyond moronic.
Economic Reality Bites Trump and His Protectionist Trade Policies.
Housing boom, baby boom. Americans want more babies. If only they had more homes to put them in.
Grow
Degrowtherism is rife on both the right and the left now. It presents itself differently as it refracts through the various prisms of ideology and misapprehension of the world, but it all results in the same thing: a zero sum take on human affairs and the future of our species in the cosmos.
I despise all degrowthers, no matter where they fall on the political spectrum.