Day: January 16, 2026, 11:23 PM
Con Job
AI and Business: It’s About Jobs.
This is what the AI-haters claim. But it’s wrong. I work in the trenches; I see what AI is doing and I can tell you it’s certainly increasing productivity and replacing people, especially for more junior and now even some mid-tier roles.
This post — like most in the genre — is wishful thinking by people who don’t actually work corporate jobs.
What is in the immediate economic future is tons of disemployment of juniors. As AI continues to improve, this will move up the stack to more mid-career roles. As I’ve already observed this post is incredibly wrong in its details and its speculation because what it is discussing, while a factor, is subsumed in the truth is that AI is already effectively replacing people ever day.
It’s so much better to evaluate the world as it is rather than as you wish it were. Or, even worse, allowing someone else to manipulate your reality which is what seems to be occurring here.
Why be so blind to reality? Why not just look around a bit and see what’s really occurring?
Secondhand
And 100% of people who live within five minutes of me live within 300 seconds of me. It’s like a miracle or something.
Humdrum Redrum
Letting actual murderers off the hook for equity and anti-racism. Great.
Obvihouse
Which is obvious to anyone who is not a clown idiot liar doofus jerkwad.
Divest
Germany do be like that. And a lot of the rest of the EU too. It’s no mystery why they are falling behind.
Hungary for Turkey
Mostly agreed. I think Hungary and Turkey belong somewhere there too.
Failover Fail Off
Too much of the left expects you to the apologize and grovel before them for their own self-caused failures.
And I’m not about that. I am all for helping the poor and downtrodden. But I refuse to have anything to do with a performance of penitence because someone else isn’t up to snuff. It’s insulting and reduces us all.
Which is I guess the point.
Deerhoof – Flower
I listened to a Deerhoof song years ago and did not care for it so never tried them again. Turns out I like the band quite a lot.
H/t to one of the Horsegirl girls (Penelope?) who mentioned this group in an interview. Good rec.
No Mas
Yes, it will cost $1,500 to eat at Noma L.A. René Redzepi explains why.
Ain’t no explanation that will cause me to spend $1,500 on a meal at any restaurant ever. I have my doubts I’d even like most of the fare.
Uprising
I pretty much agree with that.
We must become the gods we pretend to be.
C ° C
That set us back in many important ways by 50-75 years, and made climate change far worse than it otherwise needed to be. If we’d gone full nuke like France in 1970, we would’ve probably avoided 0.5°C of warming at least. Perhaps a lot more.
Degrowthers are terrible, terrible people.
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Persistent virulent phages exist across
bacterial isolates.
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