Zeynep is wrong and mostly so is Ernie. Most of the bust is due to AI. It’s early stages, but that’s the cause. The post-Covid hiring boom was mostly cleared out by the beginning of 2024. There was a lacuna, then AI-related job losses (in tech, but other areas too) started in mid-2025 and are increasing all the time.
Most people can’t even see the past, much less the present or the future. A bit disappointing from Zeynep, really.
Economic and political uncertainty will do that. And it’s going to get a lot worse.
Save your money now; you will need it later.
DST (the good one) on the way, awww yeah.
This getting dark at 4PM shit is utter doofiness.
Same thing I’ve been saying. AI has been smarter than the average human since ~2022, which is not a very high bar. Now it’s getting into the range of low-grade genius (~130 IQ.)
The good news is that I think due to certain physical realities and how matter and the universe itself is organized, AI will top out at around ~160 IQ; I don’t believe superintelligence is possible in this universe.
The bad news is that having a tireless, always-on genius operating 24/7 as needed will radically reshape societies in innumerable hard-to-predict and likely-to-be-destructive ways even sans superintelligence.
So there’s that.
We went from the Ottomans being repelled at the gates of Vienna and Reconquista to this.
I’ll hate to see it, but those this weak deserve to fall. If you cannot defend yourself and your civilization, you do not get to nor should you keep it.
The UK really does seem to strongly prefer Pakistani gang rapists to its own citizens.
At first, I thought the rape gang stuff was something the right was making up or exaggerating. But it was completely real and worse than even the right thought it was. I just do not understand what is going on there.
It’s supposed to be 77° here tomorrow in non-commie numbers. That’s livable. I don’t really get comfortable until it’s above 80, but that’ll do.
They cannot think behind, much less ahead. Just evil and stupid people all around.
That is correct. Antisemitism runs deep in the left.
Wow, just look at the Bluesky fucktards.
I cannot believe how quickly the idiot left went for copyright maximalism. Utter clowns. How do they think this will make anything better? It’s pretty funny that their contentions are wrong, their conclusions are incorrect, their plan of action is infeasible and would not even help, and their desired outcome is also mind-bogglingly nincompoopish.
Failing every way you can fail is no way to go through life.
My favorite Charly Bliss video. Eva as the smarmy public access host is great.
They are referencing a lost era (public access TV) that I think they were all too young to even directly experience.
Doctors are ok-ish for common maladies and emergency surgeries where the issue is obvious. Mostly terrible for anything else.
I 100% guarantee I could out-diagnose nearly all doctors for rarer conditions. Most docs are not that smart, nor that diligent. Medical school is hard, sure, but it rewards a lot of memorization and not as much deep understanding. And just as an in any field, there is a bell curve of practitioner competence. Get the left of that curve, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Such a fun little pop punk song.
And I didn’t know they were still coming up with innovations in goth girls. Now they have blonde short-haired punk-goth girls. I approve of and support continued advances in this important field.
Das ist ein gutes Mikrofon.
I remember those days. I did things like that back in the BBS era. I once spent two hours downloading a ~20KB jpeg of Julia Roberts in 1993 or so from a BBS. Tried to view it and my computer crashed. So much for that.