That's all the "comment" we need

There is a lot of truth in what you say, and the idea that we should all be able to shout from the rooftops and be heard by a global audience is definitely more than just flawed. But I think it ignores the larger issue that has been going on, and that social media has largely undermined. Namely, how do we determine which voices to filter out, and which to elevate? Just limiting us to geographic or real relationship bubbles might be useful filtering mechanisms, but it doesn't address the problem of ever dwindling journalism, and the lack of aggregated news outlets that can be topical and informative without just being a morass of engagement bait and shouting at clouds. Walter Cronkite is long gone, and that type of platform and degree of trust and responsibility probably doesn't fit in our current world and technology. And even if such individuals did exist with a working team behind them to filter and fact check, how are we to find them out of a sea of competing voices of would be influencers, meme farmers, and cat video enthusiast?

Specifically, they cherry picked 2022/2023 and pretended those numbers were good examples of "normal" hiring. Looking at the chart, it's clear they had a huge hiring boom, enough to overcome the prior 5 years of demographic shift. This is consistent with the general hiring boom in tech that came about then, just before LLM hype launched into the stratosphere.

They talked as though 2024 was a precipitous drop, but as you say, it was just a return to 2021 levels.

Without AI, we probably would see similar employment trends in tech and note it as a "correction". With LLM in the mix, it becomes hard to say how much is genuine shift to LLM to take care of things or LLM as a rationalization to get rid of the tech workforce the companies probably didn't need to hire up so much in the first place. Can certainly say which option generates more clicks though...

If I knew that, I'd be a tech billionaire inventing them.

The best part of innovations is that they are NOT obvious, but once they are in the world, you can't do without.

Arrhenius, 1889. Also re-discovered by anyone trying to put sugar in iced tea.

Perl was way ahead of its time... they were doing "vibe coding" back in the 1990's :)

This isn't about surface area, though. Event horizon is not the surface area of a black hole

nothing about that would be sudden though. You wouldn't know if you were 1" inside or 1" outside the event horizon, for example.

Note this was mostly a simple demographic observation being written about, *not* about relative popularity of university among the populace.

It's not that there are the same number of high school students but fewer want university, it's just that not nearly as many people were born.

Since the housing crash, domestic stability has eluded so much of the population that you would count on to have children.

So particularly the cost management is certainly something to watch, but your deeper problem is just that society is failing to instill confidence in the people that they can support themselves and children.

Socialism with American Characteristics

Iowa's rolling farm fields of coffee

I looked at some houses, and the Opendoor ones were just sad travesties.

What was likely nice wood grain cabinetry just blasted with paint. Just sprayed on and painted all the doors shut. Same for handrails, which felt horrible to touch. Nice grain patterns replaced with light beige wall paint. Looking deeper, they never fixed anything that I would have considered important, just made things worse with new paint without regard for the thing being painted. I think they were more valuable before they had it screwed over.

Changing a feather to a leaf seems a weird thing to consider harmful. A leaf is supremely uncontroversial and it's not like the feather was somehow core to why anyone should, even in theory, care about the ASF.

I don't know but *suspect* the people that were concerned would have been sufficiently satisfied by removing "Apache" and ignoring the feather, hence my theory that it's probably more reaction than was strictly called for.

I'm not exactly sure about the 'real' problem in this front. In my opinion the closest thing to a 'real' problem is that the foundation hasn't really had a specific meaning in a couple of decades.

WWW now stands for Woke White Women, apparently.

They've done this with every meaningful cultural and corporate heritage item in our world. It's disgusting.

You don't honor the heritage of a people by removing all symbolic representations of that culture from public life. The Spartans and Centurions were millennia ago but still have strong, important cultural imagery for today: the same is true of the Apache. The apache were known for being mobile and adaptable, which arguably is something very true of the Apache foundation.

Removing these imageries results in a symbolically empty, culturally irreverent pastiche. Who was it that said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”?

This is no different than the wanton destruction of ancient sculptures and art by ignorant tribesmen because it offends their sensibilities.