Business and authoritarianism working hand in hand. That's nothing new.

All my best jobs I got because I knew someone.

Go straight to their reception desk and ask for a job application. Employers will respect that you're serious about getting a job. Make sure you firmly shake hands, to show that you are excited about the opportunity.

That Boomer advice never actually worked for me. Not even 30 years ago.

I also never bothered to create a different cover letter on my résumé, despite numerous people telling me that's critical. I just listed all the programming languages I knew, and then filled 4 or 5 pages with descriptions of my job history. Recruiters just feed these documents into a machine to harvest search keywords, and during the face-to-face interview it is convenient for the interviewer to pick any topic on the resume and talk about it instead of having to guess at what you might know.

The responsibility to demonstrate providence should fall on the one making the model. And be independently confirmed. Transparency is the key to making most things fair, but businesses really hate exposing how they operate.

Because homelessness would require the redistribution of wealth. California isn't quite as communist as people like to pretend. We're not going to take property from landlords and developers and give it to poor people that have no jobs and no lobbyists.

How it really works here with CAISO is they cut my solar power from the grid during a rolling blackout. So that I have plenty of power that I can't sell, and my neighbors have no power for their air conditioner.

The AI datacenters start up the diesel and natural gas turbines in response to the planned outage, they often get an advanced and automated notice.

In a sane world we would have solved that with fines and prison time.

It's too late. Journalists and entrepreneurs already treat LLMs as A.I. And they are ready to hand over human-level responsibilities to the magic 8-ball machine.

A.I. is ordinary management stupidity in a shiny new package.

Let's put the algorithms for managing our critical infrastructure into a black box that cannot be audited, analyzed, or duplicated. What could possibly go wrong!

There's no right to individual identity, even though there ought to be. We don't really recognize that people are unique and that their uniqueness has intrinsic value that belongs to the individual. We live in a world where nearly anything is copied and sold, and we have to wait around for a legal framework to protect ownership. Unfortunately the people writing the laws are the people doing the stealing.

And frankly, our culture is too immature and wholly unprepared for much of the technology that has arrived this millennium. There are numerous problems that technology has caused society that we still haven't handled adequately. We either need to step up our game, or pump the brakes. Burying our head in the sand isn't an option. (how many clichéd metaphors can I mix?)

I know. I was on /. the first time the article came around.

I've got a PCI SATA/IDE card for Macs so I don't have to wrestle the LBA size limitations on the old Mac.
I also have a 1 GHz G3 CPU upgrade ... talking to 100 MHz RAM, so not quite as fast as you might think.

I remember in 2013 when Andy Rubin took over both Android and ChromeOS businesses. We were certain that the two platforms would merge into one common one. Finally the issue of Binder and other weird Android-isms could be solved in the Linux kernel.
Google promised us that they would be separate but then there was often this hint that something would be merged between them.

Eventually some of the groups at Google got tired of this and made another kernel, Fuchsia, that was more embedded-friendly and less dependent on the display and UI for either Android or ChromeOS. There really is probably no hope of Fuchsia getting merged with either Android or ChromeOS, it's more likely that it gets buried and abandoned when Nest and smartwatches not directly running Android are swept away as not being part of Alphabet's core business.

I don't want to have to make a second internet that is centrally managed, connected to schools, and a bit more regulated on its content and purpose.