Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it.
Fuck your bullshit. You know as well as I do that will all happen anyway.
And now it is.
This is a super handy list I expect will inform future hiring decisions in many parts of the private sector. It has internal AD group data attached, which should help with identifying job function. Nobody wants to hire dangerous thugs except cop shops and gangs (but I repeat myself).
That said, you're lecturing the powerless in defense of a scam, and it is kinda gross.
There were literally months of articles and lawsuits predicting Oradance would have to make vicious labor cuts because generally (a) media consolidation plays like this always do, and specifically (b) this outfit is drowning in debt. This was as predictable as a Trump whine after a court loss. I can't tell if you're intentionally playing the fool to bang on your personal resentments or not, but Ellison isn't fooling anyone else.
And back on the WFH thing, if folks in your workplace abused things, that's a management problem. Lots of other outfits handle it just fine. We let two people go that I know of who couldn't hold it together without being in an office, early on (I think in 2021). And for several years we've been performing better than we were before[1].
If your army is fat and lazy, you replace the commander, not the grunts.
[1] To be clear, I'm not crediting WFH for all that. There are multiple reasons for our performance. But one big change we made when we went remote was instructions to hiring managers to find the best people they could and don't worry about where they are unless the job required it. And given that geographically we compete with Google and Facebook and the LLM vendors without being able to match pay, that mattered. We've picked up a lot of great talent over the last half decade, and most of it has stayed because management is also smart enough to understand the value of retaining people.
That means labor disputes with the government boss aren't resolved with a bullet, so you get collective action like that. (See also Dinkens & the NYPD.)
But it is a great time to clean house in that town! Get some professionals in quick, though - the former cops will figure out their extortion failed soon enough and need income, and they're not going to find anything honest that pays as well as being a badged thug.
Russians are great folks, but never let them form a government.
I now am dependent in part for my livelihood on paypal. Going to check my contact info there now.
The *WHIPLASH* of these two statements:
'Improvements to LinkedIn's detection systems have resulted in a 40% decline in views of content classified as AI slop, the platform said last month. That's not to say LinkedIn is entirely opposed to AI, Roth said, adding that "not everyone is a born communicator."'
YET -
'Roth said. "A lot of times now today, they'll run it through Claude or Gemini or wherever, they'll post it on LinkedIn and it will perform poorly. And then they come to the team and they're like, 'Why did this do badly?'" Roth said. "And the best thing you can do is give it back to them and be like, 'Did you enjoy reading this? Do you see yourself in this?"'
Essentialism is lame; people are born as a human. So participate. Learn to speak. Learn to read. Don't be illiterate. Don't be inmumerate. Rise above. Master yourself, and in so doing, emancipate yourself.
Use your self-awareness to improve and add to the palette of skills and abilities through your life.
It's not that hard. And I'm a programmer, so you *KNOW* I am the ultra-laziest in terms of applying time and space to problems (aka optimization!).
I get that different people have different priorities, but -- in the way that a radio transceiver is useful IF you know things like frequency, signalling mechanics, signalling protocol -- humans learn languages and use that to reason. To not develop your mind, is to throw away your greatest strength.
It sounds like you're saying no. I disagree. If I were wearing a wig made of human hair, my hair is still fake, even if my fake hair is made of real hair.
So we have to account for multiple possibilities - the robot could be wearing a real fake mustache, a fake fake mustache, or perhaps one day we'll see them extrude their own.
I will not use them, but that's because of a quirk of our legal system that leaves customers exposed when they aren't with a cashier.
People have been arrested after the fact over self-checkout mistakes that never would have happened had there been a human cashier. The reason is that the cashier signals acceptance of the deal, takes the money, and concludes the transaction. If they make a scanning mistake, or the price is wrong, or the barcode was wrong, or whatever, that's on the store - they accepted payment and concluded the transaction. If you use their robot scanner, you are representing to the machine what you claim to be purchasing, and LP can later review cameras and call the cops if they disagree.
Florida, which apparently is more enthusiastic about self-checkout than elsewhere, has defense lawyers advertising in this lane. I'll deal with humans and nope out on that whole game, thanks.
I'm talking about the many folks who have reason kicking them when they're down, right now.
I also imagine there are a lot of well-rested folks, both Russian and not, who know of an opportunity to make it worse.
They like to throw out random statistics as totems to appear somewhat tethered to reality, which betrays some remaining awareness of how far gone they are. But they're decorative facts, little different from land acknowledgements or prefatory "I'm not a racist, but..." noises, for similar purposes.
But in general, they no longer treat people as humans, with their own complicated inner lives and desires and confusions and insecurities. No, everyone is locked in to little set-piece lives governed by their looks and genes, performing deterministic dramas that just happen to highlight the incels' own insecurities. A weird, pathetic self-induced solipsism in which being miserable is more comfortable than confronting their own egos and accepting that dealing with insecurity is just part of the human condition.
It is pointless to suggest this, but I will anyway: the fix is to actually talk to humans like you're one, too. Don't run some game you think you're supposed to play, don't put on a mask, don't puff up. Have a conversation, learn how they're different, what they care about, what makes them tick. If you don't treat (at least all) your interpersonal relations as conflicts to either win or lose, you might find you actually... enjoy their company, and they might find they enjoy yours.
Sam Altman is a grifter himself and knew how to play this.
And now that we know communism is actually defined as anti-bigotry and has nothing to do with the means of production, I guess it is not communist to take ownership in Intel.
But Satya won't pucker up for Piggie. And so Microsoft gets to be the face of an attempt to gin up anti-Indian bigotry before the midterms.
Welcome to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
To see a need and wait to be asked, is to already refuse.
