They should have known the proper way to do this is to create a Pinboard of photos of the sacked employees.

I'm convinced Google is run by idiots. Look at ChromeOS Flex. With just a few tweaks, with the allowance of just a few desktop apps, Google would have a wide-open opportunity to make a serious run at Microsoft's home PC dominance because of the whole Windows 11 requirements issue. There are millions upon millions of perfectly good computers that are now going to landfills because of that, and they could all have Flex running on them if it wasn't for Google's short-sighted strategy. You can't even watch a DVD on Flex after Google shitcanned VideoLan from their approved apps list. They insist you use only Google stuff via the cloud. Such a damn wasted opportunity since Flex is easy to install and use otherwise, and a fairly pleasant user experience.

Remember "I will replace you with a very small shell script"?

We're essentially replacing people with a very big script now. But they are being replaced. The inevitable has arrived.

or I want to stop hearing the term.

Nope.

One of the problems we have though is that women won't do these kinds of physically demanding and dirty outdoor jobs (how many women do you see paving roads or picking up garbage or working at oil derricks?), so that automatically halves the labor supply for these jobs, and of the able bodied young men, most won't work at these jobs because they were raised to expect a comfortable indoor environment. Everyone wants a desk/cubicle. Most of these infrastructure jobs have solid pay. Or even better pay. Doesn't matter. Most young men now would rather live with less money than take such jobs. Raise the pay to 80 grand on these if you like. Won't matter. Most young men won't work a job where they're out digging in hot weather.

LOL, the first thing a gal's friends ask her about her new man is "What's he do for a living?". Every man on a date is asked about and judged by his career choices. There's great demand for eligible bachelors in medicine, finance, law, etc. The evening shift manager at Burger King isn't fairing as well on the dating apps, I assure you.

That really doesn't mean anything. Starbucks is one of those companies that likes social liberalism... because it's a great way to appeal to their prime customer base, which are urban and suburban women between 18-45. Think of it as virtue signaling used for marketing.

BUT... they don't like economic/labor liberalism. This is where companies like Starbucks and Target are free market to the core. In their view, they get the best of both worlds: the growing single female customer market (which is overwhelmingly Left-Liberal), and the Ayn Randian max-capitalism operating model internally.

How long are these people going to keep pretending that the elephant isn't in the room with them?

What Is College for in the Age of AI? Young graduates can’t find jobs. Colleges know they have to do something. But what?

You can keep pretending that it's all just a plot by meanie corporate types, but increasingly these jobs are going away and aren't coming back.The technology is in the early stages and the bugs are being worked out, but the clerical/coder/desk work apocalypse is here. More human jobs will be lost to AI scripts every year. You can adapt to that reality, or pack your bags to move back in with your parents. The scripts will kill more desk jobs every year. If AI can do your job, then at some point, it will:

- Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence

It will probably turn them into an also-ran, however, as the Epstein class congeals around Vance.

I think that means "when there is any alternative to Comcast available in a given area".

I used them for several years, and they dropped out nearly every time it rained. Which wasn't just an inconvenience - I work from home.

I got a second ISP account with a local provider, who didn't have the best reputation for reliability, but I used them as a backup.

After I set up monitoring on the lines I realized my connection to the local ISP was actually really stable, and dropped Comcast.

It was a great decision. No calling to negotiate the price down every year, it works in the rain, and the people there are really nice. They cost about 1/3 what Comcast charged, too.

If you're running telnetd in 2026 on a network with a gateway to the public internet, you have zero interest in security.

75% of the responses to this article are now off-topic.

See, agreeing to be subjected to ads is just payment for accessing whatever you're looking at.

So it stands to reason, that should apply to robots, too.

So wait for Google to start offering advertisers "AI ads", where you can poison someone's agent context for a fee.

"But only relevant context poisoning."

Because the author wrote it for the Mac.

You can run the gateway on anything.

Since World War 2, the US has been the destination of choice for most of the world's ambitious college students. I hope I'm wrong, but I think that's over.

Incoming international student numbers are down like a third, and dropping. Top schools in other countries with hiring budgets are gleeful. Once the current shifts, it doesn't come back - smart people keep going to the institutions where the smart people are.

The US is intentionally chasing folks off. If you take the National Security Strategy document seriously, the Trump admin is intent on shrinking the US from a superpower to a regional bully.

It will take a while to wind down - it was a really good thing. But long-term, say goodbye to being on top of the technical and economic heap.