I'm late in my career, only a few years left -- and almost all of my jobs have been through connections with people I actually know or have worked for; so I'm not worried.

I think LinkedIn was 'ok' when it started, then it turned into spammers, bots, clueless headhunters, obnoxious self-promoters with made up titles/terms, people trying to be 'influencers' (hate that term, more like hucksters), etc. To use Doctorow's term, it got totally 'enshitified', I don't miss it at all.

I deleted all my data and closed my LinkedIn account years ago (their security was [is?] atroious).

I was surprised to see that people sometimes put salary history in LinkedIn, seems like a bad idea to me for various reasons. Thinking about this situation, you are tipping your hand to prospective employers.

Though, I guess people could lie and pad their salary to say they made $X + 15000k for example. I don't know if a prospective employer can ask your current employer what you make? I'm guessing this varies from state to state, and even country to country?

I've been wondering for many years before the first traffic camera appeared, why the toll-roads aren't enforcing the speed limits automatically. The time you enter and exit the highway is recorded down to a second. The distance between these two points is known — your average speed could be computed on the spot even with the early 90-ies technology...

The polite police officers would be standing right behind the toll-booths issuing tickets without the drama of hiding in the bushes, then chasing you at highway speeds...

And, yeah, you could lower it by stopping at a rest area — but it'd still be a tremendous disincentive to speed.

I was and continue to hope, that such universal enforcement, affecting all voters, would cause the limits to go up to reasonable figures — or even be abolished completely...

I've run into these people, they're the worst

When have you last checked your compiler's output?

... please let this be a very well-done and highly polished April Fool's Joke.

Most days now it's hard to tell if some piece of news is an Onion article or the terrible, horrifying, twisted, sad truth -- usually it's the latter now.

I was thinking the same, carefully crafted echo chambers and intentional confirmation bias. The irony of the name 'social media' just keeps growing, as it continues to drive wedges between people instead of bringing them together -- or at a minimum, at least support a live and let live, 'agree to disagree' mentality. It's really a dystopian nightmare in the making.

produces higher quality sperm

That's really important for the sperm destined for the septic system, sure...

It's interesting they say 'browser', sounds more like an 'application generator' because what they're describing isn't really a conventional web browser, it sounds like an application based probably on various web standards at best with a web interface. It's not performing a search to direct you to relevant websites (can you use it to browse in the traditional sense even?). Sounds like it's using the websites almost like an API, pulling data/info from them basically and then generating application from it? Perhaps calling it a 'browser' is a marketing decision, but it's not a browser imo.

Negativity is cool I guess. I found the show has lots of interesting elements, for example:

The tension between cyborg, synth and hybrids; almost like a class/race hierarchy
Pondering what being one of the above means... are you still human? Is humanity about the intellect/mind/soul only, or also the physical body?
5 corporations basically running the world. William Gibson alluded to this in Neuromancer and other works. And I think it mirrors some current trends.
Billionaires/Trillionaires who live in la-la land (or Neverland), like Boy Kavalier (great name btw), who give a shit about 'normal' people, live by their own rules, that sounds familiar.
Some great new species, c'mon, tentacle eyeball is just awesome and terrifying, ticks from hell.

Sure, has it flaws, so do most shows -- but I'm enjoying it, and looking forward to seeing where it goes.

Take your pick.

Would someone, please, think of the children?!

designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials

I love, that it is a prime number!

Or possibly, both things can be bad and of serious concern...

Honestly, my backlog of games (I'm a pc gamer exclusively, not console) is so full that I never pay full price anymore anyway. I just wait for Steam season sales, or better yet, I can often get them much later on gog.com for DRM free versions that are mine to download and actually fucking own.

Plus most of the time there are so many bugs, patches, blah blah blah that need to come out first, why pay $60, $70+ when I can get the fixed/complete game later for 50% or more off?