CEO says the entire world will be using technology that his company just launched, but the same technology from the other company is no bueno. Got it. And while he's at it, he's going to push people out of their jobs and make them "salespeople" (LOL), but the big bad Orange Man is worse because he doesn't like DEI. I can't even begin to unravel the doublespeak here.

I think he's also forgotten that companies haven't been all-human for a really long time. Since when is a computer not an agent?

Yep! Last season was tightening the screws on "return to office" to subtly force people out, now it's "AI." Also, not shocked that Palantir, a company that pushes AI as a pillar to their platform strategy, is saying it's projected to save them 10-15% in future headcount needs. Very much conveniently aligned to the numbers we traditionally see for seasonal downsizing, but not really anything close to what the technocrats have been promising for the AI revolution. Color me skeptical.

Really good perspective. Since when is the competition content with just doing the same more efficiently? Spot on.

Are you saying junior engineers have gotten worse? Or that junior engineers have always been bad, but now they're just using more advanced tools?

Pleasant for who?

The first time I opened Bluesky yesterday I saw George Takai posting multiple tweets about how awful Trump and his cabinet were. Felt just like X to me! These platforms all reflect what large groups of people do when they're mostly anonymous and shoot random thoughts out to one another. The fact that Bluesky or old Twitter was nice at all is a bloody miracle. If Bluesky grows in popularity, you best believe it will be indistinguishable from X, because it's still the same humans behind it all.

I don't see any evidence that X isn't the most popular micro-blogging platform (not including Asia), so your idea that they're somewhere else doesn't resonate. I don't really know what old Twitter was like (I was too busy dating women), but I took a look at the app and the first tweets I saw were all shit just bashing Trump and his cabinet picks. Feels just like new X to me!

You hear all the time that some alternative Twitter/Facebook/Instagram platform is celebrating some million-user milestone, but then you check in a little while later and notice the active users steadily tanking. Mastodon active users have been in a steady decline for a while now despite huge account creations after Musk bought Twitter. I'm sure this recent exodus to the platform du jour is no different. As much as people want the echo chamber, they'd still prefer to be where everyone else is at. No one will be talking about Bluesky in a year.

I'm right there with you. I didn't vote for Trump twice, but I did this time. Again, comparatively, his egotistical behavior was outweighed by the clear incompetence of Kamala. I will emphasize my point: as unlikeable Trump is, that should only make it easier for the other side to provide a better candidate. I think everyone was literally begging that someone would show up, but the best the Democrats provided was America's statistically most unpopular Vice President.

In a world where you pick the lesser of two evils, this was the lesser. Kamala was somehow a worse communicator than Trump, had no track record of success with the an immigration assignment she was given, and had zero charisma.

Blame the Democrats for putting a mentally ill person into the presidency, lying about it, then bypassing primary elections and place an extremely unpopular candidate as a replacement. That rubbed a lot of people the wrong way

Also, we in the US do not understand why people keep hating on Trump when all it takes is providing a competitive candidate. It should not be that hard, but the Democrats are now 0 for 3 in their candidates.

We will always win because we have a culture and society that can sustain long-term innovation (and not steal it). Also, even though it may not seem like it, we actually value and award efficiency and have a country where most people would like to live. Those guys in the USSR were smart, sure, but they were always running out of food and would probably have defected to the USA 9 times out of 10 given the chance. The Chinese are pound-for-pound probably a lot smarter and harder working, but their model of government isn't sustainable and no one wants to fucking live there. The Chinese will go the way of the USSR.

Kamala Harris promises "four years of joy," and that's something that you simply can't measure, but most certainly something you can win when you fight... or something like that. Take that, China!

I think that makes sense. To be fair, my snarkiness mostly comes from many months ago when mastodon was being hyped as a Twitter killer. I definitely see the niche potential. I could never imagine wanting to setup a closed social network myself, but itâ(TM)s a neat idea that I am sure appeals to some.

They're right, this is a testament to Mastadon. Not a testament that it's a competitive social media platform, but certainly a testament to something.

Yes, they feel threatened. Can you blame them? They are 30-100k in debt from a CS degree, have no job experience, and are seeing other people being pushed to the front of the line based on something other than merit or hard work. How about you adult up and offer your job to a woman before you start asking other people who are in way more enviable positions to do the same.