I know way too many folks with masters or even phd, and have 10+ years of experience but were laid off in the last 1 year. It's absolutely ridiculous what's going on in the tech space yet no one is talking about it.

So how does this move help end consumers? It's not. It's not a free/open market. It's a contrived market isolating the american consumer from less expensive, and higher quality goods. I thought the US was all about capitalism!?

True IT unemployment is more like 10%. Just many workers have given up, and moved to non-IT jobs. It's really, really bad out there folks.

As we're seeing, the market is manipulated. Yay for that.

It's part of the layoff handbook. It's far less expensive to reduce your workforce if you upset your employees, make them miserable and they quit. You save severance, and numerous of "benefit" overheads. So they are making them miserable to be able to push them out. I'd guess the true target for META reduction is close to 40% of employees released in this wave. Majority replaced by AI, or pretty robots to replace the "pretty" faces. Then after the 40% they'll go for another 40%, with AI outpacing employees at every turn. META's ultimate goal is to only have execs, and some high-level AI engineers. Get it down to 10% of the headcount it is today. So the goal is 7k employees coordinating 100 AI "bots" each.

I am a very heavy user of all the LLMs. CODEX continues to come up on top. CLAUDE/CODE is terrible. It really is quite bad. It eats tokens 4x faster than CODEX. it continuously argues with me and makes mistakes that CODEX does not. It loses context, and most annoyingly it will get stuck and run for 10-15mins on simple problems. My aggravation level with codex is 1-2 times of frustration per day. With CLAUDE it's every 5mins. Beyond frustrating. Also, I dont know who continues to pump CLAUDE so hard in the media. There seems to be a mass FUD campaign against OpenAI and a pro Claude campaign underway.

lookup Musk's datacenters. They own the generators as well.

I must be missing something. Can some conservative/GOP educate me on how this is still capitalism? I thought the strongest survives, and competition is good. What happened? Isolation + capitalism seems like a really, horrible, ugly idea.

It makes me laugh to no end that people position AMD as the good guy. If you read this post it shows that AMD stole Intel's design and reverse engineered it. Then made massive profits. This has been AMDs mantra for the first 30 years. It was only when Intel mistepped did AMD show any level of innovation. Their execs have always driven the porches, ferrais and other expensive sports cars while Intel execs drove the station wagons. In short, AMD was the marketing dude in engineering clothing, and Intel was an engineering dude stumbling along thinking what they were doing was right.

... and it doesn't come to the foreground. This drives me freaking nuts

Oh it's worse than you think. I had the mis(fortune) to talk to META VR and AR engineers at one point. I was stunned, as they are asking semi-technical questions, to learn they had little to no experience with VR or AR itself. They didn't even use or care about their own products! Further, they had this aura of "I'm too superior ro use VR and AR that's for nerds". It blew me away. The entire group was run by marketing/politics masquerading as basic engineering. Mark was too nice to them, and let them take him for a ride.

MarkZ finally learns that hiring attractive, supposed "smart" people, who play politics all day can't develop. You'd think someone was a programmer would clue in faster.

so the drastic climate change issues we've seen in the last 5 years are make believe?

Well now we know why certain political figures ignore climate change and say solar, wind turbines, and others are "evil". It's because they are from hell and want hell on earth. How pleasant...

So did they intercept the communications satellites, or did they intercept the communications OF THE satellites? If the latter, fix your title op.