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jtrek

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  • I want to say that everyone hates that kind of purple job prose, but I suspect there's some small minority of people who actually think and talk like that.

    I kind of want to build a LinkedIn but you're only allowed to talk like a real person. If you post slop or whatever that kind of shit is, you're banned and we all pledge not to work with you.

  • Pollsters are now asking AIs to answer surveys as if they were humans and passing the results off as poll statistics

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  • The whole venture capitalism thing is bullshit. It's just vibes and rich man hubris.

  • Right-wing media figures are calling to strip away citizenship from large swaths of Americans, including Muslims and some elected officials

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  • They're bad people and too many folks are pretending they're not.

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    Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

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  • Is this happening on android, too?

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    Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed

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  • Not in any way I can discern! She's in the planning meetings but her entire role seems to be sharing her screen so people can tell her what to click on. (This is excruciating to witness. It is so slow.)

    Sometimes she'll say "remember to check your capacity!", but two other people on the team say that too.

    She seems to be entirely non-technical, too, so she doesn't have much input on any of the discussion. The inter-team stuff is handled by two other people. (A lady of importance whose title I don't know, and some sort of business analyst)

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    Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed

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  • The place I work at I wouldn't say is "over staffed" but it is maybe "wrong-staffed".

    They have a full time "scrum master" and from what I can tell all she does it share her screen so people can awkwardly tell her which tickets to click on, and she calls on people in order during the morning meeting. That's a whole-ass job. Meanwhile, devops is like crying blood because there's like 2 of them managing decades of systems, and no senior engineering roles have been backfilled after people left for years.

  • Connectivity

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  • I was trying to convince my boss that buying skills (ie: learning) is better than renting them forever from the AI, but I don't think I convinced him

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    California police can start ticketing driverless cars this July

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  • If fines scaled with wealth that might create an incentive for the police to harass rich people instead of poor people. It won't, because the police serve the wealthy, but it's a nice day fantasy.

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    Anxiety around AI is growing rapidly in the US, research shows

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  • I'm so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. "We're ai native" , "we want employees who are excited about ai tools", "agenic workflows"

    Just fuck off.

    Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!

  • Steam Survey for April 2026 shows Linux still trending well

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  • Still on Linux. Updated to the new pop!_os LTS. It's been pretty good. The new desktop environment has had a few quirks where I had to fuss with hitting alt+enter to get some games appropriately full screen, but generally it's been good.

    Worth it to be free of microslop

  • Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI

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  • Fuck Spotify. I'll buy albums (drm free, mostly from Bandcamp), pirate, or go without.

    Today is bandcamp Friday, too. Bandcamp passes their cut on to the band.

  • Trump DOJ says LGBTQ+ legal protections are "anti-Christian," pledges to erode them further - LGBTQ Nation

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  • Meanwhile, the sheep and the goats part just gets ignored

    34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

    37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

    40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

    I'm sure they'll do some backflips to say "the brothers only mean people I like", but then there's the "who is my neighbor?" part.

    29 But wanting to vindicate himself, he said to Yeshua, “Then who is my neighbor?”

    30 Yeshua replied, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. He was attacked by robbers, who stripped him and beat him. Then they left, abandoning him as half dead. 31 And by chance, a kohen was going down that road; but when he saw the man, he passed by on the opposite side. 32 Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the opposite side. 33 But a Samaritan who was traveling came upon him; and when he noticed the man, he felt compassion. 34 He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. Then setting him on his own animal, he brought him to a lodge for travelers and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii[b] and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him. And whatever else you spend, upon my return I will repay you myself.’ 36 Which of these three seems to you a neighbor to the one attacked by robbers?”

    37 And he said, “The one who showed mercy to him.”

    Then Yeshua said to him, “Go, and you do the same.”

    But they're not sincere, so the text doesn't matter.

  • How do you do fellow children?

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  • I miss my pandemic D&D1 group. It was an 18 year old that just finished high school, two people in their mid 20s in grad school, me in my mid 30s, and one person in their mid 40s. Every once in a while we'd get some interesting generation-gap moments.

    1 I don't even like D&D specifically, but that group really made it work.

  • Verified by Spotify: New No AI badge— it appears for creators with steady listener activity, clean platform records, and real-world proof like live shows or merch drops

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  • People are lazy and don't think very much. Spotify is right there.

    Also enshittification: it was better to draw people in, and then they made it shittier and people stay

  • Verified by Spotify: New No AI badge— it appears for creators with steady listener activity, clean platform records, and real-world proof like live shows or merch drops

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  • I buy music (mostly from Bandcamp). Now I have a big library and no subscription fee.

  • 5.9/10

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  • I learned in my youth not to read reviews of things I like. It's unpleasant and pointless to read someone savaging your favorite albums or books.

    (More critical analysis can be fine, but regular Internet reviews are not so worthwhile)

  • I shamed a lady at the bus stop into picking her cigarette butt off the ground

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  • How did you do it?

    I find smokers tend to be extremely sensitive about this sort of thing. I had a coworker who said it was good she threw her cigarette butts on the ground, because then the city paid people to clean them up. Clearly bullshit, but protected her sense of self.

  • What are some words where the "opposite" one means the same thing?

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  • Sanction can mean a punishment or an authorization.

    Came up in a DND game where a devil's contract said the players crossing the region would be sanctioned, or something like that. Players thought it meant they had permission, fine print said they would be punished.

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    White House considering bulletproof vest for Trump after third assassination attempt on president: report

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  • Reminded of when Thanos says "you should have gone for the head"