Approved.

AI money is stupid cheap if you know who to bullshit. And, y’know, have no principles.

It’s not just that. HR departments (who, let’s be honest, were never exactly super-clear on what tech roles are or do because they’re busy with everything else) have been infected by AI to the point that no one can just see a job and apply for it unless they rearrange everything in the resume to match the job posting verbiage exactly.

Everyone who makes it past that hurdle are sorted lowest-to-highest salary requirements. Oh you have seventeen years experience? Fuck you. Everyone after that is sorted by age/race/ whatever. It’s the perfect system for fucking up tech hiring.

Unless you rebrand everything you do as AI. Then you’ll get 100 million dollars from Zuckabug. (It used to be “cloud” but that was a long time ago now). So the tech manager who knows what they’re looking for gets a bunch of applications from newbies who talk like AI is everything and they don’t want that.

It’s super fucked.

Dougan is a former deputy sheriff from Florida who gained political asylum in Moscow in 2016, and is allegedly a disinformation purveyor supported by the Kremlin. His phony media outlets have been cited in news articles or social media posts thousands of times, and both the US Treasury and Washington Postallege connections between Dougan, the Moscow-based Center for Geopolitical Expertise (CGE), and the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU).

Florida man.

Oh remember restaurants? So lovely how it used to be you know. The restaurants. Of course they were shut down by the terrible crime and the covid.

Of course I’m a very good driver . . . yeah. Uh oh. Fart.

Who would have thought that these anti-intellectual ivermectin-chugging undiagnosed brain trusts would crap out before tHeStOrM or whatever the fuck they’ve been screeching about for seven/eight years.

Pretty sure most of them ate it during the covid.

TIL Limewire still exists.

So much malware.

Damned if they do . . .

Yeah, yw, it’s very cool. Donate to the author!

I’m hopeful developers will find a way to support blocking without truncating subthreads.

No

I don’t -it’s the replies TO the blocked user I’d like to see.

Gotcha. https://lemvotes.org/

Oh.

https://lemvotes.org/

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My only gripe is that the blocked comment’s replies are also not visible. I want to see what everyone else is saying, even if they’re replying to a blocked user. I just don’t care what the blocked user says.

You just have to enable it in your client, presuming your instance supports it.

On Voyager it’s in Settings -> Appearance -> Other -> Display Votes -> Separate.

Yeah Proton continuing to pooch it

So far as I can tell there are a few groups that make up its “popularity”

Ironically the “anti-AI” crowd, for lack of a more at-hand description mention AI a lot because it’s a form of hype many experienced technology-versed people have seen many times before and at such a scale as to be astounding. Also because it doesn’t seem to work very well at all. And because everyone is being forced to use it and “forced” to like it.

Then there’s the gung-ho “newbies” (who may in fact have more than a decade of experience) who just think it’s neat. They love the intricacy of it and the wide-open futuristic vistas and they like talking about what it can or might be able to do some day. This group will become the former group in another decade or so.

Then there’s the propaganda - any news article, tweet, comment or what have you that in some way shape or form is being put in front of many people for the purposes of keeping AI discussion happening. Much of this is “free press” because next to lawyers, journalists are least likely to understand technology, and their directives from on high are to promote this thing - whatever it is.

Then there’s data science researchers who are ostensibly pulling new insights out of a sea of hallucinations and making interesting new connections because of it. It happens.

I think that’s more or less it. There’s also the general non-technology group of people who are told things about it and have not used it, nor will they probably ever.