The computer did that auto layoff thing again!

Before he described the noise I was assuming he lived by a highway, because that’s exactly what it sounds like in the video.

Nah, I wrote that and this sober dude, just as I spend the vast majority of my waking time.

The point is that these very real problems have no solutions but somehow the only thing we can do in these threads is handwring and concern troll people coping with them.

There is lots of online encouragement to live a long, sober life in an unaffordable, polluted hellscape.

I’m not attached to a bottle, but having a beer at the end of a long day provides a lot more relief than podcast bro pseudoscientific bullshit about meditation and wellness which is the only alternative on offer. (Because we live in a country where everything is purposely broken and the only way sold to fix it is for each of us individually to be perfect.)

We have locked everything anyone needs to live a decent life behind a massive paywall, make a habit of eliminating any way besides debt to make it over the massive paywall, and then scientists do research on people’s coping mechanisms so that others can use that as a way to feel righteous condemning a stranger’s habits.

Notice how you didn’t spend a moment discussing where relief for any of the very real problems I mentioned is coming from because you likely know it isn’t.

Yep, it sucks. But it turns out there’s a non-stop drip of terrible fucking news, the planet continues to get hotter with more wildfires every year, my well-paying career in software might be soon over due to the advent of AI coding, I’m working for the worst company I have ever worked for and with one of the worst bosses I’ve ever seen, the president is getting shows critical of him cancelled in order to approve sales of all major media platforms to his fascist friends (and fail sons), the cost of everything is skyrocketing, social security looks likely to collapse before I can ever collect it, and there does not appear to be any relief in sight for any of this.

Maybe I don’t need to go old and healthy at 80+.

It’s obvious that drinking isn’t good for you, but it was just as obvious that smoking isn’t good for you and that didn’t keep my grandparents from doing it until it killed them — and nicotine barely gives you any buzz at all. We all gotta go some time.

Jesus fucking Christ is Vonnegut’s Player Piano actually becoming a thing?

it’s not just the retail investors holding the bag. It’s anyone with a retirement fund.

I was thinking retail investors — whether individually or through an index fund — covered both. If you have any control over your retirement funds though, you can use that control to get out of the stock market if you want. So it isn’t anyone with a retirement fund, just nearly anyone with a retirement fund.

He didn’t make it into the s&p 500. NASDAQ bent over and opened wide though.

CEO says a thing journalism!

What is Trump hiding?

Finally, after those investors decide it’s been a good run, they cash out and the bubble truly starts bursting.

This time they wasted so much money that they’re trying to foist the bad investments on retail investors with overblown valuations and IPOs before cashing out.

I’ve never gotten a job for which I sent a thank you letter. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I think it may come across as desperate.

Eh, not really, and it isn’t really an argument but more of a lighthearted prediction.

I think the big question is whether or not the “frontier” models continue to be available and evolve, because the business model for running them seems very unsound.

I kinda hope the AI bubble busts, and that afterwards some of the efforts turn toward making open source models more performant and powerful.

I think in five years — if the tools manage to stick around — finding coders that can work without AI assistance will be like finding skilled assembler developers.

EDIT: Yep I’m definitely a bot because I typed an em dash. You can be a bot too on Ubuntu by hitting control+shift+u and then typing 2014 (the last year of semi-sanity in US politics).

Nope, just gonna browse away.

None that’s why like Doctorow is saying there’s no way to shop yourself out of these issues and it’s time to get to politicking.

When search results are just links to content related to a topic, the provider isn’t responsible for the accuracy of the content, which is created by others. But they are responsible for their own summaries and other provider-created content.

This is clearly a reasonable line to draw. This is not content created by others. It’s your robot. Fix your shit.

Saying “I slapped a disclaimer on my libelous robot that says that it may generate libel” doesn’t grant you the right to be libelous.

Not sure; probably not.

Now you can’t even find the fucking thing when you need it. Thanks, “UX design”.

Yep that’s basically what they said at my job too.

Get bent