DSA = chaos agents

This bluesky thread is a serious analysis of what we know about the labor market

for better or for worse, this sort of commentary doesn't exist on mastodon - you have to go to bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/aaronsojourner.org/post/3mwvewtbuzc2u

#Mastodon #Economics #Jobs #Labor #Inflation #data

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@i0null/117338930353844670

I am always astonished that programmers, people who are supposed to be really really conscious of logic and math, post numbers not corrected for inflation

wtf ????

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@joncounts/117342351596604331

am I the only person who gets annoyed by misuse of the word unique ?

I guess so

a small, trivial thing, but imp to me

one thing that always amazes me

if you politely point out that a post if factually incorrect in some way, the poster doesn't apologize or edit the post but just lets it stand, polluting the world with fake info

sure, one fake post, no big deal

but a fake post here, a fake post there, pretty soon it adds up to real dis info

Newton MA

The high winds of the nor'easter have finally arrived

saturday about 11 AM

The forecast has been warning about high winds and possible power outages, since at least thursday

RE: https://hoosier.social/@KrissyKat/117334836852477484

yr reminder that before D Trump was a thing, Mike Pence was viewed as an insanely bad and stupid person

RE: https://genomic.social/@lpryszcz/117319486947230000

I continue to find this so hilarious

Europeans on social media: our railroads are so bad

Americans: wow European trains are so fabulous !!!

RE: https://urbanists.social/@LeeToma/117320388369959885

Who is with me:

NO PUMPKIN SPICE

nothing, total boycott

anyone ?

even one person ?
not even one person ?

RE: https://mas.to/@dmacphee/117320566853846179

Thinking is hard work
If AI can do it for me, why should I go thru the effort of thinking ?

there is, actually, a whole genre of science fiction about future edens where people just stroll thru the park, eating fresh fruit, while the AIs take care of all the hard work

if you have any interest in

#Trump
#Midterms
#democracy
#Democrats

I suggest this poll is worth reading

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-are-democrats-thinking/
this links to the poll itself

https://stratpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Liberal-Currents-2028-Democratic-Presidential-Primary-Poll-Crosstabs-Sep-2026-For-Public-Release.pdf?ref=liberalcurrents.com

among other gems:
AOC is no more popular among democratic voters then other people

also:
No one knows who Hasan Piker is; ignore the dipshit

Since he started his 2nd term, the percent of people who do NOT approve of Trump has gone from 41% to 66%

almost two years of catastrophic governance and only 20% of people changed their mind

I imagine that if a nuclear bomb went off somewhere, trump would loose only a few more points

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-falls-career-low-32-high-costs-bite-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-09-21/

any one else here who hates and loathes Apple ?

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@sk76/117311104459067595

our parents and grandparents had really wierd ideas about what was , or wasn't, hip and cool and modern

just my two cents

I imagine that at one time,, Formica was sold as the new hi tech glamor product, sort of the apple iphone of its day

"AI doesn't work, it is just vibe slop"

meanwhile, it works well enough that banks in canada are laying off huge numbers of people

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-banks-ai-9.7337625

https://thegrindhotlinedispatch.substack.com/p/canadian-bank-layoffs-2026-ai-warning-5a1

RE: https://discuss.systems/@deanwampler/117308694859698901

this took literally 3 or 4 minutes

I think it is important, cause there will be a lawsuit, and the judge(s) will consider the record of public comments as part of the case

@bikepedantic.bsky.social

IMO, the headline here is fake news, at least in part, cause it you actually bother to read the article, it isn't clear if any ICE agents have fallen for this, or if the FBI considers this other then a routine threat

when I saw this post from @carnage4life , the 90% number made my BS radar ping a little

far as I can tell, this number is from a lawsuit, where it is allegeded that the AI model has a 90% error rate

this may well be true, but all sorts of things are allegded in lawsuits

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@AndrejPaleobio/117307775724301758

not knowing anything about math, I google Medvedev logic; apparently, it is so obscure there is no wiki page !

but there is this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_logic

which allows me to go on one of my fav rants, about how almost every single maths article in wiki, the introduction is shit cause it is not written for the avg user, but for a maths PhD

anyone else remember that a few weeks ago we were all on fire about "Lake America" and how mapquest was the most downloaded app

how many of the people who downloaded mapquest still use it ?

did Google loose even 0.001% of its biz due to people going elsewhere to protest "lake america" ?

narrator; the answer to the two questions is (a) about 3% and (b) no