I appreciate the Mitch McConnell jokes, I do, but it appears that they’re trying to stretch this out until after an August 3rd deadline that would mean there wouldn’t be an election to fill his seat until after the midterms, which would be a pretty egregious subversion of democracy. And maybe we should be saying that a little louder.
About 28 years ago my company brought in a bunch of guys in three-piece suits to "evaluate" the workforce. They talked to all of us and were very friendly.
One day, a few weeks after they went away, the phone calls began. First to the head of my department. They told her to come to a meeting; she did. We never saw her again.
Then more calls. One by one, people were called and told to come to a meeting somewhere else in the building. It wasn't long before we knew what was happening. People would start crying when their phones rang. They'd gather up their personal stuff, hug their friends goodbye, and go to "the meeting".
By the end of the day over half of the department had been laid off.
And this was long BEFORE AI, mind you!
But the funny thing was that the advisors fucked up in a number of cases. Some of the people they laid off were VITAL to the company–and couldn't be replaced by other hires, because they had decades of experience with the company that wasn't available in the general job market.
So the company desperately tried to get them to come back. I don't know how many agreed, or on what terms. But one cool woman only agreed to come back at double her previous salary, and with a special condition: a life-sized photographic cardboard stand-up cutout of her, with a BIG smile on her face, pointing to a speech bubble above her head that said "I TOLD YOU SO!".
Much of AI "productivity gains" come from managers implicitly trusting an LLM to do a good job, and suspending the onerous micromanagement that humans employees get subjected to.
You can do that without paying Anthropic a single penny. It just requires letting the experts you hired do their jobs.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/trust-is-not-built-on-craft-alone
#LLM #AI #tech #UXDesign #UX #SoftwareDevelopment #USerresearch
This is a hell of a picture
I'm continuing to offer my latest album for free for #DisabilityPrideMonth!
I live with #longCOVID, #fibromyalgia, and #MECFS.
I'm also autistic and suffer major depression.
I wrote this song grappling with what resistance and activism might look like given the limits my disabilities impose. I hope it may offer you some respite as we fight an increasingly cruel system.
https://arendleejessurun.bandcamp.com/track/youre-not-the-only-one-atlas-song
As long as the shitty 1% continue to tell us that without their crap we're nothing... Well, nothing's ever going to change.
We have to reject everything they tell us, everything they sell us.
It's going to be super difficult at first, and some are too deep in to do anything, anyway. We'll see...
#EatTheRich #DirtyPoliticians #Dictatorship #Autocracy #NoKings #NoWars #MakePeace #Nazi #Fascism #GreenEnergy #Iran #ResetSociety #CrimesAgainstHumanity
Politely - people in Europe are dying of heat exposure because the planet is on fire. You don't need more fighter jets, you need a lot less war, oil, and capitalism.
This is a scam. You are being robbed blind by sociopathic murderbots like Alex Karp. And your leaders are in on the swindle.
You don't have to accept this.
Not gonna lie. I’m loving this Beth Orton record that came out a few years ago, and I somehow missed - until yesterday!
Bring back things without computers!
Bring back computers without network connections!
Death to surveillance capitalism!
Death to the concept of a billionaire!
BREAKING: AOC just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, which bans the construction of data centers until Congress addresses all impacts of AI on our society and planet…
I support this for everyone’s sake.
Do you?! 🤚
When the history of this era, which started in 2010 with Citzen's United, not Trump's election in 2016, is finally written scholars are going to be completely baffled that "liberal" capitalist parties genuinely thought the best way to stop fascism was to persecute the broader left - which in this context means "poor people and Nans what need social security to survive."
Like, that's going to look SO FUCKING STUPID once history moves on from this insanity.
I was doing my library volunteer thing and a woman came in to the desk holding a book. “I left the book out in the rain and ruined it, so I bought this new copy”. You won’t see a story about it anywhere, but people are good
You can be a follower of Christ, or you can be a bigot who supports capitalist greed and blames vulnerable, marginalized populations for the fallout. Stop pretending to be both.
Sodom and Gomorrah was not destroyed over homosexuality, but over anti-socialist conservative policies.
“This was the sin of Sodom: arrogance, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy."
- Ezekiel 16:49
Wake me up when a tech company announces something that:
a) anyone besides the stock market wants
b) works as advertised
c) doesn’t destroy the planet.