On the contrary, you’ve been very helpful, thankyou. I’ve pushed a legal angle for a while for various niche reasons, with moderate success, but you’ve given me new inspiration for how i might be able to use that here. Sadly it’s nothing that can be as easily understood as a badly generated contractual clause, but that might buy me some time.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I knew this was likely to happen on the sooner side rather than later. I can’t say that the mediocre exit package they’ve given others is entirely unappealing either. Taking it is possibly a bad move in the longer term, but it’s not like I’d have a choice if I end up there.
The fact they’re hiring was one of the threads I was considering pulling, but the questions my colleagues have asked without knowing that context should already reveal some of the obvious issues with that. I’m unsure if there’s strategic value in showing this card up front instead of as a comment on their PR-manufactured response after they lose the ability to reply. I also wonder if revealing the fact I’ve looked at job listings might hurt my standing.
The aggression in my response (sales pitch, as you’ve rightly pointed out) is something I’ve been weighing up too. I have access to all the expensive blanding/branding AI models so it’s more trivial to conceal my resentment at the whole exercise than it used to be, but whether it’s possible to extract anything from them which I can counter is not something in which I have confidence.
I’m so tired of this world.
So it’s not quite a sneer, but i could use some help from the collective sneer brainstrust. If you’re willing to indulge me.
I work for one of those horrible places that is mainlining in its own AI koolaid as hard as it can. It has also begun doing layoffs, inspired in part by the “AI can do this now instead!” delusion. Now, I am in no way in love with my job nor the sociopaths I labor for, and it’s clear to me the feeling is mutual, but I am cursed with the affliction of needing to eat and pay for housing. I am also at a significant structural disadvantage in the job market compared to others, which makes things more difficult.
In an executive’s recent discussions with another company’s senior executive, my complicated, unglamorous and hugely underestimated small tech niche was raised as one of the areas they’ve swapped out for AI “with great success”. I happen to know this other company has no dedicated resource for my niche and therefore is unlikely to be verifying their swap actually works, but it will have the superficial appearance of working. I know they have no dedicated resources because they are actively hiring their first staff member for this niche and said so in a recent job advertisement.
Myself and my fellow niche serfs have been asked to put together a list of questions for this other company, and the intent is clearly a thin veil to have us justify our ability to eat. We’ve been highlighted this time, but it’s also clear other areas are receiving similar requests and pressure.
If you were to ask questions of a tech executive from a company which is using AI to pretend to fix a tech niche - but they are likely to believe they are doing so more than superficially and are able to convince other ignorant and gullible executives that they are doing so, what would you ask?
The riff is closer to PSY - Gentlemen, which TRBoom caught. But Chainsmokers also ripped PSY so… it at least dates it to around 2012 when that sound was completely inescapable.
I am happy to have helped, happier still to receive Gravy pics.
I found a Facebook video with part of it by searching for ’ “gravy is good” “gravy is great” ’ but no song name, bad quality, and online recognisers gave false positives. Here is the extracted sound, maybe it will help someone remember: https://voca.ro/1nEGIMlFFWIS
Delegation is important, and I respect how much work being both head admin and head tech would be. Good on you for prioritizing your health! And welcome to the role, EllaSpiggins.
As much as I dislike Musk, if he did say the quiet part out loud - he then deleted it. A search for the phrase “radical left espousing” on Twitter does not have any results from Musk (or this full text from anyone prior to reports of this tweet). https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=“radical+left+espousing”&since=&until=&near=
Mediterranean genes are fun like that
Ah you’re right, I missed the “impacted employees will receive” line. Tired skimming fails again.
And they just included them all in the ‘to’ instead of bcc. Very professional.
Totally fucked up and i hope someone in NY with a mobility issue files an ADA complaint with this easy online form
He pleaded guilty to 3 felonies and 6 misdemeanors for not paying $1.4 million over 3 years, including making false deductions and dipping into company funds. That’s not “filling out a form wrong”, and if it is, his father should pardon everyone who has been charged under the bad laws that allow people simply “filling out a form wrong” to catch 9 charges. Especially for the people who couldn’t afford accountants and lawyers to file the form correctly for them.
Pardoning your own son only for any possible federal crime, not just the ones he was charged with, especially after saying you wouldn’t, is gross nepotism. And the pardon starts from 2014 when the tax and gun charges are for 2016 onwards, which implies there’s more Joe Biden knows about.
Gross. Way to role model being the party of social equality.
Thank you for your service. <3
While this discovery is very cool, this bothered me:
“Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to people beyond royalty and the socially elite. Alphabetic writing changed the way people lived, how they thought, how they communicated,”
Ancient Chinese scripts seemed to manage just fine, even during their “writing is magical and only the rich are smart enough to know that magic” phase. Is it possible that the alphabet itself didn’t change the way people lived, but perhaps the people who introduced it to the area changed the way the original inhabitants lived? The conclusion that the alphabet was the cause just seems really Western exceptionalist to me.
Especially given the events of the last week, that doesn’t seem to have worked either, no matter how direct. The ineffectiveness would also explain why Fuentes has now been doxxed.
Yeah, ridicule or insults are generally not very helpful at promoting positive change, unfortunately. If they were useful, we’d tell parents to insult their children as a teaching method. The fact we don’t recommend that might imply that ridicule is not great for personal growth. Insults usually only helpful as catharsis for the person using them. More reason to be considerate in choice, in my opinion.
Actual good actions are necessary to promote other good actions. I hope we both can do more good going forward.
That’s definitely a fair point that it’s quite indirect, which I think raises another question - why not just directly call the actions cruel / contemptuous / arrogant or belligerent / whatever else? Do we need to describe the person at all if it’s really the actions that we’re trying to discourage? Calling someone a slur, while harsh, seems to be perhaps as indirect as the dead hamster metaphor - if the goal is to condemn their choices.
You’re right, I’m getting too cautious. Job listings aren’t unusual to see even when you’re not actively looking. Thanks!