

Probably get more return on resources investing in therapy to address phobias, in that case.


That doesn’t sound much different than a traditional vaccine, unless you can self administer it


Microsoft should never have been allowed to buy LinkedIn. It should be split off.


Telling people “use more ai” was always a profoundly stupid direction. “Ship more stuff faster, use AI if it helps, get paid the same” would be anti-labor but at least sensible.
If selling widgets the customer probably doesn’t care if you used a screwdriver or a drill. They just want their widget. Mandating drill usage is stupid.


Literally everyone saw it coming.
Many people aren’t paying attention. Many people are like pathologically gullible.
The average person just… if you’re smart and capable, imagine being drunk. Being drunk all the time. That’s the baseline. Myopic, impatient, emotional.
Maybe if we had better education and less capitalist hellscape people could be a little better.


I think some people enjoy the thrill of discovery more than the depth of experience. Which is fine. No judgment.
Personally I’d rather have 10 albums that mean a lot than 100,000 albums I listen to once.


Right?
It drives me nuts that they want to spend trillions of dollars on technology to write for people instead of teaching people how to write.


“Exactly”. “Truly”. “Literally, in the traditional sense not the post modern sense where it means emphatically or figuratively”


People mandating return to office are climate criminals, all. They should be sentenced to picking up litter and other community service for the rest of their lives.


We had cars. People still used them a lot instead of walking.
I am going to take this opportunity to shit on car culture. Walking several miles a week because I live in a walkable city is pleasant, and almost certainly good for my health and weight.
I don’t have objections to the rest of your post. I just hate car culture.


The whole venture capitalism thing is bullshit. It’s just vibes and rich man hubris.


Is this happening on android, too?


Not in any way I can discern! She’s in the planning meetings but her entire role seems to be sharing her screen so people can tell her what to click on. (This is excruciating to witness. It is so slow.)
Sometimes she’ll say “remember to check your capacity!”, but two other people on the team say that too.
She seems to be entirely non-technical, too, so she doesn’t have much input on any of the discussion. The inter-team stuff is handled by two other people. (A lady of importance whose title I don’t know, and some sort of business analyst)


The place I work at I wouldn’t say is “over staffed” but it is maybe “wrong-staffed”.
They have a full time “scrum master” and from what I can tell all she does it share her screen so people can awkwardly tell her which tickets to click on, and she calls on people in order during the morning meeting. That’s a whole-ass job. Meanwhile, devops is like crying blood because there’s like 2 of them managing decades of systems, and no senior engineering roles have been backfilled after people left for years.


If fines scaled with wealth that might create an incentive for the police to harass rich people instead of poor people. It won’t, because the police serve the wealthy, but it’s a nice day fantasy.


I’m so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. “We’re ai native” , “we want employees who are excited about ai tools”, “agenic workflows”
Just fuck off.
Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!


Fuck Spotify. I’ll buy albums (drm free, mostly from Bandcamp), pirate, or go without.
Today is bandcamp Friday, too. Bandcamp passes their cut on to the band.


People are lazy and don’t think very much. Spotify is right there.
Also enshittification: it was better to draw people in, and then they made it shittier and people stay
I use keepassxc. It does the job.