We can’t stand up to Trump, but we can stand up to this kid telling us to do our jobs.

Elder liberals telling younger voters/activists to STFU and get in line, then blaming them when turnout sags and conservative democrats lose purple seats, is the tragedy of the modern era.

I guess the C in DNC stands for Corporation.

Or simply Corruption.

Don’t mind me, just thinking about how peaceful Americans were between 1949 and 1965

Warner Bros has been gutting itself from the inside out in order to return money to investors. This sort of “We only have one switch left, so we’re going to toggle it and tell our investors its making us money” move is what you do when you’ve run out of better ideas.

Joke is, it’ll probably work. The brand is properly ruined by the huge infusion of ultra-low budget reality TV / blockbuster discount aisle content they’ve decided to subsist on. Max global subscribers continue to rise, despite the content getting worse and the price going up. Toggle the brand name, tell the investors you’re a genius, post a rising EBITDA, and reap the dividends of enshittification.

Mass timer buildings are prefabricated structures made of (hopefully renewable) wood. The pieces are made in a factory and then able to be quickly constructed together on-site.

I’m sure the factories are jobless as well. And the trucks that bring in the individual pieces. And nobody ask who is doing the safety inspecting or plumbing and electrical hookups, since they don’t count, either.

Beginning to think all this talk of automation is a shell game.

Legally the business cannot say anything whatsoever about job performance or any reason behind hiring in terms of employment verification

Saying “no eligible for rehire” is enough to poison your reference.

‘It’s digital colonialism’: how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

Free Basics, built for developing markets, focuses on ‘western corporate content’ and violates net neutrality principles, researchers say

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“Facebook is not introducing people to open internet where you can learn, create and build things,” said Ellery Biddle, advocacy director of Global Voices. “It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content. That’s digital colonialism.”

To deliver the service, which is now active in 65 countries, Facebook partners with local mobile operators. Mobile operators agree to “zero-rate” the data consumed by the app, making it free, while Facebook does the technical heavy lifting to ensure that they can do this as cheaply as possible. Each version is localized, offering a slightly different set of up to 150 sites and services. But many of the services with the most prominent placement – on the app’s homepage - are created by private US companies, regardless of the market. These include AccuWeather, Johnson & Johnson-owned BabyCenter, BBC News, ESPN and the search engine Bing. There are no other social networking sites apart from Facebook and no email provider.

Incidentally, “Free Basics” and its derivatives are some of the biggest drivers of new Facebook user activity. The walled garden of internet access forces people to choose between open internet rates they are too poor to afford and being guinea pigs in Mark Zuckerberg’s AI maze of misinformation and saturation advertisement. Zuck can go to investors and insist “Our growth in these emerging markets is enormous!” and then go to the national governments of these poor countries and say “If you don’t legislate favorably, we’re going to flood your populations’ media feeds with advertisements by the political opposition.”

I’m not tempted to test the theory in order to find out. Either way, the sudden collapse in human life would put enormous downward pressure on carbon emissions. Can’t burn gas if you don’t have anyone left to pull it out of the ground.

The Founding Fathers fetishism so casually overrides peoples’ disgust for incest and pedophilia.

It’s genuinely depressing. America is a failed state.

This joke gets funnier every time someone makes it

Okay, but he also said “My 14 year old half-sister looks even better naked”. So…

Incredible to see this kind of solidarity, tbh.

My wife works in HR and she’s yet to work at a company that calls the registrars office.

It’s SOP over here. I even got bothered about it when I was in the final stage of hiring, because I graduated in December and put graduated in 2005 on my application despite officially getting the diploma in 2006.

That being said, if you’re applying for a job you’re never gonna get an interview for (Director or Manager roles without an MBA or BS) then you have quite literally nothing but your time to lose.

Reputation matters and you won’t get love in your industry by lying like this.

If you do get fired, and your employer flags you as “not eligible for rehire” that’s a big chunk of your career you can’t reference anymore because its now a black mark.

This is a big risk for anyone who isn’t simply scamming as a career.

you can always pick some accredited university that went defunct some years ago

Harvard is not one such school.

What’s the consequences of not lying on your resume?

You pass your background check.

Harvard and other major schools make it fairly easy to vet graduates with a call to the registrar’s office. Most schools have electronic portals to handle the requests in bulk.

This is an extremely low bar for an HR department to pass.

No one checks. No one questions.

Any Fortune 500 company is going to check, particularly if you’re aiming for a job in upper management.

And if you’re working a government contract, you’re almost certainly going to get a background check for any kind of security clearance.

Cash and Monero being on the same tier is very funny

This is the kind of picture a mathematician expects you to take seriously.

STOP. DOING. UX.

Computers were meant to do math, not make pictures.

Trillions of pixels illuminated, but no real life benefit has been discovered.

GUI. Ray Tracing. Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion Models.

Terms dreamed up by the deranged.

They are playing you for fools!

And Vic Michaelis, yes