I've started leaving off the prepositions, pronouns and such from sentences, and my 'pro' writing is starting to look more like casual writing - more terse. "You've got to lean into it." becomes "Lean into it."

Or I'll just resort to what an idiotic feminist college English lit prof used to call "antiquated 19th century writing style": writing long, syntactically complex but linguistically communicative sentences which convey a complex yet nuanced thought, something AI will absently and superfluously munge.

Often these are interspersed.

To put out a hacker prize for laid off employees to target big AI companies for data center elimination.

In the long run, we'll lose out on more people being able to do the "hard" things. Sort of like when schools start hiring on non-excellence criteria, you end up with students who can't do the coursework and the field suffers as a result. That's what's happening here.

In 5, 10 years when people are like "we fucked up, quick, hire good developers again" - or good voice actors, or good whatever - there won't be anyone in line to take those jobs. They'll have moved on - either finding different things to pay their way, and are no longer looking, or they'll have fully checked out. Either way, they won't be looking for the jobs. You'll probably have a mess of H1B types take their role instead.

It's going to be a huge mess.

Is this software company, by coincidence, trying to be purchased or IPO? Because that's the kind of behavior that you see before a company's founders bank out...

Only somewhat correct. Unemployed because the AI companies convinced the CEOs that they can cut headcount and be fine.

Every single one of Amazon's hardware products is used to siphon your data and bilge pump ads and product placements to you.

You can argue that's true for all of Amazon's properties at this point.

They've become a behemoth of a company like Microsoft did in the 90s - starting in earnest about 2 years ago, based on what I've seen from those who work there. Their culture has changed and the leadership has all but abandoned the leadership principles.

And with 50% of the software engineers in 2019 now unemployed (even among senior level developers) they'll have you reviewing that code for minimum wage.

It's so strange no charges were brought on any of this.

I trust Weather Underground instead- it's private citizens, not government propaganda, and it's far more accurate.

Post-COVID, I don't trust governments or corporations to do science. I saw too much statistical abuse, p-hacking, politics, and outright lying about the scientific method to trust federal funding OR corporate funding of science.

Science is best done by private citizens funding their own experiments with outside jobs, not academic peer-review cancel culture bubbles.

creating a national sales tax so that he can shift his personal tax burden on to you.

Do you realize how crazy that sounds?

Have blind hatred for the man and the mission all you want, but none of that even remotely reflects either reality, or anything that's come out of this administration. There's more than enough reason to justify frustration and anger without making things up out of whole cloth and it just makes you look mental when you do it.

Most automakers use an automated assembly line for the body/frame construction, now. It's a long conveyor of pre-bent parts getting bolted on. There are humans involved through some of it, but the bulk of the work is a machine.

Ever notice how there's never anyone with an IQ under 120 in Star Trek?

A Star Trek economy requires a significant culling of the, primarily, unintelligent people in society. You need people to be productive and useful before they can become more productive or useful.

I'd not be surprised if they're utilizing the same "loopholes" created by the Biden admin that brought a huge number of illegals to the US and gave them IDs/exemptions to proper immigration procedure. They were giving out IDs to literally everyone they brought without any proof... it'd have been easy enough to buy those IDs from people, or simply intercept the procedure for some cash - it's not like they were scrupulous, moral actors.

I'd bet anything that's one of the approaches they used, since getting financial aid does require an ID.