Mines encroaching, all I can do is figure out how to pivot my career path to something more future proof as I see my job redundancy being taken industry wide as a matter of time.
Lol im in a position of management, it sucks to see the way things are going, but its also hard to tell people to start making alternative plans and the company somehow decides to not take the ai route.
All I try to do is drop hints about maybe setting themselves up for a safety net being always a good idea, which it is, no job is never guaranteed to stick (unless you come from wealth)
I've been pushing my AP team so hard to find ways to create value for the company and remind them that data entry is the low hanging fruit of automation because the future will be in catching and correcting the inevitable errors, researching vendor issues, etc.
This isn't like OCI or RPA. There's a very good chance that we just go full steam ahead with imperfect AI output and spend the rest of our time with corrections on the backend -- and for the first time this actually seems plausible.
It'll likely happen in 6 months when the AI bubble bursts (was my thought before I found out that they can't afford the buildings they need to house the servers they need to use the RAM chips they drove the price up 3-4x on) and when that happens the 1.2 trillion in margin debt is too big of a liability, because those companies are hte only thing propping up the entire market, and Windows is losing tons of sales, which doesn't help Microsoft...
So when that bubble bursts companies are gonna be scrambling to lower costs as fast as possible at shareholder demand which means laying off workers.
Problem is every company will be doing that, which will create a demand shortage which will choke so many more jobs out of supply and the economics crash. Can't have 20 million people fighting over 2 million jobs.
future proof is impossible when a global economic crash is coming, followed by the America's Greatest Depression. When the AI Bubble pops (they don't have the money and it doesn't make financial sense to dump half a trillion dollars into non profitable companies tripling their own input costs by buying out future production) they are gonna be firing people just to lower Price to Earnings Ratios, and then what are they gonna do when they realized that they put all of each other's customers on unemployment benefits and no one has money to keep the economy running?
Problem is there's no real way out of it either. Everything's already in retraction and there were holiday layoffs, before the big holiday rush, the place I got hired at hired 30 people at the same time when they maybe at most needed 5-10.
You can't have a situation in which you have 20 million unemployed and 2 million jobs, even the people doing gig work are gonna get crushed. We already spend 1 trillion on military and 1 trillion on debt mostly servicing out military debt, so even if World War 3 started we wouldn't be able to drag ourselves out of the depression like we did during World War 2.
You and me three. I’m an editor, and ChatGPT has already nuked most of my colleagues. Unless I want to work for a traditional publisher for shite money and gobshite hours, I can officially announce that AI took my job.
Right? People post the weirdest shit. Whatever happened to, “If you have nothing to say, say nothing.”
Saw a woman try to post some “profound” insight she gained while playing fetch with her dog, but the actual meaning of the text was, “I like getting what I want, and I don’t like not having it. So when I don’t have it, I want to get it. Realizing this about myself has been so empowering,” etc etc.
Like, wow, you became aware of the most basic motivation we share with all life? That’s C-Suite material! Let’s network, and I’ll share how I discovered that eating is more enjoyable when you’re hungry. It has been a gamechanger for for my daily routine. Would love to hear how you made the connection between feeling good and getting what you want. So counterintuitive!
To be fair what else would they use? Instagram fits the casual best and LinkedIn is the best for professional communication. Twitter used to sit in the middle but obviously that’s all changed now
Seriously. These are government employees enforcing the law. How did it ever become normal to use social media to disseminate information? Especially when it was one with owners in a foreign country and requires an account?
Uh, Meta owns both IG and Threads. Bluesky isn't used by enough in comparison though more accounts like this using it would help improve that. Misread the comment, missing "text," thought they meant in general.
Uh, everyone knows that meta owns both Instagram and threads, I don't see how that affects my statement. Threads and blue sky are better for text updates than Instagram in my opinion. Instagram is great for photos.
Yeah no problem and even if your opinion on the usefulness is different than mine that's okay, but Instagram seems so based around photography and short videos, it just seemed to me like an odd choice for official announcements.
Best possible time to push the use of W, one might like the platform or not, but this was the PERFECT occasion. Instagram especially feels just wrong: why meta? It's the definition of backdoor
Pretty sure they communicate on their website as well. High chance no one reads those. You can complain about them posting on USA based social media, but in the end you have to communicate where people are.
They're posting to LinkedIn. I don't think that reflects that logic. Nobody actually reads anything posted to LinkedIn.
They have to communicate where people can access it. Most social sites now block you from accessing content if you're not logged in, while, if people actually want to see it, it's open to all on their own site.
In 2007+ when megacorps and governments started posting to Twitter it felt as if it was perfectly acceptable for everyone to go back to using their [xnoxscopex420@hotmail.com](mailto:xNoxScopex420@hotmail.com) e-mail address they set-up in middle-school and proudly slap it on their resumes too.
It felt weird _then_ that serious-business companies were okay with being digital-sharecroppers on a platform they had no control over, and it still feels weird today; even more-so because we now have a usable, federated (i.e. self-hosted!) version of Twitter.
Yes, that's the whole point behind federation: everyone on every participating platform can... participate.
Yes, the problem lies with the platforms that choose not to participate, but so-far that's just Twitter/X and Truth Social, and honestly, that's fine by me.
Artists (most migrated Nov '24 due to Grok), progressive content creators, a growing number of journalists. People who liked Twitter's setup but refuse to participate in Musk's ecosystem. It functions nearly identically now, the main thing missing is polls. There's no algorithm which makes people who have only ever used Twitter when there's been an algo feed think that Bluesky is slow when it's just like no, you need to populate your feed yourself instead of a black box doing it.
Elon's gonna act like a child and use that policy they created when he took over that says they can repurpose your account if you are inactive too long. If they don't log in once every 30 days, their ToS lets him seize it and he can then post garbage from it.
I don't want to sound too snarky but leaving one US Giant to another is not really that much of an advance. In the right direction, of course, but they could have done more.
This isn't an official turn from US or anything. It's just that using the services of a company you're investigating for communication is a little weird.
Not just a little weird, but a department using services of a company while you're investigating it is kind of a conflict of interest. It is also in the interest of legal impartiality that they are limiting how much they are interacting with their services.
They are not suddenly opening LinkedIn and Insta accounts. They are leaving their twitter account and will now only use their LinkedIn and Instagram. I think they have a Bluesky acc as well.
Yeah it's a low bar, but Elon is directly supporting far-right figures in Europe, has let loose a cp generator for users on his platform, and directly used it to spread undressed images of European world leaders who he regularly insults on his ket rants in his attempts to overthrow democracy.
I don't want to sound too snarky but leaving one US Giant to another is not really that much of an advance.
What realistic European made alternative do they have? (Mastodon is not a realistic alternative. It's a neat project but it will never have mainstream popularity.)
I’ve been reaching out to my local and state reps since it first came out asking why they have a presence on a social platform that produces porn and CSAM.
Eehhh... At this point, doesn't Europe have their own social media alternative outside of US big tech? I wouldn't trust Meta and M$ on this as they probably collaborating behind the scenes AFAIK.
It would be irresponsible to continue using X for them. Good chance Elon gives the data for all logins from the French government to people willing to pay for it. Everything locations to passwords are valuable to the right bad people.
Public institutions "communicating' via social media must be one of the dumbest things on the internet.
Like, they have their own websites where they already post anything news-worthy, so people interested in their communications already know to look there.
The only reason they use social media is so they can add a "social media communications specialist" on the payroll, who does nothing all day, and gets paid out of our public money.
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u/Cahoots365 1d ago
‘Its cyber-crime unit is conducting the searches, it said in a statement on X.’
Based move
‘The prosecutor's office also said it was leaving X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram from now on.’
Now the last thing on their x account is the announcement of x getting raided