Yes, I do, because we are many and we persevere.
Here we are celebrating Labor Day, the day that celebrates workers rights - overtime pay for working over 40 hours, limiting children from having to work in factories, weekends and time off.
It was a hard fight from serfdom to poor factory conditions to now. We stand on the shoulders of giants.
There’s a growing wisdom gap coming in America. The people who are already well versed in company practices and culture are going to use AI to complete the tasks that they would have otherwise given to assistants and junior resources.
The junior resources are going to struggle to find jobs because they are lacking in the KSAs that schools simply cannot provide training for. And that means when us Gen Xers and later Millenials retire there could be a major gap where we have few people with that inherent knowledge to replace us. And where there’s no work and no hope, you get something akin to what is starting to occur in China right now…or revolt.
My hope is that schools will be rethought and there will be a lot more focus on getting an internship early and for the long term. Something more like apprenticeships, which the blue collar workforce maintained, but it’s something we’ll likely need to bring back to white collar jobs.
This isn’t to say that schools should diminish a well rounded education. I think it’s extremely important for students to take electives outside of their focus for a multitude of reasons, one being that it helps students realize the importance of how others contribute to society.
Apprenticeships can help to fill the knowledge gap, but the white collars that are in the jobs now will also need to be retrained and made comfortable to work with a large influx of apprentices to make this approach a success.
Well that certainly aligns with someone who would be best buds with a guy who trafficked women into sex slavery.
Where are the Epstein files Donnie?
Not a puppet! Wanna-be dictator proceeds to concede everything to dictator of weaker regional power.
I’ve had this odd thought lately that I just want to put into the ether. And honestly, I’ve been a free trade person pretty much all my life, because I think free trade can and should empower societies to trade what they’re best at, and it has the capability to help pull billions out of poverty.
But one thing I’ve always thought was fucked about free trade is the countries that we exploit, that is, those that pay the kind of wages the US suffered through in the 1800s and early 1900s. The kind of labor that works too long and still barely struggles to survive.
What if the tariffs do balance that a bit better? What if American workers get a fair shake to do work for American consumers? What if this awful, awful dark period in our lives somehow gives the Vietnamese or Cambodian worker a better life because the US is no longer willing to buy goods from countries that exploit their workforce?
I personally don’t want to be part of the tomato problem if I can help it. This is on no way an endorsement of the current administration, but why the fuck did it have to be this administration that acted upon this? Why couldn’t it have been prior administrations over the last 30 years?
So I’ve had this thought for 20+ years but can’t seem to get it to work. Maybe someone smarter than me can make it work.
The Curie point of Gadolinium is around room temperature. If you put a high powered magnet on one end and then generate some external heat and include a spring (or crank arm) on the magnetic end, you could produce a piston, similar to a sterling engine.
Now, if you add this cooling material as a heat sink, you could likely rapidly cool the gadolinium material back below the Curie point, making a more efficient engine, perhaps even producing something that could do a bit of work.
I made some prototypes back in the day, but the ferromagnetic material would always eventually get locked with the magnets. My rudimentary engineering skills could never get the external heat source quite right. Perhaps someone with a bit more ingenuity will take this and run with it.
Also, old broken microwaves are a great way to salvage some pretty strong magnets.
And be careful when handling gadolinium, it’s known to cause kidney and nerve damage.
They’ve made their decision, now let’s see them enforce it.
I’m much more a fan of the PBS/NPR underwriting model. Tell me who deliberately funds the show or video.
When the advertisement is so divorced from the show, is not relevant to the conversation or is not relevant to me, then the andvertisers are wasting their money.
If you show me the same ad over and over again, I am actually more likely to NOT buy that branded product or service because I’ve become so annoyed and numb from the ad taking what little time I have on this planet that I will actively boycott it.
However, I do have a nice space mug from PBS, a plot of land on Mars, the moon and Scotland, and a t-shirt for the Truth podcast to prove that I will spend money when the advertising is relevant to the content I’m consuming. So if you want the ad to work, invest your dollars directly into the content and providers I care about.
But for the love of everything, do not think for a moment that your contribution gives you license to control their messaging or content.
Mostly vendors. Often on-prem versions customized for their sensitive work and the versions are 30+ years now.
They very much go by the mantra “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” If you’re lucky enough to get one of those contracts, you’re on a gravy train, but brace yourself because you can expect to get a lot of complaints about how outdated and crap your system is. That and a whole lot of time dedicated to training and documentation.
You’ll also get the occasional person’s personal monument to themselves. “Joe’s been doing that GIS stuff for 30 years.” Whew those can doozies.
Thinking quickly, Japan constructs a homemade blood from a scientist, a shell and a blood.
Joking aside, I remember articles on artificial blood from 20 years ago, but it always failed in trials. I’m glad to hear things have progressed a good bit.
I am not an AI hater, it helps me automate many of the more mundane tasks of my job or the things I don’t ever have time for.
I also feel that change management is a big factor with any paradigm shifting technology, as is with LLMs. I recall when some people said that both the PC and the internet were going to be just a fad.
Nonetheless, all the reasons you’ve mentioned are the same ones that give me concern about AI.
Yup, this is going to end well.
Oh look, 8.4 billion in more made up money.
In other news, I think I just learned why Elon got more weird all of a sudden about 6 years ago. P. Thiel funding his brain chips? New conspiracy theory just dropped.
I agree. Lots of “blame the victim” going on in this thread.
You must be one of those big big city mice.
15 miles by the crow flies is a lot different than 15 miles driving on the ground.
I’m more worried about what happens when one of these contraptions wraps itself around a power line.
Peace in our time.
How do you square cleaning up Europe’s mess in one thread with Yemen and knocking them down for actively defending Ukraine in another?
You know guys, I’m starting to think these morons just hate Europe.
So if the other day was liberation day, then today is…?
So are most octopuses left handed or right handed, middle handed, or middle-right handed…