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kingbizon US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI

Ha I've been following that group for a while now and it gets bigger every week!

kingbizon Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'

I'm doing the same thing except YouTube and certain niche subreddits have been very hard for me to kill off. Also apps that I want to check up on every now and then get put behind a firewall so they can only access the network when I allow them to, but some are still able to send me notifications despite being blocked. I need to figure out how they are getting around that or better yet just uninstall the app. After I killed off all the big tech social media slop I found notifications for random things to be almost as bad.

kingbizon AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded

Same, we have been in a "hiring freeze" for 4 years now. Contractor hiring via WITCH however has been booming.

kingbizon AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study

Ancient Egypt had plenty of slaves, but also a whole class of skilled tradesmen. We won't even have that in the future.

kingbizon Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

So as a manager you get to fire 5% without you being affected then in turn the other 95% work harder to make you look better. Sounds like a win win. I can see why you are in favor of this insane policy.

kingbizon Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC

Yeah I was disappointed with their RenTech episode, despite it being hyped up on HN. Think I learned more from the Jim Simmons numberphile (I think) interview.

kingbizon Performance improvement plans are on the rise

Does management ever get PIP'd? In my experience its lowly ICs that take the brunt of PIP culture.

kingbizon No one expects young men to do anything and they respond by doing nothing (2022)

Yes, but usually they believe it is their own kid

kingbizon Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone

Sony is making high end phones that have all these features, like the xperia line. The UI is a little wonky, and you have to degoogle the phone, but after that its pretty solid.

kingbizon Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030

At least to me, there's nothing subtle about it. As soon as I read that paragraph I wondered how obvious it was to Zuck that Thiel was blowing smoke up his ass.