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“There wasn’t much available in my field of writing, editing, and nonprofit work.”
“Increasingly, the human side of the job search seems to be missing.”
These people are still so out of touch that it’s frankly repulsive.
NEW: "It’s been hell." "I’m dead inside." "I honestly don’t know if I will ever find work in the U.S. again, let alone D.C." "It’s akin to screaming into a void."
What is going on with D.C.'s job market? Contributor Abi Newhouse investigated: 51st.news/job-hunting-doge-u…
Graeber’s thesis was based on people knowing their jobs were bullshit and feeling alienation. What this article reveals is much worse:
“I previously found my whole identity through my career, so the loss feels very big,” said Shannon Pryor.
I’m reminded of Graeber’s original essay frequently strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
I bought a house in 2015 that was built by a barber in 1925. I paid $1.3 million. I’m worth three times what I was then. I could never afford that house now.
I'm in my 40s. I'm a lawyer. My wife is a lawyer. We both work full time.
We cannot afford the house my parents purchased on a single electrician's income in their 30s.
We cannot afford the house my immigrant grandparents purchased on a single MTA bus driver's salary in their 30s. They had SIX CHILDREN.
For 30 years, politicians in Washington & their oligarch allies convinced regular people that this was just about avocado toast and fancy coffee.
In reality, this is end-stage capitalism. Everyone is stuck in place. It's impossible to buy a home. It's too costly to move. We work too much to have passion projects. We don't have enough savings to start our own businesses. We can't afford to go without healthcare to do it.
Thanks for writing this article @troy_closson. Would be very happy to discuss further.
nytimes.com/2026/10/25/nyreg…
Pretty sloppy of our creator to put 1 out of every 60 souls in the wrong body. Someone should probably have a Word with him.
NEW: At least 15,437 Washington minors had a transgender-related diagnosis on their insurance claims from 2017 to 2023.
In 2022, that included 1 in 58 teen girls.
A new @ManhattanInst analysis of insurance-claims data 🧵
These reboots have gotten completely out of hand.
expatanon retweeted
Real world experience makes me skeptical of the wilder AI narratives out there
Chess AI never achieved this exponential takeoff. It’s better than human and not god-tier level so
And as @expatanon correctly points out, software never seems to get better either. If anything, on average systems seem to get worse/buggier (if more capable)
I see no reason why AI will be somehow exempt from this
The voice assistants like Alexa never improved, Siri is more annoying than ever, and yes, the AI systems are getting better but for example Claude’s quirks and frustrations have been consistent for years now
If the software never stops improving why is it never getting better to use? Nobody believes software is getting better on the whole and everyone in fact knows the opposite. When does the user benefit from all these supposed improvements?
This is what they mean when they say software factory. Agents use the product at scale and trigger edge case after edge case, they come to us with a before and after in under 60s video, we review and either approve or pull into our canvas to tweak.
This happens every day, non-stop. Software that never stops improving.
All my nouls gone
despite the unfortunate timing, we take disclosures seriously at @typesafeai
at approximately 6:49PM this Friday evening, we became aware of a massive unauthorized leak of ALL customer noul outputs
in effort to maximize transparency, here is the link: gist.github.com/diogo149/810…
There is no limiting principle on the therapeutic civil rights state; everything starts as “you can’t beat or molest your kids” and ends up with “grandma’s hugs are subject to official sanction.”
This is why these bizarre speculative scenarios that various people have been advancing about my own mother e.g. "would you still hug her if you had a gigantic iron spike protruding from your chest", "would you still hug her if you were infected with bubonic plague" etc miss the point- no one here is arguing for a universal licence to hug people against their will- if a child is showing serious distress at the prospect of a hug, there's obviously an underlying issue of some kind that ought to be addressed- the point is that families should be permitted their own autonomy to work these things out, and they should not be so disgustingly condescended to by government and charity institutions about how they express affection and love to one another- this is ultimately very obvious and simple
