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On my previous post
The one about how I hate the reddit algorithm for throwing so much negative toxic bullshit...
To add to what I was saying, the moment I got on I was bombarded with posts of people
- Losing their job to ai
- Firing employees to replace them with ai
- Asking for help learning ai to get a job
- Giving tips on how to curate CVs for ai filters
- Showing how they use ai to automate their lives
- Posting slop coded apps
- Discussing models
- Discussing being unemployed
- Talking about their jobs becoming...
Made the mistake
Of redownloading reddit. Fuck that, the algorithm wasn't anything but negative, doomer, AI posts. I know the reality of the job market is fucked and social media does anything possible to catch your attention but reddits algorithm is pure toxic sludge right now. I can't stand it, it feels like watching the news, makes me feel like the world is actively burning around me, which in a way is and I'm fully contentious of, BUT, everything on reddit is, like in the news, negative and doom and gloomy about it. My...
I think
It's sadly true that in todays world you can't escape the clutches of capitalism's plutocratic overlords, unless you go and live permanently offline in the wilderness that is. Mostly everything you use has a price in blood and upholds the position of terrible actors or works to make the world deliberately worse and even if you think you have a choice you actually don't, just like Brennan said, the road was paved long before you arrived. Use the internet means use cisco (hello there military contractors),...
I am about to
Give a class on C pointers and arrays. Wish me luck!!
With all the current vibe coding bs around is nice to climb down to earth and go back to the basics.
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