My CS degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. I can’t get experience because I don’t have experience.

Gambling as an industry should not exist. It’s just predatory.

• Little Witch Academia
• Spy x Family
• Azumanga Daioh
• CITY: The Animation

What kind of ‘something’ do you want me to do?

Fatigue. There’s just been so much and it’s kinda fucking draining if you stay plugged in to it all. It’s not like doomscrolling will make the situation any better either.

Also like, that was kind of the point of Don’t Look Up. People do just shut these things out. If you understood the movie you should know the answer to your question.

Can BlueSky really be called decentralized when 99% of it is bluesky.social?

They’re gonna tell you this is the only way to be sure that routers don’t contain a backdoor. They’re gonna tell themselves this is the only way to be sure that routers do contain a backdoor.

It is theatrics. They know they’ve already got literally the entire userbase on their server, so none of this actually matters.

When Bluesky inevitably enshittifies, they take the whole network down with them.

BlueSky pays lip service to federation, but they’ve set it up so that they’ve got effective control of 99% of the network. It’s a sham to convince people they’re different from every other corporate-owned social media platform, but it really isn’t.

It feels like activity has dropped off a bit since the last Reddit exodus. And I worry that this platform is never going to see the kind of critical mass I’d want out of it, to be big enough that I can use it to discuss more niche topics and fandoms than what’s currently on offer here. I see communities get made and die off on the regular from people who want to use this platform they way they used Reddit but quickly realize they can’t.

I’m still here because I believe in the ideals of a federated platform, but I just don’t know what the future holds at this rate.

Some instances have this baked in as a way to anonymize downvotes, these accounts are not real accounts but are just federated to other instances so they can’t see what actual account the downvote came from. I believe this is now a standard PieFed feature.

IMO, making downvotes public was kind of a mistake of the protocol. There’s a reason why most software stopped showing them publicly, but the fact that they’re there on the backend means a determined user can peek to find out who to get mad at, and I think that’s a problem.

Vocaloid is a synthesizer, not AI.

If you truly believe AI is so great, own it. Trying to hide it is not a good look. It shows that they know it’s something to be ashamed of.

Riichi mahjong. Starting playing online about six years ago, started going out to play in-person two years ago. Recently took 3rd in a small online tournament, but I’ve yet to put up good IRL tourney results…

No idea, but I’m assuming probably not.

Here’s my whole library if you want to see everything I like. Some notable exclusives:

• Super Mario Odyssey - IMO, this is right up there with 64. The game is absolutely packed, biggest in the series, and I love everything they’ve done with new movement techniques.
• Splatoon 3 - And 2, but not like there’s any reason to back to S2 now. I’ve never really been into shooters much, Splatoon, Kid Icarus Uprising, and TF2 are the only ones I’ve really liked. But I do love this game because it’s so unlike ordinary shooters.
• Metroid Dread - Hits all the same highs as Super, but with significantly better combat and bosses. Yes, I’m saying that makes it better than Super.
• Puyo Puyo Champions - Not actually exclusive, but if you want to play this game online, JP players are all on Switch. So functionally, it might as well be exclusive.
• Kirby Air Riders - I waited 22 years for this sequel. I bought a Switch 2 just to play this. And it was worth it. I’m actually blown away by how much higher this game raised the bar from the original.

I’ve tried applying to internships too, but nearly every internship position I see says they are explicitly looking for current students or graduates within the past year. I think my degree is too old to get in now.

Every position that claims to be entry level inevitably sends me back an email that says “We received many qualified applicants and have decided to move ahead with another candidate whose work experience is a closer match for this particular role.”

My bachelor’s degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on anymore. Experience is all that matters, but I can’t get experience because I don’t have experience.

One tab with subscribed/new, another tab with all/hot.

You might be right about the relative impact of AI alone, but there are like a dozen different problems threatening the job market all at once. Added up, I do think we are heading towards a future where we have to start rethinking how our society handles employment.

A world where robots do most of the hard work for us ought to be a utopia, but as you say, capitalism uses unemployment as a threat. If you can’t get a job, you starve and die. That has to change in a world where we’ll have far more people than jobs.

And I don’t think it’s as simple as just having us all work less hours - every technological advancement that was once said would lead to shorter working hours instead only ever led to those at the top pocketing the surplus labor.