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[CMRivdogs]

This boarders a bit on investing, but could get too political. 
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top

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Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:

• AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Amodei told us in an interview from his San Francisco office.
• Amodei said AI companies and government need to stop "sugar-coating" what's coming: the possible mass elimination of jobs across technology, finance, law, consulting and other white-collar professions, especially entry-level gigs.

So what do you do if you're a 45 year old civil engineer, for example. Your speciality revolves around environmental design or something similar where you are basically designing drainage systems for residential and office space? Where do you take your career?

To me it's reminiscent of the 80s and early 90s when broadcasting companies decided it was "too expensive" to hire local announcers and it was easier to buy into automation systems, satellite networks and voice tracking. Leaving many smaller communities without local information sources. The same thing was happening with newspapers.
 

Just one of the things I wonder about when I'm awake at 2 AM

 

[CMRivdogs]

Not sure about the strategy here. Trumpublicans will gladly take the free handouts while trashing benefits.

 

[gehringer_2]

4 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Not sure about the strategy here. Trumpublicans will gladly take the free handouts while trashing benefits.

 

typical democratic 'gesture' politics. Maybe if your party came up with a political plan to offer voters beyond "not Trump" you might get more traction. The Dems have gotten themselves into the odd position of being an out of power party that is somehow the one defending the status quo. But too many people don't like the status quo, which is how Trump has won elections.

[romad1]

3 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

typical democratic 'gesture' politics. Maybe if your party came up with a political plan to offer voters beyond "not Trump" you might get more traction. The Dems have gotten themselves into the odd position of being an out of power party that is somehow the one defending the status quo. But too many people don't like the status quo, which is how Trump has won elections.

As it turns out not being the opposition can be an excellent strategy: what did Labour offer in the last UK general election that was so appealing?

[CMRivdogs]

Meanwhile the other side of the coin today's JVL missive

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-worst-people-in-america?utm_source=substack&publication_id=87281&post_id=165011642&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=45wcm&triedRedirect=true

Talking about some very fine folks in Kennett, MO who are upset because one of their own was caught in the ICE Trap...

Shot and Chaser

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(4) Their response is nothing but empty virtue signaling. How nice that these people are wearing “Bring Carol Home” t-shirts. How nice that they have signed petitions. 

I hope that soothes their consciences.

You know what might actually help Carol? Making it clear to their elected representatives that they will be voting for Democrats from here on out and rallying other people in Missouri to do the same.

Do you think they’d be willing to do something as unthinkable as voting for another political party in order to bring Carol home? Me neither. 

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These are people who caused harm to their friend, but express no remorse or contrition.2 They cannot imagine a world outside their own experience. And they aren’t doing anything to atone for their mistakes other than engage in base, performative sentiment.

These people are unserious. And because of that they are dangerous, both to people like Carol and to the larger American experiment.

 

 

[CMRivdogs]

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Meanwhile the other side of the coin today's JVL missive

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-worst-people-in-america?utm_source=substack&publication_id=87281&post_id=165011642&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=45wcm&triedRedirect=true

Talking about some very fine folks in Kennett, MO who are upset because one of their own was caught in the ICE Trap...

Shot and Chaser

 

 

One more thing from JVL

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In 2024, 81 percent of Dunklin voters voted for Jason Smith, their pro-deportation MAGA Republican representative in Missouri’s 8th District.3

Let’s see if, in the next election, that number drops. Or if the revealed preference of Carol’s friends and neighbors shows something different from the t-shirts and lawn signs.

 

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

As it turns out not being the opposition can be an excellent strategy: what did Labour offer in the last UK general election that was so appealing?

you can win an election on not being the other guy, but you don't build anything that way. 2020 being the example. Biden had the core of new democratic approach on economics, but his party wasn't really interested in it and in the end he was too out of gas to be a major change agent. In 2024 Harris basically ran on cultural progressivism, which I think is great but clearly doesn't win elections in the US, and her economics was basically old school democratic 'give away more stuff' promises that fly in the face of a deficit approaching 3rd world country levels. That combination just didn't move enough people to say "Yeah! Those are the long term goals we aspire to!" - ergo - there was no party ideological/policy adhesion (for enough people) providing immunity against the Trump reprise.

Edited Tuesday at 07:38 PM by gehringer_2

[CMRivdogs]

Mmmmmm

 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

Mmmmmm

 

LOL! - serves him 'effin right! Tried to lie down with the dogs, got a bad case of fleas!

Edited Tuesday at 10:11 PM by gehringer_2

[Motown Bombers]

 

[romad1]

14 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Mmmmmm

 

You can't be half crazy in MAGA land. 

[romad1]

Big Lie is exposed by Big Pillow guy

 

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

Big Lie is exposed by Big Pillow guy

 

[romad1]

Just now, chasfh said:

BUt it is if you admit it in court that it is a lie. 

[chasfh]

Just now, romad1 said:

BUt it is if you admit it in court that it is a lie. 

The attorney is quoted—at least in the post above—saying, "Mike (Lindell) believed he was telling the truth. It doesn't have to be true."

[Tigerbomb13]

Anyone else’s Facebook getting flooded with these fake AI posts? It’s all the same post, just with a different sports stars replaced. If you check the info, they almost all originate from Vietnam, so there’s some sort of disinformation campaign going on. 

[Motown Bombers]

The downside to the Lions becoming good and popular is that they are being used for propaganda.

Wait until MAGA finds out about OnePride. 

[romad1]

16 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Anyone else’s Facebook getting flooded with these fake AI posts? It’s all the same post, just with a different sports stars replaced. If you check the info, they almost all originate from Vietnam, so there’s some sort of disinformation campaign going on. 

sure enough there is a lot of garbage out there right now. 

[CMRivdogs]

Question. Can Trumpers honestly say that the Republican base does not practice what the (dis)Honorable Senator calls idealogical capture? And if it's illegal for a private educational institution (like Harvard) shoulda't it be illegal for another institution (like Liberty, or Hillsdale for example) who also receives federal funding?
 

 

Edited Thursday at 03:24 PM by CMRivdogs

[smr-nj]

5 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Question. Can Trumpers honestly say that the Republican base does not practice what the (dis)Honorable Senator calls idealogical capture? And if it's illegal for a private educational institution (like Harvard) shoulda't it be illegal for another institution (like Liberty, or Hillsdale for example) who also receives federal funding?
 

 

Great point. 👍

[Tiger337]

On 5/28/2025 at 11:49 AM, CMRivdogs said:

This boarders a bit on investing, but could get too political. 
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top

So what do you do if you're a 45 year old civil engineer, for example. Your speciality revolves around environmental design or something similar where you are basically designing drainage systems for residential and office space? Where do you take your career?

To me it's reminiscent of the 80s and early 90s when broadcasting companies decided it was "too expensive" to hire local announcers and it was easier to buy into automation systems, satellite networks and voice tracking. Leaving many smaller communities without local information sources. The same thing was happening with newspapers.
 

Just one of the things I wonder about when I'm awake at 2 AM

 

I am glad I am retiring in a few years, because things are going to change fast. I use AI a lot to help me with programming already and I can envision the day where they won't need a lot of programmers (which is the main part of my job).  At this point AI still gets a lot of stuff wrong. It can do the easy stuff, but doesn't always know how to do the more complex programming.  Not yet.  

[chasfh]

On 6/4/2025 at 1:44 PM, Tigerbomb13 said:

Anyone else’s Facebook getting flooded with these fake AI posts? It’s all the same post, just with a different sports stars replaced. If you check the info, they almost all originate from Vietnam, so there’s some sort of disinformation campaign going on. 

I don’t click on anything that doesn’t come directly from my friends, so, no.

[Tigermojo]

The news is talking about the bad air quality from the Canadian wildfires. Don't worry, there are no tariffs on smoke and Donald Trump knows how to stop wildfires. We're just going to use the moisture from the trees.

[gehringer_2]

CES survey says dems that stayed home were less, not more, progressive, and more working class, than those that showed up.

[Motown Bombers]