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What explains the depressing job market — most starkly illustrated in a viral chart on X, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing the number of position openings cratering since ChatGPT was released? And what about early career jobs, which seem scarce these days, to the chagrin of recent graduates?

Some think that the softening in the job market should instead be attributed to the US Federal Reserve putting a kibosh to the era of zero interest-rate policy in 2022. Before it ended, companies borrowed massive amounts of capital at cheap rates and plowed them into high-risk startups — thereby inflating assets, making lots of millionaires, and fueling a gold rush of well-paying tech positions. (Squint at that chart in the previous paragraph and it does seem to support this thesis, with the decline in openings coinciding more cleanly with the interest rate hike than the release of ChatGPT.)

As for early career positions decreasing, some experts think the phenomenon predates ChatGPT and could be a sign that there are simply more college graduates than there are early career jobs where a higher degree is a must, along with other structural changes.

And there are the headlines, which are littered with stories of people getting laid off due to AI — but maybe that’s a function of some CEOs jumping the gun and buying into the hype even though AI still leaves much to be desired in practice. That’s reflected in the uneven adoption of AI across industrial sectors.

While generative AI looks likely to join the ranks of transformative, general purpose technologies,” the Yale study reads, “It is too soon to tell how disruptive the technology will be to jobs.

You’re misreading that “Linux phone” panel.

According to the newspaper this came from, The Times of India, this is a photoshopped image with the original saying “meet” instead of “mate”.

Someone needs to give me a diagram

Would there be any way around this?

Despite the conversion, the vehicles used stay largely the same, so cars are now converted to using railways and trains to using interstates, etc.

However, the keyword is average. Sometimes you are extraordinarily good, and sometimes extraordinarily bad, but on the whole the average is slightly above.

I believe that is precisely the reason they said it.

More than likely not AI: https://sketchingscience.org/

According to what I’ve read, the leading theory among scholars today is that this passage is a reference to pagan Canaanite rituals and we have some evidence in the literature of the time that this was indeed practiced.

TLDR: the Bermuda Triangle isn’t particularly dangerous in any way, it just has a lot of ships that go through it.

From what I understand, vinyl records are often mastered differently than digital recordings, and they do have a bit of a different sound overall due to their mechanical nature (like how different headphones can produce vastly different results.) So vinyl could very well be actually better depending on the mix, and depending on the preferences of the person listening.

Took a while to find it, but this is Tim Hewes who was accused of helping plan a Just Stop Oil protest.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/climate-activists-gps-ankle-tag-just-stop-oil-tim-hewes-priest-midnight-mass/

Wait, there’s actual context behind the bean memes? I’ve been missing out.

For the uninitiated, beavers have a gland that secretes castoreum from near their butt that they use to mark their territory. Castoreum is said to taste like vanilla.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/carrie-underwood-ku-klux-klan/

Oh, right. Forgot about those.

What’s the orca a reference to?

What is the meaning of this?

Pretty sure they did that intentionally, showing us how they were about to spell it.