SnotFlickerman

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Bluesky, decentralisation, and the distribution of in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
Bluesky, decentralisation, and the distribution of in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

They already owe their livelihoods to Blockchain Capital, and venture capital firm of crypto-bros.

The bait is out and the switch is coming.

Bluesky, decentralisation, and the distribution of in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
The Blame Game in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Dang majority ruining it for the majority

Bluesky, decentralisation, and the distribution of in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (11 children)

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital

In other words, the enshittification is coming. Because Bluesky is backed by crypto-bro venture capital.

A lot of hay is being made about Bluesky but despite literal oligarchs taking over the country, I guess rich people dictating how our systems work is what people want because apparently Mastodon is too much to ask of individuals.

We can talk about Bluesky and how great their tech is all we want, but unless we address the elephant in the room, venture capital that wants a return on their investment, we're just spiraling the same stupid fucking drain we've been down with every social media preceding it.

Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Nostalgia's a helluva drug. I've done my best to try to avoid it, but we all like that hit from time to time.

The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 5 days ago

He says this and yet jumps to Bluesky, a platform created by Jack Dorsey and now owned and managed by a crypto bro?

COCK.LI IS ON RED ALERT. in c/technology@lemmy.world
Feds use ‘border security’ to justify social media surveillance in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

true, but Lemmy is at least pseudo-anonymous.

The basement is about as close to the party as I'd prefer to get. in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, as I get older, it's less "party every day" and more "have a wonderful... time. Is that it?"

Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal in c/technology@lemmy.world
Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Wouldn't work, unlike the Protestants, who all had their own interpretations of the Bible, so they had to learn to not persecute each other...

Corporations, capitalists, and the people they've bought in government are all on the same page worshiping the Almighty Dollar and it's Holy Book, Modern Monetary Theory.

You'll find the economics discipline frighteningly dogmatic and unwilling to adapt to new information or accept that accepted theories may be flat out wrong.

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Labor Certification for Permanent Employment of Foreign Workers in the United States; Modernizing Schedule A To Include Consideration of Additional Occupations in Science, Technology, Engineering, and (www.federalregister.gov)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Copied from Reddit's /r/cscareerquestions:

The US Department of Labor is proposing a rule change that would add STEM occupations to their list of Schedule A occupations. Schedule A occupations are pre-certified and thus employers do NOT have to prove that they first sought American workers for a green card job. This comes on the heels of massive layoffs from the very people pushing this rule change.

From Tech Target:

The proposed exemption could be applied to a broad range of tech occupations including, notably, software engineering -- which represents about 1.8 million U.S. positions, according to U.S. labor statistics data -- and would allow companies to bypass some labor market tests if there's a demonstrated shortage of U.S. workers in an occupation.

Currently the comments include heavy support from libertarian think tank, Cato, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association

The San Francisco Tech scene has been riddled with CEOs whining over labor shortages for the past few months on Twitter/X amidst a sea of layoffs from Amazon, Meta, Google, Tesla, and much more. Now, we know that it's an attempt at influencing the narrative for these rule changes.

If you are having a hard time finding a job, now, this rule change will only make things worse.

From the US Census Bureau:

Does majoring in STEM Lead to a STEM job after graduation?

The vast majority (62%) of college-educated workers who majored in a STEM field were employed in non-STEM fields such as non-STEM management, law, education, social work, accounting or counseling. In addition, 10% of STEM college graduates worked in STEM-related occupations such as health care.

The path to STEM jobs for non-STEM majors was narrow. Only a few STEM-related majors (7%) and non-STEM majors (6%) ultimately ended up in STEM occupations.

If you or someone you know has experienced difficulty finding an engineering job post graduation amidst this so called shortage, then please submit your story in the remaining few days that the Public comment period is still open (ends May 13th.)

Public comment can be made, here:

https://www.regulations.gov/document/ETA-2023-0006-0001/comment

Please share this with anyone else you feel has will be affected by this rule change.

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The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Edward Zitron has been reading all of google's internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ's antitrust case against google.

This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.

The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, then the VP and General Manager of Ads at Google, and Shiv Venkataraman, then the VP of Engineering, Search and Ads on Google properties, had called a “code yellow” for search revenue due to, and I quote, “steady weakness in the daily numbers” and a likeliness that it would end the quarter significantly behind.

HackerNews thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976

MetaFilter thread: https://www.metafilter.com/203456/The-core-query-softness-continues-without-mitigation

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