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@War4theWest @gc22gc Yea, the old AI marketing spiel. "AI might kill us all so we have to build it as fast as we can to find out!"

@gc22gc This is such a stupid take. Why do so many people who don't know a damned thing about tech or AI run their mouths about it constantly? Hint: If your source of insight on AI doesn't have a Github repo, ignore him.

BANNON: Even if Iran were a couple years from a nuclear weapon, that’s one one-hundredth of the threat to this nation. The real danger is out-of-control AI, a weapon 100x more lethal with no control. We’re focused on Tehran instead of the existential threat here at home.

@FinancialPhys At least we might get to front-run the pigs... this time... for a change.

Now this… is interesting The US ponzi dollar and all other global oligarch banking systems being bypassed… Real liquidity is a bitch on wheels isn’t it? Companies will have to buy Bitcoin first

No, this is called $300,000 dollars of copper. Sitting right out in the open.

@gothburz Ha ha, dickwad. We're broke. Enjoy your 'data mining'.

I run Compensation Analytics for a Fortune 500 company. My job is to calculate the lowest salary you'll accept. Not the salary you deserve. Not the salary the role requires. Not the market rate. The minimum number that keeps you from walking. I know this number before you walk in. Sometimes before you apply. We buy data. Your payroll processor shares your salary history with Equifax through a product called The Work Number. More than 800 million employment and income records. Updated every pay cycle. Equifax sells it to us through a "verification of income" API. The word "verification" means we know what you made at your last three jobs, whether you got a raise, and when you didn't. That's market intelligence. We layer signals. Credit card utilization. Payday loan activity. Past-due balances. Delinquent debt. Address changes. There are about 500 vendors that aggregate this data now. An audit by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth flagged 20 as high-risk for enabling algorithmic wage discrimination. Sixteen of the twenty plug directly into payroll and HR systems. We use nine. The dashboard has a field called "candidate tolerance threshold." That's the number. The lowest salary you'll accept. We set the offer at 3% to 6% above it. Enough to feel like negotiation. Not enough to change your life. That's compensation design. The academic term is "surveillance wages." The industry term is "compensation optimization." A law professor named Veena Dubal found that when multiple employers in the same market use the same vendors, it functions as de facto price-fixing of labor. Same mechanism as the RealPage rental pricing scandal. Same logic. Same outcome. RealPage coordinates rents. Our vendors coordinate salaries. Different commodity. Same extraction. That's the market. Here's what the algorithm sees when you apply. Your last three salaries. Your debt-to-income ratio. How quickly you accepted your previous offer. Your zip code. Whether you've used a payday lender in the last two years. It calculates your reservation wage and sets the offer just above. Your performance doesn't set your salary. Your desperation does. A new VP of Total Rewards asked me why the algorithm used payday loan history. I explained that payday usage correlates with financial fragility, and financial fragility predicts acceptance velocity. She asked if that was legal. I said it was standard. She asked whose standard. I showed her the vendor's compliance page. She transferred to a different division. That's organizational learning. Colorado introduced a bill to ban the practice. HB25-1264. It would prohibit using payday loan history, location data, and search behavior to set algorithmic pay offers. The companies lobbied against it. The same companies that told their employees they don't use surveillance wages. A state representative asked the obvious question: "If these companies don't pay surveillance wages, then what is the problem of codifying in law that you're not allowed to?" The lobbyists provided written testimony. They said the bill would create "compliance burden." They did not answer the question. That's advocacy. The data flows in one direction. We know your salary trajectory. You don't know ours. We know what you'll settle for. You think you're negotiating. The algorithm already accounted for your counter. It budgeted for exactly one round. There is a freeze option. You can go to Equifax's website and freeze your Work Number file. Most people don't know it exists. We don't mention it in the offer letter. We don't mention it in the onboarding packet. We don't mention it in the benefits portal. We don't mention it anywhere. That's by design. The system requires your ignorance to function. If everyone froze their data, compensation optimization would have nothing to optimize. I froze mine the week I started this job. I work in Compensation Analytics. I know what the tools see. I just build them for everyone else.

@glennwrites1 I think Dylan is a candidate for the new cranio-rectal extraction procedure I've heard so much about.

Absolutely disgusting Imagine living like this

@wayofftheres oh no.. stop.... don't.

Predictable as the sunrise. Justice will have to be taken, it will never be “given”. A long march awaits to restore order.

Funny how the glorious United States Navy can train a high school graduate to operate and repair a nuclear reactor under the ocean but for some fucking reason we have to go to fucking India for javascript devs.

@PFIRorg Funny how the glorious United States Navy can train a high school graduate to operate and repair a nuclear reactor under the ocean but for some fucking reason we have to go to fucking India for javascript devs.

Companies are laying off high-skilled workers left and right, yet the geniuses at the Cato Institute claim they’re “struggling” to find talent—and that we need to keep the flow of H-1Bs coming.

@marc_palasciano notice how you people go here and complain, but nothing ever happens? Yea, thats called "they don't work for you anymore, the time for talking is now over but you are so dumb that you cant seem to realize it" it's embarrassing.

I’m always flattered when Frisco City Council makes me go last. One year ago, I watched Plano Texas disrespect their Firefighters. Tonight, I watched Frisco Texas disrespect their Firefighters. I celebrated 1 Year of speaking up at Frisco and absolutely roasted these cowards.

@Cloudwatch199 Let me be clear: fuck off.

THEY ARE ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS. Calling Frisco the “Mumbai of Texas” because Indian-origin candidates are on signs is just a polite way of saying: “I do not see Indian Americans as real Americans.” Say it with your chest. At least be honest about the xenophobia. @marc_palasciano needs to TONE DOWN this xenophobic rhetoric sooner thna later.

@razibkhan The time for talking with these people is over.

suggestions for indians 1) don't make arguments about how we're on stolen land & white ppl r bad; works for native americans or black americans. doesn't work a for u 2) a free country, but just because something is legal doesn't mean ppl aren't going to be really annoyed

🇯🇵 Some schools in Japan are hiring women from Muslim countries as English teachers. These women don't really speak English in the first place. Second, they advertise themselves teaching by mentioning their religion. They are not capable of teaching anything.

@gc22gc hi

@bartpascoal @MetamateDaz oh no, not my credit statement.

@MetamateDaz For a few pennies they camp on your credit statement waiting for you to try and buy a car or a house. Then you'll pay it. So it's a long game they are hoping before 7 years you'll have to pay it.

I don’t understand debt collection agencies you bought a debt that you know somebody can’t pay? & think they suddenly gonna have money and you’ll be the one they pay? be serious

@AFpost It's like we are at war with out government.

Rep. Maria Salazar's "Dignity Act" is actually called the "DIGNIDAD Act." The bill sponsoring amnesty for foreigners, literally stapling green cards to diplomas, is titled in Spanish. Trump signed an executive order declaring English the national language of the US, only for Salazar to turn the bill into an acronym that spells the Spanish word for "dignity." Follow: @AFpost

@WiretapMediaCa Elbows up!

💥WOW: Indigenous leaders are now claiming they’re “underfunded,” that endless taxpayer handouts are a sacred Charter right, and that their demands must come BEFORE Canada’s national security. ENTITLEMENT LEVEL: MAXIMUM

The purpose of a system is what it does.

@TechLayoffLover Lemme guess... in 18 months?

**ALPHABET JUST ANNIHILATED 12,000 GOOGLERS WHILE SUNDAR PICHAI CASHED OUT $226 MILLION IN STOCK AND GOOGLE CLOUD POSTED $8.03 BILLION IN QUARTERLY REVENUE** "Responsible AI development" means your paycheck is gone but Sundar's yacht payment cleared YouTube creators getting automated strikes. Search engineers replaced by LLM calls to their own fucking models. Chrome devs watching their browser get rebuilt by Gemini overnight. I'm hearing Sundar told the board he could "optimize human capital expenses by 47% through agentic workflows" three weeks before the massacre Sources saying the 12,000 severance packages total less than what Google spent on executive bonuses in December alone DeepMind just hired 400 contractors in Bangalore at $31k annually to replace the $180k Mountain View engineers they executed last month The same company that spent $13 billion on stock buybacks in Q4 while telling laid-off workers their roles were "redundant due to AI efficiency gains" Pichai's internal memo called it "aligning our workforce with our AI-first future" Translation: we're keeping the executives and the Indian contractors. Everyone in between can fucking starve. Google's market cap hit $2.1 trillion the day after the bloodbath If you're still at Google, your badge expires the moment they finish training their replacement model on your code commits

@JackPosobiec well, they get pretty stinky after a while... THAT'S pretty offensive.

Dead pedophiles don't reoffend

I hereby propose the "A.D.I.O.S. ACT" Absolutely Deport Illegals Out Swiftly The law is simple: If you came here illegally, you will absolutely be deported out of our country swiftly. No exceptions. Thank you for your attention to this matter.