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Spending 3 hours tailoring your resume for a job they already gave to someone internally.
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Kevin
@BaronVonClack
He/Him Sysadmin doing Linux and Linux adjacent things Mastodon - [email protected]
Katılım Kasım 2008
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May Day started in the United States to commemorate the deaths of striking workers in 1886.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Fox News: "In communist countries around the world, it's May Day"
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The beauty of the post is that the text smells AI-generated entirely, with the instruction to make it lowercase
I’m getting to the point that I don’t trust anonymous accounts w even a hint of AI-written content on the internet. A good chance it’s all made up, even if believable
Grady Booch@Grady_Booch
Thoughts and prayers.
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No one has ever inflicted so much psychic damage to such annoying people. Unbelievably based.
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Apple announces the old CEO can be traded in for $83 in store credit, valid only toward the purchase of a new CEO.
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A bank we work with uses an AI tool to screen every resume that comes in.
Here's how it works.
We send them a candidate. Their internal recruiter runs the resume through the tool. If it scores an 8/10 or higher, the candidate gets an interview. Anything below that, auto rejected.
We sent them a candidate a few weeks ago for a Python Developer role. She just ended a project for us at a competing bank with excellent references. The skills they actually needed for the role? Python, FastAPI, SQL. She had all three, used daily in her last job.
The tool scored her a 7.5.
Rejected.
We pushed back and asked why.
Turns out the job description had everything and the kitchen sink listed. Fifteen skills, half of them "nice to haves" that had nothing to do with the actual work. The AI weighted all of them equally and her score got dragged down by gaps that didn't matter.
We pushed back on the internal recruiter citing she had the main skills + excellent references. We got her the interview and she got the offer.
This is where internal recruiting teams are headed.
AI tools layered on top of ATS systems, scoring candidates before a human ever reads the resume. In theory it saves time. In practice, it rejects qualified people because nobody bothered to write a clean job description.
The tool isn't the problem, the inputs are. If your JD is a wish list instead of a job description, your AI is going to reject the exact people you're trying to hire.
We're early in this. The tech will get better. But right now, a lot of great candidates are getting filtered out for reasons that have nothing to do with whether they can do the job.
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For anyone still assuming this is about Anthropic: no, it’s about how it’s unacceptable to ban paying customers from your AI tool without justification, and no appeals path.
Called it out when Google did the same w Antigravity customers
Anthropic’s is worse: banning a company!
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
Reminder that Google is run by engineers, and within Google engineers >> paying customers This means Google is amazing to work at as a dev. It often sucks being a paying customer (see: services retired with minimal notice, eng team cuts you off silently from eg Antigravity etc)
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@Captain2Phones Yeah I should have made it more clear, that's what I was asking about :-) I was actually pretty close on the other ones.
I guessed 3% LGBTQ, 2% 250k over salary, and 10% agree with political violence
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This is the most worthwhile website you will visit this month.
I got every question wrong (WAY wrong) and instead of discouraging me ... it made me hopeful for the future. For the first time in years.
thenoisyroom.com
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Huh?
You bailed in the middle of trial after cutting a sweetheart deal with Live Nation, tried to pressure the rest of us to accept it, but we pressed on and won the trial without you.
Congrats to consumers, not to you.
Antitrust Division@JusticeATR
Congratulations to all on this historic liability finding. The DOJ was proud to lead a settlement in this matter that brings the American people instant relief and also applauds the remaining states on today’s liability finding. This is a win for everyone in our country besides Live Nation.
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If there's one thing I've learned the past few years in this job market, it's don't make your job your whole personality.
My father was a sr. director at the same company for 10 years. When they got acquired, he was treated like a line item on a spreadsheet. A decade of loyalty and ended up getting whacked like it was nothing.
Last year, I was laid off myself. I was going to finish the year as the #2 recruiter out of ~100 and was also one of the the top producers in company history.
I know people who made work their entire world at the expense of their personal relationships.
Sacrificed marriages, missed their kids growing up, burning personal relationships they had for a company that forgot their name 30 days after their badge stopped working.
Everyone learns this eventually.
Whether it hits you at 25 or 55, you will realize that when things get tough, the corporate world spits you back out like nothing.
This doesn't mean to just quiet quit and stop trying.
I still work hard. Life is expensive and I want to create as many memories as possible with my kids. But trust me when I say it will not come at the expense of my relationship with them.
At the same time, I'm building my golden parachute so I can get out of this rat race on my own terms.
Just remember this: your company will never love you back.
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Why are they acting like this isn’t an insanely depressing photo
The White House@WhiteHouse
NO TAX ON TIPS! 💸
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"ICE tried to identify a user without success. They approached Reddit, demanding identifying information on the user and refusing to specify the posts that caught ICE’s attention. Reddit has not identified the user."
This is why they're pushing age verification.
FIRE@TheFIREorg
Today, The Intercept reported that the federal government is ordering Reddit to appear before a grand jury in connection with the anonymous speech of a user who criticized the Trump administration's deportation efforts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tried to identify a user based in the Pacific Northwest without success. They approached Reddit, demanding identifying information on the user and refusing to specify the posts that caught ICE’s attention. Reddit has not identified the user. Reddit’s own attorneys reviewed the user’s posts for any speech not protected by the First Amendment, and found none. Government critics are not suspects and free speech is not a crime. The First Amendment protects our right to criticize the government anonymously — an American tradition that dates back to the founding. So far, the government hasn’t been able to point to a single Reddit post that’s not protected by the First Amendment. Not one. By putting the administration’s feelings above the First Amendment, government agents are sending a deliberate message to each of us: Don’t criticize us — or else. How we respond to this chilling moment matters. Today, lawmakers from both parties are busy promoting age-verification laws that would force each of us to reveal our identity before we speak online. If lawmakers had their way, the Reddit user would already be standing in court just for expressing his or her beliefs. Who knows how many of us would be hauled up next?
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This thread is so funny, it shows why Linux can't become mainstream as it is now.
And these threads always end up with "just do sudo pacman xyzqwe" "just search the solution with some LLM, 1 minute job", or "wrong distro, use XYZ distro".
Jacob Terkelsen@theterk
Another day of gaming on Linux. Or at least trying. Trying to use CachyOS to get the "gaming packages" installed and it doesn't work. I guess I'll spend 15 minutes on fixing this in a terminal window.
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Age verification is moving off websites and into your operating system (yes, even you, Linux).
California just passed a law requiring it. The UK already has it. More states are following.
Here's why that's a much bigger deal than it sounds. 🧵
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A great debunk of all of the deranged right wing and MSM claims about what’s happening in Cuba and the recent aid mission. The U.S. government should end the blockade and stop enacting mass suffering and death on the Cuban people.
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
we have comprehensively debunked all the lies and nonsense about the Cuba aid mission: currentaffairs.org/news/how-to-sl…
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