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@Footballtweet Funny enough it was the last tournament in the US. I remember it fondly because we had sticker collection book. Famous for Baggio missing the winning penalty against Brazil.

Be honest… what’s the FIRST World Cup you remember watching? 🤔

🚨BREAKING: Anthropic just published a study mapping exactly which jobs its own AI is replacing right now. The workers most at risk are not who anyone expected. They are older. They are more educated. They earn 47% more than average. And they are nearly four times more likely to hold a graduate degree than the workers AI is not touching. The argument is straightforward. Anthropic built a new metric called "observed exposure." Not what AI could theoretically do. What it is actually doing right now in professional settings, measured against millions of real Claude conversations from enterprise users. For computer and math workers, AI is theoretically capable of handling 94% of their tasks. It is currently handling 33% of them. For office and administrative roles, theoretical capability is 90%. Current observed usage is 40%. The gap between what AI can do and what it is already doing is enormous. The researchers are explicit about what comes next. As capabilities improve and adoption deepens, the red area grows to fill the blue. The demographic finding is what makes the paper uncomfortable. The most AI-exposed workers earn 47% more on average than the least exposed group. They are more likely to be female. They are more likely to be college educated. This is not a story about warehouse workers or truck drivers. It is a story about lawyers, financial analysts, market researchers, and software developers. The exact group whose education was supposed to insulate them. Computer programmers showed the highest observed AI exposure at 74.5%. Customer service representatives at 70.1%. Data entry keyers at 67.1%. Medical record specialists at 66.7%. Market research analysts and marketing specialists at 64.8%. These are not predictions. These are measurements of work that is already happening on AI platforms right now. Then there is the pipeline finding nobody is talking about loudly enough. Anthropic's researchers found a 14% decline in the job-finding rate for workers aged 22 to 25 in highly exposed occupations since ChatGPT launched. No comparable effect for workers over 25. Entry-level roles were never just jobs. They were the training ground where junior analysts became senior analysts, where junior lawyers learned how arguments hold together. If that layer disappears, nobody has answered the question of where the next generation of senior professionals comes from. The detail buried in the paper that most coverage missed: 30% of American workers have zero AI exposure at all. Cooks. Mechanics. Bartenders. Dishwashers. The technology reshaping professional careers is completely irrelevant to roughly a third of the workforce. The divide is no longer between high skill and low skill. It is between presence and absence. The company publishing this study is the same company selling the AI doing the replacing. Anthropic had every commercial incentive to soften these findings. They published them anyway. If you spent four years and $200,000 on a degree to land a white collar career, the company that builds Claude just confirmed your job is more exposed than the bartender pouring drinks at your graduation party. Source: Anthropic, "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence" PDF: anthropic.com/research/labor…

Anthropic just pulled Claude Code from the Pro plan. Pro users wanting it need Max now. $100/month minimum. 5x jump. I'm on Max 20x so I'm fine. Flagging for anyone on Pro who's about to find out. No announcement. Just a pricing page edit.

@blackguymfwethu Nostalgia won't save your business. You either adapt or die.

We used to be a country 😭

@Beaver_icp @keepKEW @TonyLaneNV I was about to say the same, why allow so many guns in public then act like pussies everytime you see one?

@keepKEW @TonyLaneNV when you have a country which has a law which allows virtually evey one to have a gun, as well as a culture of 'guns are cool', with shooting ranges as hobbies.... what do you expect. American people and American cops are trigger happy.

🚨 NEW BODYCAM FOOTAGE RELEASED The traffic stop that went viral now has bodycam showing what actually happened. Deputies in San Marcos pulled over a red Hyundai Sonata for a vehicle code violation late at night. While checking the car, they noticed registration inconsistencies and damage to the steering column, raising suspicions the vehicle could be stolen. Then things escalated. Police say the 33-year-old passenger ignored repeated commands, rolled up his window, reached toward the floorboard, and armed himself with a semiautomatic handgun. Officers safely removed the 21-year-old driver, but the passenger refused orders to drop the weapon and raised the gun. At that point, five deputies and an officer opened fire. The man was pronounced dead. The original video sparked intense debate online… but now the bodycam is adding new context to what unfolded. After seeing the details - what’s your conclusion? ⬇️ 🇺🇸

@KaraboNtshweng AI is just a tool to accelerate your flow and work.

Yoh guys AI is great and all but I think if you running a business still hire a designer hey. People’s logos, flyers and marketing material is looking the same. Just saw two different brands with identical artwork.

Computer science is gradually returning to the domain of physicists, mathematicians, and electrical engineers as large language models automate much of what we currently call software engineering. The field’s center of gravity is shifting away from manual code writing and toward deeper theoretical thinking, mathematical insight, and systems-level reasoning.

@LFCZA TBF that whole last 3rd is disjointed. Salah flaurished from how they played as Klopp's team. Frimpong and Rio are probably best suited but even that's a gamble. That's how bad this season has been from team geling perspective.

Sad to see Salah fall off the cliff

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@FlorinPop17 No, if only about 16% of companies are getting it right then obviously there's still poor applications of the tools. If anything we're going to spend quite a bit of time cleaning up the mess from organizations that get caught in the bubble.

As a dev, are you still afraid that AI is going to take your job?

Bro has decided to expose all the magicians 😭😭

@Thabiso_Kgabung @blackguymfwethu And how would you compete with the international companies? Particularly when it comes to hosting and licensing? Look up the history of streaming services from today's major providers and the financing problems they faced. Adoption and infrastructure(e.g. Data) were poor in🇿🇦

@timzzo @blackguymfwethu Lol musica was monied. It was owned by Clicks. If management wanted to pivot, they could've done so and pitched to Clicks. I think part of the bigger issue was the ownership structure. Them being under Clicks was an injustice

Am I the only one who thinks if companies like Musica, Reliable Music Warehouse and Mr Video had quickly jumped onto streaming they'd still be alive?

If you are Vietnamese and "shocked" by me comparing Khamenei to Hồ Chí Minh, ask yourself very simply: Shocked by what exactly? That he led a country demonized by America? That he refused to kneel to Washington and Tel Aviv? That he chose sanctions over surrender? That he was called a monster by the same media that once called us "gooks" and "communist aggressors"? You do not have to love Iran. You do not have to agree with everything Khamenei ever did. But if you grow up on stories of Điện Biên Phủ, of the Trường Sơn trail, of B52s over Hà Nội, and then you find yourself instinctively defending the narrative of the very empire that napalmed your grandparents, you should pause. Hồ Chí Minh and Khamenei are not identical men. Vietnam is not Iran. Our paths, cultures, and systems are different. The comparison is about something else: Both led countries that refused to be obedient clients. Both were marked for destruction by the same empire. Both were turned into caricatures so that bombs and sanctions would look like "justice" to Western audiences. Both paid, and made their people pay, a huge price to hold a line against a global system that prefers compliant oil monarchies and comprador elites. If you can understand why Uncle Hồ accepted isolation, bombing, hunger, and demonization rather than hand Vietnam back to France and America, you already understand the logic of why Iran chose resistance over humiliation. If that logic looks noble when it is Vietnamese, but "fanatic" when it is Iranian, then the shock is not moral. It is colonial. You are uncomfortable that someone placed our own symbol of resistance next to a man your enemies told you to hate. So instead of interrogating their propaganda, you defend it for free. We do not honor Hồ Chí Minh because he was perfect. We honor him because he refused to sell our future for comfort. Khamenei, for his people, played a similar role: a leader the empire could never buy, who chose to live and die under siege rather than kneel. If that comparison offends you, fine. But be honest about why. Is it because you truly believe no nation has the right to resist empire the way we did? Or is it because somewhere along the way, you started seeing through American eyes which struggles are "legitimate" and which are "terrorism"? As a Vietnamese, I will not let the country that slaughtered ours dictate which other nations are allowed to fight back with dignity.

Everyone is excited about AI modernizing COBOL to Java. But let’s be honest: This is not modernization. It is translation. Tools from companies like Anthropic can convert COBOL into Java. That sounds impressive. But what do we really get? The same system The same processes The same complexity Just in a different syntax. This is what I call “old wine in new bottles”. The real problem of many legacy systems is not the programming language. It is unclear business logic, implicit processes, and decades of accumulated complexity. If you translate that 1:1, you keep the problem alive. There is another aspect that is often ignored: performance. Mainframe systems are fast for a reason. Application and database run close together, often without network latency. Highly optimized I/O, predictable execution. When we “modernize” to Java with distributed systems, REST calls, and remote databases, we often introduce: More latency More failure points More complexity And sometimes even worse performance than before. So what should we do instead? Do not start with code. Start with understanding. Use AI to: * extract business rules from COBOL * make implicit processes explicit * document behavior as specifications Then redesign the system based on today’s needs. COBOL → Understanding → Specifications → New System Not: COBOL → Java → Done Modernization is not about changing the language. It is about reducing complexity and improving clarity. Let’s move from translating code to understanding systems.

@fred_k_gau @KoketsoResane I thought it was wrong 😂 but was too lazy to check.

@timzzo @KoketsoResane Sought, not sort :)

This is actually insane. Had a lecturer back in the day who was one of the few people in South Africa who was sensei-level in COBOL. The lecturing was his side-hustle - an idea whispered to him by his wife to “give back”. Mans made so much money from maintaining a large retail bank’s backend COBOL systems that he would rock up at lectures slightly late and still wearing his biker boots. Those who know, know. Solid lecturer though, if you had a good foundation.

I read about OpenClaw. I still don't understand the purpose. Can someone seriously explain to me the purpose of this AI assistant? I reviewed the different "skills" it offers and it makes literally zero sense. This can be used to automate ... messages to other people? Like on Slack, or Discord, or Telegram? Check the weather? Do stuff with Stripe? I don't understand the purpose. Why would I need something to automatically deal with instant messaging clients? Am I missing something? Even if you don't NEED it, why would you WANT it? I DON'T UNDERSTAND

@mcqueenkachow12 @mesetatron @vxunderground Agree, these do seem like good useful use cases.

@mesetatron @vxunderground You're basically the only person who provided actual use cases. Informative!