Cory Doctorow, on good form today:
“But why are bosses such easy marks for these gabby AI hustlers? Partly, it's because an AI can probably do your boss's job—if 90% of your job is answering email and delegating tasks, and if you are richly rewarded for success but get to blame failure on your underlings, then, yeah, an AI can totally do that job.”
Similarly, HR drones know nothing about actual job skills, hence interview you as though for THEIR job.
#bullshitjobs and Bitcoin mining both are attempts of wasting resources and energy in order to claim numbers and sequences of bytes.
The global fight over abstractions of wealth is wasting more actual wealth than ever. The largest bubble of all time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/12/01/sudden-3-trillion-crypto-market-collapse-sparks-serious-bitcoin-price-crash-warning/
#bullshitjobs and Bitcoin mining both are attempts of wasting resources and energy in order to claim numbers and sequences of bytes.
The global fight over abstractions of wealth is wasting more actual wealth than ever. The largest bubble of all time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/12/01/sudden-3-trillion-crypto-market-collapse-sparks-serious-bitcoin-price-crash-warning/
We are getting poorer and poorer. On a completely overheating planet. As billions of economically unnecessary #bullshitjobs are wasting more resources, energy and fossil fuels than ever.
But politicians, like Michael Kretschmer, simply continue to demand more work and "effort".
Capitalism and its billions of #bullshitjobs and data centers full of "clever" money-manipulating algorithms is wasting more energy and fossil fuels than ever.
Devastating our very planet and existence.
"22 of Earth's 34 'vital signs' are flashing red"
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/22-of-earths-34-vital-signs-are-flashing-red-new-climate-report-reveals-but-theres-still-time-to-act
Capitalism and its billions of #bullshitjobs and data centers full of "clever" money-manipulating algorithms is wasting more energy and fossil fuels than ever.
Devastating our very planet and existence.
"22 of Earth's 34 'vital signs' are flashing red"
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/22-of-earths-34-vital-signs-are-flashing-red-new-climate-report-reveals-but-theres-still-time-to-act
On pourrait tous arrêter de travailler et vivre dans l'abondance, mais non, le capitalisme nous oblige à avoir des jorbs!
L’Afnic choisit LightOn pour déployer une IA générative souveraine et sécurisée https://www.lighton.ai/fr-blog-posts/lafnic-choisit-lighton
@bortzmeyer ça sert à quoi ?
On croirait dans certains services qui font tout un tas de groupes de travail et autres comités autour de l’IA pour « accompagner » et patati et patata mais je ne vois jamais d’objectif dans les diapos.
Ça me donne l’impression qu’il faut faire de l’IA pour dire que l’on fait de l’IA, et on finira bien par trouver à quoi ça peut servir.
GDP goes up as billions of #bullshitjobs waste more and more resources and energy.
A completely nonsensical and suicidal metric.
Without the #bullshitjobs "economy", GDP would be much lower and we would be magnitudes wealthier.
"German GDP down 0.3%"
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article68a8085c5d3e123a945a717f/minus-0-3-prozent-deutsche-wirtschaft-ist-im-zweiten-quartal-staerker-geschrumpft-als-erwartet.html
GDP goes up as billions of #bullshitjobs waste more and more resources and energy.
A completely nonsensical and suicidal metric.
Without the #bullshitjobs "economy", GDP would be much lower and we would be magnitudes wealthier.
"German GDP down 0.3%"
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article68a8085c5d3e123a945a717f/minus-0-3-prozent-deutsche-wirtschaft-ist-im-zweiten-quartal-staerker-geschrumpft-als-erwartet.html
Capitalism and its billions of #bullshitjobs and data centers full of computational nonsense is completely destroying our entire planet.
We are leaving behind a planet destroyed within just a few decades of silly money games.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/08/20/why-heat-and-drought-are-making-trees-look-like-autumn-is-coming-early_6744533_114.html
Capitalism and its billions of #bullshitjobs and data centers full of computational nonsense is completely destroying our entire planet.
We are leaving behind a planet destroyed within just a few decades of silly money games.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/08/20/why-heat-and-drought-are-making-trees-look-like-autumn-is-coming-early_6744533_114.html
I was familiar with "bullshit jobs" as a term and book, but only now reading it. This video fits very well.
