we will all lose something of ourselves

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This is all about to flip — the default assumption about a photo is about to become that it’s faked, because creating realistic and believable fake photos is now trivial to do. We are not prepared for what happens after.

Source: No one’s ready for this – The Verge

Considering the current state of reading comprehension and media literacy in the United States the situation is going to become horrible extremely quickly.

Take in point— conservative media blowing up over “Haitian immigrants eating pets“, which was from the get-go a fake issue, created by Springfield neo-nazis as blood libel. We were already familiar with this kind of racial perception from previous situations so I was already disbelieving of it. But other people on social media outside the US truly believed it. Ourselves we corrected a couple people. One of them blocked us for it 🤷‍♀️

But in both these cases there were no fake pictures to complicate the issue. At some point a fake picture is going to blow up and it’s going to be almost impossible to dispel the issue unless there’s video of the specific situation. But then genAI is going to then start faking video and we’ll be in the same situation.

Humanity will lose the ability to remember things as they truly were, choosing instead to remember things how they wished they were.

 

Real jobs are the occult norm now

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Ghost jobs might just be a temporary symptom of an uncertain economy. But Erica Groshen, an economist at Cornell University and former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said the way companies hire and candidates job hunt is changing.

Source: “Ghost jobs” are on the rise – Marketplace

It is now August of 2024. I’ve have applied to a lot of IT jobs that aren’t in the tech sector. I’ve heard nothing from those HR departments. Ghost jobs aren’t a bug of the recruiting sector any longer, but a feature.

Corriendo, con una bestia detrás

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The question is :

  • do we have the mental weaponry to start over again
  • do we have the economic wherewithal to see it through
  • do we want to lose everything yet again? For the Nth time.

Horrible things happening around here. We’re lying on the couch and there is no peace.

They’re still racist BTW

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When the Dutch discovered vast natural gas deposits in Groningen in 1959, they started extracting and exporting the gas as fast as possible. The high exports increased demand for the Dutch currency, the guilder, which caused its value to skyrocket relative to other currencies. And that in turn made other, non-gas Dutch exports too expensive to compete on international markets. This ultimately decimated the manufacturing sector and raised unemployment in the country. Paradoxically, the huge windfall ended up hurting the economy.

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2024/07/26/g-s1-13534/ozempic-biggest-side-effect-denmark-pharmastate

If we recall our history books properly, the same thing happened to the Spanish economy after they sacked, raped, and pillaged their way through the New World.

We can do it and so can you

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Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones)

This is an example of “how much of a mess the robots.txt landscape is right now,” the anonymous operator of Dark Visitors told 404 Media. Dark Visitors is a website that tracks the constantly-shifting landscape of web crawlers and scrapers—many of them operated by AI companies—and which helps website owners regularly update their robots.txt files to prevent specific types of scraping. The site has seen a huge increase in popularity as more people try to block AI from scraping their work.

We just blocked everyone and everything. We don’t particularly care about it being found, it’s not like the blogosphere is still a viable entity.

Fucken drama, seriously

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So much stuff happens at bistroJerb that I think it’ll just be better for my long-term memory if we dump it on here instead of attempting to remember it all.

In the past week:

  • Monday: no activity, thank gods
  • Tuesday: Four servers hired.
  • Wednesday: GM is out. She’s new to the job and already went off on vacation (she’s coming back but not yet)
  • Thursday: All bartenders are unavailable for me. Full patio buyout, full dining room. bistroBoss understaffed so badly he had to take tables and he absolutely sucks at it. We fang dinner service on our own.
  • Friday: Two people staging cos this is how bistroBoss gets free labor out of everyone that wants employment. Three people are actually training and they’re supposed to be paid for it.
  • Saturday: One of the new hires walks out. One of the bartenders walks out. He was going to pay them both below minimum wage in Minneapolis­— as of July 1st it is $15.57 an hour no matter the size of the employer! We close the bar as the other bartender has a health condition.
  • Sunday: 13 hour shift as there are no other bartenders available.

Every single day the schedule went through multiple changes cos bistroBoss doesn’t know how to use 7shifts. He’s still intent on having a hospitality charge instead of tipping and our guests absolutely hate it.

We have the day off today and we’re being productive, which makes for a nice change. See y’all next week in this post series lmao.

Fucken’a bistroBoss

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Where to even fucken start, ugh. These past few months have been a whirlwind. And when the wind hits you try your best to keep your head down.

Except we’re too fucken good (and proud of it!) to keep our head down. This has the unfortunate effect of leaving our neck exposed.

But if our head rolls, so will the owner of the restaurant we work at.

We’re the sharp end of the stick. We’re the one cancelling the apocalypse on a regular basis.

Unavoidable

/ from outside

nullrend posted a photo:

Unavoidable

Sometimes we do have to leave our ride outdoors for the night. Gotta make sure to double lock everything.

Just had my tail list stolen yet again.

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