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- 160,000 tech employees were laid off in all of 2022
- 84,000 were laid off in January 2023 alone https://layoffs.fyi/
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Tesla Model Y Steering Wheel Falls Off While Driving, One Week After Delivery. reminded me of this classic Up to half a million workers, including teachers, university staff, civil servants, border officials and train and bus drivers, will walk out of their jobs across the UK. https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/day-of-disruption-in-u-k-as-up-to-half-a-million-join-walkout-1.6254831 An excellent article on the importance of class analysis in understanding the mechanics of capitalist oppression and exploitation https://compactmag.com/article/diversity-is-a-ruling-class-ideology and an interview about the article New documentary exposes West German and ex-Nazi role in Indonesian genocide https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/new-documentary-exposes-west-german-and-ex-nazi-role-indonesian-genocide#.Y9eTi0ZONiI.twitter Bay Area Cities To Lose ALL Zoning Powers in 2 Days https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/ca-cities-to-lose-all-zoning-powers China invested nearly $550B in energy transition in 2022, more than the US, EU, and most other major countries combined https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/energy-transition-investment-trends-2023.pdf Hongkongers in UK are finding out what living under an actual oppressive regime is like How China is Leading the Fight Against Climate Change https://www.eatrice.la/how-china-is-leading-the-fight-against-climate-change/ Parsel: A (De-)compositional Framework for Algorithmic Reasoning with Language Models - Stanford University Eric Zelikman et al - Beats prior code generation sota by over 75%! https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10561 New method to control electron spin paves the way for efficient quantum computers https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/electron-spin-valley-coupling-quantum-computers-548282/ 90% vaccination rate is likely the key reason why China reopening didn't lead to the kind of unmitigated disaster we saw in the west in the early stages of the pandemic Rural Americans arenโt included in inflation figures โ and for them, the cost of living may be rising faster https://theconversation.com/rural-americans-arent-included-in-inflation-figures-and-for-them-the-cost-of-living-may-be-rising-faster-197781  A new study asks ChatGPT to find bugs in sample code and suggest a fix. It works better than existing programs, fixing 31 out of 40 bugs. Programming today is one of the few industries where the workers own the means of production. However, If ML models become an integral part of the workflow then the workers become dependent on the companies that run these models. https://www.pcmag.com/news/watch-out-software-engineers-chatgpt-is-now-finding-fixing-bugs-in-code  @yogthos I get what you are referring to here, but employed programmers don't own the means of production in any meaningful sense. All of the equipment they use is owned by their employer, and every line of code they produce for work--including any code that generates or tests other code or any algorithms they produce--automatically belongs to the employer. @yogthos Yes...that is definitely a concern. But corporations have saved tons of money by fostering a system where engineers are responsible for bearing the cost of their own training and skills development, and technologies that are not freely available for engineers to learn on their own fare poorly in the market. SAS comes to mind as a prime example of this. I can absolutely see douchy bosses like Elon Musk pushing ChatGPT, but it will be interesting (awful) to see how this plays out.
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