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More like, operating a submarine that's being designed and built-up around you as you travel in it, with half the components being obscure military secrets that - for reasons unknown - don't come with operator manuals anymore, and the other half being done by children copying designs they saw in TV shows with duct-tape and plasticine.
That's how modern software industry feels like.
Huh. I would never have thought of "pile up dirty crockery until some later time" as an option!
> Penrose book...
That's from 2003, when the string theory theorists were riding high and attacking string theory was bad for a physicist's career. Now, "with string theorists now virtually unemployable unless they can figure out how to rebrand as machine learning experts...", the situation has reversed.
String theorists understand high-dimensional math, so maybe they can do something for machine learning theory. Probably not, but we can hope. It's frustrating how much of a black box machine learning systems are.
See https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be...
I'll set it loose on a development or staging system but wouldn't let it around a production system.
Don't forget your backups. There was that time I was doing an upgrade of the library management system at my Uni and I was sitting at the sysadmin's computer and did a DROP DATABASE against the wrong db which instantly brought down the production system -- she took down a binder from the shelf behind me that had the restore procedures written down and we had it back up in 30 seconds!
It’s bound to generate some heated discussion. A lot of people on that discussion asks the same question. There’s a lack of transparency on why some posts get flagged.
A pause in processing of immigration visas affects the tech industry and is relevant to most of the audience who lives in the US.
What did Jordan, Azerbaijan, Macedonia or Uruguay do?
All it needs is an experiment that can test it.
There are lots of far-UV germicidal lamps. Here's one, from Shenzhen.[1] (This is Naomi Wu's business.)
There are lot of fake ones out there. Especially ones with LEDs. Nobody has a 222nm LED with enough power for this yet.
Someone should make a simple tester. Something that's on the end of a stick, you hold it up near the ceiling, and it lights up:
- Green - enough 222nm light to be effective, not too much other UV.
- Red - too much other UV, light is dangerous.
- Yellow - only "homeopathic" levels of 222nm, ineffective.
You can buy NBS-traceable UV meters, and even a spectrometer, but they're expensive.
[1] https://cybernightmarket.com/products/nukit-lantern-far-uvc-...
> I'm sure Brussels is super safe if you use Mogadishu as the point of comparisons
I believe their point was that Brussels is “super safe” compared to Chicago. 67 times fewer gun incidents is quite a lot.
I live in Dublin, Ireland, which is a lot smaller than Brussels, and when there is a shooting it gets on the news. You can imagine how amused I was coming from São Paulo that a full-on gang war was going on when I arrived here and 4 people had been shot in the previous year.
A friend of mine who also came from São Paulo, a trauma surgeon, had to change specialty here because there simply isn’t enough work.
Of course, cloud is the new timesharing.
For database stuff most databases like PostgreSQL have robust permissions mechanisms built in.
No need to mess around with regular expressions against SQL queries when you can instead give the agent a PostgreSQL user account that's only allowed read access to specific tables.
So you say, but I don't think social media companies are benign or have the best interest of visitors at heart. If anything they make it far easier to identify users who are susceptible to propaganda and feed it to them in bulk.
Those were pretty incredible machines. You were early for Sun’s slogan “the network is the computer”. I’ve seen the B-21 (or was it the 25?) at Unisys well after it was discontinued. It sold relatively well with financial institutions.
We need more articles on how they worked and reports on how they were used.
Apparently. If you're scared of the government, this would be an entirely rational thing to do to safeguard the privacy of other people you know on Signal.
Noted, it was included for completeness after I had independently found the resources I enumerate.
H1B processing is hopelessly backed up for the 60-70 thousand visas we give out annually. We would have to massively cut immigration inflow, from the 1-3 million annually we have today, to make those granular determinations feasible.
I don't think individualized determination are even possible. Unless you take very few people from each country, they'll inevitably find each other and form communities. And the kinds of communities they form will be driven by their cultures. The question isn't "would this one Bangladeshi be a good immigrant." It is "when 100,000 Bangladeshis inevitably form a cultural enclave in some city, will that be better or worse than what was there before?"
> His term ends on May 15, 2026, so it's almost pointless to file these charges now
His term as chairman ends in May. He remains on the Board of Governors after that. Following this fight, he may remain the most prominet voice despite losing the chairmanship.
> are you suggesting to use a mop when it rains to clean the water before it freezes
Wyoming here. We don't generally salt our roads. Instead, a combination of ploughs (to clear it) and gravel (to increase traction) are used.
More broadly: if you're "astonished with some people not having a grasp," consider that astonishment signals encountering something new.
Would be much more helpful if it indicated literally anywhere on the homepage that this was specific to the UK.
Being a .com as opposed to a .co.uk, you can't even tell from the domain.
I'm with you 100% -- shrinking tees and shrinking sleeves were the bane of my existence, I'd buy my proper size but they would only be wearable like 5 times until they got too short. But if I bought a size up, I'd be swimming in them horizontally even after they shrank. (The people here saying that shrinkage isn't a problem anymore, I have no idea what they're talking about. Maybe they wear a baggy/long style of clothing so it doesn't matter? And I don't care how supposedly "preshrunk" cotton is, it's not preshrunk enough.)
Now I just wash on cold and hang dry all my cotton shirts, tees and button-ups. Just use a folding drying rack as simple as this:
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/mulig-drying-rack-indoor-outdoo...
It's a little annoying to have to leave the rack out in the middle of some room to dry overnight, but zero shrinkage ever. The way it fit in the store is the way it still fits three years later.
And no, stretching with conditioner/shampoo doesn't work, because there's no easy way to stretch it the "right" way -- as you tug on spots at the neck and the waist to pull them apart, they stretch but in weird, inconsistent, lumpy ways. The final result just looks like you've had small kids trying to hang from different spots on your shirt and it's all out of shape. Maybe in theory if you had some kind of stretching system with long clamps or something it could work, but who has that? Doing it by hand, it's definitely not a solution.
I like the fact the design is bold. I don't like the fact it's criminally unsafe.
There are lots of interesting concept cars on every car show. Too bad companies choose to never make them.
> HTML (and XMLish syntax in general) is LISP syntax (not semantics) in disguise
No, its not. If it was, the attribute vs. child element distinction would not exist. HTML (and HTML-inspired XML) syntax is not a trivial alternative to S-expression syntax, it is more complex with additional distinctions.
A simplified subset of (HT|X)ML that uses only elements and no attributes is pretty much directyl equivalent to S-expressions, sure.
I'm guessing it's the HDD that's failing. Had such mysterious failures with my NVR (the Cloud Key thingie) from UniFi. Turns out, HDDs don't like operating in 60+ degree Celsius heat all the time - but SSDs don't mind, so fortunately the fix was just to swap the drive for a solid state one.
Probably be easier to just where an N95 (or even a cloth mask, these aren't really small particles) when changing the lint trap, to the extent this is a concern.
A large part of it is mistaking the effect of the central holding in Buckley v. Valeo (1976) as stemming from Citizens United v. FEC (2010).
You're about as off topic as it gets.
Thanks for illustrating the point.
Ask creators you follow to add Bluesky as a publishing target. Alternatively, someone builds a pull through cache and content is ripped from TikTok and Insta for serving on the ATproto fabric (yt-dlp still works well for ripping from Big Tech social media storage targets).
Micro benchmarks might skew our perception. Isn't this showing the impact of AVX-512.
Most popular: https://www.thomas-huehn.com/myths-about-urandom/
Most interesting, IMO: https://www.thomas-huehn.com/deming/
Being in the US without legal status does not require illegal entry, because legal entry does not automatically come with permanent status. Being undocumented is a civil/administrative matter, not a crime, though some of the undocumented may also have committed crimes.
Make hay while the sun shines. BYD will force self driving to table stakes in a few years.
Schemes like this have a way of getting captured.
Ran out of suckers to pay the lump sum.
Another source wouldn’t matter, the point is Trump and the US thought China was beholden to them, and surprise surprise, the global economy can sink all of the exports China can ship. The US proved its own irrelevance with this policy footgun.
> Trade with the US did weaken, but this was made up for by a rise in Chinese exports elsewhere, especially to South East Asia, Africa and Latin America.
China is going to help the rest of the world reach developed status affordably through these exports (clean tech and technology primarily) to stave off deflation and keep production and workers utilized, and the US isn’t going to replace this loss with domestic production.
As a pretext for harassing her, it appears.
> If there's one thing both parties agree with, it's that you can't ever vote for a third party
Actually, both major parties (not always at the same time) have a long track record of working very hard to promote voting for third-party candidates, doing things like funneling funds covertly (or simply nudging donors) to fund their efforts, assigning party activists to support third-party efforts, etc.
Of course, they exclusively do this for third parties whose appeal is, or is expected to be, mainly to people whos preference, if choices were limited to the major parties, would be for the other major party.
Because it's not just rhetoric, as long as the electoral system isn't reformed to change this, getting people to vote for a minor party instead of your opponent like demoralizing them and getting them to stay home, or disenfranchising them (two other things the major parties have been known to try to do to populations likely to vote for their opponents otherwise) is a lot easier and exactly half as useful, per voter, as getting them to switch to you from the other major party.
I don't know whether you've noticed, but being armed is simply giving the Federales more reasons to kill you first. The woman shot in Minneapolis was shot on the pretext of using her car as a weapon.
How do people really expect this to work? In detail? You show up with an armed militia at a school and the ICE guys just drive on past (and then raid someone else)? Or are they expecting more of an Amerimaidan situation? Jan 6th situation?
There isn’t even a pedantic difference between uniformed murder endorsed by the political class and summary execution.
And the C++ version is add std::execution::par_unseq as parameter to the ranges algorithm.
> And a lot of "patriots" don't seem to notice or care.
They notice. They care. They just love it.
The "free speech absolutist" folks never were.
The one thing I know is that for threads such as this one it is best to ignore all of the stuff from accounts made just for the purpose of participating in the thread.
I think this is a specific example of a generalized mistake, one that various bits of our infrastructure and architecture all but beg us to make, over and over, and which must be resisted, which is: Your development feedback loop must be as tight as possible.
Granted, if you are working on "Windows 12", you won't be building, installing, testing, and deploying that locally. I understand and acknowledge that "as tight as possible" will still sometimes push you into remote services or heavyweight processes that can't be pushed towards you locally. This is an ideal to strive for, but not one that can always be accomplished.
However, I see people surrender the ability to work locally much sooner than they should, and implement massively heavyweight processes without any thought for whether you could have gotten 90% of the result of that process with a bit more thought and kept it local and fast.
And even once you pass the event horizon where the system as a whole can't be feasibly built/tested/whatever on anything but a CI system, I see them surrendering the ability to at least run the part of the thing you're working on locally.
I know it's a bit more work, building sufficient mocks and stubs for expensive remote services that you can feasibly run things locally, but the payoff for putting a bit of work into having it run locally for testing and development purposes is just huge, really huge, the sort of huge you should not be ignoring.
"Locally" here does not mean "on your local machine" per se, though that is a pretty good case, but more like, in an environment that you have sole access to, where you're not constantly fighting with latency, and where you have full control. Where if you're debugging even a complex orchestration between internal microservices, you have enough power to crank them all up to "don't ever timeout" and attach debuggers to all of them simultaneously, if you want to. Where you can afford to log every message in the system, interrupt any process, run any test, and change any component in the system in any manner necessary for debugging or development without having to coordinate with anyone. The more only the CI system can do by basically mailing it a PR, and the harder it is to convince it to do just the thing you need right now rather than the other 45 minutes of testing it's going to run before running the 10 second test you actually need, the worse your development speed is going to be.
Fortunately, and I don't even how exactly the ratio between sarcasm and seriousness here (but I'm definitely non-zero serious), this is probably going to fix itself in the next decade or so... because while paying humans to sit there and wait for CI and get sidetracked and distracted is just Humans Doing Work and after all what else are we paying them for, all of this stuff is going to be murder on AI-centric workflows, which need tight testing cycles to work at their best. Can't afford to have AI waiting for 30 minutes to find out that its PR is syntactically invalid, and can't afford for the invalid syntax to come back with bad error messages that leave it baffled as to what the actual problem is. If we won't do it for the humans, we'll do it for the AIs. This is definitely not something AI fixes, despite the fact they are way more patient than us and much less prone to distraction in the meantime since from their "lived experience" they don't experience the time taken for things to build and test, it is made much worse and more obvious that this is a real problem and not just humans being whiny and refusing to tough it through.
I've heard that a lot of medical conferences take advantage of the fact that doctors need to fulfill a quota of "professional development" every year, so they set themselves at very pleasant resort hotels.
It's not like I'll get a choice between the task database going down and not going down. If my task database goes down, I'm either losing jobs or duplicating jobs, and I have to pick which one I want. Whether the downtime is at the same time as the production database or not is irrelevant.
In fact, I'd rather it did happen at the same time as production, so I don't have to reconcile a bunch of data on top of the tasks.
Fitting blocks (basically shaped plastic) around the edge to prevent birds from getting underneath and nesting. Merely landing on the panels isn't a huge nuisance, but nesting is.
We’re about to do something that may prompt Iranian missiles to target U.S. bases.
Unlike last time [1], when we had one CVN in position, one in the vicinity [2], and Israel potting their launchers, this time [3] we’re expecting some may get through.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_strikes_on_Irani...
[2] https://news.usni.org/2025/06/23/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-...
[3] https://news.usni.org/2026/01/12/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-...
Using shell becomes deeply miserable as soon as you encounter its kryptonite, the space character. Especially but not limited to filenames.
Really tricky. The big invisible (to many people) piece of progress is equalities; homophobia was much more overt back then. But I still think the best time for us in the UK was the 1997-2001 period. "Cool Brittania" to Iraq War.
1990 probably a bit too early. Right at the end of the Cold War. Deindustrialization still a big, ugly scar across many cities. The Troubles still ongoing; few residents of Northern Ireland would set the time machine back before 1998, I think.
We do have some information: https://youtu.be/Y6SSTRr2mFU?t=361 (linked with the specific timestamp)
In short, the previous two attempts were done by completely different groups of different people, a few years apart. Your direct question about if direct wisdom from these two attempts was shared, either between them, or used by Stylo, isn't specifically discussed though.
> a C++ implementation could be faster because it has better shared data concepts
What concepts are those?
There's reasonable arguments for not building new nuclear (expensive, slow), but not for closing existing nuclear unless you have some specific reasons to believe it's unsafe! That is, specific to that plant in question.
There are two kinds of people: the dead and those who aren’t dead yet.
I like Junie because it is integrated with my favorite IDE and that counts for a lot although I wish it was better integrated and searched for things using the IDE’s database as opposed to Find-String.
I like having conversations with my agent, asking questions so I know how things work, asking it to ask me questions, etc. Personally for me one benefit of AI coding is better quality and better understanding. If it’s not clear how to do something with a certain library for instance I check it out of GitHub and point IntelliJ IDEA at it and ask Junie.
Doesn't help if it's people outside the UK using it to make deepfakes of UK nationals.
Exactly the opposite is happening, enrollment-wise: https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-southern-college-boom
I went to GT and was just at a football game with my teenage daughter. She had a blast and commented how many “brown girls like her” were there compared to her very WASPy, super-liberal Maryland school. She also commented about there being babies everywhere, which was also a plus for her.
My cousin just bought a house in the Atlanta suburbs and my two other cousins moved to the DFW area. They all love it. The south is the most culturally Bangladeshi/Indian part of the U.S., for better and for worse.
A blog post about widgets with zero screenshots, kind of tells where priorities lie.
What I really loved about the talk is that you got a good insight into the actual complexities of manufacturing and drew all the right conclusions from it, rather than to throw your hands up and ordering stuff from China after all.
Friends of mine - with a bit more practical experience - are doing something similar, they realize that if there ever is a real demand for their product it might be at a time when the cheap alternatives simply are no longer available and have set up from day #1 to do everything in Europe. They are - like you - quite talented but the difference is that they have access to a lot more funding and if they need a particular machine they will simply go get it rather than to make their own.
You are resource constrained and that brings out a lot of creativity, which in the longer term will turn into a competitive advantage.
Neat. If you want to make it more practically useful you will need to include some kind of magnetic compensation map. That's one of the reason navigation apps usually are a bit larger, they require a lot of data to function well world wide. Best of luck with this, it looks very promising!
> Do you want a nuclear weapons site 20 miles from your largest city?
If you’re nuking a submarine port you’re nuking other port infrastructure. And if the UK is under strategic nuclear fire, any population center is going to be leveled.
(I understand the NIMBY argument. I don’t want to live next to nuclear weapons more due to accident risk than targeting.) And I understand the non-proliferation one when it worked.)
Charlie Eggins recorded the first ever sub-12-second 3-blind solve in competition (11.673s). So he started the timer, looked at a scrambled cube for about four seconds, nodded his blindfold into place, then solved it in about seven.
RDMS will eat the world.
Turns out it is a matter of feature set.
I worked on a startup that was mostly powered by Tcl, the amount of rewriting in C that we had to do between 1999 and 2003, when I left the company among all those dotcom busts, made me no longer pick any language without at least a JIT, for production code.
The founders went on creating OutSystems, with the same concepts but built on top of .NET, they are one of the most successful Portuguese companies to this day, and one of the few VB like development environments for the Web.
The way many of us get work assignments is:
- Have to deploy product XYZ (because we don't write everything from scratch)
- Need to extend said product
- Use one of the official SDKs, because we aren't yak shaving for new platforms
Thus that is how we end up using the languages we kind of complain about.
To be fair, languages like Elixir and Gleam do exist, because too many complain about Erlang, which me with my Prolog background see no issues with.
Very impressive numbers - I'd expect 2K tok/s on Cerebras hardware, not H200's.
> The clock was recently overhauled, and is acting as the master clock again. For years, the hotel's time signals were coming from an electric motor clock and then a quartz time standard. But they've reverted to the pendulum clock. Error is about 5 seconds a month.
Can't anyone donate them a retired Cesium clock? Or, at least, a GPS receiver.
"if you had to meet a stranger in New York City on a specific day, with no way to communicate beforehand, where would you go?"
The answer to that in San Francisco was once "meet me by the clock", which is in the lobby of the St. Francis Hotel.[1]
"There’s no easy way to sugarcoat this, so I’ll just come out and say it: it is possible that the entirety of California is built on top of one immensely large organism, and the particular spot in which the Westin St. Francis Hotel stands—335 Powell Street, San Francisco, 94102—is located directly above its beating heart."
That clock is a master clock, synchronizing the other clocks in the hotel. In the past, the synchronizing signals from that clock drove some other clocks in the downtown area. So it really is the beating heart of the city.
The clock was recently overhauled, and is acting as the master clock again. For years, the hotel's time signals were coming from an electric motor clock and then a quartz time standard. But they've reverted to the pendulum clock. Error is about 5 seconds a month.
> In CPU world there is a desire to shield programmers from those low-level details, but I think there are two interesting forces at play now-a-days that’ll change it soon. On one hand, Dennard Scaling (aka free lunch) is long gone, hardware landscape is getting increasingly fragmented and specialized out of necessity, software abstractions are getting leakier, forcing developers to be aware of the lowest levels of abstraction, hardware, for good performance.
The problem is that not all programming languages expose SIMD, and even if they do it is only a portable subset, additionally the kind of skills that are required to be able to use SIMD properly isn't something everyone is confortable doing.
I certainly am not, still managed to get around with MMX and early SSE, can manage shading languages, and that is about it.
Imagine if there were programs that let you write HTML like using a word processor. And then they let you upload that file to a server.
I'm still using Dreamweaver 8 from 2004 to edit some sites. I paid for it as a boxed product, including the right to transfer it to a replacement computer. It's on its fourth replacement computer now, running under Wine emulation on Linux.
The sites load really fast.
There were a few attempts to build open source tools like Dreamweaver, but they all seem to have been abandoned.
Alongside delivering in performance, and being a role model in pushing oneself to the limit in regards to training.
Photos don't win matches.
Or maybe they think they should be sending each keystroke to a server and waiting for the response.
I had similar feelings of perplexity until one day it dawned on me that Adams' self-insert wasn't Dilbert, but Dogbert.
as an independent Artist I wanted to put my emotions and my soul on this masterpiece
Barf
See "The Your Name Here Story" (1960) [1] It's a generic industrial film.
You got me. The WASM runtime I vibe-coded on my phone over the holidays isn't actually very good!
but because the app is no longer in development, it's essentially useless
the app used to store data for up to 5 users to keep track over time. I miss that!
What? Was it storing the data on a cloud server? In that case it's a different story, but a local app should continue working essentially indefinitely.
All this focus on source code is IMHO missing the point. RMS also missed this point when he started the GNU project. Source code is neither necessary nor sufficient for (legal) freedom. They just need to relinquish the copyright and release any keys and such getting in the way. Lots of examples otherwise --- I'll refer you to the cracking scene, game modding, etc.
In the physical world, products can be "EOL" for decades and the aftermarket will fill in the void if there is demand, often even when the original product is still in production. The original manufacturer never released blueprints and other comparable-to-source-code information; they just don't try to stop the aftermarket. Mid-century cars are a great example of this.
tl;dr: stop demanding source code, start demanding freedom.
No, just let the scavengers continue collecting and reusing them.
> O visa's original intent was to help pretty ladies from Eastern Europe to be brought into the country as indentured workers
That seems like something we should fix?
I'm in the process of designing some electronics bricks for one of my kids so he can take a schematic, given all of the parts then place the bricks on a baseplate and connect them with the circuit represented as close as possible. It's an interesting project, the biggest challenge I seem to have is to source the spring terminals, I have yet to find a place that will sell them separately.
We're apparently back to making psychoanalysts out of interviewers:
I'll dedicate a post to specific ways you can identify motivation
during hiring, but in short, look for: the obvious one: evidence that
they indeed exhibited these external signs of motivation (in an
unforced way!) in past jobs; signs of grit in their career and life
paths (how did they respond to adversity, how have they put their past
successes or reputation on the line for some new challenge);
intellectual curiosity in the form of hobbies, nerdy interests that
they can talk about with passion
> The USA is much worse than China - to foreigners
The USA is such a hellhole that millions want to come here, legally or otherwise.
It only applies regardless of state law to the extent that the officer is both up to and at that point acting without malice in an objectively reasonable belief that that there actions are within their lawful federal duties (not merely the policy directives and goals of the federal superiors), because otherwise Supremacy Clause immunity does not apply, and state law controls fully.
Given ICE's very narrow jurisdiction (despite their current aggressive actions and the clear approval of their federal executive superiors for that aggression) this is a real concern about their content even before the shooting.
> Theres zero consequences because this was completely unambiguously a justified shoot.
There's zero consequences (yet) because the federal government monopolized the evidence and refused to do either allow state authorities access or conduct a real investigation themselves despite clear indications that it was not a justified shoot, resulting in the resignation of several prosecutors in the division that would have handled such a misconduct case.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/federal-prosecutors-resign-min...
I don't believe he had the easily curable kind, or that there's evidence that he completely ditched conventional medicine --- he publicly appealed to Trump for Pluvicto, which treats mCRPC. In several unusual but not ultra-rare cases, CRPC among them, prostate cancer is a nightmare diagnosis. Worse, the kinds of prostate cancer most easily caught by screening tend not to be the aggressive kind, meaning aggressive cases tend to get caught in advanced stages.
Respectfully, I don't think comments like yours are a good idea. I don't think RFKJ had much of anything to do with what happened to Adams.
> > I hope you are not claiming perception of intent is enough to claim a life > > It is the actual intent that counts.
> As an objective legal matter, it is.
You are both wrong. The requirement for self-defense (which may or may not even be available here if it is ever charged, because it doesn't apply to all kinds of murder, notably generally not to felony murder, which given ICE's very narrow jurisdiction there is a very good case, IMO, applies here) is neither mere subjective perception nor actual intent, but objectively reasonable fear. Actual perception of a threat which is not objectively reasonable in the circumstances does not justify self-defense.
Haha. But DNA is a very good example of what I'm talking about. It's both "code" and "data" at the same time - or rather, a perfect demonstration that these concepts don't exist in nature.
I don't think it is possible to talk about fractions of nanoseconds without having an extremely good idea of the stability and accuracy of your clock. At best I think you could claim there is some kind of reduction but it is super hard to make such claims in the absolute without doing a massive amount of prep work to ensure that the measured times themselves are indeed accurate. You could be off by a large fraction and never know the difference. So unless there is a hidden atomic clock involved somewhere in these measurements I think they should be qualified somehow.
Yup. The problem was never with the technology replacing work, it was always with the social aspect of deploying it, that ends up pulling the rug under people whose livelihood depend on exchanging labor for money.
The luddites didn't destroy automatic looms because they hated technology; they did it because losing their jobs and seeing their whole occupation disappear ruined their lives and lives of their families.
The problem to fix isn't automation, but preventing it from destroying people's lives at scale.
Influencers are, by definition, advertisers - and a particularly insidious, ugly bunch at that.
If we go by the vibe of this thread, it's yet another reason to avoid social media. You wouldn't want to reward people like this.
As for the broader topic, this segues into the worryingly popular fallacy of excluded middle. Just because you're not against something, doesn't mean you're supporting it. Being neutral, ambivalent, or plain old just not giving a fuck about a whole class of issues, is a perfectly legitimate place to be in. In fact, that's everyone's default position for most things, because humans have limited mental capacity - we can't have calculated views on every single thing in the world all the time.
Then more people need to use a VPN!