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The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Great Depression 2.0 gets under way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHeTXoORzE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260129-the-job-cuts-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake - podcast

time: 9 min 32 sec

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[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Also likely to be concentrated in the USA, whose government is helpfully screaming at the rest of the world "disconnect your economies and your IT systems from ust!" Most of us are busy doing that as fast as possible although it takes a while to get everyone on board.

its a very useful skill when reading the internet to learn to see when "in the US and UK" or "in SoCal and London" should be appended to a sentence. Once you see it you can't unsee it.