He’s been told his entire life he’s better than everyone else, it’s no wonder he convinces others.

He spent part of his youth benefiting from apartheid and being a German kid in an African town that literally glorified Nazism until the 1980s.

He got all of the $100,000 he first lost in bad investments from family and friends.

Celebrity billionaires, they’re just like us… lmao

Correct, in the book they have multiple groups of soldiers that run ahead (in vehicles) if there is a vanguard.

I’m reading it too because I read it over a decade ago and making it into a movie seemed stupid to me. So I wanted to know how stupid.

They briefly cover that in the article.

It’s too easy to just blame AI, though, Farid said.

“Something is happening in the industry,” he said. “I think it’s a confluence of many things. I think AI is part of it. I think there’s a thinning of the ranks that’s happening, that’s part of it, but something is brewing.”

A problem is that this professor seems pragmatically isolated from the industry, so he has no idea what he’s talking about.

He has been pumping the industry full of people looking for high-paying jobs while often barely caring about technology at all.

The problem isn’t just AI, in my experience there has been a glut of mediocre workers in tech for decades now. I interviewed quite a few from this professor’s university. I can’t remember if it was a graduate from Stanford or Berkeley who spent the entire interview on his phone.

Whoa, a university professor barely knew anything about the greater tech industry?! No way!

“For people like your son, by the way, who four years ago were promised, go study computer science, it’s going to be a great career. It is future-proof — that changed in four years," UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid said during a recent episode of Nova’s “Particles of Thought” podcast. “That is astonishing.”

“It is future-proof” is so stupid I hope he didn’t really say it out loud.

This same exact crap has been happening since the early 2000s, he was just insulated by being in Northern California as a professor at UC Berkeley. He’s been cherry-picking data the whole time and now he’s surprised.

The bubble academia lives in sometimes is genuinely incredible.

Also, give it a few years. There are a shocking number of unprofitable AI companies right now that are employing real people too.

Thoughtless dweebs like this guy kept pumping “it is future-proof” for thirty years and here we are. Millions of people who barely cared in the first place can’t find jobs.

That’s hilarious. Sling has been around for a decade… and now they care.

You can tell traditional television is dying. An industry that isn’t struggling doesn’t consistently embarrass itself like this.

It reminds me of the major labels in the music industry, pissing their pants for ten years when iTunes and streaming became popular.

It really is.

If it’s not the communities I don’t need, it’s seeing the same post several times.

Nothing wrong with that. It’s the way to filter communities out.

I wanted to make sure they were essentially like newspaper comics and they were mainly printed in the New Yorker!

They originally appeared in a series of 150 standalone single-panel comics, about half of which were originally published in The New Yorker between 1938 and their creator’s death in 1988.

Absolutely! I watch Love Island with the subtitles on and seeing “[whining continues]” or “[incoherent] …God” or whatever will always be funny.

5 of those 8 people voted for this exact crisis.

The 80s-90s one!

Oh! That’s way worse.

Hopefully he’s in high school or something and it’s an immaturity thing.

Otherwise, no doubt all of the skilled people on his team want him gone.

LG released a new version of its Magic Remote in January with a particularly limited button selection that is likely to confuse or frustrate newcomers. In addition to not having keys for individual numbers, there are no buttons for switching inputs, play/pause, or fast forward/rewind.

One of the major features of this “EasyTV” is a remote with more buttons on it, because they removed most of them on the “Magic” remote.

The rest of it seems like a pathetic attempt to enter a market they don’t really care about.

To create the Easy TV, LG said it took its LG QNED Evo (QNED85A) and adjusted it to make the picture brighter and more color-saturated, and boosted audio for dialogue.

You can also have it remind you to take medication, and apparently there’s a video calling feature.

Nah, bagging and boarding something doesn’t turn it into something to speculate on.

They do that for storage and shipping purposes.

Lmao Deutsche Bank, the bank that loaned Trump $400 million? The bank that had close ties to Jeffery Epstein?

Let’s care what the fuckheads there have to say!

Which city builder? I think I have 300 hours in Cities Skylines by now

The specificity of this really made me laugh

Lmao it was so fast too.

Good job, no one can tell your middle-man industry is failing.

I’m wondering if they were on the top of his head and they fell down off-frame to the granny look? I can’t remember where they were before butterfingers dropped his gun.

I could potentially see them doing this if they get a lot of those, but they might not. People kept magazines, but a lot of people didn’t keep the discs with them.

The foundation also has a few dozen demo discs cataloged, with mirrors at archive.org if you want to burn some!