Why recruiters can’t find workers and new grads can’t find jobs (it’s not AI)
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There will be shortages in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of nurses, physicians, teachers, engineers, pharmacists, mental health counselors, construction workers and airplane mechanics – jobs AI generally can’t do.
“All of these people who keep a society functioning are the very people we’re not going to have enough of,” said Ron Hetrick, Lightcast’s principal economist.“We have pumped so many young people into business and finance” when what’s really in demand are graduates in other fields, Hetrick said. “It’s like a factory producing these workers like widgets, even though society is saying, ‘We really don’t need them.’ And the factory just keeps pumping them out.”
And in China:
China’s graduate glut: millions enter a job market with little use for them. There's definitely going to be an adjustment period globally.
I saw this post: The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News and the graph referred to is this one:
But when you go to the original website, you find that it's a graph of a very tiny segment of the Pacific Ocean. If you look at the 60°S to 60°N graph, you get a different picture, but the graph is confusing. The red line and yellow line are supposed to be 2026 and 2025 but if you hover over the 2025 and 2026 on the right, the curves are different. Here in the graph below is what I get when I hover over the year. The thick gray line is what appears for 2026, not the red line at the top. So what the red line exactly means is not clear.
This should be front-page news: Big Tech is still censoring the news. Mind-control is still going on because young progressive still populate Big Tech.
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Seven Things I See in My ‘Strongest’ 80-Year-Old Patients. Even more evidence to support weight training for the elderly. Sarcopenia is something to be avoided. There must be something about muscle tissue that is advantageous. But mental state is also important.
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How OpenAI Plans To Win Over Doctors, Patients And Hospitals. The competition to get into the healthcare space is fierce. Unless you are a content provider, though, I don't know how you can survive. The moat is being eroded, and companies like OpenEvidence are going to find their value harder to defend. Even Doximity purchased Pathway.md (although their knowledge graph platform is going to be hard to maintain over time).
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Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled, Documented in FBI Case Filing. Another reason to use Linux? Or switch to the macOS platform?
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I saw this site announcing yet another AI Dermatologist. They're a Belarus company. Anybody feel comfortable uploading their skin pictures to a site in Belarus? And they depict all these endorsements from big name academic institutions. Did they get permission to use their logo? I'm skeptical. And it's not that difficult to build something like their yourself now. Why would you need this app? Why not just take pictures and compare them? Stuff like this needs to be run on a local model instead of some unknown model in eastern Europe.
And then there is Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let them use it to train AI. Nothing is free, I guess. But that's how AI improves – more training.
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Someone sent me this video on Claude's thinking. But some feel that just because there is "thinking" doesn't mean there is a thing that thinks. Which is true.
Google’s Demis Hassabis says it’s time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US. Perhaps, but not by Google. That would be ill-advised. It needs to be done by an independent group, that only observes and reports, but does not actually have power to control.
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Oops. Someone using Codex issued a cURL command and accidentally got the list of this year's Fields Medal winners. Another example how security needs to be tightened in the era of AI. You never know when secrets can be revealed. I'd love to know how this breach really came down.
Maybe the Fields committee needed to implement context bombs. These are fake messages that AI agents might encounter proclaiming "500 Error: Content Exists Risk" and the agent will retreat. It's funny about how they used political messages about China to keep the Chinese agents away. Heh. The Peoples' Agents!
Here's another oopsie. Netflix iOS app accidentally shipped their CLAUDE.md file. Some amusing stuff.
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Juvenile, but funny. People who use Claude know that it has a rather characteristic way of speaking. Apparently you can make Claude talk differently. So instead of Claude saying: "You're absolutely right! The honest take: it's a load-bearing seam." it says "I'm a complete clown! The spicy doodad: it's a cooked whatchamacallit."
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This article says that if you find yourself in the slow lane in traffic, not to change lanes to the seemingly faster one. Because mathematically it doesn't work out. This past weekend, though, I did change lanes and it was indeed the right thing to do. Some idiot was driving slowly up ahead, and I was correct in switching.
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Satya Nadella warns that if you use frontier models for your business, you are giving away your business secrets. No surprises there. This is why I'm steering more to open source models, and using serverless platforms to make them run fast.
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The GUARD Act would sacrifice privacy and parental rights. All in the name of "protecting the children".
The federal Guidelines for User Age-verification and Responsible Dialogue Act (GUARD Act) would impose mandatory identity verification on every American chatbot user, create criminal liability for covered companies under a vague standard, mandate disclosures that a user is talking to a chatbot every 30 minutes, and bar minors from using artificial intelligence (AI) companion products outright.
Sigh. This is how it always starts.
And California lawmakers might pass a law that forbids the infinite scroll interface. Sponsored by a Democrat, of course.
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I used EMACS in college, but not since then. EMACS developers threaten to fork a human-coded version of EMACS if the main branch accepts AI-authored code in the repo. We'll see how far that goes. What happens when all the old farts that still know how to code retire or pass on? It's a noble but ultimately symbolic effort.
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Washington leads the nation in shoplifting. Washington is beginning to lead the nation in a lot of undesirable things, aren't they?
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Portlanders don't want to fund the police to protect them now, if it means taking money from the Climate Change fund, which might benefit them...when?
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The Oregonian considers energy companies "polluters". What an insult. Just to push heat pumps, which may not work for everybody. You need to subsidize the purchase and installation, and the home needs to be insulated well for it to work. And heat pumps only make sense if electricity is not expensive.
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