It’s only getting worse …

🔗 AI Avatars Are Doing Job Interviews Now

For the longest time I have argued against the thoughtless deployment of ATS systems in corporations.

Downside for corporates - totally miss the nuance of people and their ‘particular sets of skills’ because they are over simplifying what they think they are looking for.

Downside for people - your resume and cover letter are no longer enough - you know need to think about tuning yourself with keywords to ensure you are fully ‘Search Engine Optimised’.

The whole thing is just one giant mess that benefits nobody.

Me previously …

• 🖇️ 2021
• 🖇️ 2024john.philpin.com/2024/06/3…)

An excellent read.

🔗 AI - A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?

So excellent, I thought I would share some extracts.

🔗 Wearisome and Dissipating - by Stowe Boyd - Work Futures

It’s interesting to me that leaders of companies who have disrupted entire industries by “breaking the box” and solving problems in new ways are so committed to “doing work” the same way it’s been done for the last 50 years.

💬 Nicole Rivers

🔗 🍿 WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org

🔗 GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz Attended Drug-Heavy Sex Party With 17-Year-Old: Legal Docs (Apple News)

This story has been in and out of the news for YEARS.

And here it is surfacing again.

Time to DO something about it.

Kevin Drum 🔗 Too cheap to meter is finally getting close.

On the click through … all the places in California … and there are a LOT -…where the whlesale price of electicity is … wait for it …

Zero

I am pissed off that UGG can’t trademark their name - and so UGG ripoffs abound!!

It’s exactly the same deal with Wordpress and WPEngine. It should not be allowed.

Matt M … 🔗 WP Engine is not WordPress

The opening statement on the WPEngine site …

We power the freedom to create on WordPress

Because of course Wordpress don’t do that?

The Second WTF today - in as many posts!

🔗 Privacy Service Optery Faces Backlash After Plan to Send OpenAI User Data

What goes through the mind of these people? I want to delete something from the internet - but just before you do that please suck it in the giant AI thingy so it is built into the future and for posterity!

WTF

🔗 Everina Maxwell (don’t ask)

She grew up in Sussex, UK, which has come a long way from the days of Cold Comfort Farm and now has things like running water and Brighton Pier.

(my bold)

Whilst I get that the author of the above is trying to be funny, I might grant more credibility with accuracy. Brighton Pier appeared (pun intentional) on the South coast 3 years before Stella Gibbons was even born and fully 33 years before Cold Comfort Farm was published.

As for running water, well - it was a farm - so highly likely.

I guess 50% true is pretty good in these modern times.

🔗 Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities

Oh - I wonder what caused that change to happen?