@Techmeme@techhub.socialSurvey: in a first, Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about AI's growing role in daily life, at 56% to 49%; 75% of Democrats worry about job losses (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
@doktrock@toad.social
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Personaler — Menschliche Expertise wird durch KI "nicht automatisch überflüssig"
Unternehmen hatten bei vielen Jobs gehofft, auf Menschen verzichten zu können. Doch KI ist nicht fähig, Gegensätze zu erkennen, deren Spannung die Triebkraft für Entwicklung ist.»
Ach was?!?? So überraschend kommt dies nun auch nicht und wer glaubt blind den KI-Konzernen? Anscheinend immer noch viele Verantwortliche.
🙄
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMemo: Reach plans to cut ~220 editorial jobs, create 60 new roles, and close three online-only brands, as it shifts focus away from page views and volume (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-
@felwert@fedihum.orgAn der #RuhrUniBochum sind 12 Doktorand*innen-Stellen für die Dauer von 3,5 Jahren (TV-L E13, 65%) im Rahmen des Graduiertenkollegs #GRK2945 „Wissen – Glauben – Behaupten. Wahrheitsproduktion und Wahrheitsdurchsetzung in der Vormoderne“ ausgeschrieben. Deadline 14.9.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSurvey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@cheryanne@aus.socialBetween 2 Jobs
We bring honest conversations about life on the tools, business, apprenticeships, leadership and everything in between...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/between-2-jobs/
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaAll this big deal about white collar crime -- what's WRONG with white collar
crime? Who enjoys his job today? You? Me? Anybody? The only satisfying
part of any job is coffee break, lunch hour and quitting time. Years ago
there was at least the hope of improvement -- eventual promotion -- more
important jobs to come. Once you can be sold the myth that you may make
president of the company you'll hardly ever steal stamps. But nobody
believes he'…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Meritocracy is not only false, it's bad for you.
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you
saved 2020-07-24
@cdarwin@c.imIf Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s:
“You are at the dentist’s office.
No one has seen or heard from the dentist in months, but he’s been making stock trades.”
https://kottke.org/26/07/0049331-if-other-jobs-were-like-a
@grist@fosstodon.orgSo if you’re the one inside your organization who gets to decide whether to adopt an open source tool for something that matters, the question was never “is this free?” It’s who is going to own those three jobs (features, security, continuity) for as long as we depend on this thing? https://www.getgrist.co…
@fazalmajid@vivaldi.net@… Apple is an ad company, has been since the Jobs days. Of course they care about your privacy. Just like the cattle rancher cares about his cows, until the day he sends them to the slaughterhouse.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-fil…
@cheryanne@aus.socialCareers In Agriculture
Designed to support the Agriculture industry showcase the human side of new and emerging jobs...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/careers-in-agriculture/
@doktrock@toad.social🚨Job Alert! 🚨 postdoc: amino acid geochronology at Northern Arizona University #geology #geochemistry
@scott@carfree.cityI would love to know what this poll looks like specifically in San Francisco.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/712751/americans-cool-toward.aspx
@laimis@mstdn.socialSilly guys, lost their insanely overpaid jobs for $50k each in profits...
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/two-robinhood-employees-charged-fraud
@servelan@newsie.socialPolice Keep Losing Their Jobs For Using Flock Cameras To Stalk People – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/police-losing-jobs-flock-cameras-alprs/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-fil…
@imprs_solar@academiccloud.socialRE: https://solarsystem.social/@planetary_research_jobs/117269965512105547
IMPRS alumna Rosita Kokotanekova is hiring for her new research group in cometary science:
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🔧 The self-healer is the standout: it listens for failed queue jobs and scheduled tasks, spins up an agent in an isolated git worktree on a tackle/heal- branch, diagnoses the exception, patches the code, runs your suite and then opens a PR or applies the fix directly.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"Conflating the loss of manufacturing jobs with the needs of the working class today is a distraction."
"There’s benefit to our communities and our economy to make things here, but it’s less and less likely jobs will be among those benefits."
"We shouldn’t be talking about manufacturing, we should be talking about unionization."
"Unionization is good for the economy, it tilts it away from inequality."
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialMaybe replacing jobs with AI was simply an ignorant, superficial narrative that certain gold-digging startups & fat cat business consultancies sold to boards & executive suites as "innovative strategic restructuring" & got paid $millions for it.
Reminds me of "progressive officing".
✅ The great AI layoff is turning into the great AI rehire - Fast Company
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(LinkedIn jobs) #Phosphoenix is looking for a senior medical device engineer - neurotechnology https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4462877044/ Aiming for an
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social"You have reached the entry processes (the number of simultaneously running php and cgi scripts, as well as cron jobs and shell sessions) limit 151559 times"
This is the markings of a site under permanent DDoS attack by the fucking LLMs, rendering it useless.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: populations in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than growth (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/09/17/globall…
@krone@frawas.deBilliger nur, wenn ... - Regierung: Beim Strom bahnt sich Tauschgeschäft an #News #Nachrichten …
@cdarwin@c.imAI is quietly reshaping the workforce,
not simply replacing entire jobs.
Research from Visier, analyzing millions of employee records,
indicates a 24% drop in overall hiring.
Instead of broad replacements,
AI is revaluing roles,
making distinctly human skills like judgment and interpersonal understanding more crucial.
Occupations such as educators, lawyers, and architects are proving difficult to automate.
This suggests a massive reorganiza…
@tomkalei@machteburch.socialI think it is an illusion that we mathematicians are all these unicorns with our blackboards who do this mathemagic.
Turns out, 80% of what we do can be automated. Does it follow that 80% of us will be out of our jobs now? I think yes.
Btw, I think this also applies to industry jobs because what we train, to gather all the relevant facts for a problem, structuring, making an excel sheet, systematically going through available information, dealing with uncertainty. AI is pretty good at that.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
IBM Stretch/Harvest: the NSA’s most powerful code breaker in the 1960s.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm
saved 2026-09-15
@brian_gettler@mas.toTransnational and/or South Asian Feminisms
My department is hiring in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies! I'm the chair, so I can field questions.
Deadline: October 22, 2026
Please share!
Assistant: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mi…
@arXiv_csDS_bot@mastoxiv.pageScheduling Jobs with Multiple Operational Modes and Tail Times
Bo Chen, Jelmer Pier van der Gaast, Xiandong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16001 https://…
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgOne more week to apply for my PhD position in digital forensic #linguistics #nlproc #phdposition 🤗
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/870a96abc9c1d265d30d96c359a15f0d1c02b97c0
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/18/rillet-unicorn-1-billi…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineEine Auswertung beziffert den volkswirtschaftlichen Nutzen des #ÖPNV auf rund das Dreifache seiner jährlichen Kosten.
Neben Arbeitsplätzen und Wertschöpfung werden unter anderem geringere #Unfallkosten, weniger
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@ncoca@social.coopAs newsrooms obsess over the latest #Trump blunders, what happens to the rest of the world? Hundreds of #international #journalists are losing their jobs due to
@georgiamuseum@glammr.usQ: How did you get your start in museum work and art handling?
A: I had gone to art school at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. After that I was doing odd jobs, restaurant jobs, one prop painting job and one dock building job, but mostly restaurants. Then a friend told me about opening at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and I applied and got that job.
2/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialChannel 4 poaches Channel 5 owner Paramount's £300M TV ad sales business from Sky, in a huge boost days after Channel 4 announced its plan to cut 340 jobs (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/sep/15/channel-4-paramount-tv-ad…
@lpryszcz@genomic.social"Politicians, business leaders, and educators often say that people should learn to program because the jobs of the future will require it. However, as Benjamin Doxtdator pointed out, many of those claims are built on shaky ground. Even if they were true, education shouldn’t prepare people for the jobs of the future: it should give them the power to decide what kinds of jobs there are and to ensure that those jobs are worth doing."
@jon@henshaw.socialWhat Safari on iOS was supposed to be versus what it became because of Apple's greed.
I can definitely say that Steve Jobs and I agree with Steve Jobs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nwLilQy64
@imprs_solar@academiccloud.socialRE: https://solarsystem.social/@planetary_research_jobs/117269984014147170
IMPRS alumna Rosita Kokotanekova is hiring for her Swiss-Bulgarian PROMYS-funded research group:
@padraig@mastodon.ieJobs, Wozniak, Sculley, and 13 #Apple notables sign a young fan's letter in the spring of #Macintosh '84
This is adorable.
This recently was sold at auction for nearly $34K at "Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction Part Two"
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenator McCormick Announces nearly $10 Billion in New Investment supporting 4,000 Pennsylvania Jobs at 2026 Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit (U.S. Senator Dave McCormick)
https://www.mccormick.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-mccormick-announces-nearly-10-billion-in-new-investment-supporting-4000-pennsylvania-jobs-at-2026-pennsylvania-defense-and-innovation-summit-2/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p76#a260716p76
@tagesschau_eil@mastodon.social📢 BMW will rund 8.000 Jobs abbauen
Der Autohersteller BMW will weltweit rund 8.000 Jobs abbauen. Der Stellenabbau soll bis Ende 2027 über natürliche Fluktuation sowie über ein Abfindungsprogramm auf freiwilliger Basis in Deutschland erfolgen, wie die Deutsche Presse-Agentur und AFP aus Unternehmenskreisen erfuhren.
➡️
@peter_mcmahan@mas.toMy department is hiring!
We're looking for a quantitative sociologist specializing in any of:
- Political Sociology,
- Economic Sociology/Stratification,
- Medical Sociology, or
- Technology and Society.
Assistant professor level (tenure track); deadline Oct 9.
I can't say enough nice things about the Department of Sociology at McGill -- it's colleageal, supportive, scientifically curious, and it attracts great students.
Full ad:
@markhburton@mstdn.socialLabour's £15bn military splurge could cost 20,000 jobs, research finds | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labours-ps15bn-military-splurge-could-cost-20000-jobs-research-finds
@cdarwin@c.imFirefighters battling enormous wildfires in the United States say
the federal government is failing them at a time when supercharged blazes have made their jobs exponentially more dangerous.
While the US continues to grapple with a critical shortage of federal firefighters
– with especially large gaps in essential management positions
– the Trump administration has increased pressure on firefighting forces to rapidly and aggressively contain the flames.
@shaun@mastodon.xyz
@macandi@social.heise.de @fazalmajid@vivaldi.net@… @… Jobs had the more ambitious vision, and he was sociopathic enough to realize engineers will tolerate almost any amount of abuse for the chance to do meaningful work.
@krone@frawas.de„Krone“-Liveticker - ORF-Machtpoker: Heute werden 13 Top-Jobs vergeben #News #Nachrichten
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Channel 4 is set to cut about 300 jobs, around a quarter of its staff, in its biggest round of layoffs as it seeks to limit cuts to the content budget (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/sep/08/channel-4-cut-jobs-layoff-cos…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement (Ben Casselman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/business/economists-ai-threat-jobs.h…
@cdarwin@c.imMicrosoft said on Monday it was eliminating about 4,800 jobs
– roughly 2% of its global workforce
– in a cost-cutting move that will deliver a sweeping restructuring of its struggling Xbox gaming division.
The cuts include the deepest overhaul in Xbox’s history,
with approximately 3,200 gaming jobs to be shed over the coming fiscal year,
four game studios being spun off or sold,
and a fifth entering a review process that could lead to closure, the company …
@heiseonline@social.heise.deArbeitsagentur: Jobs in der IT-Branche haben Zukunft
Der Einsatz von KI verändert den Arbeitsmarkt. Der Chef der Regionaldirektion der Bundesarbeitsagentur warnt allerdings vor Panikmache.
https://www.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toJob position for a software engineer at Neuralink Next Gen for working on robotic arms (CONVOY), visual prostheses (Blindsight), and medical imaging data pipelines https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/software-engineer-next-gen-at-oneclick-smart-res…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⚡ With the size strategy a queue holding 100,000 jobs gets roughly 10x the weight of a 10,000-job queue, so a midnight batch grabs nearly the whole worker pool while constantly-fed queues sit at their one-worker minimum and keep growing
🎯 The idea: normalize queue sizes logarithmically before calculating worker share. log10(2,000) is 3.3, log10(100,000) is 5.0 — a 50x size difference shrinks to less than 2x in weight
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThomson Reuters says it is cutting "a small number of" engineering roles; a source says it plans to cut up to 500 jobs, or 5.2% of its operations and tech unit (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/thomson-reuters-…
@doktrock@toad.social🚨Job Alert !!🚨 Univ Iowa
Structural #geology and tectonics faculty position; teaching structural, field courses/camp, etc. Expertise: ‘Hard-rock’ Earth and planetary processes, petrology, geo(thermo) chronology, geochemistry, critical minerals, etc.
🧪⚒️ (h/t ts.egu.eu on bsky)
@macandi@social.heise.de @krone@frawas.de„Kapazität angepasst“ - Werke geschlossen: Autozulieferer strich 800 Jobs #News #Nachrichten
@cdarwin@c.imThe executive branch plays no role in making election policy or regulating election administration
—the Constitution explicitly leaves those responsibilities to the states and Congress.
The “Proposed Rule: Ballot Mail for Federal Elections” therefore conflicts with the Constitution.
Beyond that, it is bad policy that will make it harder for election administrators to do their jobs,
runs the risk of potentially disenfranchising voters
and increases the chance of …
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net📊 From the test suite: queues of 946 / 13,702 / 0 jobs with 25 workers. size gives 2 / 22 / 1 workers, log gives 11 / 13 / 1. The big queue still wins, it just cannot erase the small one
🚦 Deliberately not sold as better: time balances by estimated queued work, size by raw job count, log by size while compressing huge backlogs. For mixed-runtime pipelines, time stays the right pick #Laravel
@heiseonline@social.heise.deheise | So könnte KI Jobs in Callcenter und IT-Support umkrempeln
Sprachmodelle im Callcenter, Agenten im Helpdesk: Müssen technische Probleme in Zukunft noch von Menschen gelöst werden?
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn an interview, Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson says the number of subscribers the outlet gets from Google traffic has grown even as referral traffic has fallen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/atlantic-n
@cdarwin@c.imNewsflash: US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that
Hiring has surged across the US economy.
Employment surged by 162,00 in August, much stronger than the 56,000 new hires expected, the latest non-farm payroll report shows.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that employment increased in food services and drinking places and in local government education,
while the information industry lost jobs.
And in another important development
– the US did not…
@krone@frawas.de120.000 Jobs in Gefahr - VW-Sparhammer: „Mitarbeiter müssen verzichten“ #News #Nachrichten
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGerman software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 (Jim Tankersley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…
@krone@frawas.dePig zu ORF-Direktoren - „Landeschefs erfahren aus der Zeitung, wer‘s wird“ #News #Nachrichten
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Guardian plans to create around 55 jobs in the UK, the US, and Australia over the next year across editorial, product development, analytics, and commercial (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n…
@cdarwin@c.imIn the fall of 1965,
after the Voting Rights Act passed,
the coalition of black, socialist, and progressive leaders who had come together to organize 1963’s March on Washington
joined together again to create an ambitious policy document
with no less a goal than ending poverty in the United States
without cost to taxpayers.
First released in 1966,
it proposed using strong economic growth to provide a federal jobs guarantee,
universal health ca…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNetflix is closing game studios Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, and is also cutting jobs from its internal games team (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/netflix-closes-night-school-moonloot
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMemo: the AP is offshoring some visual production jobs as it builds a centralized hub in India; sources: up to 30 jobs could be affected (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/2072421734666428895
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn analysis of US payroll data across 730 occupations: employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is now shrinking by 3.8% per year (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/27/what-is-ai-imp…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWaPo says it is on track to break even and end 2026 "on its closest path to profitability in five years" and it sold 300K subscriptions so far in 2026 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/blue-coll
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has blamed everything
– from “national security”issues, the deaths of birdsand whales, and cancer
– in his decades-long campaign against windfarms.
But as the Trump administration continues to undermine the industry, what worries workers most are their jobs.
Since taking office for a second term, Trump has issued an executive order aiming to halt all wind-energy leases and permits,
attempted to issue stop-work orders on wind projects under construction,
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M (John Egan/Dallas Innovates)
https://dallasinnovates.com/dallas-perry-weat…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix is closing game studios Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, and is also cutting jobs from its internal games team (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/netflix-closes-ni…
@cdarwin@c.imA group of software engineers who say they were fired by their bosses because of AI
are giving their former employers a taste of their own medicine.
With the powers of spite and friendship, they’ve built
“OpenExecutive,”
an AI system designed to do the work of a CEO, if not the entire c-suite, TechRadar reports.
“Work happens around the clock.
Leadership doesn’t scale with it,”
a demo video begins,
as a stock music track called “Corporate Musi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Microsoft's product R&D roles declined for the second straight year as the company's total FY2026 headcount fell for the first time since 2016 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-product…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFour ex-VOA employees and contractors discuss their new careers in real estate, communications, interpreting, and at Trader Joe's since they lost their VOA jobs (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20
@cdarwin@c.imAs the dust starts to settle after the finalization of Schedule Policy/Career, ( nee Schedule F)
an air of anxiety is rising among reclassified federal employees.
Two federal employees, speaking to Federal News Network on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retribution,
said they were shocked, angry and fearful to learn they were being stripped of their civil service protections.
Their jobs, they said, have nothing to do with influencing policy.
“I…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad on why "vibe coding" is never about coding, the SaaS apocalypse, building a "self-driving company", and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/replit-amjad-massad-interview-coding-d…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is working with each federal agency to grow the number of jobs it can strip worker protections from, according to three people with knowledge of the process.
The effort is part of the White House’s push to tighten the president’s control over career civil servants.
In an executive order last month, Donald Trump stripped roughly 8,000 employees of protections they have historically had before facing discipline.
The Office of Personnel Management is e…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow India's IT services sector, which employs 6M people, contributes ~7% of GDP, and generates $300B annually, is shedding jobs as AI automates formulaic work (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dee4bd2c-fbad-4713-9b14-22d441967ce4
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the company, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, received 800,000 job applications last year and made only 286 hires (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/bending-spoon
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
