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Highway Man · 27 Jan 2026

pete01 said:
Who?

Exactly

JP_ · 28 Jan 2026

Jurassicspark said:
You mention degrees in social media but isn't social media a part of how businesses connect with their audience nowadays?

It’s not just something 'trendy' anymore, it’s a core part of marketing and customer engagement. Look at a business or a computer science related course, and you'll probably see a unit related to social media.

Indeed, social media is huge. A good way to earn a good living if you are a socialable person with an artist flair.

JohnD · 29 Jan 2026

JP_ said:
Indeed, social media is huge. A good way to earn a good living if you are a socialable person with an artist flair.

And you will shortly be replaced with an AI virtual machine.

Mottie · 29 Jan 2026

Highway Man · 29 Jan 2026

Mottie said:
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JP_ · 30 Jan 2026

JohnD said:
And you will shortly be replaced with an AI virtual machine.

Proper social media is safe for now. If you're just posting images and text, or animated style videos, then you'll probably already using AI. But that'll never be a good as doing it properly.

morqthana · 31 Jan 2026

Lirefighter said:
Well, we know where the Blair lays.
The sad fact is that it will only get worse with more and more companies outsourcing anything and everything that's done on a computer to AI.
Even law.
Just ask Eminem.

JP_ said:
Yeah, AI is a disaster for young people. Computing graduates are struggling to get work now because companies are relying heavily on AI. We're going to experience a massive brain drain over the next decade, and then businesses will suddenly find that there are no experienced and skilled staff who understand what the machines are creating. What could possibly go wrong?

This is very much worth reading:

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit

The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort

www.theguardian.com

It's not an anti-AI polemic like Nick Cave's, it's not about AI per se, it’s about what gets lost when we unthinkingly accept what AI offers us.

It's about something called “the tyranny of the quantifiable”. For example people grow things for the process, not just the product.

To garden as well as to eat.

To do as well as to have.

But we are beset with the ideology of maximising having while minimising doing. This has long been capitalism’s narrative and is now also technology’s.

motorbiking · 31 Jan 2026

I cannot count the number of IT innovations that have promised to revolutionise the world and replace the need for future computer programmers. One thing is common, its an industry that over promises, under delivers and then rapidly moves on to the next idea which over promises and under delivers.

blup · 31 Jan 2026

The massive expansion of higher education was driven by Thatch’s policies of destroying industry and the “proper” jobs that went with them. Bliar carried on with it because he inherited Majors low tax economy and wanted to keep the young off the unemployment stats. Interesting that one of Re forms 4 manifesto promises is re industrialisation. Don’t hold your breath.

JP_ · 31 Jan 2026

blup said:
The massive expansion of higher education was driven by Thatch’s policies of destroying industry and the “proper” jobs that went with them. Bliar carried on with it because he inherited Majors low tax economy and wanted to keep the young off the unemployment stats. Interesting that one of Re forms 4 manifesto promises is re industrialisation. Don’t hold your breath.

You have to wonder how reindustrialisation would actually work, of that is referring to mining, steelworks etc. A comment on the radio I think the other day was that we are too reliant on foreign steel for military. But it reminds me of when farmers were encourage to get British born Brits to do farm work, and almost non could hack it and most had quit before competing a week's work, with some qutting on the first day.

These labout intensive and industrial jobs are hard, and it is better when people are born into them and know nothing better!

blup · 31 Jan 2026

JP_ said:
You have to wonder how reindustrialisation would actually work, of that is referring to mining, steelworks etc. A comment on the radio I think the other day was that we are too reliant on foreign steel for military. But it reminds me of when farmers were encourage to get British born Brits to do farm work, and almost non could hack it and most had quit before competing a week's work, with some qutting on the first day.

These labout intensive and industrial jobs are hard, and it is better when people are born into them and know nothing better!

Far rage doesn’t have a clue how it will work, like levelling up it’s designed to win a few votes and far rage’s fan girls are dumb enough to fall for it.

JP_ · 31 Jan 2026

blup said:
Far rage doesn’t have a clue how it will work, like levelling up it’s designed to win a few votes and far rage’s fan girls are dumb enough to fall for it.

Yeah, they'll all be up in arms when they realise more immigration will be needed to do the work.

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