Thomas's view is more "slavery was bad, but helping Black people in any way is an affront to our personal dignity."
Like, he knows his race was a factor in his appointment to replace Thurgood Marshall, and that eats away at his ego, and he has to make it everyone else's problem.
okay, but
you get that if the president nominates a judge to the supreme court
and then the senate confirms the judge to the supreme court
that means the judge is on the supreme court
and is one of the people who get to decide on cases that are before the supreme court
right?
"Why are gamers so irrationally angry at AI? And on a completely unrelated topic, why is the Steam Machine so expensive? Why won't anyone listen to my many articles telling them how dumb they are?"
But the macro story is actually that layoffs have slowed in the industry, not sped up. They appear to have peaked in 2024, with a downward trend since then.
Tim, at the risk of stating the obvious, there is only one data point for annual layoffs past 2024. Calling a single data point a "trend" is either statistically illiterate or intellectually dishonest.
The Wikipedia page you linked to also says
AI is a concern for many developers also, though there is no indication that layoffs have been driven directly by its adoption. It may however have impacted illustrators and other professions particularly exposed to automation.
Though many of the game workers and artists were queasy about this proliferation, and some were even afraid for their livelihoods, few spoke out. “I think we all didn’t talk about it much for fear of losing our jobs,” Noah says. He claims Activision assured its artists that generative AI would be used only for internal concepts, not final game assets—and importantly, that AI would not be used to replace them.
Yet by the end of the year, Activision made an AI-generated cosmetic available for purchase on the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 store. In late January, Microsoft laid off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees—among the teams hit hard were 2D artists.
“What a fucked up day,” a onetime environment artist at Blizzard, Lucas Annunziata, posted on X. “Half the environment art team cut from [Overwatch 2], folks I helped hire and train.”
At Activision, it was the same. “A lot of 2D artists were laid off,” Noah says. The department was slashed. “Remaining concept artists,” he claims, “were then forced to use AI to aid in their work.” Employees, according to Noah, have been made to sign up for AI trainings, and its use is being promoted throughout the org.
“From an AI perspective, different parts of the industry are getting eaten up by others,” says Violet, who asked to use a pseudonym for fear of retribution. “Why get a bunch of expensive concept artists or designs when you can get an art director to give some bad directions to an AI and get stuff that’s good enough, really fast—and get a few artists to clean it up?”
Hence the emerging consensus is that concept artists, graphic designers, asset artists, and illustrators have been most impacted by AI so far—attested to by personal accounts of game employees, laid-off workers themselves, and the reams of posts on Reddit, X, and beyond.
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And yes, that article is from 2024, which, as you acknowledge, had the highest number of layoffs in the past 4 years. Even if you're right and layoffs have peaked (and again, you're basing that conclusion on a single data point), it sure sounds like AI played a role in those 2024 layoffs -- not the sole cause, no, but the people who were there say it was a factor. So what's your argument here? We shouldn't be upset about layoffs because that was two whole years ago and everything's better now?
It kinda seems like you're doing a motivated reasoning here. You want to downplay AI's impact on jobs and the economy, so you grab the first chart you can find that looks like it supports your premise, without thinking too hard about the data or reading the accompanying text. And then you complain about how lazy and dogmatic everybody else is.
Anyway, I had to buy a new SSD last weekend and it cost twice what it would have a year ago. Hey, why are all these people so mad about AI, anyway? What a bunch of silly dumb McPromptisms.
While it's true that the government has abused FISA under administrations of both parties, Trump is on another level and it's absurd to normalize what he's been doing.
The current admin no longer care what the laws allow
Trump and his lackeys might not, but the apparatus still relies on career civil servants who've seen what happened to all the other people who followed Trump's illegal orders and then got hung out to dry.
The fuck is this? Are you using AI to write your posts now?
Thomas's view is more "slavery was bad, but helping Black people in any way is an affront to our personal dignity." Like, he knows his race was a factor in his appointment to replace Thurgood Marshall, and that eats away at his ego, and he has to make it everyone else's problem.
okay, but you get that if the president nominates a judge to the supreme court and then the senate confirms the judge to the supreme court that means the judge is on the supreme court and is one of the people who get to decide on cases that are before the supreme court right?
But he has a Black friend!
why would they appoint judges who would find their appointments unconstitutional
fox news is cable
This'll never make it to discovery.
n00bdragon comin' in hot with the bothsides take. Quelle surprise.
"Why are gamers so irrationally angry at AI? And on a completely unrelated topic, why is the Steam Machine so expensive? Why won't anyone listen to my many articles telling them how dumb they are?"
Okay, well, let me know if you find a store that will accept platitudes in exchange for some fuckin' RAM.
Clearly they shouldn't have, but it's not like he wouldn't be coming after them now anyway.
Ooh, a voluntary code! Well I'm sure that'll solve the problem.
Womp womp womp womp. That's not a sad trombone, that's just what adults sound like when they talk.
While it's true that the government has abused FISA under administrations of both parties, Trump is on another level and it's absurd to normalize what he's been doing.