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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If all the pilots, teachers, and nurses disappeared overnight there would be mayhem. If all the CEOs disappeared overnight literally nothing would change. How about we replace the actual pointless jobs with AI like the CEOs that pretty much do nothing by comparison.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We don't make these decisions. It's unsurprising that the people who do make them have given themselves all of the money.

[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

We choose to let them make those decisions for us

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

While it's probably the single easiest job to offload onto AI we will need actual humans to take the fall for the boards decisions for the foreseeable future.

"We deleted the software responsible for our most recent ecological disaster" doesn't have the same weight as firing an actual person.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a lot cheaper than the golden parachutes.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 5 points 1 year ago

don't get me wrong, the picosecond they can they will. it's just not feasible while the public requires a scapegoat or the people actually responsible might need to avoid West 54th.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

That just creates a new job! I can be the "fire guy!"

People can employ me just to fire me when the AI fucks up. Lol

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We fired the guy responsible for our most recent ecological disaster" doesn't have the same weight as an actual punishment

The only thought that went through my mind reading the last bit. Is there really that much difference between firing a CEO and deleting an AI? Deleting the AI would save us the cost of the golden parachute....

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firing a person is the punishment, haven't you been paying attention to ... gestures broadly

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I thought it was firing at them

[–] frezik@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

Education and health care are two places where the administration has expanded much, much faster than either the "customer base" or the people doing the real work. Which is quite odd. There should be economies of scale at work; you don't need twice as many administrators to handle twice as many workers or customers. Should be a lot less, like 1.2x or 1.5x. However, the actual numbers have gone the opposite way, like 5x the admin staff for 2x the workers and customers.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I've been saying this since day one... Make the AI's replace these fucking useless pieces of shit. Replace MOST managers, in fact, as well.