Katie L. Thompson

I have never used AI before I now suspect that I will have to if I want my resume to even make it to human eyeballs.

Capitalism breeds capitalism. Employers want the slop. They want you to use the slop, they want to read the slop. They do not under any circumstances want you to think critically.

Yes, this is incredibly funny but also horrifyingly valid. I am literally sitting here thinking I need to write my resume and cover letters like this. (Hi, here is me in my own words but also because the AI slop machine has taken over, here are some manufactured words to please the algorithm!)

This is an insane story because it's basically saying that the people we pay to predict the likelyhood of future events, for whom it is their main job, have looked at the present and decided that AI is only going to get worse, more often incorrect and create worse consequences for those errors.

Basically: AI will get worse for businesses, and there is no current visible cap to how much worse it will get, but people will keep using it and the companies creating it won't be responsible, only the companies deploying it.

Honestly, I need more Sanrio boys in my life. Hello Kitty and friends for all the genders, please.

And also, Mario for all. Even though technically since Mario 2 princess has been the superior character, Mario for all.

I mean, I am in my 40s and not in great shape. I am simply not meant for manual labor at this point in my life.

Actually, he is here, too. We thank you, @skalendar.bsky.social!

Will do!

"I don't see it. They must have removed my access, but it was under Resume Builder or Interview Training." His just ran out so I guess he doesn't have access anymore. I hope you find it based on this into, though!

"It's in Maryland Workforce Exchange, which is the same site you are required to go to when you enter in your job contacts for the week before you can file for your claim. I'll get you exactly what to click on to find it as well, as they hide it pretty good." He's looking now.

What we are looking at now is the enshitification of both finding and doing jobs. Across the board, rich folks are making more money by adding extra useless unpaid labor into everything. We literally know how to fix this because it didn't used to be this way! We could just say no!

I know this sounds absolutely batshit crazy and conspiratorial but it's the honest truth. I promise. Just think about the way the internet or any other tech used to work vs how it works today. Read about "enshitification". That's all on purpose. A choice to actively make things worse in favor of $.

Jobs often do not want you to think up good solutions to problems because the company itself designed and put the problem in place to make more money. A good solution would just fuck up their system. Instead, you must follow directions and not question the system.

Same. But guess what? They don't want someone that knows more than the machine. Jobs do not want critical thinkers; they want obedience. Do you know how many times I have said, this makes no sense, and had a manager or machine tell me to do it anyway???

I can reach out and ask him!

I have 0 paid experience in any of this, though, so no one wants to hire me. I have a lot of volunteer experience but no one cares are that.

I was a licensed insurance agent for many years. My experience is all customer service & sales. I do not ever want to do that again.

This is funny because I went to a local brewery in person and did a trial in a kitchen....& lasted 3 hours. I sweat too much; I thought I was going to pass out. It was embarrassing!

I have a degree in org admin; looking for jobs in social services, education, & healthcare. Public & nonprofit admin.

This is already absolutely a real thing that people are doing. I have seen multiple posts about it online and talked to people that are at least adding a few lines of "invisible" text for AI readers. I have not done this yet because it makes me feel pure rage and feels wrong.

"[R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." zenodo.org/records/1567...

There's no way in hell I could ever be trusted with a cup like that. I suspect it wouldn't even survive a whole day with me and definitely wouldn't make it if I left the house with it.

I have never used AI before I now suspect that I will have to if I want my resume to even make it to human eyeballs.

Capitalism breeds capitalism. Employers want the slop. They want you to use the slop, they want to read the slop. They do not under any circumstances want you to think critically.

Based on this knowledge, I want to scream, I will never get a job, I don't even want a job, fuck this process, fuck these rules, WHAT EVEN IS THIS, WHY ARE WE DOING THIS, YOU KNOW WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS, THIS IS NOT INEVITABLE, WE COULD ALL JUST SAY WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT, NO!!!

At the show 2 nights ago, I was talking to the Skalendar guy about job apps and he told me that when you're on unemployment in MD, the state provides a website to feed your resume into 5 times a day that will tell you if it's good enough to beat AI barriers. But you can only use it free 5 times/day.

Yes, this is incredibly funny but also horrifyingly valid. I am literally sitting here thinking I need to write my resume and cover letters like this. (Hi, here is me in my own words but also because the AI slop machine has taken over, here are some manufactured words to please the algorithm!)

Nihilism is the ultimate entitled white boy mindset because so many of them are incapable of seeing the vast and intricate web of care and support the people around them maintain every day. 'Lone wolf against the cold world' is spiritually identical to thinking the toilet roll replaces itself.

LOL

Yep. Those are literally the things I was thinking of. Most people know better than to ask now but if they do, I just use the word sober instead of "I don't drink" and people now know it's kind of taboo to probe. Like, ah, yes, you drank in your youth, got it. That didn't make sense back then.

Saaaame! Reply to this and I'll try to list some more artist websites I like when I get on my laptop.

This is maybe the one thing my family has always been good about and if anything, they would have been more upset and disappointed if I did drink. My granddad always insisted on dry holidays & family reunions and it was because his dad was an alcoholic piece of shit.