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What’s really going on with AI and jobs? Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?

How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs

I guess it's obvious in retrospect but "it's stolen work" was less persuasive in turning public opinion against AI than everybody just seeing a ton of it constantly and getting sick of not being able to trust your eyes. Hey, that works too. Whatever it takes, really.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy

I’m excited to share my finished marionette/puppet, Gourd-fellow the pumpkin sprite. This is my first marionette and I had so much fun making him, I'm probably just gonna turn into Geppetto now. 🎃

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

If you ever feel like your sketchbook as an artist is not looking pretty or artistic enough: take a look at Gustav Klimt‘s sketchbook

Photo of a black stone sculpture against a blurred, autumnal background. The sculpture is of a grounded crow, wings half spread, head up and beak open, holding a blue swirly marble.

Photo of a black stone sculpture against a blurred, autumnal background. The sculpture is of a grounded crow, wings half spread, head up and beak open, holding a blue swirly marble. The angle is top-down.

Hard to believe I carved this 3 years ago now. My last black stone sculpture. Weighs a tonne, and the low-talc stone was so difficult to carve it broke half my tools.

I'm still kinda sad I had to sell Mr. Crow, but apparently he lives in a rather nice lakeside cabin now

Being an artist is being humble over and over. Not even in a bad way of being "humiliated" but trying something new, trying to grow, is accepting you aren't where you need to be. Accepting making "ugly" failed attempts. But it is sort of freeing.

We me way look at folklore as a thing separate, artefact of imaginative response to the world, or we may look through folklore to see the truths of an enchanted world. I’ve learnt late that it’s often better to look through to the universal rather than look at shadows cast. – #CLNolan #Folklore

Also.

On opening night of the Vancouver Writer’s FestivaI, I was with seven other authors where we were given the prompt to talk about being a Canadian now under this new pressure from tariffs and talks of annexation by the US. Everyone spoke powerfully. (Cont’d)

Possum jar in progress

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews

If you promote your new book with an ‘AI trailer’, the only thing guaranteed to happen is that a lot of folk will think: ‘AI equals arseholes involved, I’ll never read this book’. That and the fact I will block you.

Captive

A cartoon illustration of a vampire carrying a human victim passing a cat carrying a mouse victim on a country road at night. Caption reads "Like ships in the night."

Nocturnal neighbours. #grickledoodle #cats #vampires #horror #halloween #cartoon #art #drawing #funny (Get the card here: gricklemart.com/ships-in-the... )

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

You should always be extra kind to retail and hospitality staff because they deserve to have faith in humanity despite the shit they get subjected to

Giant skeleton looking like it’s tipping over a house.

My friend’s neighbor’s house fell off its foundation (old steel structure collapsed), and they just did the funniest thing.

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes.
It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click.
I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

I feel when freedom of expression/art is argued for, many people knee-jerk hear they have to like/accept art they hate or disgusted by

you are allowed to hate and block art you don't like or even find morally reprehensible. you're just not allowed to negatively impact an artist's freedom to make it

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

'Alberta Forever Canada' petition has nearly 80% of required signatures, organizer says | CBC News Thomas Lukaszuk, the former Progressive Conservative deputy premier in Alberta who submitted the petition in June, said the “Alberta Forever Canada” petition has approximately 230,000 signatures so fa...

If you live in #Alberta and have not signed the petition, please sign.

A petition asking people if they believe Alberta should stay in Canada has obtained about 80 per cent of its required number of signatures.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"