Greg Macfarlane

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...

That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

Absolutely. So glad it redirects

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To be clear, these people are flatly insane and nothing in Mormon doctrine, theology, or practice could reasonably be construed to suggest that this is a good idea.

I’m not leaving the church but I also strongly agree with this.

I’m an engineering professor (40y) and my students (~23) send me cell phone photos of their desktop error messages. Not sure why they don’t use copy paste…

We watched Black Adder a lot with our family. Still trying to reconcile the Prince Regent with his character in the Night Manager

Maybe Russia banned BYU because they also got confused at which school uses a blue block Y

Investors probably betting on Trump backing out again. Unfortunately, their panic is what made him back out, so…

Some of us managed to lose hair in our teens and not become fascists!

I love Tech! BYU also has money, could use a rec center like theirs…

But also, not all buildings are that nice

Did Two University of Utah Professors Use AI to Take SLC's Streets Away? Alleged air quality expert Daniel Mendoza was the lead author on a paper that was used to justify a bill that blocks SLC's ability to make its streets safer.

Great reporting by @taylorwanderson.bsky.social. This is a situation indicative of larger problems with a supermajority legislature that rushes policies through during a short session to fulfill a business-friendly agenda that values relationships over outcomes.
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It’s amazing how many student essays write something like “we all know that government is ineffective” and I’m like [citation needed]

A magazine list showing #37, Zohran Mamdani, age 11, asked for Books, FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 video games.

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor

Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

Why Mike Lee Folded In 2016, he tried to stop Trump from becoming president. By 2020, he was trying to help Trump overturn the election. Now he could become Trump’s attorney general.

His dad was president of BYU and universally loved. His brother is also well regarded. But there are stories as far back as law school of the BYU law faculty referring to Mike as “the dumb one.”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Oooh now I want to read it too

I once got the same nod from Stephen Colbert on the street in New York City.

He was wearing an inflated human hamster ball.

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.”

@cbsaustin @velez_tx

Even better: many of them are minivans.

ICE crossed a line in LA

New rivalry just dropped.

I was a senior on my HS varsity tennis team and played for fun against my 11-yo girl cousin who went on to play D1 for an SEC school.

It went kind of like the post about returning a Serena Williams serve.

Zephyr is where a lot of the planner/modeler types have already been heading.

TRB was a pretty good thing while it lasted. Probably will never go again.

The North American Regional Science Conference has been a good conference as well. www.narsc.org/newsite/

Organizations and conferences that have the potential to partially fill the void left by TRB (a thread):

Also, we make a lot of locomotives and jet engines and MRI machines. He’s so out of touch with anything resembling reality.

This might be a case for @thelouvreof.bsky.social

Provo