Bushi

The spice must flow. ・Various ramblings at

[Bushi @PCBushi]

Shame. I have been waiting years to see if they would do a Switch port. I should have just bought it on Steam. Guess I will, next time it’s got a decent sale going.

[Stealth @Stealth40k]

Metaphor: ReFantazio Switch 2 Key Art!

[Bushi @PCBushi]

@m0nster_b @aelfred_D The nap room?

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Star Wars is 49 today
One of the biggest gripes with George Lucas tinkering with the original trilogy: removing Han shooting first, an action that instantly defines him as the scoundrel we love
I tracked down the original cut, and here it is. Balance restored. Thanks, George.

[Bushi @PCBushi]

Is “glazer” the new slang?

[Bushi @PCBushi]

@DavidVStewart “Punch and potion” 😂

[Bushi @PCBushi]

I’ve played (not beaten) Final Fantasy how many times over the years and never realized that monks are supposed to be naked. Man, what a noob. These guys do a lot of barehanded damage…

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

How Meta announced its latest round of 1000s of layoffs.

[Bushi @PCBushi]

Does a fresh grad working at McDonalds while he tries to find a real job reflect in this number?

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

The unemployment rate of college grads ages 20-24 is currently 5.3 percent.

[Bushi @PCBushi]

@m0nster_b 1. Eliminate jobs that use Microsoft O365
2. ????
3. Profit

[Bushi @PCBushi]

I get this is a joke, but when I worked over there, two of the better restaurants near one of my schools were basically just houses with signs in front, owned and run by ancient couples. I guess they lived upstairs.

[muwt @muwt]

went to a tempura place inside someone’s house today for dinner . it was so local that the owners were genuinely baffled . asked us why we came lol

[Bushi @PCBushi]

Sure but maybe you also should have freed Hitler’s mom.

[Keifer @DannyVegito]

imagine freeing one slave in your entire life and it’s Hitler

[Bushi @PCBushi]

@MarcoFoster_ Oh. Well he says no dispute so I guess it’s indisputable.

[james hawkins @james406]

frog told the LLM "do not hallucinate"

"there," he said, "now the LLM will not make mistakes"

"but the LLM can still hallucinate" said toad

"that is true" said frog

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

tech industry is optimizing itself to death.

[Bushi @PCBushi]

Last night the AI deleted 2,000 lines of code from the nuclear launch program guardrail parameters. When we asked the agent, it said something vague about efficiencies and eliminating redundancies. I have a bad feeling about this…

[Kitten 🐈 @kitten_beloved]

This is like one of those audio journals you find on a corpse in a sci-fi horror game

[Bushi @PCBushi]

@m0nster_b Could be that, or some wicked machine has been (re)activated

[Bushi @PCBushi]

@WorldofWeirth Haha nice

[Bushi @PCBushi]

Granted I’m not a seasoned hiring expert, but have been some some hiring/interview panels and for me there’s no way this answer is “bombing” the question. Only way it would hurt is if his other answers were bad. Personality can be as important as experience and expertise

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

😂🍪 This dude just walked out of a job interview and immediately recorded this in his car.

He knew the “biggest weakness” question was coming… brain completely short-circuited… and instead of the safe “I care too much” answer, he hit them with:

“Oreos. I’ll eat ‘em until the milk’s gone. Could be two, could be twelve.”

The way he says it with that deadpan delivery and then just accepts his fate is SENDING me.

Man, I genuinely feel bad for the guy… but I’m also dying laughing. We’ve ALL had that one moment in an interview where your brain just yeets itself out the window. Kid’s still out here job hunting. Somebody hire this absolute legend before he stress-eats the entire Oreo aisle.

Who else has completely bombed a “what’s your weakness” question?