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The kids are alright. (I don’t use that word in the real world because it’s improper spelling. It’s a music reference, all right?)
Fuck dumbass tech {m/b}illionaires.
stanford is one of those schools that do produce elitists, but less so than places like harvard or yale he speaks to wrong crowd, much jerry seinfeld did at darthmouth.
Jerry Seinfeld can eat a back of dicks for being a zionist shitbag.
Whatever happened to booing and jeering. Chase these goblins off their stage.
Many of these schools forbid stuff like this and will withhold diplomas and such. This i think it’s far more effective. Hey up and walk the fuck out everyone sees you and sees them.
BASED
Dozens
the local news outlet SFGate estimated it was as many as 200
No mention of how many people are graduating
Reee it’s difficult to estimate how big of a deal this was if the total number of participants isn’t mentioned.
On wiki it says there are about 1700 undergrads per class, so if it’s that plus some grad students at graduation, 200 walking out could be maybe a tenth of the attendees. Sounds pretty noticeable.
Very rare for the ceremony to be the entire graduating class. Its usually broken down by school.
200 is over sixteen dozens
That’s almost dozens of dozens.
My father worked at that factory for 60 years! That’s almost 80 years!!
It’s more than one and one third dozen dozens.
1.38̄*dozen^2
This Stanford math is over my head.
It’s about a bakers bakers dozen bakers bakers dozens.
Also known as a dirty dozen
What’s that in Baker’s dozens?
How much is that in his majesty’s imperial units?
2 hectopeople or 1.6 decadozen
That’s almost one full stoneperson!
There’s a video floating around.
1700 students graduating, little shock one may have had a cell phone
I guess that’s kind of like dozens…
And then some of those that walked out will work for Google also due to job market shit fuckery. What a time to be alive
the big tech arnt hiring fresh grads, too much competition, they will have to look for midsize or startups. my bro had to go for the latter 2.
New grads can get jobs?
Yeah the ones who left the graduation speech early got the 10 jobs that were available.
j/k those jobs went to someone’s cousin.
They’re Stanford grads they are someone’s cousin
I’ve seen it happen! She… lives in Canada, you wouldn’t know her
nichole?
Oh, so you do know her
Not at Google, Amazon, or Meta. Some companies are still hiring new grads to make entry level engineers into their future senior engineers, but it’s usually older companies.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-expands-entry-level-hiring-165921396.html
I dunno. From what I’ve seen, they mostly replacing them with
outsourcingerm I mean AiHow is IBM still in business?
I love how they do that entire article and then immediately stick in a shill for fucking AI stock at the bottom.
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I think this whole thing was written for people from r/WallStreetBets to masturbate to.
Well if they have degrees in software engineering, certainly.
Where have you been the last few years lol, new CS grads aren’t exactly doing well at the moment.
cs hasnt bee doing well for more than 10+years. one of the first thing i looked at on a different forum from that long ago, cs and one other stem was has pretty poor job prospects non-health bio, and cs.
They’re still doing better than a lot of fields. I mean when you factor in compensation it’s still one of the best fields to be in. Compare to a teacher, where you’ll need a master’s degree in most states and then you can expect a salary around 40k. Whereas with software, when you do find a job it’s not unusual to start over 100k. But if you were willing to work for half that, I bet you’d find something quick.
CS has a pretty high unpemployment rate and that was pre-covid too. yea maybe it was meant for grad school from the sounds of it.
They aren’t paying 100k for some fresh grad they need to train. They will pay them to train their AI models at the lowest possible price point though.
Their ego is disgusting, every time they open their mouths they are met with disdain and they still don’t get it.
They don’t need to. They’re still making more each year than you or I will make in our entire lives.
They make more than we’ll make in our lives before lunch. Every day.
His current pay package is about $233m/yr. That’s about $112k/day. I think your math might be off. Even if you make $7.25/hr, you’ll make $112k in just over eight years. Still an absurd disparity, but not as far as you say.
If you look at the rate of growth of net worth, I think I’m closer than you think.
BLS lists the median annual salary as $62k. So, he does make more money in a half day than the majority of Americans make in a year. There’s no way any one person deserves that much money.
sigh
*each month.
Because this diverges from their day to day and how everyone else treats them. “Surely these students are the ones that are wrong”.
I recently read Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book about working at Facebork. Among many other revelations (like, her boss pressuring her to describe the blood coming out of her vagina from a post-birth hemorrhage - something so awful I wonder why in the hell I’m even telling this other story) she said everybody there constantly let Zuckerberg win board games. So in addition to everything else wrong with him, that pale-to-the-point-of-translucent tiny man gets to think he’s amazingly good at board games.
To her credit, Wynn-Williams kicked the shit out of him at Settlers of Cataan and then even pointed out to him where he fucked up.
They are probably aware but want to campaign in an effort to change public perception of AI. It will provide less resistance and more opportunities for their company as this gets forced through.
Also, USA lives in a world where someone’s word holds no accountability. All companies/media needs to do is keep pushing how great AI is and people will start to believe it. Facts to support their opinions aren’t necessary. The blowback seen is probably from the minority of people who care about fact checking and accountability.
Poor people who act like that tend to suffer social consequences. Like getting their asses kicked.
That sort of thing doesn’t stop poor people from saying shit like that, but it does teach them to be careful about it. Some of them.
Pichai […]
“It is the last two letters of my last name, after all.”So, abbreviations start from the rear end now?
Sundar PitchAI
finally AI has taken the role of ceos, they even speak like them now. uploaded the latest gemini AI/ or the video version into his proto-type android body. zuckberborg was the template robot.
Sundar Pee in your Eye
That or he’s, accidentally or otherwise, saying AI is full of shit
Ah, yes, that’s probably it: his rear end is full of shit.
Fucking banchode.
Yea, ban the chode
Stanford being bad is not new. Better late than never I guess.
Then they used their google phone outside to use a google platform to send their meme about it and then laughed at friends writing them on gmail accounts.
Yes googles make smartphones. They are also an email provider although there are many other email providers. I have absolutely no idea what “platform” you’re talking about though.
You seem to be angry about a story you’ve made up in your own head. Granted it’s a stupid story, but it’s your story, so that’s your fault.
I don’t agree with that poster, but I think far too many people think Google is the only option that exists for many things and would defend Google above all else. Corporate manipulation has put this feel good idea in people’s heads. But the reality is Google doesn’t care about the users, only advertisers. Google is a cancer. We need to break that company up and regulate AI. Also, we need data privacy and data protection laws. Right now Google can delete you account and all data you have stored with them overnight with no warning and can prevent you from downloading your own data, which for some people could be decades of memories and lock you out of contact with others.
Because there is only two options.
They’re in the States and have enough money to go to a major school, they probably have iphones
If they’re young enough to be in college, they were the other kind of phones.
yes but will any of them take a actual step in the right direction like degoogling and/or closing their Meta or Xitter accounts?Edit: After thinking about this yesterday I realized I was wrong. I am indeed frustrated with the inaction of the American people and their letting loose of a menace that is literally killing thousands around the world and just making everything miserable in its path. However, these graduates were actually doing something to fight power; I should have commended their walk out, not complain about shortcomings.
Leaving the original comment up (but stroked through) so the thread below makes sense for those who come in later.
They literally walked out of their Standford graduation. I’m sure they have the willpower to stop using those platforms.
Why do you feel the need to be smug toward people that obviously share the same viewpoint as you?
They walked out of an extremely boring ceremony. That’s nothing.
Do you not know anyone who’s graduated from college? I know quite a few, and graduation was a big deal for all of them.
Before you criticize, what have you sacrificed for the same cause?
I teach at a college. The ceremony is so Mom can come get a picture. There’s a reason so many grad students don’t go to theirs.
A prestigious college that is internationally recognised or just like some backwater degree mill? The reason I’m asking is because you have such an utterly stupid take on the subject that I can’t take you seriously.
A major state university with 45,000 students.
Choosing not to sit in a crowded room while people read names for 2 more hours so someone can hand you a fake placeholder diploma (the real one is mailed later) isn’t some grand sacrifice.
I like that it happened because it’s embarrassing for Pichai. Bit there is no price to be paid by the students as far as I can tell.
When Karl Rove spoke at my college when I was a student, I was part of the angry audience that lead to him ending his address 20 minutes early and leaving with his security detail forming a crowd around him. It was a cool moment, but it didn’t cost me anything.
And I think that’s the bigger takeaway. It have to cost you anything to stand up to these assholes.
Even if they didn’t, this was inestimably more impactful than a couple hundred people degoogling.
Not really. I mean, other than the headline, what consequences are stemming from this?
People here seem to think a good burn is going to stop these monsters.
I mean we can all say we hate AI but while OpenAI continues to have a billion active monthly users, they will never stop
BTW I got that number from an article today saying OpenAI was “in trouble” because they are DOWN to that number as apparently Gemini is stealing all the users…
No huge consequences, you’re right. Probably annoyed the CEO. But 200 people degoogling? Even people running metrics every day at Google wouldn’t notice. It would be great if everyone degoogled, but until that trend starts getting much more traction than it has now it will have no measurable impact, and making more people think about how Google is evil is the only way to increase that traction.
I imagine having a few billion dollars as your net worth raises your threshold to being annoyed by this kind of stuff a bit. Hopefully it did get the attention of whomever thought it was a good idea to invite an evil corporate overlord to an academic graduation though.
I mean, I’ll throw my experience in: I broke up with G for everything except YouTube and the Google Store, to finance pixel devices. That was a decade ago, and I have made no active attempts to get others to do the same, yet about half my friend circle have expressed interest in following me, with a couple taking steps on their own. One is actively researching alternative roms and used pixel phones, in the last week. Again, I’ve made no effort to push them - just mentioning it when it comes up in conversation.
Imagine 200 people doing that, and making the tiniest effort to actively educate others. Domimo effect. Just look at what is happening right now with Windows v Linux. It only takes a few to get the ball rolling on meaningful change.
But 200 people degoogling?
Well that was not my point… my point is that if a significant number of the people that allegedly hate AI/Google/BigCorpo were to actively get rid of their products, there would be an impact.
You are right that 200 is nothing but the real problem, IMO, is that people LOVE the show but not the action. I read hundreds of posts everywhere about how we must fight yet nobody seems to want to get off their chairs
These people literally got off their chairs during their college graduation from a prestigious university to protest the shit Google is doing!
Each person who did that made a bigger impact, and probably a bigger sacrifice, than a person who degoogled. That was my point.
Ultimately we need people to degoogle, but until way more people pay attention to why they should, it will remain a niche thing.
Fair point… maybe I am just too frustrated to see the small gains
not working for google hurts them more than someone degoogling.
THEY LITERALLY TOOK ACTION. THAT’S WHY THERE’S A STORY.
How do you know they haven’t already?
I don’t, which is why I posted my comment as a question.
I can tell you I doubt it since I lost track of how many people (here for example) complain bitterly about the big tech companies and still hold active accounts in all of them seemingly unable to stop giving those companies “they hate” all the power they want
I don’t, which is why I posted my comment as a question.
Sometimes a question is just a question… not a conspiracy theory
The people whom you’re posing the question to (other Lemmy users) aren’t in any position to answer the question, and you (should) know that. Therefore, your “question” wasn’t asked in good faith and was instead merely a rhetorical tool used to “present false or distorted claims by framing them as questions.”
Yes, this tactic is often used by conspiracy theorists, but they don’t have a monopoly on it, as you so clearly demonstrated.
The people whom you’re posing the question to (other Lemmy users) aren’t in any position to answer the question, and you (should) know that. Therefore, your “question” wasn’t asked in good faith and was instead merely a rhetorical tool used to “present false or distorted claims by framing them as questions.”
Since you cannot possibly know what is going on in my head, you are basically just projecting your own intentions here
Is it elevator music? The way you’ve chosen to conduct yourself makes me think that much does go on in your head. You’ve chosen to be angry about something you’ve made up.
Oh my, the hypocrisy that dwells in that comment. You’re a special kind of animal.
Well, it’s highly unlikely that any of them are here, so I don’t know why you’re asking us then.
Same reason I post anything here, to get some feedback.
I have no proof and zero reason to think the people that reply to my woodworking questions know more than I do, but that is the leap of faith we all do in social media, no?
So far, one person replied to me with some good points, others just didn’t like my post and threw a tantrum. I try to ignore the tantrums and learn from the good posts to the best of my abilities.
