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linkedin vigilante Jay Jones

This guy has spent two years hunting fake job listings on LinkedIn, and found 60,000 of them

Big quote: Verified profiles, company pages, and polished job listings are being used to lure job seekers into scams that can cost them money or expose their personal information. Jay Jones, a Chicago-area job seeker who calls himself The Profiler, has made it his mission to find them. Since being laid off from an advertising role in late 2023, Jones says he has helped get nearly 60,000 fake job listings removed from the internet, most of them from LinkedIn. He has also flagged about 7,000 profiles that he believes were used in job scams.
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Xbox exec suggests people use AI to lessen the pain of being laid off

Microsoft has just laid off 9,000 people while investing $80 billion in AI
Facepalm: Never underestimate an executive's ability to say something that shows a breathtaking lack of awareness. Take a look at Matt Turnbull, Executive Producer at Xbox Games Studio Publishing, for example, who suggested that anyone who has been laid off should reduce "the emotional and cognitive load" that comes with such an awful event by using AI tools. It's an especially jarring comment considering the number of people who are losing their jobs at Microsoft as the company pours billions into AI.
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Lawyer drops Meta as client, citing Mark Zuckerberg's "toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness"

Zuckerberg's changed a lot over the years
A hot potato: Mark Zuckerberg has undergone something of a personal transformation over the last few years, from a nerdy, lizard-like tech geek to an MMA-loving bro championing free speech and calling for more masculine energy. It's a change that has prompted a lawyer to drop Meta as a client due to its CEO's "descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness."