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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days ago

Dozens of Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO's speech

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Dozens of Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO's speech

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Dozens walk out as Google boss addresses Stanford graduates
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Some students were protesting against the company's controversial work with the US government on artificial intelligence.
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    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.

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      200 is over sixteen dozens

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        That’s almost dozens of dozens.

        • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.works
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          It’s more than one and one third dozen dozens.

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            1.38̄*dozen^2

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            It’s about a bakers bakers dozen bakers bakers dozens.

            • daisy lazarus@lemmy.world
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              Also known as a dirty dozen

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          What’s that in Baker’s dozens?

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          My father worked at that factory for 60 years! That’s almost 80 years!!

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        How much is that in his majesty’s imperial units?

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          2 hectopeople or 1.6 decadozen

          • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world
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            That’s almost one full stoneperson!

        • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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          Does it weigh more than a duck?

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      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.

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        Very rare for the ceremony to be the entire graduating class. Its usually broken down by school.

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    • Fmstrat@lemmy.world
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      There’s a video floating around.

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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      1/18th of the student population walked out.

    • Seleni@lemmy.world
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      I guess that’s kind of like dozens…

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    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

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      New grads can get jobs?

      • andallthat@lemmy.world
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        I’ve seen it happen! She… lives in Canada, you wouldn’t know her

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          nichole?

          • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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            Oh, so you do know her

            • serenissi@lemmy.world
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              she ghosted me 😭. how is she doing?

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                Well, she’s dating someone new… but you wouldn’t know him, he lives in England

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                  how do you know him?

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        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

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          I dunno. From what I’ve seen, they mostly replacing them with outsourcing erm I mean Ai

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          How is IBM still in business?

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          I love how they do that entire article and then immediately stick in a shill for fucking AI stock at the bottom.

          While we acknowledge the potential of IBM as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you’re looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock.

          I think this whole thing was written for people from r/WallStreetBets to masturbate to.

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        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.

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          They’re Stanford grads they are someone’s cousin

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        Well if they have degrees in software engineering, certainly.

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          Where have you been the last few years lol, new CS grads aren’t exactly doing well at the moment.

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            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.

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              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.

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              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.

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              Plenty have given up after graduating and being on the job search for 2 or 3 years.

              At least as a plumber or electrician you can actually still get a job.

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            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.

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      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.

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    Pichai […]
    “It is the last two letters of my last name, after all.”

    So, abbreviations start from the rear end now?

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      That or he’s, accidentally or otherwise, saying AI is full of shit

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        Ah, yes, that’s probably it: his rear end is full of shit.

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      Sundar PitchAI

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        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.

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      Sundar Pee in your Eye

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    Whatever happened to booing and jeering. Chase these goblins off their stage.

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      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.

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        Many of these schools forbid stuff like this

        Coming soon to a USA near you: Constitutional amendment 28: Freedom of oppression. Indoctrination starting at the college/university level.

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    BASED

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    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.

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      Jerry Seinfeld can eat a back of dicks for being a zionist shitbag.

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    For those who care, graduating class was 3,600.

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      Dozens of them. Dozens!!

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        I mean… 3600 is 300 dozen

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    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.

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      Because there is only two options.

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      They’re in the States and have enough money to go to a major school, they probably have iphones

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      deleted by creator

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    Stanford being bad is not new. Better late than never I guess.

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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.

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    Fucking banchode.

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      Yea, ban the chode

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