2026-09-17 16:16 UTC
it is 2026:
- your imposter syndrome is dead, but so is your career. it was killed by the biggest imposters you’ve ever met, who very confidently used the imposter machine to prove they can do incredibly low quality work slightly faster than you can do high quality work
- all the job listings are fake
- nobody wants to hire “AI natives” because they’re awful. everyone wants to torment you into being an AI fanatic with a melted brain.
- you found a real job listing! you aced the technical interview! the two imposters giving it don’t even remember what expertise looks like anymore!
- the head of HR instituted IQ and neurodivergence tests for all new hires. they have 10k followers on LinkedIn, where they got the idea from. they haven’t realized that 9990 of their followers are bots, and they never will.
- an HR employee cosplaying as a psychologist bins your job application because an LLM told them your tests reveal anxiety, depression, and an inability to rotate shapes
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@zzt@mas.to 2026-09-17 16:22
- you can’t afford any new tech products, but none of them are for you. the only product categories are revenge porn and surveillance, and of course they overlap. - none of the corporations doing IQ and neurodivergence tests will make the connection between their products being widely hated and their policy of only hiring people whose brains excel at bullshit tasks - none of the people cosplaying as psychologists will draw a connection between discriminatory hiring pipelines and bullshit products made by people addicted to imposter machines. the numbers they made up to justify all of this still look fantastic. - nobody will reflect on anything at all, actually. reflection is obsolete.