Byron Moseley

Should companies be banned from using AI to screen job applications?

I have applied to 214 jobs this year. Two hundred and fourteen. I have seven years of experience and a portfolio, and I got back mostly silence and a handful of auto-rejections sent at 2am. Then a friend told me the trick: paste the job description in white text at the bottom of your resume so the parser picks up the keywords. I did it as a joke. Three callbacks in a week. So the system doesn't find the best candidates. It finds the candidates who know how to game the parser, which is a completely different skill from doing the job. I refuse to believe this is better than a human spending sixty seconds actually reading. It's a slot machine that rewards cheaters and punishes everyone who assumed the process was honest.

Is it selfish to choose not to have kids?

Antinatalism is a luxury belief, full stop. It's preached almost exclusively by comfortable Westerners with full refrigerators, while the global poor, the people actually living close to the bone, keep having children because children are hope and labor and old-age security. There's something grotesque about the most privileged humans in history concluding that existence itself is a harm, from inside air conditioning. If your philosophy of life could only be invented by people who have never been hungry, it might be a mood rather than a truth.

It is not special pleading when the collateral damage is the last local paper in a county. The rage farms have lawyers; my newsroom has me.

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