> "Truth is an absolute defense for a defamation claim; you can’t just sue someone because your feelings are hurt."
As an aside, this hasn't always been the case in the US [1], and in some countries (e.g. Sweden) defamation suits can absolutely cover truthful statements that damage reputation.
I find this data counter-intuitive. I've always heard anecdotally that the market for new grads was really good in the 2017-2021 window, yet this seems to show the opposite? Unless I'm misunderstanding the data and it's the slope that matters here.
Either that, or else the people pushing the idea that the market was really good were those in the top 5% of grads that were getting offers north of 150-200k...
The same is happening in the Computer Security academic research realm. All of the four top conferences (USENIX Security, ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, and NDSS) have instituted a submission cap--you can't have your name on more than 6 papers being submitted in a given cycle. This has all happened within the last year, likely due to the same GenAI abuse that puts undue burden on PC reviewers.
Having been on the program committee for some of these conferences, this issue of limiting number of submissions was being discussed long before GenAI. Specifically, there was talk of a few highly prolific security researchers that submitted 15-20 papers to these conferences each cycle, with pretty good quality too.
Aside: if you enjoy the Minecraft music albums, you should definitely check out C418's new album for Wanderstop that was released earlier this year. It has a lot of the same feeling to it, and I personally like it even more than the Minecraft albums now.
Tracks like Wanderstop Part 2, Earl Grey Part 2, Cinnamon Part 3, and The Forest are good places to start--it's three and a half hours long, so there's a lot to comb through.
I second this recommendation, I've been listening to the Wanderstop OST on shuffle for over a month now and find it delightful. The sister album "Wanderstop FM", which contains tracks that play diagetically on the in-game radio, is also excellent.
This puts them in approximately the same magnitude of order as kangaroos.
A male Red Kangaroo can weigh upwards of 92kg and stand around the 1.8m (6 feet) mark. Some are over two metres tall. I’ve seen a couple giants, well over two metres and biceps as big as my thigh. Anyways, kangaroo sucklings typically way less than one gram.
A CS undergrad degree is still good value, as long as the university you're attending gives good foundation/theory courses and doesn't put you six figures in debt. The sandbox program (did I guess right?) will give you a first taste of what building a business of your own would look like, though you may consider getting a business minor if you're strongly interested in that direction.
