Is the job market so bad that she has to throw everyone under the bus shilling her tell-all book instead of finding corporate speaking gigs?

When you brag about being a Christian and the one thing you love about Trump is the literal opposite of Christ’s most famous teaching. 🤦🏾‍♂️

The CEOs of Nvidia & OpenAI and chairman of Netflix have all come out in support of the $100K H-1B visa fee. “I'm glad to see President Trump making the moves he's making" - Jensen Huang “aligning financial incentives seems good to me” - Sam Altman “great solution" - Reed Hastings

Thanks to all of us canceling your Disney+ subscriptions, they now have to raise prices to make up the lost revenue. 😁

I think this is a meaningless stat given how much CEOs are pushing workers to use AI tools as well as how usage could vary widely from occasional usage of ChatGPT to rephrase emails to vibe coding entire apps. Does anyone think we’ve hit a monumental milestone for tech workers and AI usage?

Biden’s legacy will be being the guy who stubbornly fumbled his way into giving Trump a second presidency. He’ll be the RBG of presidents.

Biden and the Democrats were worried that TikTok had too much political influence over the youth and so they gave Trump a golden opportunity to ensure that its political influence was right wing flavored. Incredible own goal.

Evangelicals waking up and realizing they’re stuck in the Bad Place that they voted for with the rest of us.

The rapture is like a Thanos snap but only the worst people you know disappear.

Kamala Harris explains why Pete Buttigieg wasn’t her running mate; it was too risky to run with a gay running mate given the biases of voters and risk of dunks from Trump. If she thinks hard about it, I’m sure she can eventually connect the dots to herself.

YouTube plans to reinstate accounts of people banned for spreading COVID and election misinformation such as Steve Bannon, FBI deputy director Dan Bongino and White House counterterrorism chief Sebastian Gorka. The company blames the Biden administration for pressuring them to ban the accounts. 😬

I’m sure horse & buggy drivers were also unimpressed by the Model T Ford.

Like the dotcom bubble, the AI boom is built on huge bets ahead of proven demand. Bain says $2T in revenue is needed to justify current AI spend but we may fall $800B short. The real question is what’s AI’s version of “everyone has broadband + a smartphone” that unlocked the internet’s growth?

Tesla stock is up +27% over the past month while car sales decline on every continent and the much hyped robotaxis crashed three times on their first day. This isn’t just a meme stock, there’s so much blind faith in Musk that it’s closer to a religion or a cult.

The problem with billionaires isn’t how much money they have but instead how much power they wield. A lot of Americans won’t see Jimmy Kimmel’s return on TV because their local ABC stations are owned by MAGA corporations. It’s notable how billionaires flexing their power is now out in the open.

Larry Ellison bankrolled Elon Musk purchasing Twitter, is part of the consortium buying TikTok, his family just bought Paramount/CBS and wants to buy Time Warner/CNN. From database vendor to the next Rupert Murdoch. Practically every major media property will belong to a Trump ally at this rate.

This is Dominion voting machines all over again

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath. Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it. It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

Lawyers for Tylenol after they’re done with the Trump administration and RFK Jr.

Mr Beast makes $450M/year but his business losses money because he spends $3M to $4M. I keep wondering when his popularity wanes, he’ll regret not retiring a billionaire versus spending money as fast as he made it churning out more videos for the algorithm.

At this point it's a cliche to point out the parallels between the AI bubble and the dotcom bubble but it's fascinating to see AI equivalent of companies buying banner ads from each other. Here it's Nvidia investing $100B in OpenAI which OpenAI will then use to rent datacenter capacity from Nvidia.

So conspiracy theorists were right that the government always lies but it’s about the dumbest stuff like Tylenol causes autism.

At this point taking cases to the Supreme Court asking whether Trump has ultimate power to do whatever he wants is a waste of time. The answer is always yes. 6 votes to 3. Always.

A lawyer has been fined $10,000 for submitting an AI generated brief with hallucinated citations. I think this is great. If you’re going to ask AI to do your work, at least proofread it before subjecting other people to the slop.

Obvious copy pasta from bots pushing propaganda getting millions of views is the norm on X. It’s now a right wing propaganda platform and it’s likely the same will happen to TikTok once it’s owned by the Murdochs. I note that the media doesn’t even criticize X’s non-existent content moderation.

Conservatives have moved the goalposts on immigration: first only “illegal” immigration was bad, then low-skilled was unwanted but high-skilled valued. Now Trump makes clear they want none. That will hurt Americans (many doctors are immigrants), but nothing trumps their goal of a white ethnostate.

It’s an astute observation that MAGA have strayed so far from traditional American ideals that they can’t quote Lincoln or Reagan anymore. In fact they have more in common with despotic regimes from the 19th & 20th century than American democracy. From United States to a divided country.

Last week marked a turning point with the FCC targeting Kimmel and the Pentagon pushing loyalty oaths on reporters. We should expect more censorship as the administration tightens control and that shareholder-driven media will fold. Independent media will have to carry us until this ends

It’s so weird that RFK Jr and MAHA have decided that autism is the worst condition in the world and no quack treatment is too deranged if it might reduce the chances of someone being autistic.

I thought Brexit was the worst own goal voters could score in my lifetime then MAGA said “hold my beer.” — "I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

The @nytimes.com with another garbage op-ed, this time an argument that government censorship is fine if it aligns with conservative principles. Who cares about The Constitution, amiright?

Trump mentioned that Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch are going to be part of the investment group that owns TikTok. Incredible own goal by the Democrats especially Biden for forcing a sale during the Trump presidency. If they thought China owning it was bad, wait until it's the youth wing of Fox News.

Unlike AWS, Azure, & Google, Oracle is going into debt to build AI data centers for OpenAI’s projected 20x growth by 2030. Feels like past tech bubbles from railroads to the dot-com era where many lost money but society got lasting infrastructure. Hopefully, we get power generation infrastructure.

The U.S. is now a by-the-numbers corrupt dictatorship recognizable by any student of history or immigrant who escaped one to come here. Many are still in denial waiting for some red line to be crossed which in reality was crossed months or even years ago by SCOTUS with the unitary executive theory.

This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles: 1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations, 2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers, 3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises. Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.

Hundreds of workers with advanced degrees who rate Gemini’s AI responses have been organizing for better pay. Google just laid off 200, with more cuts expected. Ironically, the job of judging AI quality seems like one that AI itself could soon replace.

I see Christian Fundamentalists are in the Find Out phase of FAFO and are now hoping the rapture happens this week and plucks them into heaven before they get to fully experience the hell on earth that they voted for by electing Trump. Fat chance folks. We’re all stuck here together.

Google quietly added a “homework help” button in Chrome that read online quiz questions during tests and suggested answers. After backlash from educators, rollout was paused. However given that students liked it, Google hasn’t ruled out bringing it back.

Speaking of Watergate, just this accidental DM/post is a bigger scandal than what took down Nixon’s presidency.

Megyn Kelly saying who cares if Tom Homan was busted by the FBI taking a $50K bribe while Trump is taking Lisa Cook to the Supreme Court for allegedly filling out a mortgage form incorrectly is just an everyday bit of injustice and hypocrisy we are now numb to.

Thinking about the genius of withholding funding from American universities, making it harder to pay for college with financial aid and hostility to foreign students & foreign workers then saying you’re in an AI race with China.

There’s an official clarification that the $100K fee on H-1B workers only applies to new applications after tomorrow. I’ve seen people argue that given the layoffs and struggles new CS grads have finding jobs that slowing down adding new foreign workers isn’t crazy.

People outside tech don’t get how massive a blow the $100K/year foreign worker fee is. 66% of Silicon Valley’s tech workers are foreign-born. Even if some have green cards, that’s still a huge percentage hit with massive fees plus it limits the pipeline for new talent the industry relies on.

It’s wild how much of a right wing echo chamber X has become I was forwarded a tweet with 50K likes where someone claimed Roseanne & Megyn Kelly were fired because of the Obama administration. Both were fired during the Trump administration and replies with corrections only had a few hundred likes.

This is the modern version of male chivalry.

I wonder how long it’ll take to sink in that the current U.S. government has zero interest in the well being of its citizens including those that voted for the current government. There is and will continue to be total indifference to every form of hardship. Approval ratings simply don’t matter.

Remember when I said Trump’s H-1B policy sounded like a distillation of viral tweets?

Every statistic about how bad the economy is getting is going to be buried or cooked by the end of the year. Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.

A $100,000 per year visa fee for foreign workers is about to put this claim to the test. Maybe this is why big tech isn’t pushing back against the executive order. Are they betting on AI to reduce the need for foreign workers?

According to Similarweb, TikTok is now the most popular social app in the U.S. It’s somewhat ironic that Joe Biden signed into law a requirement that TikTok be sold and it’s now going to be sold to a collection of Trump allies. It’s as if a law forced Twitter to be sold to Elon Musk.