Dare Obasanjo

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2026-05-15 23:01:00 UTC

Every story about how some professional organization submitted work full of AI hallucinations, shows how little the work output is actually vetted at these places.
https://www.ft.com/content/a61cbcae-95e4-4449-86e1-ef40fb306f4e

2026-05-08 01:26:28 UTC

A different kind of AI productivity gain.
Firefox found and fixed 423 security bugs compared to 31 at the same time last year, after using Anthropic’s unreleased Mythos model.
“These things are actually just suddenly very good” Brian Grinstead, a distinguished engineer at Mozilla, told TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/how-anthropics-mythos-has-rewritten-firefoxs-approach-to-cybersecurity/
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2026-05-01 14:59:14 UTC

Just in case the buyout offers for older workers wasn’t a clue.
As I wrote, the buyouts are an opportunity to leave with dignity before the AI-driven layoffs.
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2026-04-25 15:31:41 UTC

The governor of Maine has vetoed a bill that would have banned datacenter construction in the state until November 2027.
She said while she shares the concerns about the impact of data centers on electricity prices and the environment, the bill did not exempt a specific project which was supposed to bring jobs and investment to a town that’s going through economic hardships after a mill was shut down in 2023.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/24/maine-gov-mills-vetoes-data-center-bill-00891762
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2026-04-16 21:30:48 UTC

I will die on this hill.
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2026-04-14 02:04:08 UTC

A retiree delivering DoorDash to the White House to pay for their spouses cancer would be a national embarrassment in a sane world instead of an opportunity to celebrate “no taxes on tips”
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/400/602/799/985/426/original/5f1fb4822b36e4e5.jpeg

2026-03-27 17:43:04 UTC

Claude Opus 4.5 (November 2025) was already a step change in model quality and was when the reality of AI agents started to match the hype.
The idea of an even more capable being launched so soon afterwards is amazing progress and also a little scary.
https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/anthropic-says-testing-mythos-powerful-new-ai-model-after-data-leak-reveals-its-existence-step-change-in-capabilities/
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2026-03-22 13:00:10 UTC

Reddit is considering Face ID or Touch ID as ways to verify a user is real and not actually a bot. I believe this is a real challenge for social apps today and sadly such techniques won’t be stringent enough.
The rise of OpenClaw means unless you validate a user’s humanity on every post & comment, you can’t really tell if you’re talking to them or their agent.
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/reddit-is-weighing-identity-verification-methods-to-combat-its-bot-problem-195814671.html

2026-03-22 06:00:23 UTC

Goodhart's law states when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.
This describes the phenomenon of companies creating leaderboards of AI token usage leading to tech workers racking up thousands of dollars in monthly spend on AI services to compete.
This is a temporary phenomenon that won’t last long. It’s like having a leaderboard of customers called for sales people. It might have been correlated with business value but is useless as a target.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/tokenmaxxing-ai-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UlA.Wda2.-3Rz1wP8LBVw&smid=url-share

2026-03-19 04:53:22 UTC

Figma stock dropped -8% today as Google introduced “vibe designing” into its Stitch UI tool which lets you describe the UI you want to create.
Figma is now down -80% since its IPO which is just brutal. I never have expected them to be one of the early casualties of AI.
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/stitch-ai-ui-design/

2026-03-09 02:48:49 UTC

A study 1,488 workers who use AI tools showed some interesting results
Partícipants saw increased mental fatigue especially after using 3+ AI tools and having to oversee multiple AI agents. However they saw reduced burnout thanks to automating repetitive tasks.
I’ve argued being a manager is the best preparation for being a worker in a world of supervising AI agents instead of doing the work by hand. Now backed up with research.
https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry

2026-03-08 12:22:31 UTC

The official statement from Caitlin Kalinowski, former head of robotics at OpenAI, about why she quit company.
I think this is the most significant ethical discussion in tech of our lifetimes.
Should a computer be able to kill people shouldn’t be framed as a tiff between Hegseth and Anthropic.
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2026-03-01 19:01:41 UTC

GW Bush watching Trump run his Iraq War playbook
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/155/462/285/982/350/original/22fb50fd67f6ad8c.mp4

2026-02-27 14:01:07 UTC

OpenAI just raised a casual $110B at a $730B valuation, up from $500B in October’s secondary. Amazon put in $50B while Nvidia and SoftBank $30B each.
I feel this is doubling down on a bet on the losing horse.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/open-ai-funding-round-amazon.html

2026-02-26 14:08:53 UTC

The first time I’ve seen “anything could happen 🤷🏾‍♂️” in chart form.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/137/324/006/804/227/original/e3a005d15d841b86.jpeg

2026-02-25 05:15:15 UTC

Props to @nprofile…rxw8 for writing about the elephant in the room in big tech.
AI coding tools increase senior engineer productivity while creating an “AI drag” for junior engineers who lack judgment or context to validate AI outputs.
Companies optimizing for the near-term output by reducing junior hiring, are undermining the future supply of experienced engineers. We likely need to move to apprenticeship like models in the future to give juniors experience.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3779312

2026-02-25 05:00:50 UTC

Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to perform worse on standardized tests than their parents.
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath blamed the introduction of technology over textbooks in schools and the rise of the iPhone.
I believe COVID also was a major inflection point which many never recovered from.
https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/laptops-tablets-schools-gen-z-less-cognitively-capable-parents-first-time-cellphone-bans-standardized-test-scores/

2026-02-21 01:56:17 UTC

Is this even satire?
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/106/131/735/782/494/original/db9f2c6f87b6c0b7.jpeg

2026-02-19 13:05:54 UTC

Apple sitting out the AI race has given its stock price an essential feature; stability.
Tech stocks are experiencing wild swings as investors can’t decide if AI will kill SAAS businesses or big tech is overspending on AI.
Meanwhile Apple isn’t in any of these conversations as they’ve just focused on selling phones.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/apple-decouples-from-nasdaq-as-ai-whack-a-mole-grips-market

2026-02-09 21:19:38 UTC

Talk about missing the point when it’s staring you in the face. I was wondering why Bad Bunny had props and a set with electricians on power lines then figured it out when I saw this post.
MAGA people are so bad at critical thinking and only good at racism.
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2026-01-26 02:03:26 UTC

High school students using AI to write college application essays that are then graded by AI from admissions departments is a great example of how AI usage devalues systems while people can accurately point to “productivity gains” from using AI.

2025-11-27 01:50:30 UTC

MTG becoming a voice of reason explaining to Republicans that they let themselves get screwed by billionaires in exchange for racist policies wasn’t in my bingo card.
That said, she’s just an opportunist who can feel which way the wind is blowing.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/619/150/309/551/723/original/7f2735a0c5d70a5a.jpeg

2025-11-15 03:36:30 UTC

All this time MAGA said Bill Clinton was the Epstein files and now they’re thinking “not like this…”
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/551/619/431/372/947/original/e109aa5335b879ca.mp4

2025-11-09 20:04:58 UTC

Why stop at a 50-year mortgages? Go for broke and announce 100-year mortgages. That way your grandkids can inherit your house and a mortgage which should make the banks extremely happy.

2025-10-06 01:14:18 UTC

Someone commented on my post about the U.S. government having to bail out OpenAI when the AI bubble pops by arguing we didn’t bail out dotcoms at the start of the millennium.
That was then. Today AI is already too big to fail. We bailed out Intel last year on the off chance that it might become good at making AI chips.
There’s zero chance we’d let OpenAI simply go out of business if it ran out of money because it spent more on datacenters than it made from ChatGPT subscriptions.

2025-10-05 19:24:18 UTC

Fascism is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Both documented & undocumented immigrants are definitely deleting their socials and keeping heads down at the risk of being disappeared.
While the average white American citizen isn’t being oppressed by the government. It doesn’t mean no one is.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/323/191/603/917/067/original/c01bd2cf6de729da.jpeg

2025-10-01 21:53:55 UTC

Workslop is AI generated content that is well-organized and neatly formatted, but lacks substance upon a closer read and often becomes a headache for the person receiving the work.
As companies push people to work on AI, we are all being inundated with insipid content that the person didn’t even read which you now have to decipher.
This is AI as the productivity killer.
https://stocks.apple.com/Amfn9T358T2qLo8CQytbFdA

2025-09-10 13:51:05 UTC

Oracle, yes that Oracle, is up 50% this week due to how much growth they are seeing in their AI cloud business.
Since Amazon, Microsoft and Google can’t build data centers fast enough, even a second tier cloud provider like Oracle is booking half a trillion dollars in orders due to high demand for AI.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/180/323/601/898/783/original/7b968c34257b3a6f.jpeg

2025-09-07 23:02:51 UTC

One of the reasons Newsom has gotten so popular is that he understands something that Congressional Democrats don’t. They believe they can just ride this out, trotting out “this isn’t normal” every few weeks, then sweep the next set of elections.
The assumption being there’ll be “normal” elections and Dems will win by default. Both not a given. Not at all.
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2025-09-05 15:25:17 UTC

The Economist argues that a lack of robots is in major European cities will be a wake up call that they’ve fallen behind the rest of the world.
Ignoring that this is a strange take — if limited mass transit, no universal healthcare and widespread gun violence hasn’t convinced Americans they’ve fallen behind, why would lack of Waymos make Europeans feel similarly?
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/09/04/robotaxis-will-be-the-sputnik-moment-for-a-declining-europe?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=68ba77b55102e60001abec1a&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

2025-08-26 01:41:29 UTC

Every night, I say a little prayer before I fall asleep.
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2025-08-25 05:04:57 UTC

The logical endgame of the cruelty and selfishness of modern conservatism is to declare caring about other people to be a sin.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/087/657/751/776/219/original/2fc0747e8cf2e637.jpeg

2025-08-25 04:48:52 UTC

Tier 1 trolling. Now Gavin Newsom is hijacking the MAGA brand from then.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/087/594/450/786/105/original/37b3358272662049.jpeg

2025-08-22 21:52:40 UTC

Time to sell your Microsoft stock. 🙃
https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-to-take-on-microsoft-with-macrohard

2025-08-18 21:55:58 UTC

People have argued that AI is in a bubble because it costs too much to provide AI services. However the current cost of training or inference is not a law of physics. GPT-5 prices are significantly cheaper than GPT-4 and this is just one release worth of optimizations.
They definitely are opportunities to bring costs down further. The current prices won’t last forever.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/051/996/369/791/331/original/2494b7fc9e0aaab1.jpg

2025-08-17 01:15:13 UTC

We’re about to experience another techno-cultural shift. The first being the generation gap between people born before the internet & smartphones and after.
The cultural impact bring the creation of a generation of people who got used to instant gratification. If it isn’t as easy as getting what you want from an app then it’s too hard. A generation of people who prefer Netflix to chilling with others.
What will be the cultural behavioral shift from always available and constantly used AI?
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2025-08-11 04:58:30 UTC

One thing that was underestimated in the early days of the web was how far “just a click away” is in reality. People thought Google & Amazon could never dominate because competitors were just a click away.
Rampant misinformation exists online despite the ability to fact check on Google or Wikipedia being just a click away.
We totally misjudged how lazy people actually are.

2025-08-09 12:37:58 UTC

The rise of generative AI has caused Luddites to get a makeover in perception. Now being so upset about technology taking your job that you smash machines is now viewed more sympathetically these days.
Being called a Luddite has gone from an insult to an accurate description of many people’s views of AI.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny

2025-08-06 16:17:19 UTC

Maybe I’m a masochist but I’m wondering how bad could this movie actually be?
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/982/717/704/232/085/original/b41c205c3be823c5.jpeg

2025-07-25 00:12:24 UTC

The real mindfuck is not knowing if people are dead serious or using the term clanker ironically.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/910/975/743/681/696/original/477484e9a47603c6.jpeg

2025-07-23 15:59:07 UTC

While debating whether AI can replace software developers or not is somewhat absurd, it’s hard to argue against the significant productivity boosts.
A friend shared with me how after a performance regression following a release, they asked AI to review all of the recent diffs for the culprit. It flagged a few suspicious ones and on review one of them was the cause.
I imagine this is happening in every industry which is why Azure/AWS/GCP have more demand for AI than they can handle.

2025-07-20 17:54:25 UTC

Food banks are sounding the alarm as they are facing a double whammy. The federal government has cut hundreds of million in annual aid to food banks. Additionally, upcoming cuts to SNAP mean more people will lean on food banks as they have less to give.
These are the consequences of the richest country in the world deciding tax cuts for the rich are its top priority.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/food-banks-are-running-out-of-food-exactly-when-more-americans-will-need-them-b6f4d784?trk=storyline-feed_main-feed-storyline-activity-card_feed-article-content
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2025-07-20 03:32:30 UTC

“Vaccines bad, drinking sugary sodas at fast food restaurants good.” - MAHA logic
🤦🏾‍♂️
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2025-07-19 19:13:41 UTC

One of the biggest lies MAGA has told themselves is that they value individual freedom and hate government oppression.
In reality, we have less freedom and more government oppression today than at any other time in our lifetimes, outside maybe pandemic restrictions.
It’s happened because humans are tribal. We like dividing people into us versus them and creating hierarchies of leaders and followers. This is why populism works and why MAGA is immune to logic. It’s a primitive response.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/881/489/643/330/392/original/0dd99aedea591d16.png

2025-07-11 18:19:38 UTC

It looks like to prevent Grok from having another “MechaHitler” moment, it’s been updated to first look through Elon Musk’s tweets to find out his opinion before answering questions on controversial topics.
I’m not sure this will entirely fix the problem.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok-4-seems-to-consult-elon-musk-to-answer-controversial-questions/

2025-07-11 06:54:59 UTC

The CEO of Lowe’s tells new graduates that they don’t have to worry about AI taking their jobs if they give up on dreams of white collar jobs and a corner office.
“AI isn’t going to fix a hole in your roof,” he said, “it’s not going to respond to an electrical issue in your home.”
So much for that college degree, I guess.
https://fortune.com/2025/06/30/lowes-ceo-marvin-ellison-ai-impact-workforce-gen-z-customers/

2025-07-01 04:39:54 UTC

Oracle has been an unexpected winner of the boom in AI cloud usage as AWS, Azure and GCP can’t keep up with the demand.
Oracle just signed a $30 billion/year deal to provide an unnamed customer with cloud services which is currently 3x larger than its entire cloud business.
Who could it be?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-inks-cloud-deal-worth-150659560.html

2025-06-28 23:14:26 UTC

The lesson of Fox News, podcast bros and right wing influencers is that people would rather be enraged than informed.
The internet is wasted on so many.

2025-06-10 00:51:07 UTC

The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.
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2025-06-07 11:55:11 UTC

Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library that was almost entirely vibe coded using Claude. They also shared the prompts that led to completed library which is an interesting study.
It feels like we’re in a weird intermediate period where you need to know both programming and telling a computer what to program.
https://www.maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares-claude-generated-commits/

2025-05-31 03:17:33 UTC

Anthropic has grown to $3B in annualized revenue from $2B in March and $1B in December. This rapid revenue growth comes from usage of their code generation tool Claude Code.
It’s thus unsurprising OpenAI just acquired Windsurf for $3B given how hot the AI code generation space currently is.
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-hits-3-billion-annualized-revenue-business-demand-ai-2025-05-30/
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2025-05-31 01:46:46 UTC

People producing documents full of AI hallucinations in serious contexts will only get worse as businesses embrace AI “productivity gains” in the era of cost cutting.
They work faster but it’s really easy for people to skim over content they didn’t write when their employers are pushing for speed of content creation.
https://mashable.com/article/over-120-court-cases-caught-ai-hallucinations-new-database

2025-05-30 03:19:25 UTC

In 1995, Jeff Bezos's parents, Jackie and Mike Bezos, invested $245,573 in Amazon.com, which was a loan to help Bezos start his online bookstore.
Entrepreneurship is a carnival game.
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2025-05-30 02:40:53 UTC

I have a strong feeling generative AI is going to end up like crypto. Ethically questionable, solves a narrow set of problems, lots of broken promises that don’t live up to the hype and yet a bunch of people get incredibly rich along the way.

2025-05-29 14:32:18 UTC

Between tariffs on uninhabited islands and this MAHA report, the Trump administration is giving us a master class in seeing what happens in practice when people try to replace human competence with AI.
https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors

2025-05-28 23:40:08 UTC

This was inevitable given the administration’s current direction. The next step will likely be foreign workers in “critical” industries.
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2025-05-28 23:36:11 UTC

The lack of self awareness in making both of these announcements within 24 hours is breathtaking.
Pick a lane, bro.
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2025-05-27 12:48:14 UTC

I just saw a headline that said Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino and I thought I was having a stroke.
Nope, it’s just our current reality.

2025-05-25 21:39:49 UTC

You’re not lonely, you just haven’t upgraded to the right tier of AI chatbot subscription services.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/570/637/167/812/152/original/79cec23eb7b1ada4.jpeg

2025-05-25 20:28:32 UTC

After seeing how people use Grok on X, it’s actually worse out there than I thought.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/570/356/701/098/282/original/4b3139b02ea90d84.jpeg

2025-05-25 13:21:40 UTC

Tesla’s stock price has been going up over the past few months as their sales in Europe have gone in the opposite direction.
The company becomes more of a meme stock each passing day.
That said, given GameStop’s stock is up 3,000% from 2020, Tesla stock likely won’t face reality anytime soon.
https://supercarblondie.com/chinese-ev-manufacturer-byd-outsold-tesla-in-europe-april-2025/

2025-05-25 13:07:56 UTC

I remember the old days when this was simply called corruption.
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2025-05-25 12:55:58 UTC

The same sort of anthropomorphism that made humans ascribe human traits to natural phenomena like the sun, weather, volcanos, animals, etc and worship them as gods is happening with AI.
The fact LLMs are unreliable makes this trend worse because this unreliability is treated as a personality trait

2025-05-25 12:25:34 UTC

America is now characterized by dangerous stupidity. We’ve taken people who think their ignorance is more valid than the knowledge of experts and put them in charge of everything important.
Healthcare, trade, education, defense, national security, etc. All in the hands of the dangerously stupid.

2025-05-24 13:27:53 UTC

Elon Musk comes to the “obvious conclusion” that saving billions by randomly firing government workers and slashing science funding won’t fix the deficit when tax cuts for the wealthy will cost trillions.
Truly a boy genius at work.
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2025-05-24 13:11:56 UTC

My pet peeve with AI assisted writing is having to read content that the author hasn’t even read themselves.
If you can’t put in the effort to read what you supposedly wrote, why should I?
https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/

2025-05-24 00:39:02 UTC

On one hand the economy is shrinking, prices are going up due to tariffs, scientific research funding slashed, millions to be kicked off of Medicare & Medicaid, foreign students being barred from our top universities, USA’s credit rating dropped and NWS, NASA & FEMA workers fired.
On the other hand…
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/560/017/300/142/621/original/2be8587ec8f4631e.jpeg

2025-05-23 14:52:43 UTC

That we have a coin operated presidency is now well understood around the world.
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2025-05-23 14:44:50 UTC

Pouring out a drink for all the people at Apple who scrambled a plan to move manufacturing to India to avoid tariffs only for Trump to say “not so fast buddy.”
The idea that businesses can do any long range planning in this environment is comical.

2025-05-23 11:42:56 UTC

The truth is cringier than fiction
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2025-05-23 02:46:03 UTC

I’m reminded of this whenever I read the comments on any viral post
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2025-05-23 01:49:49 UTC

At this point it’s like tech companies have layoff FOMO.
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2025-05-23 01:38:08 UTC

About 25% of Harvard’s students are international. Every week there is new damage being caused to America’s institutions and reputation.
Increasingly some of this damage will be irreparable.
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2025-05-21 17:37:48 UTC

Klarna investors waking up to reality.
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2025-05-21 17:02:02 UTC

Sam Altman describes a generation gap in how people use ChatGPT. Older people in their 30s and above use it as a Google alternative while younger people use it as a friend that helps them with life decisions.
I’d noticed this difference and assumed it was techie versus non-techie not age related.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/they-dont-really-make-life-decisions-without-asking-chatgpt-openai-boss-sam-altman-thinks-young-people-turning-to-chatbots-for-life-advice-is-cool/

2025-05-20 19:57:54 UTC

Unless you’re 65 or have a pre-existing condition, the FDA no longer thinks you should get a COVID booster shot.
Watching America in 2025 is watching a government at war with the concept of a healthy and prosperous citizenry.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/fda-vaccine-framework-new-covid-shot-recommendations-vinay-prasad-marty-makary/

2025-05-20 12:53:55 UTC

The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is that a millionaire has a lot of resources while a billionaire controls the flow of resources.

2025-05-18 16:47:39 UTC

So they raised tariffs to pay for tax cuts only to ask companies to eat the cost of the tariffs instead of passing them on to consumers.
This is effectively a tax on businesses like Walmart. If so, why not just raise corporate taxes instead of the chaos and collateral damage of tariffs? 🙃
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/18/treasury-bessent-tariffs-walmart/83709968007/

2025-05-18 16:42:11 UTC

With the rise of AI making Stack Overflow obsolete, the company behind it is working on a rebranding effort as the brand is now limiting to its other efforts such as selling SAAS Q&A websites to tech companies.
Chegg & Stack Overflow have been the most visible losers from ChatGPT’s rise.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/08/a-new-look-for-whats-next/

2025-05-18 02:33:55 UTC

He campaigned on doing both.
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2025-05-18 02:12:18 UTC

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’”- Isaac Asimov
Podcast bros really dialed this up to 11. Any half assed theory is as good as science even if it makes no internal sense.
It’s tragic the internet has made people even more misinformed.

2025-05-17 02:04:43 UTC

I keep thinking about how I long felt it was condescending to describe people as voting against their own interests.
Today I learned a bunch of medical centers in my area are closing due to government cuts. Tariffs have caused prices of many products to go up. And the country’s credit rating just tanked.
If you voted for this, then you voted against your interests. There are a tiny sliver of billionaires who are better off but the vast majority of us are in a much worse position than last year

2025-05-17 01:30:45 UTC

With sales tanking because its CEO went full “Roman Salute”, the stock price can only defy gravity for so long. So Tesla is already making changes to stave off the inevitable shareholder lawsuits.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/tesla-limits-investors-ability-to-sue-over-breach-of-fiduciary-duties.html

2025-05-17 01:25:16 UTC

America is in its “bread & circuses” phase except there isn’t any free bread, just tax cuts for the rich and the circus is gleefully watching undocumented people get deported.

2025-05-17 00:42:31 UTC

It’s honestly sad that Elon’s DOGE fired all those park rangers and scientists claiming they are trying to balance the budget only for Moody’s to downgrade America’s credit rating because we’re about to get $4 trillion more in debt giving tax cuts to the rich.

2025-05-16 15:59:34 UTC

An “unauthorized modification” caused X’s Grok AI chatbot to start replying to dozens of posts on X with information about white genocide in South Africa.
I wonder if the name of the person who made this “unauthorized modification” rhymes with felon tusk? 🤔
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/xai-blames-groks-obsession-with-white-genocide-on-an-unauthorized-modification/

2025-05-16 15:40:15 UTC

A senior at Northeastern University filed a formal complaint and demanded a tuition refund after finding out her professor was secretly using AI tools to generate notes. The professor has admitted to using several AI platforms.
Turnabout is fair play. Now the students are going after teachers for using ChatGPT.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/15/chatgpt-openai-northeastern-college-student-tuition-fees-back-catching-professor/

2025-05-14 14:52:23 UTC

I need Christians to realize that singing songs about Jesus doesn’t make you a good person.

2025-05-14 03:14:24 UTC

How it started vs. How it’s going (big tech edition)
This industry is ridiculous.
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2025-05-14 02:02:34 UTC

We are going to graduate a generation of workers who can’t do any meaningful work without ChatGPT but then will be shocked when their jobs are completely replaced by AI.
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2025-05-13 02:21:42 UTC

It’s been a long road from Republicans fear mongering about Obamacare leading to “death panels” to complaining that taxpayers spend too much money keeping chronically ill people alive.
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2025-05-10 21:03:18 UTC

Remember during Trump’s first presidency when the media used to debate whether his policies were racist? Simpler times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/pentagon-hegseth-dei-library-books.html
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2025-05-10 20:30:54 UTC

Elizabeth Holmes’ partner (boyfriend?) is creating a new blood testing startup which she is advising from prison where she is serving an 11 year sentence for running a fraudulent blood testing startup.
We live in the golden age of grifting.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/10/nx-s1-5393950/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-billy-evans-blood-testing

2025-05-07 01:48:46 UTC

Working on a CEO speak translator. So far I’ve got
1. We’re ending remote work and returning to office to improve collaboration = stealth layoffs
2. We are an AI first company and you don’t get more resources until you can show why you can’t do the job with automation = hiring freeze
Any others?

2025-05-02 00:54:27 UTC

Block (formerly Square) dropping -18% because of concerns around retail transaction volume due to tariffs is absurd.
It feels like the market is overreacting to individual stocks and underreacting to the overall state of the economy.
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2025-04-24 04:45:07 UTC

Sometimes I think about how Operation Warp Speed which fast tracked the production of COVID-19 vaccines was the greatest achievement of Trump’s first presidency but his base is anti-vax and liberals & leftists despise him so he basically gets no credit for it.

2025-04-20 02:02:23 UTC

The Pope refusing to meet with you but instead sending a subordinate to lecture you about compassion speaks more loudly than any performative Christianity one surrounds themselves with.

2025-04-15 01:51:24 UTC

2025 was the year I learned contempt of court only applies to poor people.

2025-04-07 13:26:43 UTC

The CEO of Shopify just published an internal memo about AI usage. Two notable
1. AI usage questions will be added to the performance and peer review process.
2. Requests for more headcount or resources must include justification for why AI can’t do it instead.
A recession will be a true proving ground for AI as a way to boost productivity and eliminate jobs. Shopify is ahead of the curve on this but many will follow if tariffs stick.
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2025-04-07 11:40:52 UTC

I used to think saying people were voting against their own interests was condescending but now I have to take that back after seeing people argue the stock market crashing and paying higher prices due to tariffs is good actually.
Might as well celebrate putting your foot in a bear trap.