Nostr notes by Dare Obasanjo

As AI companies have switched businesses to token based pricing ...

2026-06-24T14:22:53Z

As AI companies have switched businesses to token based pricing in recent months, it’s now common to hear reports of companies questioning the ROI of AI tool usage and scaling back employee adoption.

To pay for the data center investments will require even higher pricing and more business adoption but the value may not be there.

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/06/ais-affordability-crisis.html?m=1

Anthropic has been growing revenue 10x each year since founded. - ...

2026-05-07T18:46:38Z

Anthropic has been growing revenue 10x each year since founded.
- End of 2023 ($100M ARR)
- End of 2024 ($1B ARR)
- End of 2025 ($9B ARR)
and it now looks set to grow revenue by 80x this year which has exceeded their capacity estimates leading to the huge deals with Google and SpaceX/xAI announced this year.

They are actually delivering on the AI revenue hype that OpenAI has been claiming.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/technology/anthropic-ceo-ai-growth.html

39% of Republicans believe Donald Trump could beat them in a ...

2026-05-07T13:31:47Z

39% of Republicans believe Donald Trump could beat them in a fight while only 33% think they would win.

On the other hand 54% of Democrats thing an eight year old could beat Trump in a fight. 🤣

The Republican results are the sort of thing we used to mock North Korea for back in the day.

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54707-how-many-americans-think-they-could-beat-donald-trump-in-a-fight

OpenAI missed its goal to get ChatGPT to 1 billion active users ...

2026-04-28T01:54:56Z

OpenAI missed its goal to get ChatGPT to 1 billion active users last year and has missed multiple revenue goals this year. Enterprise adoption is similarly lagging expectations especially given Anthropic’s growing popularity.

Their CFO and board have also questioned the wisdom of the huge spending on datacenter capacity.

All of these aren’t great datapoints for a company trying to IPO this year at a valuation of $830B or more.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-misses-key-revenue-user-targets-in-high-stakes-sprint-toward-ipo-94a95273?st=AiGMqm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Mark Gurman, a regular source of Apple leaks, says the company ...

2026-04-27T13:23:03Z

Mark Gurman, a regular source of Apple leaks, says the company has six major hardware products in development.

1. AI AirPods
2. Smart glasses
3. Pendant
4. Smart display
5. Tabletop robot
6. Security camera

I’m most interested in upgrades to AirPods and Apple’s take on smart glasses.

https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/23/apple-has-six-major-new-product-categories-coming-says-mark-gurman/

Caitlyn Jenner can no longer travel overseas as her passport ...

2026-04-18T10:37:57Z

Caitlyn Jenner can no longer travel overseas as her passport marks gender as “male” following Trump’s anti-trans passport policies.
—
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/caitlyn-jenner-reaches-out-to-trump-after-passport-policy-stops-her-travelling-overseas/241581

Mastodon as a community is quite hostile to AI and anything that ...

2026-04-05T16:19:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…90g9
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Mastodon as a community is quite hostile to AI and anything that isn’t a criticism of AI is viewed with skepticism at best and typically with hostility as the default.

It’s unfortunate because, as in your Mozilla example, there is still time to shape how AI is used in our industry. It’s better to engage and try to influence it versus stick your head in the sand and have the change thrusted upon you.

Interesting contrast today in how Hollywood is using AI versus ...

2026-04-05T13:37:26Z

Interesting contrast today in how Hollywood is using AI versus Bollywood.

The talent in the U.S. film industry is fairly resistant to using AI so usage is taking off on the periphery as assistants use AI for note taking in meetings, aggregating news coverage and sending email.

Whereas in India movies are now being translated and dubbed using AI while VFX using traditional CGI techniques are being replaced by generative AI. AI is quoted as slashing costs by 80% to a fifth of what it once was.

OpenAI spending hundreds of millions to acquire a tech podcast ...

2026-04-03T02:53:14Z

OpenAI spending hundreds of millions to acquire a tech podcast and Marc Andreessen saying layoffs are actually due to COVID overhiring not AI, are two sides of the same coin.

The narrative around AI is now quite negative and is only going to get worse as layoffs accelerate. “AI so good it can replace people” is now backfiring and its damage control time before regulations and voters go hard against the industry.

I remember when it was a scandal that a company laid people off ...

2026-04-01T17:53:25Z

I remember when it was a scandal that a company laid people off over Zoom. Now that seems warm and fuzzy compared to the norm today.

Oracle laid off 30K people with a 6AM email with a link to click and accept terms if they wanted severance.
https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-coldest-cold-email-oracles-30000

The fact that Bluesky introduced an app version of Threads ...

2026-03-30T12:32:03Z

The fact that Bluesky introduced an app version of Threads “Dear Algo” feature and its Bluesky account is now more blocked than ICE is extremely weird.

I feel the anti-AI backlash has lost the plot on this one.

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/02/threads-dear-algo/amp/

I don’t understand how companies are still doing remote ...

2026-03-30T11:42:22Z

I don’t understand how companies are still doing remote interviews in the age of generative AI.

Companies want you to commute into work to sit on Slack all day but will hire you via Zoom where it’s trivial to use ChatGPT to answer all the questions.

https://www.ft.com/content/bcc3becc-859e-4628-b6a7-b4788e6f20a6

I’m convinced a lot of the bone headed things the Trump ...

2026-03-28T17:44:17Z

I’m convinced a lot of the bone headed things the Trump administration have done are after being told by ChatGPT that it’s a great idea.

A judge has thrown out the lawsuit Elon Musk filed against ...

2026-03-26T16:19:31Z

A judge has thrown out the lawsuit Elon Musk filed against advertisers for boycotting Twitter after he turned into an online nightclub for Nazis.

https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-by-musks-x-corp-accusing-advertisers-illegal-boycott-2026-03-26/

The purchase of CBS is similar to the acquisition of Twitter. ...

2026-03-25T13:20:15Z

The purchase of CBS is similar to the acquisition of Twitter. This wasn’t a business decision but instead a political one to shift a major media property to the right.

Losing ratings is acceptable collateral damage to creating one less voice against the madness of MAGA.

https://www.status.news/p/cbs-news-ratings-decline-bari-weiss

As I like to say, it isn’t clear that there is an AI bubble but ...

2026-03-24T21:58:47Z

As I like to say, it isn’t clear that there is an AI bubble but there’s definitely an OpenAI bubble.

It’s incredible how quickly OpenAI’s fortunes have shifted. ...

2026-03-24T21:56:00Z

It’s incredible how quickly OpenAI’s fortunes have shifted. Disney was willing to invest $1B and allow Disney characters to be used to create AI slop videos in Sora just a few months ago.

Now both the deal and Sora are dead. Life comes at you fast.

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-disney-1236698277/

Wild that America has a president who regularly goes “I’ll ...

2026-03-24T05:17:51Z

Wild that America has a president who regularly goes “I’ll start World War 3” to tank the stock market and then at the last minute says “j/k I’m not invading Greenland/Iran/Canada/etc” then the market jumps back up with mysterious people making a killing after he backs down.

An amazing coincidence.

I think tech people are going through the 5 stages of grief when ...

2026-03-20T05:45:18Z

I think tech people are going through the 5 stages of grief when it comes to AI. The discussion around “taste”means we are in the bargaining phase.

Sure AI agents can generate PRDs, design apps or write code in minutes that takes me days, but guess what? I have taste. Clankers don’t have that.

The catchphrase of every rich Trump supporter. ...

2026-03-20T01:46:28Z

The catchphrase of every rich Trump supporter.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/19/tim-cook-says-he-is-not-political/

My favorite thing about this story is the Super PAC is called ...

2026-03-19T13:20:37Z

My favorite thing about this story is the Super PAC is called Building A Better California.

So how do we build a better California? By not taxing billionaires, duh.

Figma stock dropped -8% today as Google introduced “vibe ...

2026-03-19T04:53:22Z

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/

Sometimes I think about how great America could be if not for ...

2026-03-18T13:36:40Z

Sometimes I think about how great America could be if not for racism and it breaks my heart.

People really complained that Biden was old and called him ...

2026-03-13T13:25:44Z

People really complained that Biden was old and called him “Sleepy Joe” only to elect a guy who falls asleep so much in public that there are more pictures of him sleeping in meetings than pictures of me with my parents.

I took a screenshot of this post last week which predicted ...

2026-03-12T02:42:22Z

I took a screenshot of this post last week which predicted layoffs at Atlassian including that it would be spun as AI driven layoffs.

Essentially a lot of software companies now have to pay the price for COVID overhiring and AI is a great justification. Amazon and Block led the way but they won’t be the last.

After several outages due to junior engineers pushing ...

2026-03-10T16:07:34Z

After several outages due to junior engineers pushing AI-generated code, Amazon is requiring senior engineers to sign off on them going forward.

History has taught us bugs scale linearly with lines of code. So if you ship 2x or 10x the amount of code, you will have that much of an increase in bugs.

The reality is that increasing coding velocity without also increasing your ability to review and test the code at that scale is a recipe for disaster.

https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de

The Anthropic versus Pentagon conflict is at least three ...

2026-03-08T12:26:05Z

The Anthropic versus Pentagon conflict is at least three questions which the media skipped asking

1. Should a computer be able to kill people?

2. What’s an acceptable error rate for that computer given LLMs 5% hallucination rate?

3. Can the government force you to sell them your tech to kill?

The official statement from Caitlin Kalinowski, former head of ...

2026-03-08T12:22:31Z

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.

Jack Dorsey opened the floodgates and more tech CEOs are ...

2026-03-06T11:51:23Z

Jack Dorsey opened the floodgates and more tech CEOs are admitting AI models will cause tech job displacement.

We’ve had years of “a senior person with AI outperforms multiple junior people” as a theory but the AI models have gotten good enough that it’s no longer a theory.

The question is now how fast will displacement happen and how will humans upskill to provide value when Claude is writing the code, Figma Make creating the designs and Deep Research doing the competitive analysis?

Repeat after me; “abolish ICE” is the mainstream position. ...

2026-03-05T12:26:45Z

Repeat after me; “abolish ICE” is the mainstream position.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/ice-trump-immigration-poll

I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner ...

2026-03-05T11:15:03Z

I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner recently and I strongly resonated with the sentiment that being an intelligent person in America today is like being awake during a surgery.

As a child, I thought the lesson of history was that the good ...

2026-03-02T20:12:20Z

As a child, I thought the lesson of history was that the good guys always win. As an adult, I realized the actual lesson is that the winners declare themselves the good guys.

Sometimes the absurdity of American life just makes me laugh. ...

2026-03-01T20:23:44Z

Sometimes the absurdity of American life just makes me laugh. Millions of people have decided that instead of listening to doctors or healthcare professionals, they’ll listen to a guy who used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

America’s foreign policy is now “How many people have to die ...

2026-02-28T18:31:54Z

America’s foreign policy is now “How many people have to die before you stop talking about the Epstein Files?”

The subtext here is that while Anthropic is pushing back, the ...

2026-02-27T02:33:34Z

The subtext here is that while Anthropic is pushing back, the U.S. military is literally building bombers and machine gun rotting robots that will be powered by ChatGPT and Grok.

AI use is no longer optional if you work in big tech. After ...

2026-02-25T04:35:16Z

AI use is no longer optional if you work in big tech. After seeing the improvements to both my productivity and that of teams I support from using AI, I can see why usage is becoming mandatory across FAANG.

However, there are many factors from employee skillset & training to how much the company is willing to spend on tokens and supporting infrastructure that makes this not a slam dunk choice for every company.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech-firms-arent-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-theyre-enforcing-it-d43ebf84

I’ve long felt LLMs pose an existential threat to social media ...

2026-02-21T23:11:47Z

I’ve long felt LLMs pose an existential threat to social media apps. The risk is the app becoming flooded with AI slop and comments by bots. Once that perception takes hold, people decide it’s not worth engaging with.

Pinterest has hit that problem with the addition of going all in on AI to run the site (content moderation) and laying off human designers. All of which is causing its audience of creatives to revolt.

https://www.404media.co/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderation/

Wicked: For Good and Zootopia 2 beating people over the head with ...

2026-02-21T19:25:33Z

Wicked: For Good and Zootopia 2 beating people over the head with the message where the government set you against people who look different, only to turn out to be the real villains

I’m here for it.

This is a good story of why being focused on cost cutting as the ...

2026-02-20T20:04:20Z

This is a good story of why being focused on cost cutting as the top priority can be deadly.

Red Robin decided to fire bussers to save costs and tables stopped getting cleared, wait times ballooned and dine-in traffic declined. Stock down -88% since 2021. Chilis decided to invest in customer experience in 2022 and just saw same store sales grow +31% year over year.

https://garryslist.org/posts/red-robin-died-by-spreadsheet-don-t-make-the-same-mistake

Are things better now? 🙃

2026-02-20T06:40:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…u875
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Are things better now? 🙃

Americans really got bored with free trade, the best and ...

2026-02-20T05:15:25Z

Americans really got bored with free trade, the best and brightest in the world wanting to come here, low corruption and childhood diseases like measles being eradicated.

I guess things are definitely less boring now. Worse, but also less boring.

Ramp’s data science team has published research showing ...

2026-02-20T03:24:32Z

Ramp’s data science team has published research showing businesses are replacing freelancers with AI. Two key findings

1. Spend on services like Upwork & Fiverr has dropped -80% as companies have shifted to spending on OpenAI & Anthropic’s tools. More than half of the businesses using freelancers in 2022 have stopped entirely.

2. AI is much cheaper. Each $1 of freelance spend is replaced by $0.03 of AI spend.

https://ramp.com/velocity/ai-labor-market-impact-freelancers

Even the Wall Street Journal has been radicalized into saying tax ...

2026-02-19T13:46:11Z

Even the Wall Street Journal has been radicalized into saying tax the billionaires.

Other countries are arresting people on the Epstein list, America ...

2026-02-19T13:43:07Z

Other countries are arresting people on the Epstein list, America decided to make its most frequent flier its president and is now going to give him a war with Iran as a distraction.

This is not a serious country.

Apple sitting out the AI race has given its stock price an ...

2026-02-19T13:05:54Z

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

The U.S. government plans to create a website to host content ...

2026-02-19T01:55:26Z

The U.S. government plans to create a website to host content that is banned in the EU so that European internet users can still view it.

For example, Germany bans Nazi content but now the U.S. government in the name of "free speech" will host that content so Germans can view it online despite it being banned in their country.

An incredible government y'all voted for.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02-18/

Using Claude Code is a journey. I just asked it to read some ...

2026-02-16T23:26:47Z

Using Claude Code is a journey. I just asked it to read some files, perform analysis and put the results in the table. Everything looked good until I checked and found none of the data in the tables matched the underlying documents.

Asked Claude what happened. It can't read PDFs so it just made up the results. Next time provide tools for reading PDFs before asking me to do a thing.

Every xAI board meeting. ...

2026-02-16T01:02:04Z

Every xAI board meeting.

Nostalgia is different for all of us. I feel nostalgic for the ...

2026-02-15T19:49:32Z

Nostalgia is different for all of us.

I feel nostalgic for the Transformers cartoons and Marvel comics so I watch Bayverse & MCU movies today.

Elon feels nostalgia for the racist apartheid of his childhood in South Africa so he’s bringing it to America.

The idea that Donald Trump was a temporary anomaly in American ...

2026-02-15T19:36:49Z

The idea that Donald Trump was a temporary anomaly in American politics that will go back to normal when he’s gone is sadly mistaken. He is a symptom, not the cause.

He recognized that 40% of the electorate loves white supremacy and if you throw in homophobia/transphobia and low taxes, you could get up to 50%.

Now the masks are off and they aren’t going back on.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists

University of California campuses saw computer science enrollment ...

2026-02-15T16:53:56Z

University of California campuses saw computer science enrollment drop -6% this year. With tech companies fully embracing senior engineers using AI over college hires, this is the logical result.

We’re going to be starved of a pipeline of software engineers in the future. Unless you believe AI has fully commodified software development.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/college-admissions/article/uc-major-computer-science-ai-21284464.php

Has there been a more absurd product vision than when Zoom’s ...

2026-02-14T13:00:33Z

Has there been a more absurd product vision than when Zoom’s CEO said our AI avatars will attend Zoom meetings on our behalf?

So it would just be a meeting of AI avatars talking to each other. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Twitter was a $5B/year business when Elon acquired it. Now the ...

2026-02-13T03:45:09Z

Twitter was a $5B/year business when Elon acquired it. Now the only revenue numbers they quote are a fifth of that.

The guy is almost as good at running social networks as his buddy Trump is at running casinos.

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/x-subscriptions-hit-1-billion-annualized-revenue-exec-says

Twitter was a $5B/year business when Elon acquired it. Now the ...

2026-02-13T03:44:25Z

It looks like all of the press tours about how AI will destroy ...

2026-02-13T00:21:55Z

It looks like all of the press tours about how AI will destroy humanity have paid off.

Anthropic has raised $30B to continue building the technology that according to it's CEO will usher in an age that will be “both turbulent and inevitable, which will test who we are as a species.”

Congratulations!

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation

When the polls are so bad that you don’t want the orange guy to ...

2026-02-12T02:35:05Z

When the polls are so bad that you don’t want the orange guy to come after you so you get out of the polling business. 😬

https://newrepublic.com/post/206495/gallup-ends-presidential-approval-polls-trump

xAI joins Thinking Machines in the “Thry didn’t quit, we ...

2026-02-12T02:07:32Z

xAI joins Thinking Machines in the “Thry didn’t quit, we fired them” club.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/musk-announces-xai-re-org-following-key-departures-spacex-merger.html

The Super Bowl is a window into how much the U.S. economy has ...

2026-02-09T13:18:28Z

The Super Bowl is a window into how much the U.S. economy has changed. I remember when it was mostly ads for cars, beer and stuff you’d find in the grocery store. Now it’s all AI, gambling, crypto (also gambling) and Ozempic.

Silicon Valley accurately predicted the vibe coding era. ...

2026-02-07T23:58:14Z

Silicon Valley accurately predicted the vibe coding era.

Sam Altman going from saying ads would be a “last resort” in ...

2026-02-05T11:01:28Z

Sam Altman going from saying ads would be a “last resort” in ChatGPT to saying subscriptions are for rich people has been quite the journey.

My boss vibe coded this over the weekend and now it’s my ...

2026-02-03T21:18:34Z

My boss vibe coded this over the weekend and now it’s my problem is going to be its own genre of developer complaints in the coming years.

When you invested in Twitter and Elon ran it into the ground but ...

2026-02-03T13:24:43Z

When you invested in Twitter and Elon ran it into the ground but now you have pre-IPO shares in SpaceX.

Jensen Huang would like you to understand that they never ...

2026-02-03T12:40:56Z

Jensen Huang would like you to understand that they never promised to invest $100B in OpenAI and you should stop putting words in his mouth.

Trump suing the U.S. government for $10 billion and then bragging ...

2026-02-02T00:34:30Z

Trump suing the U.S. government for $10 billion and then bragging about how he plans to settle with himself makes me realizes Nigerian kleptocrats were babies when it comes to corruption.

This is generational genius in grifting.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-lawsuit-against-irs-puts-him-on-both-sides-of-the-same-case-116cfa2d

The inside story of why Sam Altman got fired by the OpenAI board ...

2026-02-01T20:24:56Z

The inside story of why Sam Altman got fired by the OpenAI board from Microsoft’s CTO. Internal politics between Ilya on the Research side and Sam on the Product side. And a board inexperienced in such politics.

This week Microsoft stock tanked -12% on revelations that 45% of ...

2026-01-31T14:08:53Z

This week Microsoft stock tanked -12% on revelations that 45% of its Azure customer backlog is OpenAI.

Oracle is now struggling to get loans to pay for its data center buildout to meet its $300M deal with OpenAI. They may need layoffs to come up with the money.

The underlying theme being bankers don’t believe OpenAI will have the money to pay these bills and it’s pulling down companies doing business with it.

https://www.cio.com/article/4125103/oracle-may-slash-up-to-30000-jobs-to-fund-ai-data-center-expansion-as-us-banks-retreat.html

I have to admit, Abolish IICE is a great name for a snowplow. ...

2026-01-29T04:43:42Z

I have to admit, Abolish IICE is a great name for a snowplow.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/abolish-ice-submitted-9200-times-for-chicago-snowplow-naming-contest-records-show/

Biggest fall off in tech has to go to this boy genius. ...

2026-01-29T01:10:55Z

Biggest fall off in tech has to go to this boy genius.

Tesla just reported its second year of declining revenue and ...

2026-01-29T01:06:17Z

Tesla just reported its second year of declining revenue and profits, down -3% and a massive -61% respectively

Tesla bulls believe this is just a flesh wound as the company pivots to robotaxis and household robots.

The company also just invested $2B in xAI despite ̶s̶h̶a̶r̶e̶ bag holders voting against it

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/869603/tesla-q4-2025-earnings-revenue-profit-musk-robotaxis

The arms race between students cheating with AI and schools ...

2026-01-28T13:16:10Z

The arms race between students cheating with AI and schools trying to detect it keeps getting sillier. Students are now using “humanizes” which dumb down writing to make it less likely to look AI generated.

Some people will go to any lengths to not learn the material or do the work.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/college-students-ai-cheating-detectors-humanizers-rcna253878

Why are people more upset at Tim Cook for attending the Melania ...

2026-01-27T12:40:17Z

Why are people more upset at Tim Cook for attending the Melania movie watch party than at Amazon who made the movie and hosted the event?

Tim Cook’s been a Trump ally since his first term. This isn’t his first rodeo.

https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/26/tim-cook-attends-vip-white-house-screening-of-melania-documentary/

The U.S. department of transport will use Google's Gemini to ...

2026-01-26T17:22:59Z

The U.S. department of transport will use Google's Gemini to speed up the drafting of regulations.

My $0.02 is that using Gen AI tools as a way to jump start a first draft of any document is a good use for them. The problem is people are lazy and use AI slop as the final draft not a starting point.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations

When you ask the wife “So what’s your husband like?” ...

2026-01-26T01:00:20Z

When you ask the wife “So what’s your husband like?”

The fricking NRA is now the voice of reason. That’s how far off ...

2026-01-25T07:15:59Z

The fricking NRA is now the voice of reason. That’s how far off the deep end the U.S. government and conservative enablers of Trump have gone.

Admitting that your vote for Trump was a weapon aimed at LGBTQ ...

2026-01-21T20:36:12Z

Admitting that your vote for Trump was a weapon aimed at LGBTQ people but the only problem is that it’s now pointed towards you and your people is a sad & predictable outcome.

This is the story of a lot of immigrant Trump voters in 2024.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a-cloud-of-fear-hangs-over-minnesota-immigrant-communities/

Matt Damon talks about how Netflix designs movies around ...

2026-01-18T18:34:22Z

Matt Damon talks about how Netflix designs movies around distracted couch watching.

Front-load the big action scene in the first 5 minutes to keep people from bouncing versus the end in a theatrical release and repeat the plot 3–4 times in dialogue because people are on their phones while watching.

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netflix-movies-restate-plot-viewers-on-phones-1236633939/

This poll is basically “Should we be the villains of World War ...

2026-01-18T17:07:45Z

This poll is basically “Should we be the villains of World War 3?” and it’s good to know 30% of Republicans are like “why not?”

There’s no way party that has masked government agents in major ...

2026-01-18T05:41:51Z

There’s no way party that has masked government agents in major cities rounding up anyone who looks Latino or African and throwing them in prison camps while shooting people who get in their way can win free and fair elections.

Malfeasance is their only option. We should expect all sorts of shenanigans.

“Answer independence: Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT ...

2026-01-17T03:51:33Z

“Answer independence: Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. Answers are optimized based on what's most helpful to you. Ads are always separate and clearly labeled.” - OpenAI Ads Principles

In practice:

The Overton window has fully shifted to “do you deserve to get ...

2026-01-16T16:54:56Z

The Overton window has fully shifted to “do you deserve to get shot in the face by government agents if you don’t get out of your car when asked?”

We are so lost if this is what the paper of record considers a valid discussion.

Wikipedia turns 25 today and announced that the major AI ...

2026-01-15T16:37:17Z

Wikipedia turns 25 today and announced that the major AI companies now pay for enterprise access to Wikipedia data.

It’s an interesting shift that if you contribute to GitHub or Wikipedia, it’s less that you’re contributing to the fountain of human knowledge and more that you’re training AI for free.

https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikipedia-microsoft-meta-perplexity-ai-training-wikimedia-foundation

Saw a Fox News clip and then this post that implies that the ...

2026-01-14T13:26:49Z

Saw a Fox News clip and then this post that implies that the official MAGA position is that government agents can kill you if you annoy them while in the middle of trying to deport suspected undocumented immigrants (who are most likely U.S. citizens anyway).

These are the demons our parents warned us about.

When people say “stop making things political”, they mean you ...

2026-01-11T15:06:07Z

When people say “stop making things political”, they mean you should stop making them feel uncomfortable that the system that oppresses you benefits them.

Problem solving, the ICE way. ...

2026-01-09T01:52:03Z

Problem solving, the ICE way.

Import your medical records into ChatGPT. What could possibly go ...

2026-01-07T21:34:43Z

Import your medical records into ChatGPT. What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/chatgpt-health-tab-apple-fitness-apps

There’s a saying that the future is already here, it’s just ...

2026-01-07T12:42:22Z

There’s a saying that the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

I see plenty of developers insisting AI coding tools are overhyped and error-prone.

But I’m also starting to see the opposite, people who’ve fully embraced them and now find they’re so good it’s triggering a real crisis of confidence.

There’s a California ballot initiative that will levy a ...

2026-01-07T05:02:36Z

There’s a California ballot initiative that will levy a one-time tax of 5% of a billionaires who lived in the state as of January 1st 2026, if it passes.

Larry Page, the second richest man in the world has moved out of California to avoid the tax.

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-leave-california-wealth-billionaire-tax-koop-google-2026-1

Last year I told a friend that the best case scenario for Trump ...

2026-01-06T15:05:22Z

Last year I told a friend that the best case scenario for Trump 2.0 is we turn into Putin’s Russia and worst case Germany in the 1930s-1940s.

My friend thought that was overly pessimistic. Almost a year later, less so.

Casey Newton followed up on the viral “Desperation Score” ...

2026-01-06T02:17:22Z

Casey Newton followed up on the viral “Desperation Score” food delivery hoax. He got in touch with the original Reddit poster who shared an Uber Eats ID and an 18-page document about the alleged internal workings at Uber Eats.

Both turned out to be AI generated. This is trolling in the age of LLMs.

https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/?media_id=3803745319989638545_63247015229&media_author_id=63247015229&ranking_info_token=GCA2N2YyZWFmYjBmOWM0OGM0OWU5ZTU1Y2YxNjU0NGJhOCX+m9YDJo6c45UNGBMzODAzNzQ1MzE5OTg5NjM4NTQ1KAN2bGwA&utm_source=ig_text_post_permalink

As if there weren’t already enough ethical considerations to ...

2026-01-05T14:56:18Z

As if there weren’t already enough ethical considerations to using ChatGPT. 🤦🏾‍♂️

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump-230342268.html

Stephen Miller’s wife promising the U.S. will keep invading ...

2026-01-05T03:55:53Z

Stephen Miller’s wife promising the U.S. will keep invading countries until the Epstein Files are a distant memory.

The American government is finally going to run a free healthcare ...

2026-01-04T00:29:21Z

The American government is finally going to run a free healthcare program. Unfortunately it’s in Venezuela not the United States.

Jaana was a distinguished engineer at GitHub and is now a ...

2026-01-03T18:16:49Z

Jaana was a distinguished engineer at GitHub and is now a principal engineer at Google. I expect to see more testimonials from accomplished software engineers in 2026 about how AI agents are making them more productive.

Engineers posting about how AI tools don’t work will increasingly look like a skill issue than a problem with AI tools.

R.I.P. CBS News 1927 - 2025 ...

2026-01-03T05:04:07Z

R.I.P. CBS News 1927 - 2025

$TSLA fan believes the only reason Tesla sales are falling is ...

2026-01-03T01:42:56Z

$TSLA fan believes the only reason Tesla sales are falling is because consumers don’t do product research and have been brainwashed by anti-Elon propaganda.

Ok. 🙃

Hard to be mad that a mayor’s wife has $600 boots she paid for ...

2026-01-02T19:14:25Z

Hard to be mad that a mayor’s wife has $600 boots she paid for when the president is a crypto billionaire who got a $400M plane as a “gift” that he didn’t pay for.

In an alternate reality I just took a Tesla robotaxi to the ...

2026-01-02T16:36:10Z

In an alternate reality I just took a Tesla robotaxi to the spaceport for my annual trip to Mars.

In this reality, we are watching performance art of how the world’s richest man is also its biggest grifter

Zohran Mamdani creating task forces to fast track building more ...

2026-01-02T13:24:33Z

Zohran Mamdani creating task forces to fast track building more housing is 🤌 😚.

I see his candidacy as the anti-Trump. With Trump we’ve seen a model of leadership that is completely self centered, corrupt and incompetent.

With Mamdani we get to see inclusive, progressive and competent leadership

Happy New Year. May everything fall into place for you in 2026. ...

2026-01-01T04:09:34Z

Happy New Year. May everything fall into place for you in 2026.

The remote controlled robot version of shooting yourself in the ...

2025-12-28T21:03:04Z

The remote controlled robot version of shooting yourself in the foot.