One of the blackest pills you get when you start getting enterprise clients in tech is that if you are pure of heart and honest you will get zero sales and lose customers. You have to literally fake stuff to bridge the gap of understanding, which grinds your soul down.

Nobody is trying to fix the problem we have in this World. Everyone is trying to make enough money so the problems don’t apply to them anymore.

Wow. In the last 4 years, Wealth went up 37% for Americans 75+ Wealth went down 23% for Americans under 35

We’ve built an entire civilization around the idea that humans must sell most of their waking hours just to survive. And somehow we’ve convinced ourselves that this is natural. It’s not. For thousands of years, technology has been about freeing us from necessity. AI and robotics could finally take that idea to its logical conclusion. A world where existence doesn’t have to be earned through labor.

You can’t be cruel to a machine, and the insistence that you can is just a sociopathic attempt to backdoor in a justification for cruelty to real human beings.

24hrs ago: Openai can do the math to break cryptography and send all of your cryptocurrency tokens to 0 Now: Openai can't do the math on their own revenue

This. from @DKThomp

very strange system where a 25 year old who can’t afford rent pays the retirement for someone living in a $20 million home.

Few metrics are a better read on real economic growth than electricity production. US’s was flat for 20 years😳 US is finally reacting; bond investor consensus still thinks the US can catch up without the bond market being crushed in real terms, but that’s not possible. #YCC

These tech companies are all grifters The American taxpayer is funding the entire operation.🚨. most sophisticated financial extraction scheme in American history… look at the data they use government tax subsidies to mask operational losses, then use the appearance of profitability to justify massive valuations, and use lobbying to prevent any regulation that would expose the scheme.🚨👀 Total tax reduction across the four companies:🚨👀 • Meta: $6.8B reduction • Microsoft: $11B+ reduction • Amazon: $8B reduction • Alphabet: $7B+ reduction • Total: approximately $32.8 billion in tax reductions The tax subsidy scheme works like this: The companies spend billions on data centers (Meta spent $72 billion). The "one big beautiful bill" lets them immediately deduct this spending from their taxable income. So they're using government tax breaks to build the infrastructure that gives them monopoly power, while simultaneously lobbying to prevent any regulation of that infrastructure. 🚨👀 circular financing scheme. Here's how it works: Step 1: Companies contribute to Trump's inauguration and spend on lobbying ($1M each + lobbying) Step 2: Republicans pass the "one big beautiful bill" with AI tax subsidies Step 3: Companies use the tax subsidies to immediately deduct billions in AI/data center spending Step 4: This dramatically reduces their federal tax payments (Meta: $6.8B reduction, Microsoft: $11B+, Amazon: $8B, Alphabet: $7B+) Step 5: The reduced tax payments increase the federal deficit Step 6: The increased deficit creates pressure to cut federal spending elsewhere (social programs, regulation enforcement) Step 7: The companies use their increased profits (from tax savings) to spend more on lobbying ($900M in 2026) Step 8: The lobbying prevents regulation and ensures the tax subsidies continue self-reinforcing loop. The companies are literally using taxpayer money to prevent regulation of themselves. — Meta: • 2024 federal income tax: $9.6 billion • 2025 federal income tax: $2.8 billion • Reduction: $6.8 billion (71% reduction) • Capital expenditures in 2025: $72 billion • If they can immediately deduct even 50% of that ($36 billion) at the 21% corporate tax rate, that's $7.56 billion in tax savings • So the tax savings ($7.56B) exceed the tax reduction ($6.8B), meaning Meta's actual tax reduction is almost entirely explained by the AI tax subsidies Microsoft:🚨 • Federal income tax expense dropped by over $11 billion from FY2025 to FY2026 • Microsoft's capital expenditures for AI are estimated at $50-60 billion annually • At 21% tax rate, immediate deduction of $55B would save $11.55 billion • This almost exactly matches the $11 billion+ tax reduction Amazon:🚨 • Federal income tax payment dropped by nearly $8 billion from FY2024 to FY2025 • Amazon's capital expenditures for AI are estimated at $40-50 billion annually • At 21% tax rate, immediate deduction of $40B would save $8.4 billion • This almost exactly matches the $8 billion tax reduction Alphabet:🚨 • Combined current federal and state income tax expense dropped by over $7 billion • Alphabet's capital expenditures for AI are estimated at $35-40 billion annually • At 21% tax rate, immediate deduction of $35B would save $7.35 billion • This almost exactly matches the $7 billion+ tax reduction —- Total across all four companies: • Total tax reduction: $32.8 billion • Total capital expenditures on AI/data centers: $200 billion annually • Total tax savings from immediate deduction at 21%: $42 billion • The numbers match almost perfectly This means the AI companies' tax reductions are almost entirely driven by the "one big beautiful bill" tax subsidies, not by any actual business improvement.🚨👀

No, "anthropomorphizing" is a technical problem, about how AI works, not something like woke language policing. We say it's wrong because it's "technically" wrong not "morally" wrong. If you fail to set the brakes when parking on a hill, and your car then rolls down the hill, you don't claim that the car "decided to drive away on its own". Such anthropomorphizing distorts what really happened -- that you failed to set the brakes. The same applies to AI. When you "anthropomorphize" the AI you fail at understanding what actually happened.

“I don’t do politics” well now you're doing 7.5% mortgage rates

the moat is literally just caring about your work and being proud of your output and holy shit it does not seem to apply to 99% of people