DeJean Cooper

The only advice i would give a son is the world hates you until you become useful. then it pretends it never hated you, and you must remember that it did, or you will start believing the love is real. and that is how they tame you

This is what I mean when I say GPT-5.2 (and every Instant model since GPT-5) feels small

The rejection of Bad Bunny is the behavior of late phase empires. it fails to perceive the scale of pax ameri. which functions as a civilizational empire. Peak empires had foreign performers as proof of imperial reach, anxious ones experience this as cultural permeability & loss

No one knows you. No one has a story about who you are. No one is waiting for you to be the person you were yesterday. You're just a stranger in a chair by the window, watching a city that doesn't need anything from you. It's the feeling that anything could happen. That the world is bigger than the walls you built around yourself back home. That the life you've been living is just one version of a life, and there are others, and they're not as far away as you thought. At home, you're fixed. Known. You fit into a shape that other people recognize, and after a while, you forget you're even in a shape at all. But here, alone, somewhere new, the shape dissolves. You could be anyone. You could be more of yourself than you've ever been. No one is watching to see if you stay consistent.

This reminds me of when my husband and I met with a monk and my husband asked him how he could be better at loving his enemies, as he really struggles with it. The monk said “worry less about that and worry more about loving your wife, people right in front of you. Love them when they frustrate you, when you are annoyed with them. Through that, you can learn to love your enemies.”

@zs_walcat @LubertyBePrimed @Scarabadelf @arshgoyal13 @sleepin_volk They were guilty

@LubertyBePrimed @Scarabadelf @arshgoyal13 @sleepin_volk wow I sure am glad that juries exist. my name is the central park five.

this is a pro-pedophile law btw

@expatanon Eddington

It’s a sign of something extremely ominous that during a time of massive social upheaval seemingly no one can produce even passably interesting art about what we are all living through.

@DecarlosBr4553 @Howlingmutant0 @actualbateman They move to places like the Bay Area or Seattle that have as few Blacks as possible

Watching the sub Saharan mind use AI technology is really fascinating it’s like letting a dog pilot a submarine, yeah it doesn’t really work but you can’t look away either

@davidmcgraw @JayDanielsMVP @NickiJhabvala @ProFootballTalk The Saints will be the home team in Paris. This is absolutely not happening.

@JayDanielsMVP @NickiJhabvala @ProFootballTalk There is a rumor out there of Paris vs the Saints.

#Commanders will be a designated home team in an international game in 2026, per @NickiJhabvala. Possible locations include London, Brazil, or even possibly Mexico City, per @ProFootballTalk.

The social changes in the Late Ming dynasty, shortly before the Qing conquest: public eroticism, abstraction in the graphic arts, companionate marriage over Confucian convention, and a rise in the status of upper-class women, especially intellectually.

@Noahpinion @powerbottomdad1 We work in this industry, and you don’t. Indians do it a lot more than white people. This happens in every large tech company.

@powerbottomdad1 I believe it happens occasionally. But do you think Indian guys do this a lot more than white guys? Or do you think it's less of a problem if white guys do it? Help me understand your position here. Don't just bellow with rage. I'm trying to understand.

.@Noahpinion multiple companies have been sued and found guilty of preferential hiring or just flat out not even offering the jobs to American (as they legally have to do). your smug comment is a clever quip but i just don't think you're living in the real world

@AnnaGorisch I’d think a lawyer like you would’ve figured this out by now.

@bpodgursky @powerbottomdad1 This is incoherent. It was worth an extra $100-300k to embed them directly with a US team, for reasons that would no longer apply after this change?

@powerbottomdad1 i would guess that at this point most tech bigcos have more outsourced workers than h1bs already. but for some roles, it's worth the extra $ to pay someone to directly embed with a US team. you're just seeing that tail. this tips the scale and more or less cuts off that tail.

genuinely curious about if this actually keeps out talent or simply shifts their salary down. say talent is 200k. but now the company pays 100k and only pays them 100k. this is still top of the world salary software salary seems like it would only keep out lower wage jobs

@Yuchenj_UW @amuse That’s a real problem for you

@amuse For startups like ours, the $100K cost per international employee to enter the H-1B lottery is just too high.

It's sad to hear President Trump raised the H-1B Visa fee from $1,000 to $100,000. - New grads will struggle to get a job - Startups can't afford global talent - Top minds will go to immigration-friendly countries to study and work US can't lose its biggest moat: global talent

@LeeringObserver @ShamelessSperg @TylerDurden No, a question cannot cross a personal boundary if it is distant and generic.

@DejeanCooper @ShamelessSperg @TylerDurden Something can be intrusive and impersonal at the same time.

People ask you what you do for a living so they can decide what level of respect to give you.

@KarlaFisk @ShamelessSperg @TylerDurden You are defending a person who describes themselves as a national socialist.

@DejeanCooper @ShamelessSperg @TylerDurden You are ignorant, morally impaired, and hateful. Go eat rocks.

@FatSackPat @ShamelessSperg @TylerDurden I think it’s fair enough to call the question “what do you do?” impersonal (i.e., distant, generic) or intrusive (i.e., crossing personal boundaries), but it can’t be both. The author is clearly trying to perform intellectual superiority, so the contradiction is grating.

@FatSackPat @ShamelessSperg @TylerDurden Where did I give life advice? All I did was say something that is true.