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Trump again floats deploying federal agents to San Francisco Speaking during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump said San Francisco could "quickly become a great city again," while suggesting progress under current leadership has been too slow.  "In San Francisco, crime is down 30%, encampments are at record lows, and our city is on the rise," Lurie said in a statement. "Public safety is my number one priority, and we are going to stay laser focused on keeping our streets safe and clean." @KTVU ktvu.com/news/trump-aga…

Subtext: how Zuck’s obsession with VR lost him AI leadership and “the greatest deal Google ever made.” “if Facebook didn’t buy DeepMind, they would end up in the arms of Google. Hassabis came out to the West Coast to have lunch with Larry Page, still the strongest suitor. Zuckerberg got wind of his visit and invited him to dinner. Arriving at Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto home, Hassabis administered a subtle test on him. The two men discussed the potential of AI, and Zuckerberg expressed appropriate excitement. But then, as the dinner continued, Hassabis brought up other hot technologies: virtual reality, augmented reality, 3-D printing. Zuckerberg sounded equally excited about all of them. ‘That told me what I needed to know,’ Hassabis said. ‘Facebook offered more money, but I wanted somebody who really understood why AI would be bigger than all these other things.’ After the dinner, Hassabis got back to Larry Page. ‘Let’s go further,’ he told him.” — book excerpt from today’s WSJ: wsj.com/tech/ai/deepmi… Zuck’s misplaced devotion to VR and the metaverse hurt the company much more than the $80 billion of wasted spend. It’s the reputational hit. @DemisHassabis divined it in his final test, and Zuck didn’t even know that he blew the opportunity. Eight years later, he renamed the company Meta, doubling down on what anyone with tech savvy knew was DOA. Then, in a 2025 attempt to play catchup, Zuck spent $14 billion on a data labelling company with a salesy leader and upended his AI team. Once again, anyone with tech savvy rolled their eyes on the acquisition and management changes, further evidence that the tech leadership at Meta was seriously lacking. TLDR; beware the metaverse. It is a dystopian vision at best, and luckily for humanity, headsets are still nowhere near readiness for mass adoption.

🚨SCOOP: @AyannaPressley Forces Floor Vote on Haitian TPS House Democrats — with a critical assist from two Republicans — just stripped Speaker Johnson of his ability to bury Haiti TPS. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-ayanna…

Hmm. This was dispiriting. I had a haircut from a young woman, and after she established that I write for a newspaper, she gushed: "That's so interesting! I've never actually read a newspaper."

If they don't all quit, we should abolish ICE and give its money to real cops. See my plan how to do it here: thehill.com/opinion/immigr…

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@real_Bluecat @rnovak1988 I didn’t argue this. It’s a fact. I didn’t create the system but I work with it all the time.

You just argued that it is fine to do discrimination based on nationality. Basically, that’s perfectly fine to have as sole condition for employment WITHIN US, and for US-based employers , that the person be NOT from the country. I hope Stanford gets fined to the tune of 100s of millions.

There’s no requirement that there is a shortage of US workers for H-1B. Instead, you have to show that the job is a “speciality occupation”- basically a profession that requires a college degree, the applicant has such a degree and that the employer is paying the prevailing wage or higher.

@rnovak1988 Just Google it like you said.

@daniel_s_larson No, it's for an H1-B It's literally part of the law... it takes less than 10 seconds to google, and yall still lie

@agarwal You can go anywhere in SF within 45 minutes by bike. It’s faster than driving and public transit for many destinations for sure. Just carefully plan your routes as some areas of the city are hard to bike through. Looking at you Ocean Ave

Just got a bike. It’s kind of amazing how much of SF is faster this way than driving. If only it was safe...

@MasExMachina I know about it but I have never filed a case for an Au Pair.

@daniel_s_larson Do you know about Au Pairs? This is literally a legal route for elite families to get themselves free live-in servants. I can't even imagine the level of human trafficking and exploitation happening there.

You know what category has minimal vetting compared to H-1B? TNs….you just have to show that your profession is listed on the USMCA, you have that said degree ( or apply as a management consultant”- no degree required) and you have a contract/ or employment offer letter- no min salary requirement. You can show up at the border with your degree and a letter from the employer and be admitted on the spot.

@Chigurhs Stanford didn't produce that data- the U.S. government did. Here is the website to check the data from the Department of Labor: flag.dol.gov/wage-data/wage… It looks like to me the position is between wage level 1 and 2 for Santa Clara County.

@daniel_s_larson Well Stanford is lying about the prevailing wage being “$112K.” It isn’t that low in Mississippi. This is just outright fraud and abuse of the program.

New pressure on U.S. immigration lawyers handling H-1Bs issues. The change of status piece of an I-129 used to seem minor. But an I-129 really has two cases baked into one: the merits petition and the change of status request. Now, if the COS gets denied it will likely trigger the $100k fee. So far, employers have only paid it for about 80 people in the entire USA. High stakes indeed

@tall_n_rich Yes I know-

@daniel_s_larson Many IT positions don't even require a 4-year college degree. A 2 year associates degree works just as well. There are self-taught professionals that can do this.

@ThomasMelv59612 But that’s not the test in this context- that’s PERM, the employer sponsored green card process.

@daniel_s_larson There is no way that there is not a qualified applicant in that area.

@rnovak1988 That’s PERM- for a green card, not this.

@daniel_s_larson That's completely false. You are required to show that the job was OFFERED to local applicants. I know lawyers lie, but this is insane even by that standard

I don’t necessarily disagree- I think the notion that a degree is required to prove skills has been repeatedly challenged in the real economy. And bachelor’s degrees are as you say more common than in 1990 when the modern H-1B system came into place. But my job isn’t to wish the ideal system it’s to understand the ins and outs of the system we have now.

@daniel_s_larson It's unfortunate that this policy has not been updated. The spirit of the law is broken. Its 35 years old. A huge number of people have college degrees today & is our general white collar workforce, not highly specialized. Interpretation of "specialty occupation" is overly broad.

@wesbos I had the 16” and always hated carrying it around but the 14 is perfect. I don’t miss the bigger screen at all particularly because at home I just plug it into a monitor.

I’m so over the 16” MacBook. I’ve had a 15/16 for my whole career and I think I’m gonna go 14” next time

iPhone typing with my thumbs kinda sucks. So many spelling errors. I think my Nokia back in the day had better keyboard spell guessing.

@RaminNasibov Yes! And do things like reformat a floppy.

Does anyone remember having to defrag their computer? 😆