@MadisonMills22 Lots of companies have gone all in throwing AI at everything. They don’t know why or what for, but the FOMO is real.
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Sam
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Corporate America enters its AI reckoning phase as IT bills keep rising and consumer sentiment nosedives.
My latest, which includes an account from a CFO fretting over a half a *billion* dollar accidental AI bill: axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-…
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@growing_daniel Strong hire aka person most willing to spend months memorizing interview trivia after work
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I've been a software engineer for years but I've never had to interview for a job before. I tried leetcode once out of curiosity and couldn't do it. Seemed really disconnected from what software engineers do.
Jackson@zeroxjackson
As a software engineer, you should be able to solve a LeetCode problem.
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In design, this will be remembered as the colorless era: cars, buildings, movies, the chroma is being sucked out of everything. But of course the pendulum will eventually swing back, and then colorlessness will seem dated.
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This era of medicine is incredibly exhilarating. Most other stuff today is just rearranging abundance. Medicine still deals in the ancient questions:
disease, suffering, mortality.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
Eli Lilly has done it. They've gone and made what seems to be a powerful, permanent gene therapy for LDL cholesterol. That means they'll be able to effectively prevent most heart disease with a single infusion!
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@conorsen I feel like it was less personal. More aimed at an abstract spirit of optimization as opposed to the really intense level of hatred for the Thunder and Adam Silver
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My feed is drenched in whining about how much the modern NBA sucks. Seems even more whiny than normal.
Do other sports have such a vibrant cottage industry of anti-fan posters who are so determined to hate on the sport?
Coop™️@imyycooper
First 3 minutes of the 1998 Game 6 NBA Finals Basketball used to be so pure 🔥
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@jwellz8 Except it’s a complete lie that it’s $30 a drink
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Something to think about : what does life look like 25 years from now if AI continues to improve.
I don’t think any AI community ( broad tech industry , academia , various timelines predictions) have done a great job articulating a positive long term future for humanity and what it means for the institutions and traditions that a lot of the world holds dear.
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Good read on the second-order effects of AI abundance.
Material abundance does not automatically produce coherence, competence, or stability. Carnegie understood this and funded libraries largely because literacy was a leverage point for industrial society.
Worth thinking about what those institutions are in the AI age.
Nan Ransohoff@nanransohoff
New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)
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One of the great unpriced AI risks is broad social hostility. It’s shaping up to be a rare bipartisan issue. Not hard to imagine a scenario where capex dies simply by virtue of profound political unpopularity.
Ron DeSantis@RonDeSantis
Gloating about people’s jobs getting wiped out and championing sticking people on government checks for subsistence… yeah, not hard to see why many would not look favorably on that.
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I’m still confused as to why we’re making robots that look like people rather than making them far far far far better at doing the things we need them to do.
It’s like we’re making animatronic horses not cars with wheels
Eren Chen@ErenChenAI
2 people can’t physically hold back the Agibot A3 when it malfunctioned. Looks like a policy degradation under instability.
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America isn't a real society anymore.
Its just an economic zone.
Just get rich af and stop complaining that no one cares about celebrating the 250th birthday of what is just an economic zone at this point.
Accept it and love it for the money it brings you.
Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187@ScottMGreer
America has the World Cup and its 250th birthday this summer, but the public doesn't seem to really care about either event. It's a bit weird.
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"Dad books" — which this article, and some publishing insiders, use to describe "serious nonfiction" books across biography, current affairs and business and economics — are reportedly in a free fall, with sales declining every year for the last few years
“The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint.
“When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers.
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The spooky part is that there are so many opportunities for hedonic joy that you can spend your entire life saturated in it without ever once needing to encounter meaning.
Previous generations had no choice but to confront the great questions eventually. Silence found them. Boredom found them. Suffering found them. Now you can escape yourself indefinitely.
Sam@fargeau_
One of the stranger things about modern life is how easily you can simulate fulfillment. It's the first time in history where the gap between dopamine hits can be reduced to zero, allowing you to indefinitely postpone fulfillment. The balloon never has to touch the ground and your brain doesn’t care that none of the hits compound.
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Very easy in modern times to mistake hedonic joy for eudaimonic joy
INTERIOR PORN@INTERIORPORN1
OMG, do you know how much of a flex this is?? 😭
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It’s weird to think that, unless something goes terribly wrong, we are living in trillions of people’s very distant, primitive past.
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Train ridership in America peaked right about 1954 and then dropped off, never to recover.
stjohnsphoto@stjohnsphoto
Elliott Erwitt #photography Wyoming, USA. 1954.
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