James Lin 🇺🇸 TW 🇺🇦
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Waymo should let people buy the cars.
They should then allow users to decide if they want the car dedicated to them or optionally enter it into Waymo service during certain times and hours (eg while they’re at work).
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I live in Eindhoven, ASML town. Heard this from folks inside...
Over the years ASML promoted a lot of strong EUV people into architect roles, group leads, management tracks. Built up serious layers. Classic growth pain.
Then McKinsey comes in , says cut the management layers to speed things up. So now those same high performers, real good EUV experts, who got promoted are the ones on the block. About 3400 roles targeted, mostly management. Half will be reassigned, rest gone. Big hit in Veldhoven/Eindhoven area (~1400), some in US. Unncertainty is high, unions talking, details probably land around April.
At the same time, ASML is still planning massive growth. The new campus near the airport just got final green light from city council. Construction starts soon, phased build-out. Long term they talk ~20,000 new jobs in the region (first wave ~5k by 2028).
And the layoff packages are subpar. Philips is also based in the same town. And they had layoffs due to serious financial issues last year. Their layoff packages were much better than what ASML is offering. What a way to kill tje company culture. Especially at a time when the company is printing money.
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@aakashgupta @moo9000 You can’t afford to not have the state of the art ai tool since your programming job now depends on it
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Nadella paid $650 million to acquihire Mustafa Suleyman and 70 Inflection employees in March 2024. The job: make Copilot the AI product that justifies Microsoft’s infrastructure bet. Two years later, Suleyman no longer runs Copilot.
The corporate framing is generous. “Freed up to focus on superintelligence.” The numbers tell a different story.
Microsoft 365 has 450 million paid commercial seats. After two years on the market, during the largest AI hype cycle in history, Copilot converted 15 million of them. That’s 3.3%. At $30/user/month, those seats generate roughly $5.4 billion annually. Microsoft spent $37.5 billion on AI infrastructure in a single quarter.
The competitive data is worse. Recon Analytics surveyed 150,000+ enterprise users in January 2026. Copilot’s paid subscriber share dropped from 18.8% to 11.5% in six months. Gemini passed it in November. The most damning finding: 70% of users initially preferred Copilot because it was already embedded in their Office apps. After trying ChatGPT and Gemini, 8% kept choosing it.
That 70-to-8 drop is the number that explains this entire reorg. Microsoft has the greatest distribution advantage in enterprise software history, and 90% of users leave after trying the competition.
So Nadella hands Copilot to Jacob Andreou, a former Snap executive. You bring in an eight-year consumer growth operator when the problem is adoption, not science. And Suleyman gets “superintelligence”: no shipped product, no revenue target, no quarterly earnings call where an analyst asks about the 3.3%.
The $650 million acquihire just became the most expensive research fellowship in tech history.
Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos
The inevitable has happened: Copilot no longer reports to Mustafa Suleyman. theinformation.com/briefings/micr…
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@AlexandruC4 Need meat to send to the front lines 18 years from now
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Russian women who refuse to have children will be sent to a psychologist, the Moscow Ministry of Health announces
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Netflix should buy this and put it on their game streaming platform
Gravantus@Gravantus
Modern escapism is wishing you were a minimum wage worker in 1995
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@NYMag Lol no one in the administration knows what any of these things mean and will spin it as evil capitalism punishing their agenda
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently got the political equivalent of what baseball players call a brushback pitch — a fastball deliberately thrown dangerously close to a batter’s head in order to intimidate the player, who must flinch or duck to avoid a devastating injury.
The mayor is getting municipal chin music from the major bond-rating agencies: Moody’s formally changed its outlook on the city’s finances from “stable” to “negative,” and S&P Global Ratings opined that Mamdani’s budget plan will “make it difficult to sustain budgetary balance beyond fiscal years 2026 and 2027.” The negative outlook from the agencies is a warning, writes columnist Errol Louis. The next step could be a downgrade of the city’s bond rating, which would raise the cost of borrowing money for routine city operations.
Mamdani maintains that the decision to revise the outlook is premature, pointing out that the city’s overall credit rating remains strong and has not been downgraded. But the message from Wall Street seemed crystal clear: Unless Mamdani adopts a more fiscally conservative approach, we will punish City Hall in the markets.
Read Louis’s full column: nymag.visitlink.me/H057m5
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Things you can do with LLMs not so much humans: “Give me a detailed summary of the problem you are stuck on so I can prompt another llm to see if they can solve it”
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@toobaffled @R89Capital Gonna neee another pill to fix that
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@ycinnewyork @chien_kwok @nyc_evsa Also people on bikes and ebikes don’t obey traffic laws. They need to be aggressively ticketed. They are a menace in the streets.
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There are 1550 miles of bike lanes in NYC --- eBikes are going faster than 15mph. To ensure the safety goal of this law, all eVehicles must be registered w/license plates, and be subjected to fines. Pass Priscilla's Law. @nyc_evsa
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There are 1400 school buildings in NYC. School zones are about 3-block radius (0.16 sq miles) which means 224 sq miles of streets will be affected. NYC is ~300 sq miles. So 75% of NYC streets will covered by the 15mph law!
Map credit: @The74
Andrew Fine@AFineBlogger
@ycinnewyork How far from the school does the zone reach? If it's a quarter mile, it's much of the city.
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@jon_charb @LDrogen But how will the ngo grifters get paid
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At this point we should just do UBI and cut all government support services
You could give these people a check for a small fraction of this and we’d all be better off
Charlie Smirkley@charliesmirkley
NYC spends more per homeless person than the median NYC household earns. $81,705 per person in FY2025. And $81,705 is a floor. It excludes supportive housing (~$500M/yr), mental health response teams, and NYPD encampment costs. The city projects ~$97K per person in FY2026.
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@not_mynes @NintendoAmerica It’s the DoW, department of Wario
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Hey @NintendoAmerica is this an official collaboration? This has ruined my perception of the Nintendo brand and will never be purchasing Nintendo products.
The White House@WhiteHouse
UNDEFEATED.
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@TechLayoffLover @grok is this a reliable source based on previous posts about layoffs
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Amazon just confirmed 16,000 layoffs but sources inside are telling me the real story is so much worse
Word from three different VPs: the 16K number is just "Phase One" - internal docs show another 14,000 cuts planned for Q2
A director in AWS walked me through their new "efficiency matrix" - entire teams being replaced by 2-3 senior engineers running Claude Sonnet workflows
The Alexa division got completely hollowed out. 847 engineers two months ago. 23 remaining after this week. All hardware development moved to a Bangalore team of 31 contractors with Cursor access
Here's the sick part: they're making the outgoing engineers document their entire decision-making process into "knowledge transfer sessions" that are being recorded and fed directly into training datasets
One L7 told me he spent his final two weeks creating detailed prompt libraries and workflow documentation. Thought he was being helpful for the transition
Turns out he was literally training the AI agent that replaced his entire org
The contractors offshore are using his exact prompts and shipping features 40% faster than his old team of 12 Americans ever did
Internal Slack shows leadership celebrating "operational excellence" while badges get deactivated in real-time
They're calling it "right-sizing for the AI era" in the all-hands
But the P&L sheets I'm seeing show $280M in salary savings this quarter alone
The knowledge extraction is complete
If you're still at Amazon and haven't started job hunting, you're already dead
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@Noahpinion You really think they used AI to get lethal strike targets vs just they didn’t update old intel because whoever was responsible for updating that piece is no longer at the job?
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That's quite a hallucination
Robert Wright@robertwrighter
Anthropic's Claude helped select hundreds of targets for the opening wave of Iran strikes. There's a good chance that one of them was the elementary school where more than 100 girls died. My latest @NonzeroNews piece. nonzero.org/p/iran-and-the…
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@therobotjames @andruyeung He went all the way back to economy just to creep on everyone’s screens
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@andruyeung this didn’t really happen did it Andrew?
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Currently on a first class flight to Austin
Observed something fascinating: Economy passengers are all working (surprisingly) on powerpoint decks, excel, and outlook.
Those flying business? Claude code and Replit.
Big lesson to be learned here.
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@avidseries @ProjectLiberal Back then the Protestants hated Catholics
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If Ellis Island was bringing people in at the same proportion to the US population today that it was in 1907:
It would be allowing in 4 million people a year.
By itself.
Jake Rattlesnake@jakerattlesnk
Here we have a lib pretending not to understand that mass immigration at current rates into Western countries is unprecedented
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@draken1721 @DailyMail Putin and Kim jong Il are both richer than Elon.
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@DailyMail Iran's supreme leader worth more than Elon but nobody talks about it
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Will Ali Khamenei's son take over his $95 BILLION business empire? Iran's newly-crowned Supreme Leader already owns £100m London property portfolio trib.al/Jyipjwy
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@aakashgupta That would make sense if other countries with subsidized parental leave weren’t having the same exact birth rate problems. The thing that would actually work are tax write offs for everything child related. It’s mainly an affordability thing and paid parental leave isn’t enough
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The US spends $0 on federally mandated paid parental leave. Its fertility rate just hit an all-time low. And now we’re writing magazine pieces asking why parents have regrets.
The US fertility rate hit 1.599 in 2024. Down from 2.1 in 2007. The country can’t replace its own population anymore.
Three moms tell NY Mag they want their old lives back, and 70,000 people visit r/regretfulparents every week. Studies put the number at 8-14% of parents who’d choose differently if they could rewind.
But the framing of “regret” as a personal feeling misses what’s actually happening. The cost of raising a child in the US hit $310,000+ through age 17 by USDA estimates. Childcare runs $12,000-$15,000 a year. The US is one of six countries on earth with zero federally mandated paid parental leave.
You have a system that tells people parenthood is life’s greatest purpose, provides almost no structural support for it, then calls them broken when they struggle.
The 70,000 weekly visitors to that subreddit aren’t experiencing a psychological anomaly. They’re the honest ones in a system where 62% of women say they’re unsure about having more kids and fertility just fell off a cliff.
We keep calling this a stigma problem. It’s a policy failure.
New York Magazine@NYMag
Sooner or later, everyone has to decide whether to give up lazy weekends, disposable income, and overall peace of mind to have a baby instead. For many of those on the fence, one anxiety looms large: What if I make the wrong choice? Parent regret is more common than you might think — the r/regretfulparents sub-Reddit alone gets around 70,000 weekly visitors who anonymously commiserate — though stigma makes it hard to admit in real life. Writer Bindu Bansinath speaks with three moms of young children about why they wish they could go back to their old lives: nymag.visitlink.me/Sv0c_9
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