Nick Knipe

@G_S_Bhogal Lost opportunity, should end with “your mom”

A nice reminder that everything you're worried about is ultimately insignificant.

@fammetaX @unusual_whales You zooming out on a chart. It is like 25 percent off its ATH.

@kniborg @unusual_whales what do you call this?

BREAKING: Meta, $META, is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, per Reuters

@fammetaX @unusual_whales They are very much not at record price

@unusual_whales $META: record profits ✅ $META: record stock price ✅ $META : 14,000 employees gone ✅ This is what “efficiency” looks like 💀 x.com/fammetax/statu…

@xx_xyathletics This is a totally incoherent argument

Malcolm Gladwell says if males agree to stop invading women’s sports, in response females must accommodate all the other demands of the trans movement. Once again, a man telling women they must consent to other men’s demands for their private spaces AND VERY IDENTITY. How about we stop accommodating mental illness at the expense of women & girls @Gladwell ? You may be intelligent, but your moral compass is sadly broken.

@dmanbrady @Jon_Hartley_ the point is that it is *not* hard for them. they just skip town. you just don't have that much control I'm sorry.

@Jon_Hartley_ Poor billionaires, life is hard for them.

Starbucks founder Howard Schultz announces he is moving from Seattle to Miami as the Washington state legislature moves forward with introducing a 9.9% tax on people making more than $1 million per year starting in 2029 (Washington state currently has no state income tax).

@edgefills @BillAckman @GerberKawasaki you savage

@BillAckman @GerberKawasaki Don’t worry, he talks about W2 income bc he hasn’t made a single dollar in returns in 5 years

One thing that is absurd is @BillAckman made $140 mil in income last year and paid a lower tax rate than a school teacher in LA due to the hedge fund tax scam called carried interest. This must be stopped. He is an investment manager and should be paid w2 income like I am.

@MeghanMcCarthy_ @PresentWitness_ There information to confirm she is connected to this or no? This bid overall looks like near outright taxpayer fraud, but her retort: x.com/TriciaOhio/sta…

@PresentWitness_ x.com/meghanmccarthy…

Kristi Noem should probably be investigated for her no-bid $220m taxpayer-funded advertising campaign where $143m went to her chief DHS spokesperson's husband's company incorporated 8 days before the award. This is likely part of the real reason she is gone.

@MarcACaputo @bungarsargon @BarakRavid Turkey will love this

Scoop: President Trump spoke w/2 Kurdish leaders Sunday The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Iran & they have thousands of peshmerga warriors who could form a boots-on-the-ground force covered by US-Israeli air power w/@BarakRavid axios.com/2026/03/02/tru…

@ProfDBernstein seoul would have been flattened by artillery.

Bill Clinton looking a lot dumber by engaging in fraudulent negotiations instead of taking out the NK nuke program when it was still possible.

@kerwin65230 @growing_daniel What basic necessities would have a production cost of close to zero exactly? Food, housing, etc, not exactly eaten by AI. I'm imagining a UBI check going straight into a landlord's pocket.

@kniborg @growing_daniel It wouldn’t inflate basic necessities that have a production cost of close to zero Things that confer status though will cost a fortune because positional status would be everything It’s very weird to consider

It is kinda amazing how early Andrew yang was

Again, disagree with the premise! You are assuming the economy is a static pie. Argument is: the computing age screwed us by funneling very smart people to work in the world of moving pieces of information around, but they would have been much better placed running something else, creating growth elsewhere. Stated differently, various other areas of our lives could have been improved by humans (or even, not degrade like they have; think gov services), but we were labor bottlenecked b/c of the rewards the computer age offered to these smart people. It's possible that it is SO transformative we really are screwed; it does EVERYTHING better and does not need us. Possible, think its very unlikely. But yeah, its not without its anxiety my friend.

@kniborg @growing_daniel I feel as we are watching the Wright Brothers take off and not understanding the implications Yes for now hot air balloons are safe but in ten years they aren’t! That’s the entire economy Once every job you do is replaced by physical robots or AI, how do you buy food?

@SPQR_Austin @growing_daniel I fully empathize as someone in biggish tech who could be axed any day. But I don't fully accept the premise; I'm trusting there will be somewhere for these intelligent people to rotate into. We are still going to need people to be productive, UBI just seems like bogus economics

@kniborg @growing_daniel Once AI makes most unemployable, how do people afford homes and food and stuff?

@MatthewCGerard @growing_daniel @grok Love being right!

@kniborg @growing_daniel @grok please reply with the facts on UBI relevant to the assumptions and positions made here.

@SPQR_Austin @growing_daniel Maybe but like it was all a premise for UBI which is a dud but maybe it makes a comeback

@kniborg @growing_daniel Directionally correct lol

@0xKeef @growing_daniel Feel free to explain

@kniborg @growing_daniel Holy midwit reply

@sin__tax @growing_daniel lmao

@kniborg @growing_daniel That's part of what makes it amazing, Yang is STILL early

@growing_daniel I like Andrew too fwiw.

@growing_daniel Really? His claim was not white collar jobs being lost. He thought trucking jobs were going to evaporate in like “3 years” and that necessitated UBI. Quite wrong. And UBI is shit in studies. Cute idea but socially doesn’t work and it obv would just inflate basic necessities.

@djsbdkais72172 @aagha @paulg @jasonrmcintyre They always think it’s a savings account with 100B in it.

@aagha @paulg @jasonrmcintyre I suspect it’s more about loss of his company then loss of his wealth, something lost on anyone who hasn’t built anything

Larry Page is gone. He wasn't just pretending to move to Florida. He has moved. The proposed wealth tax hasn't even passed, and already it has cost California both Larry's presence and all the tax revenue it made from him.

@aagha @paulg @jasonrmcintyre You’re neglecting to mention that it also means foregoing control of his company. He is not being forced to liquidate his Wells Fargo savings account. He has to give up control of his company to pay this tax.

@paulg @jasonrmcintyre And after he pays that, he won't have enough to feed his family.