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If narcissists truly didn’t realize their behaviour was harmful, why did it so often happen behind closed doors, away from other people’s view?

Twitter had 7,500 employees when Musk bought it in 2022. X's product team today is 30 people. That setup is what Benji is talking about: a flat structure with engineers running their own work, almost no managers, and most people reporting directly to Elon. Once a week, Musk runs a review with every engineer at X, where each one presents one or two slides on what they shipped that week. The same approach runs through SpaceX, Tesla, and now xAI. Elon has been pushing this style since 2010, when he emailed every SpaceX engineer with the subject line "Acronyms Seriously Suck." Anyone who kept making them up would face drastic action. Made-up jargon, he wrote, made new hires sit silently in meetings rather than ask what something meant. In 2018 he emailed every Tesla employee with a list of productivity rules. Cut frequent meetings unless absolutely necessary. Walk out the moment you stop adding value. Communication should travel directly to whoever can solve the problem, regardless of their place in the org chart. And any manager who tries to enforce a chain of command "will soon find themselves working elsewhere." The output backs the philosophy. xAI started with 11 researchers in March 2023. By early 2026 investors had put another $20 billion into the company at a $230 billion valuation. Its supercomputer in Memphis ended last year with over a million top-end Nvidia chips, the kind used to train ChatGPT and most other AI models, making it the largest cluster of its kind on Earth. SpaceX flew 165 rockets in 2025, roughly one every other day, doing 85% of all American orbital launches by itself. The company is worth $800 billion right now, with a stock market debut in 2026 expected to value it at a trillion dollars or more. Tesla is worth $1.3 trillion and pulls in $95 billion in yearly sales. That same 30-person product team built and runs the X subscription business, which hit $1 billion in annual revenue in February. Nikita Bier runs product. He hires operators the way you would assemble a small special forces team. About six weeks before this tweet, Bier hired Benji from a couple of crypto companies. Bier said he had been tracking Benji's work for years and called one of his past products among the best-designed he had seen. Benji is describing what happens when one CEO writes emails for sixteen years to remove anything that gets between the people doing the work and the work itself.

People lose their lives to psychological and emotional abuse. I almost did. This kind of abuse isn’t just about hurt feelings. It distorts your reality, destroys your self trust and esteem, traps your body in chronic survival and can wear you down mentally, physically and spiritually until you collapse. And then the ones who harmed you will point at your collapse as evidence you are the problem. People need to stop talking about these relationships like they are just difficult or “toxic.” For many, they are life threatening.

Mark Manson has a brutally simple way to spot a narcissist. On Raj Shamani’s podcast, he explained that narcissism isn’t real confidence — it’s fake confidence built on deep insecurity. Narcissists look confident to people who doubt themselves, but the difference becomes obvious when you disagree with them or tell them “no.” A narcissist will belittle you, argue, call you stupid, or refuse to accept it. A truly confident person will say “okay, let’s talk about it,” admit when they’re wrong, or even thank you for the feedback. This one is gold because it’s such an easy test that actually works in real life. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. In a world full of loud voices and performative confidence, knowing how to tell the difference protects your time, energy, and peace. How do you spot the difference between real confidence and narcissism in people?

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"Cuando la ley ya no te protege de los corruptos, sino que protege a los corruptos de ti, sabes que tu nación está condenada". - Ayn Rand -

An uncomfortable truth: “Any crime that is punishable by a fine is basically legal for those who can afford it.”

Unfortunately, I do believe in cutting off family if needed.

we are living in a time where the intelligent person must remain silent in order not to offend the ignorant.

Karma Says: When you destroy someone's life with lies, fake hopes and promises. Take it as a loan. It will come back to you with interest.

I recently realized something I can’t ignore: There’s a line that should never be crossed. When someone knows you’re at your lowest and still chooses to hurt, dismiss, or disrespect you, it’s not an accident, it’s a decision. Harming someone in their most vulnerable state reveals character, not confusion. And once that line is crossed, it doesn’t just hurt in the moment, it changes how you see them forever.

Degrees mean nothing if you still look down on waiters, guards, drivers and employees. Real education is seen in respect not in certificates.

@s_ss_123_ Good one!

教授「コイン投げをしよう。裏表どちらがでる確率も50%、表が出たらあなたの資産が1.5倍になって、裏が出たらあなたの資産が0.6倍になる」 私「期待値は1.5✖️50%＋0.6✖️50%で、1.05。 期待値が1を超えているんだから、やればやるほど儲かる魔法のギャンブルですね！」 彼女「ちょっとまって！それは、

U.S. Marines recently proved that low-tech creativity can still defeat cutting-edge military artificial intelligence. In a DARPA field trial, a team of eight Marines was challenged to sneak past a sophisticated AI-powered detection system. Instead of relying on advanced stealth gear or electronic countermeasures, they turned to absurdly simple, almost cartoonish tactics and succeeded Some Marines cartwheeled and rolled across 300 meters of open ground. Others concealed themselves under ordinary cardboard boxes and slowly inched forward. One soldier even disguised himself as a small fir tree, shuffling gradually toward the objective. Remarkably, every Marine reached the target without ever triggering the AI sensors. The system had been trained extensively on normal human walking and running patterns, but it had no reference for these bizarre movements. Because the Marines’ actions fell completely outside the AI’s learned understanding of “human behavior,” they were effectively invisible to it. This exercise offers a timely lesson for the defense sector: no matter how advanced military AI becomes, it can still be outmaneuvered by human ingenuity, unconventional thinking, and old-fashioned manual tactics. This incident serves as a vital reminder for the defense industry that while AI is an incredibly powerful tool, it remains susceptible to creative human deception and the unpredictable nature of manual tactics. source: Scharre, P. (2023). Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. W. W. Norton & Company.

A TECH WORKER IN CHINA GOT FIRED BECAUSE HIS COMPANY SAID AI COULD DO HIS JOB CHEAPER. He had worked there since November 2022. His salary was 25,000 yuan a month ($3,655). The company offered him a new role at 15,000 yuan. A 40% pay cut. He said no. They fired him. Then a court in Hangzhou ruled the dismissal illegal. And the reasoning is what everyone needs to read. The court didn't say AI can't replace jobs. It said replacing a worker with AI is a voluntary business decision. Not an act of God. Not an unavoidable disruption. A choice. And if it's a choice, the company cannot force the worker to bear the financial risk of that choice. The exact quote from the arbitration panel: "By citing AI replacement as grounds for dismissal, the company had effectively shifted the risks of technological iteration onto its employees." That framing is everything. Every company running AI layoffs right now is calling it "market forces" or "operational efficiency." The Hangzhou court just said: that's not a weather event. That's a strategy. And your strategy is not your employee's liability. This isn't one case. Last year, a data mapping worker in Beijing was replaced by AI and won a similar arbitration. Same logic. AI adoption = business strategy = company's risk to absorb. The Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court published this ruling on April 28, 2026. Timed exactly to Workers' Day on May 1. That timing was deliberate. China's core AI industry hit 1.2 trillion yuan in 2025. Over 6,200 AI companies. The government is pushing mass AI adoption across industries. By 2030, they expect AI agents to penetrate 90% of terminals. And yet they published a court ruling protecting workers from being discarded in the process. That tension is intentional. China wants AI adoption and worker stability at the same time. This ruling is the legal infrastructure for that balance. What this means for the rest of the world: Every knowledge worker watching their job get automated should understand what China just established. The question isn't "can AI do your job." The question is "who pays when a company decides to let AI do your job." Right now in the US and most of Europe, the worker pays. Through severance negotiations, at-will employment, and no legal protection when a company restructures around AI. China just created a different framework. AI replacement is a business decision. Business decisions come with business obligations. You cannot just hand the employee the bill. I don't know if this precedent spreads. I don't know if Western courts will follow. But I know this: the 2.1 million people who saw that BRICS post yesterday aren't sharing it because they love Chinese labor law. They're sharing it because they're scared. And they're right to ask: if AI is a business strategy, not a natural disaster, why is the worker the one absorbing the risk? That question doesn't have a good answer yet. But at least one court just tried to give one. Bookmark this. This legal framework will matter more over the next 24 months than most people realize. --- Sources: Caixin Global, NPR, China State Council Information Office (scio.gov. cn), Dexerto

Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive ‘toxic worker’ does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive, but more cooperative, workers.

THIS GUY VIBE CODED A FULL CAPYBARA FOOD DELIVERY GAME IN 2 WEEKS WITH CLAUDE CODE you play as a capybara delivering food on a bike. orders stack on the back, you have a phone with apps in-game and the whole delivery system is realistic 2 weeks, zero game dev experience, and ENTIRELY AI generated the full stack: > claude code for all the code > three.js for the 3D engine > suno for original music > elevenlabs for sound effects and voice > GPT images-2 and grok for textures and illustrations > tripo3d for generating all the 3D assets the cinematics are all in-game too. he asked claude to build a cinematic editor with timeline controls, camera animation, and transitions. then he just placed the cameras himself his workflow was more planning than coding (obviously): > come up with the core mechanic > plan every feature using claude /plan mode > generate assets with AI tools > spend most of his time on the final polish, prop placement, and making the design feel right he said the human part is what most vibe coded games are missing. AI can generate everything but having taste for what looks good and what feels right is still on you the game is playable right now in the browser this is what vibe coding is actually capable of in the game dev space right now a year ago this would have taken a small team of developers, a sound designer, and an artist working together for months now one person with no experience can ship a polished playable game with story, music, and mechanics in 14 days the tools keep getting better and the barrier to making real games keeps getting lower

🚨 AI just redesigned a waste-heat generator and boosted performance by up to 8.2x. The breakthrough wasn’t a new material. It was shape. Instead of the old rectangular thermoelectric block, topology optimization created strange hourglass/I-shaped structures that control heat flow and electrical resistance better. That matters because humanity wastes enormous energy as heat. Factories. Engines. Data centers. Exhaust systems. If AI can sculpt materials around physics instead of human intuition, waste heat becomes harvestable power. The future of energy may be weird-looking geometry. Follow me I track where physics becomes structure.