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@smallstminority @SovMichael @ConceptualJames @RobertJohnDavi Everything wins by micro victories. Systems of showing up every day and putting energy behind the direction you want the ship to sail.

@TheMindScourge Shhh. There are nice areas outside the pinch points in problem areas.

I made this argument a few years back - I called them the “second tier cities” - and I’m glad to see it’s reaching a wider audience These cities mostly avoid the governance problems that seem to plague the major US cities and their amenities now (largely) rival the super stars Unless you need a very specific career, you can do very well basically anywhere now in the US

@Simon_Ingari Noticed that the text or brief message to an outgoing colleague has disproportionate weight in network. Not playing the cya silence game.

Being laid off is personal. I hate when people say, “It’s just business, it's not personal.” Because I can assure you it feels anything but. A blindsiding meeting with your manager and someone from HR you’ve never even met thrown on your calendar. Credentials instantly revoked. A brief, cold conversation. The whole thing is a blur and then it's just...over. No minute to catch your breath. No chance to wrap things up and say goodbye to colleagues. No acknowledgment of the years you gave, the impact you made, or the person behind the role. The most disorienting part? The silence that follows. People you worked with for years: Never heard from again. Layoffs are a reality, but they can be handled with humanity. You can deliver hard news with grace. You can acknowledge someone’s contributions. You can respect that you are delivering life-altering news to someone. Too often, companies forget that how they handle exits is just as important as how they bring people in. If you’ve been through this, I see you. It’s gut-wrenching. It’s disorienting. But you are more than a title. More than a company. More than a number to cut. And if you’re in a leadership role, please, when that hard moment comes, choose to lead with empathy. Treat people like humans. Because it’s not just business, it’s personal.

@OldHollowTree @CaryKelly11 @FJPence @dissidntdad Hmm. Followed.

@CaryKelly11 @FJPence Don’t tell @dissidntdad

I struggle to find clothes to wear that aren't made of polyester and this Irish gal is composting wool because nobody wants it. This is bloomsandgreensbychloe on IG

@felipeneto Sets up fun revisiting the movies created to showcase technicolor. The color was the feature of the film. The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1938 is a good example of what I mean. Constructively, I would attend theaters more to see showings of film from this color era.

É exatamente essa a sensação que eu tenho hoje... E ficou muito, mas muito evidente com o trailer de HP. Não estou nem dizendo que antes era melhor, porque coisa totalmente saturada também pode ser bem ruim. Tb não tô dizendo q o trailer de HP tá feio. Só não entendo mesmo.

@eye5683eye @AutismCapital @nikitabier Frame is wrong. Broader.

@AutismCapital @nikitabier So Obama phones ruined the Internet?

The Internet was a mistake

@LocasaleLab The universities recreated conditions that ossified scholasticism. The history tested break and rebuild from first principles of what organizations need to do to advance with creativity again rennaissance.

This is a great example of the stranglehold academic institutions have on scientific identity. They’ve created a belief system where if you leave, you are treated as if you’re effectively dead, as if your contributions no longer matter. We must normalize being scientists first, and having institutions rank far down the list of what defines who we are. This didn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of billions in taxpayer revenue and resulting massive marketing power that shapes how the public thinks about science.

@MyBTGFamily @BowTiedMara Restarting the story from the beginning for three iterations is a perfectly placed speaking style. Now wait for the stories with casual emotive flourish to complete before fixing it.

@BowTiedMara If you don’t interrupt them you will never get to say anything.

🇧🇷 | In Brazil, interrupting or questioning a woman in a meeting will be considered "misogyny" and can result in a prison sentence of 2 to 5 years. 🤡🤡🤡🤡

@conor64 Actuarial background. Data is slow and tedious. The claims made about a novel vaccine cannot be made until long term data is available. Some 50 years from now. Language that did not frankly discuss costs and benefits signaled the work of weasels.

A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.

@zerohedge What.

A federal judge has halted the Pentagon’s punishment of Anthropic, temporarily preventing the government from treating the AI start-up as a threat to national security. Activist judges now dictating US national security

@AutismCapital Certainly I'm not the only household who has canceled Netflix for the same reasons I canceled cable. The quality became poor. Cuties and identity check boxes is worse than the reality TV slop and ads.

This story ends with you paying $60-70/mo and congratulations we’ve reinvented cable.

@WallStreetMav The California hail mary for federal office is existential.

California is bankrupt. They cannot afford their spending, meanwhile their top individual and business taxpayers are fleeing the state. If the Democrats capture Congress, expect them to bailout California, New York, Illinois and other blue states with federal money. We will all end up paying for the California disaster.

@Inevitablewest @BasedSavannah "Who elected her king? I didn't vote for her."

🚨BREAKING: The European Parliament has voted in favour of removing ALL tariffs on United States industrial goods The divisive EU bureaucrats and tyrant Ursula de Leyen are livid right now! A great day for the Europe/US alliance.

@LisaBritton Corporate is like this as well. Mentor drives, career coaching sessions, training under women's groups initiatives. Observe most of the topics are better suited as training for all new hires.

Boys are behind girls in every subject except math, so of course girls lagging in math gets 10x as much focus, resources and support. I find it very unfair.

@MollySOShea @friedberg The accountability stage will be fun.

BREAKING: David @friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt" "People don't realize how screwed California is, & I worry that if California falls, so does the union. "$250 billion to $1 trillion short." "This is because for California to get rescued would be a big cost to red states, & I think it creates in the years ahead a lot of tension." "California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country. & I think we need to figure out what we can change to fix it." How we got here: "California has a public pension system, & that public pension system retirees have paid into it & they get some benefits out, & the amount that they're owed back out is somewhere between $250 billion - $1 trillion dollars more than has been paid in. $250 billion to $1 trillion short. If it was the federal government, it would be like, okay, we'll just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits. There is a Supreme Court case in California that said that once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits. It has to stay forever, and the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it. No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California. So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services." Hill & Valley Forum 2026 (@HillValleyForum)

@gothburz "Six more weeks to stop the spread." The AI sequel.

My company rolled out AI tools 11 months ago. Since then, every task I do takes longer. I am not allowed to say this out loud. Not because there is a policy. There is no policy. There is something worse than a policy. There is enthusiasm. There is a Slack channel called #ai-wins where people post screenshots of AI outputs with captions like "this just saved me an hour." There is a VP who opens every all-hands with "the companies that adopt fastest win." There is a Director who renamed his team from Operations to Intelligent Operations. There is a peer review question that now asks: "How have you leveraged AI tools to enhance your workflow this quarter?" If the answer is "I haven't, because I was faster before," that is a career decision. So I leverage. Emails. Before the tools, I wrote emails. This took the amount of time it takes to write an email. I did not measure it. Nobody measured it. The email got written and sent and it was fine. Now I write the email. Then I highlight the text and click "Enhance with AI." The AI rewrites my email. It replaces "Can we meet Thursday?" with "I'd love to explore the possibility of finding a mutually convenient time to align on this." I read the rewrite. I delete the rewrite. I send my original email. This takes 4 minutes instead of 2. The 2 extra minutes are the enhancement. I do this 11 times a day. That is 22 minutes I spend each day rejecting improvements to sentences that were already finished. In #ai-wins I posted a screenshot of the rewrite. I did not post the part where I deleted it. 23 people reacted with the rocket emoji. That is adoption. Meetings. We have an AI notetaker in every meeting now. It joins automatically. It records. It transcribes. It summarizes. After each meeting I receive a 3-paragraph summary of the meeting I just attended. I read the summary. This takes 3 minutes. I was in the meeting. I know what happened. I am reading a machine's account of something I experienced firsthand. Sometimes the account is wrong. Last Tuesday it attributed a comment about Q3 revenue to me. My manager made that comment. I spent 4 minutes correcting the transcript. Before the notetaker, I did not spend 7 minutes after each meeting correcting a robot's memory of something I personally witnessed. I attend 11 meetings a week. That is 77 minutes per week supervising a transcription nobody requested. I mentioned this once. My manager said "think about the people who weren't in the meeting." The people who weren't in the meeting do not read the summaries. I checked. The read receipts show single-digit opens. The summaries exist not because they are useful but because they are there. I read them for the same reason. Documents. I write a weekly status update. Before the tools, this took 10 minutes. I typed what happened. I sent it. My manager skimmed it. The system worked. Now I open the AI writing assistant. I give it my bullet points. It produces a draft. The draft says "Significant progress was achieved across multiple workstreams." I did not achieve significant progress across multiple workstreams. I updated a spreadsheet and sent 4 emails. I rewrite the draft to say what actually happened. Then I run my rewrite through the grammar tool. It suggests I change "done" to "completed" and "next week" to "in the forthcoming period." I click Ignore 9 times. Then I send the version I would have written in 10 minutes. The process now takes 30. I have been doing this every week for 11 months. I have added 20 minutes to a task that did not need 20 more minutes. I call this efficiency. I have been calling it efficiency for 11 months. That is what efficiency means now. It means the additional time you spend to arrive at the same outcome through a longer process. Nobody has questioned this definition. I have not offered it for review. I kept a log once. 2 weeks. Every task, timed. Before-AI and after-AI. The after number was larger in every case. Every single one. Not by a little. The range was 40 to 200 percent. I deleted the log. I deleted it because it was a document that said, in plain numbers, that the AI tools make me slower. And a document like that has no place in a company where AI adoption is a strategic priority. I could not send it to my manager. He championed the rollout. I could not post it in #ai-wins. I could not raise it in a meeting because the notetaker would transcribe it and the summary would read "[Name] expressed concerns about AI tool efficacy" and that summary would be the first one anyone actually reads. So I do what everyone does. I use the tools. I spend the extra time. I post in #ai-wins. I write "leveraged AI to streamline weekly reporting" in my review and my manager gives me a 4 out of 5 for innovation. I have innovated nothing. I have added steps to processes that were already finished. I have made simple things longer and labeled the difference with words that used to mean something. Every week in #ai-wins someone posts a screenshot. And 20 people react with the rocket emoji. And nobody posts the part where they deleted the output and did the task themselves. Nobody posts the revert. Nobody posts the before-and-after timer. Nobody will. Because "I was better at my job before the AI tools" is a sentence that cannot be said out loud in any company that has decided AI is the future. Every company has decided AI is the future. So we leverage. Quietly. Adding steps. Calling them optimization. Getting slightly less done, slightly more slowly, with slightly more steps, and reporting it as progress. My yearly review is next month. There is a new section this year. "AI Impact Assessment." It asks me to quantify the hours saved by AI tools per week. I will write a number. The number will be positive. It will not be true. But the AI writing assistant will help me phrase it convincingly. That is the one thing it does well.

@BasedSahm @adamscrabble Was grateful to have my grandmothers set come down to me. Been meaning to look for local community reading them similar to the facilitated meet ups the publisher used to organize in libraries.

@adamscrabble I bought an old set of Great Books of the Western World and I’m force-reading them. I’m on Aristotle right now. I’m not saying it’s easy or even enjoyable but it feels like I’m revitalizing my brain.

A lot of you people are convinced you’re smart but your mind is so fucked that it’s a best 5 grade level of reasoning at best. Folks, this place is the matrix and your being cocooned in a bad thing Do you people read real books? I don’t mean the shit stuff, I mean real books vintage “old”

@MikeLevin Revealed the lack of experience with the business world, and New Yorkers.

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.  Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  bbc.com/news/articles/…

@SocratesGBruno @AFpost You may sell Avon from home. Others teach how to sign up to every benefit imaginable. Anecdotal observation of southern California. I assume similar.

This is pretty standard in every single city in the country. I am only surprised that Asians are higher than whites and Hispanics higher than blacks. My guess about Asians is that they are using "Asian" like England does. IE Middle Eastern and Arabs, not East Asian like we generally think of when the word is used in the US. For Hispanics using more benefits than blacks, I have no good hypothesis.

In NYC, Whites function as “tax cattle”, receiving $.03 in benefits for every $1 in taxes paid. Each group receives disproportionate benefits. Asians receive a 7.5:1 ratio ($0.22 : $1) in second, whereas Blacks and Hispanics receive a 61:1 ($1.77 : $1) and 67:1 ($1.95 : $1) ratio respectively. As a result of privileged minority benefits, the relative tax benefits to Whites look this way across much of the country. Follow: @AFpost

@trikcode Sort of. Not all of that generation. Those that blocked cookies still blocking this. Or taking some layer of sandbox environment to keep separate from core activity.

the generation that refused to accept cookies. is now giving AI access to their desktops, files, and bank accounts.

@BlabberingC Habituated to ignore nihilist slop. Adept at internet first skills to find older works that are quality. Operating in a foundation world of curating old quality materials from prior civilization as seedbed for future flourishing.

Genuine question for the LOTR fans, are there any fans that are happy about this new movie and the writers involved? Because I'm not seeing a single positive tweet, rightfully so. I'm sorry for you guys.