Kyle Stevens

NYC TAKES THE STREETS: Thousands of people showed up earlier today for the latest #NoKings rally, protesting the Trump administration in midtown Manhattan.

🚨 are you paying attention to what's happening in boardrooms right now.. Coca-Cola CEO.. stepping down this month.. said AI was a factor.. Walmart CEO.. stepped down in February.. said AI was a factor.. two of the largest companies on earth.. combined revenue over $700 billion.. and both CEOs told CNBC the same thing.. "the next wave needs someone else".. think about what that actually means.. these are the people who spent the last 3 years telling YOU to "adapt or get left behind".. the same ones who fired thousands of workers and replaced them with AI tools.. the same ones who sat on panels saying "AI won't take your job.. someone using AI will".. and now THEY'RE the ones leaving.. they didn't get fired.. they weren't pushed out.. they saw what's coming and decided they'd rather announce a graceful exit than get exposed as the guy who didn't understand the thing he forced on everyone else.. they told the cashiers to adapt.. they told the drivers to adapt.. they told the middle managers to adapt.. and when it was their turn.. they quit.

My brother’s son is in 9th grade learning about the Great Depression. He showed me a paragraph from his textbook today… and for a second, I genuinely thought it was about today’s economy. Strange how 100 years pass, yet some things barely change.

Because everyone who actually pulls their weight is getting taken advantage of. If you're smart, talented, or even just competent on a basic level, the American system ensures that you will be taken advantage of and robbed so that some useless piece of shit can have a good life.

We’re at a point in history—not nearing it, but here—where everyone is going to have to decide if we are content to numb ourselves with an endless stream of fentanyl-like digital slop or if we are going to fight for our humanity and touch grass and challenge ourselves and create and contribute and love. Lawsuits like this are setting an interesting precedent. But no one is coming to save you, at least not any time soon. Protecting your attention is a radical act. Don’t let the internet turn your brain turn to sawdust. My decade-plus researching and reporting for The Way of Excellence taught me that people are most satisfied and fulfilled when they care deeply about meaningful projects. When they have mastery and mattering. When they do good work and love good people. Nobody told me they feel or perform their best when they are mindlessly scrolling. The greatest risk of the modern world is we go wherever the current takes us, like automatons floating along an algorithmic conveyor belt. The only thing that separates us from this dystopia is ourselves. Our agency—our attention, our capacity to think, create, and love—must be fought for. Read a book. Play a sport. Make art. Garden. Go on a date. Coach a team. Meet new people. Have IRL conversations. Don’t be a zombie. Do cool shit. Live.

No matter how hard you work, how badly you bleed, how little days you miss, how much time you miss with your kids, how invaluable you are to the company, they will still axe you the second a single quarter goes sideways. Loyalty is always one sided.

Okay, so if I'm understanding this correctly, we live in a fake world full of fake people who work fake jobs to make made up fake money with fake school systems, fake political parties that are led by fake leaders, with fake entertainment and fake media, all to keep us distracted from the fact that everything's fake.

man as a kid i never could have imagined how dogshit and lame the future would end up being

Cat is fuming because owner woke up late 😂

How do people cope with how evil everyone is? Like everyday for the last 4 years has been another level of psychological damage to my faith in mankind. Things get worse and worse, people openly, flagrantly lie and are rewarded. Narrative as reality, a postmodern hell

All-out assault on our freedom of information and press. You may think this doesn't affect you, but it does. Institutions are battered over time until they don't exist.

Destroying the entire news infrastructure. Rich people are so relentlessly evil.

Afroman is my favorite musician in the game today. That’s art, baby.

OMFG!!!!!!

Jeff Bezos, worth $234 billion, plans to replace 600,000 Amazon workers with robots. Now, he wants to spend $100 billion to fully automate not just his warehouses, but factories in the U.S & other countries. Oligarchs are waging all out war against workers. FIGHT BACK.

On shelves crammed with cuddly toy native animals in an Australian airport gift shop, one fluffy possum stood out: Its big brown eyes were moving.

I forgot about this stupid shit but imagine if they poured $80 billion into feeding the hungry instead of this failed cartoon universe that nobody wanted

It’s so funny (in a hollow laugh kinda way) because this is only the beginning

Modern escapism is wishing you were a minimum wage worker in 1995

New Yorkers are living in poverty at double the national rate “Eye-opening new poverty study is another reminder how tough it is to survive in New York City. Robin Hood and Columbia University study found - 26% of New Yorkers lived in poverty in 2024. That is double the national figure of 13% - 34% of families that earn up to $100,000 say they could not afford basic needs - 22% of families making up to $150,000 say they experienced some kind of hardship