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Ken Turley

@KenTurley

Writer | Creator | Engineer AI, energy, tech; the history + future of human systems. Calling out where both sides get it wrong through nuance. Goal: WH Ballroom

Dallas, TX Присоединился Nisan 2026
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Ken Turley
Ken Turley@KenTurley·
@TrungTPhan Combine this with a touch of genetic engineering and you’ve got yourself the ULTIMATE form of sports! *Now, it’s important that the athletes understand the safety implications and take responsibility over their health. But as long as they are competent and free adults… 👍
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Trung Phan
Trung Phan@TrungTPhan·
Enhanced Games athlete in photo is James “The Missile” Magnussen. Australian swimmer with an Olympic silver medal. Said he’d “juice to the gills” if offered $1m to break 50m freestyle record of 20.88. Enhanced Games agreed. This vid of him is most viewed on its YouTube channel and top comment is incredible: “you can see his back from his front”. Absolute tank. 6’6 and will weigh ~250lbs for the swim. For the inaugural Enhanced Games this weekend, Magnussen will also wear a full-body polyurethane super swimming suit that was banned after 2008 Beijing Olympics (he’s been training and doping at a facility in LV).
Polymarket@Polymarket

JUST IN: The Enhanced Games are set to debut this weekend in Las Vegas, with athletes allowed to use steroids, testosterone, HGH, & other banned substances.

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Ken Turley
Ken Turley@KenTurley·
@Reuters I keep wondering why they kept these from the public in the first place? Especially after a few years had gone by and they knew it wasn’t related to enemy aircraft. Is this just to prime us for some bigger revelation? 🤔
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Ken Turley
Ken Turley@KenTurley·
@BernieSanders The more I learn about Macro-Economics and Government, the more I’m convinced that Billionaires can improve the lives of Americans more by holding their wealth than the government can do by seizing it. @JeffBezos @elonmusk
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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders·
Mr. Bezos: Let's have that debate. Under my 5% billionaires wealth tax, we'd: -Give $12K to a working family of 4 -Expand Medicare for dental, vision, hearing -Guarantee universal childcare -Raise starting teacher pay to $60K And you'd still be worth $269 billion after taxes.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS

Jeff Bezos on CNBC: "If people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate, but don't pretend that that's gonna solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens.... Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention."

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Ken Turley
Ken Turley@KenTurley·
I think it would behoove these AI companies to show, by example, how AI adoption does not necessarily mean less jobs. Smart employees can obviously be re-assigned to new Ai-centric roles; now they must show how average employees can also be re-assigned to be useful in the post-AI workplace. Otherwise they’ll have a revolution to deal with (hopefully a peaceful one)
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Official Layoff
Official Layoff@LayoffAI·
META INTERNAL MEMO FOR WEDNESDAY LAYOFFS LEAKED Reuters got Meta’s internal memo today. Here’s the actual mechanics of Wednesday: 4am local time. Three batches globally. HR head Janelle Gale sent staff the playbook. The numbers: >8,000 cut >7,000 reassigned to new AI workflow initiatives >Manager roles eliminated outright >”Many leaders will announce org changes” alongside the layoffs Gale’s framing: org leaders “incorporated AI native design principles into their new org structures.” The 7,000 moved to AI workflows are reassigned, not cut. The managers being eliminated are layers the new org charts don’t include. The 8,000 walking out at 4am are the roles that didn’t survive the redesign. Stack it against the 6,000 cancelled roles from earlier this week and the additional 8,000 cuts Meta has signaled for later in 2026. 22,000+ roles either cut or never filled this year, plus thousands shoved into AI work whether they wanted it or not. The memo confirms what the leaderboards and keystroke logging already showed. Meta is rebuilding the company around fewer people. Everyone staying is getting moved into AI roles.
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Official Layoff@LayoffAI

The first 8,000 Meta layoffs hit Wednesday. What's happening to the people still employed and the anxiety of not knowing if you’re next is insane. SF Standard published an interview with an anonymous Meta employee ahead of the cuts. They used a voice actor. Meta started keystroke-logging staff. Inside the company right now: Internal leaderboards rank employees by how many AI tokens they burn. By minutes spent in the chatbot. Workers are openly admitting they ask the bot inane questions to pad their numbers, because being on the wrong end of the leaderboard is a risk signal. HR told the all-hands AI usage won't factor into layoffs. The leaderboard exists anyway. AI notes are auto-on in every video meeting. People manually disable them so they can talk candidly about who might be next. How you find out you're laid off: 7am email to your personal inbox. By the time you read it, your work accounts are already dead. So one Meta engineer wrote a script that scrapes internal profiles to see whose status flipped to deactivated. This employee runs a personal spreadsheet on top of it to track coworkers. An internal post suggested teams who successfully build their own AI replacement should get 5 years of comp and then be let go as a reward for replacing themselves. It got heavy upvotes. Zuckerberg's all-hands message, paraphrased: AI is moving fast, nobody knows what's coming, leadership is doing their best. This is the Hidden Layoff in operation. The headline number is 8,000. A whole different story is what's being done to those still employed. Surveilled. Ranked by AI usage. Asked to train their replacement. Told to suck it up. Employee's words: "Even if we haven't lost our jobs to AI yet, we're being commoditized in advance." We reported on the 6,000 additional new roles they cancelled earlier this week, along with the additional 8,000 layoffs planned later in 2026. That’s 22,000 roles either cancelled or cut for 2026. Now we have insight into how they’re deciding who comes next.

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Ken Turley
Ken Turley@KenTurley·
@TaraBull Nothin wrong with celebrating accomplishments!
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TaraBull@TaraBull·
Madison Preparatory Academy in Baton Rouge Louisiana has a 'celebration section' for graduates
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Ken Turley
Ken Turley@KenTurley·
Be careful throwing around the “R” word: “You have no right to any benefits for which you have not paid.” - A.R. “A right to goods and services implies an obligation on someone else to provide them.” - M.F. “A right cannot impose an unchosen obligation on another person.” - A.R.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@RepAOC

Access to affordable, fresh food should not be a luxury determined by zip code; it should be a right. That is why I am grateful to Mayor Mamdani and the NYCEDC for their work to open a public grocery store in Hunts Point and strengthen food access across the South Bronx.

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Ken Turley
Ken Turley@KenTurley·
Be careful throwing around the “R” word: “You have no right to any benefits for which you have not paid.” - A.R. “A right to goods and services implies an obligation on someone else to provide them.” M.F. “A right cannot impose an unchosen obligation on another person.” - A.R.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Access to affordable, fresh food should not be a luxury determined by zip code; it should be a right. That is why I am grateful to Mayor Mamdani and the NYCEDC for their work to open a public grocery store in Hunts Point and strengthen food access across the South Bronx.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor

In the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be going hungry. That's why we're opening five city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough, starting with The Bronx. Lower Prices. Good food. Publicly owned. Hunts Point next year. Every borough by 2029.

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Marigold
Marigold@kittygang_4ever·
@KenTurley @rohanpaul_ai There’s nothing to be proficient at. You tell it to do something and it does it. There’s no skill. It’s the absence of skill.
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Rohan Paul
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai·
College Students are booing graduation speakers for celebrating AI. But I dont get what exactly are they booing? They’re in the best position to use AI natively this early in their careers.
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Ken Turley
Ken Turley@KenTurley·
@skdh Two more reasons: 1. This is a simulation and it’s not efficient to run for intelligences on more than one planet at a time. 2. It takes approximately 500-1000 years for the Predator Species to travel to the new “noisy” planets and proactively wipe them out of existence.
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Sabine Hossenfelder
Astrophysicists have a new, and slightly terrifying, explanation for the Fermi paradox, or the question of why we have found no evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.
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Mario Nawfal
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·
You can now get 1kW lasers that can cut through tree branches This IS the future we were promised
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Ken Turley
Ken Turley@KenTurley·
I think for many students, simply attending college, having the four-year experience, and placing yourself in the ‘educated’ social class IS the goal. Especially for students who come from affluent families or plan to marry then be a secondary income. This is a lifestyle choice, so I try not to judge. 🤷🏼
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Wall Street Apes
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·
Americans graduating college already know they have no chance in this job market and will end up with low paying jobs “Hi, my name is Layla. I’m getting my Bachelor of Arts degree, and I’m gonna be a grocery store bagger” “Hi, my name is Julia Irwin. I’m graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and I’m gonna be a barista at Starbucks for 20 years.” “Hi, I’m Liv. I’m graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and… I’m unemployed.” “Hi, I’m Therese. I’m graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, and I’m gonna be a housewife.” “Hi, my name is London Boyd, and my major is BFA, and I’m unemployed.” These students are 100% correct, they likely will have a very hard time finding work. Even if they do they’re young and AI will certainly be a threat to their long term employment
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Ken Turley@KenTurley·
@MarioNawfal It is prudent to consider ‘incentive structures’ when dealing with humans… so he’s got a point there. 😐 This is why capitalism works better than communism in practice even though it might not look as good on paper.
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Mario Nawfal
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·
🇺🇸 LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt says homeless non-profit execs are making $1M a year, despite the problem being worse than ever. In fact, it “guarantees the problem is never solved." Because if there's no crisis, they aren't needed.
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Ken Turley@KenTurley·
@elonmusk This is nothing compared to what we’ll see accomplished once @elonmusk creates an army of highly-capable humanoid robots.
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Elon Musk@elonmusk·
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Ken Turley
Ken Turley@KenTurley·
@adamcarolla “Political Arts” has a good ring to it. It’s more accurate as well, since politics is so subjective. 🤔
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Adam Carolla@adamcarolla·
I like that he labeled it a not serious conversation
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Russell Brand
Russell Brand@rustyrockets·
One tick bite made this man allergic to red meat. Now over 450,000 Americans are allergic to beef & dairy and the number is rising. What’s is going on?
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