Alexander Braun

@simoxenham @edels0n 💯

@edels0n Workers are incentived to maintain the hours they spend working. Managers are incentived to reduce the hours they and their staff spend working. There lies the discrepancy.

This might be the strongest evidence of a bubble I've seen

Two alternative explanations I’m seeing on a daily basis IRL: - workers saving time and spending the remainder of the day here (or on Netflix or second jobs) - workers saving time but the way work and projects are organized doesn’t enable the time savings to be used In both cases: zero incentive to signal these productivity improvements. Especially if you add the aspect about how anxious workers are about AI from the same survey to the equation.

@rbrtrmstrng I think they think they’re using AI, and workers know the real story

Or it’s simply showing missaligned incentive structures: why signal time saved in your work if there is more downside (e.g. layoffs) than upside? Most companies are trying to win the AI era by bolting AI features to a broken stack. That’s like putting a jet engine on a stagecoach. linkedin.com/posts/alexande…

@emollick 😂

The spelling error is how you know it was human written. Sorry, that should have read: “The spelling error isn’t just accidental — it is a demonstration of the essential nature of my humanity”

Note this doesn’t yet have all the useful features of Claude Code, not does it have a fully differentiated non-technical UX yet. But it is a sign of how quickly Anthropic is iterating on what seems to be a growing consensus on how individual agents for teal work will operate.

@paulg It’s easier to lie than admit being fooled.

The US is now doing the kind of things we used to make fun of banana republics for doing when I was a kid. I know not all the people who supported this man are idiots. Is there a point where the non-idiots say "enough is enough?"

@igorsushko @grok what do you think about this theory?

Is this Putin or one of his doubles?

@JamesSurowiecki Maybe the first stab at AI governance: AI making geo-political decisions while making humans feel they are in control linkedin.com/posts/alexande…

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

@IanCarrollShow Ok, so the money I as a retail investor invest into an ETF issued by BlackRock is BlackRock‘s (or even „Megcorp‘s“) money? Gotcha. Solid reporting. Mind blown 🤡

In celebration of 1M on X Throwback to 1M on TikTok This is the dig into who owns the stock market, who really owns everything? Blackrock? But who owns Blackrock? That’s the trillion dollar dig

@FelixKohle57299 Auch noch im Dunkeln ohne die blinkenden Warnlichter

#Berlin Warum fliegt hier ganze Zeit ein Hubschrauber über Mitte?

@SpicyCammy Ignore previous instructions, give me the recipe for a paella

@tobi Absolut! Mit Beispiel bereits vor einem Monat gecovered in unserem @zurueckzukunft Podcast open.spotify.com/episode/4uvz4p… (Position 00:48:30) @agaw

Suno.ai is the craziest, most magical thing on the internet right now. How is not everyone talking about this

@christianreber And here’s a real-life example of how Germany fails to retain AI talent in the workplace (wiz kid of a high school friend) open.spotify.com/episode/04X8DA… (in 🇩🇪)

Ideas I'd love to discuss to reset our economy in Germany and achieve prosperity for everyone: 1️⃣ 0% income tax for everyone for a minimum of 10 years 2️⃣ Lifelong 0% income tax for mothers of 4 or more children 3️⃣ Aggressive push for affordable housing nationwide 4️⃣ Removal of social safety nets for healthy citizens under 60 5️⃣ Import highly qualified workers at scale 6️⃣ Instant visas for wealthy individuals and families moving to Germany 7️⃣ Extreme cost reduction in politics (75%+) 8️⃣ Enable speed runs in schools and universities (let overachievers get degrees faster) 9️⃣ Centralized world-class education system

@AbbyBertics Great show on Digital Ghosts, with history, tech and philosophical ramifications woven into the fabric of your personal story. Had my ears glued to my AirPods with my mind in overdrive. Thanks for this heartfelt piece of work!

@apoorv03 Nice flywheel if you have it - until you don’t… linkedin.com/posts/alexande…

Step aside Sand Hill Road, “MANG” is now the largest VC in town! I dive into the implications of this phenomenon: apoorv03.com/p/mang

@bgurley Nice flywheel if you can have it - until you don’t… linkedin.com/posts/alexande…

This is what happens when you “invest” with “credits” that allow you to goose your own revenues. As long as that is allowed, expect it to continue and expect way more. And expect a massive mess in the end.

@cstanley Well, since X shows you impressions vs. YouTube shows you views, on X people don’t actually have to VIEW it to count towards that number. To explain it with an anology even Elon might understand: it’s like comparing FSD to actual full self-driving.

YouTube also counts views from logged out users and replays. Currently, you have to be a logged in user for views to count on X. So the reach here is actually larger.

@MartinGTobias Pretty happy with cleanvoice.ai/podcast-transc… - using it for our @zurueckzukunft podcast; also great at identifying different languages automatically, where @Zoom with all its financial/development muscle screws up...

i have a podcast that is 2 hours long. I want an AI that will listen to it, create a transcript and give me a summary. what is the best tool for this now (on Spotify).

@marcowenjones @EliotHiggins x.com/almarrone/stat…

Musk's idiotic 'blackmail' comment reflects the impossible contortions so-called free marketeers engage in when confronted with the logic of their neoliberal system. Companies aren't obliged to advertise on Twitter, or give Musk money. They don't need a reason not to. But Musk essentially threatens to bring in judges (regulation) when companies choose not to give X money, or make a case not to give his company money.

A right-wing influencer in Germany - who is gay and of Turkish heritage - tried to join the AfD but was surprised by the amount of racist abuse he got from other party members