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I’ve long maintained the current crop of assholes are too far over their skies… gravity is starting to have an impact. Jesse Welles nails it: All the masks are offAnd they’re getting lazy
“It’s literally the gulag,” one employee told Wired. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week.” … However, given the well-established reputation of their employer, netizens struggled to conjure up much sympathy for the Applied AI employees. Their argument: the workers knew what…
Turns out there are still some adults in the room… S&P Dow Jones Indices will keep its existing eligibility requirements for the S&P 500, rejecting proposals that would have made it faster for mega-cap companies such as SpaceX to gain rapid entry into the benchmark after going public. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/s-p-dow-jones-keeps-megacap-ipo-rules-as-is-after-consultation
“Based on the numbers we know, that’s absolute batshit”
The stack of insanity that the SpaceX IPO unlocks grows like a jenga tower: This dilution would benefit exactly one person: the one person in the world who currently has a higher wealth-number than anyone else, and would harm everyone else who happens to be invested in that stock (or in living on a planet…
One erstwhile worker told the publication they wouldn’t ride in a Tesla robotaxi “if you f**king paid me.” https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-insiders-self-driving-disaster
“Like most bad ideas,” wrote Mitchell Duran for Yahoo Finance, “Enhanced Games was born from a mix of grievance and the belief that, with the right amount of tech, financing, and new-age, untested science, any human being can transcend any and all natural limitations.” Tech and money sure do make a lot of damn winners in this…
Good riddance… Why would Citizen Thiel abandon the downunder bosom, swap the land of the hobbits for the land of the Pumas? Is he mad about Rod Drury, one of his referees on his application for citizenship, being awarded New Zealander of the Year before he was? Is he mad about the authorities rejecting his bid to…
There are many disappointing things about working for an a16z funded start up (which I have done). Near the top of list is the depressing experience of having a breathless all hands just so you get to hear Marc Andreesssen bloviate. Here is a perfect example of his vomitious commitment to his own profundity: Andreessen…
… Bezos doesn’t understand the most basic facts about taxes, nor did he make any effort to inform himself. He went instead with some numbers he thinks he heard somewhere — numbers that tell a story he wants to hear. As I said, billionaire brain. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bezos-backlash-and-zombies Evidently the man who owns the world’s biggest library…
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