Dare Obasanjo

The fricking NRA is now the voice of reason. That’s how far off the deep end the U.S. government and conservative enablers of Trump have gone.

We’re living in the dystopian future of Running Man where public opinion is manipulated by doctored photos & video and false narratives.

I hate it here.

Satya Nadella saying the quiet part out loud.

It seems even he has to acknowledge that AI hype is not matching reality and using up water & electricity to create content slot machines may not be the best use of our scarce resources.

More people have been murdered by ICE than by criminals in Minneapolis this year.

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴. 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴.

Shout out to Prince Adam of Eternia for rocking pronouns in bio before they were cool.

Polls asking people how they feel about the economy have mostly reflected if the candidate they voted for became president since the George W Bush years.

That said these poll results on whether the country is better off than a year ago still shocks me.

It’s hard to be excited about AGI when LLMs are nowhere close and companies are already salivating about how they can replace people with AI even when today’s tech is essentially a slot machine that generates both garbage and genius.

Apple to Revamp Siri as a Built-In iPhone, Mac Chatbot to Fend Off OpenAI Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race dominate...

Ironically Apple Intelligence will actually be powered by Google intelligence.

The great graduate job drought Economic uncertainty and the arrival of AI have brought a reduction in entry-level roles, with potentially disastrous consequences for young people

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Recent college grads (22–27) now face 5.8% unemployment vs 4.1% overall. The flip where grads have a tougher time than everyone else started post-COVID.

The rise of AI is a dominant narrative, but there’s also the ongoing economic uncertainty and hangover from COVID that businesses never shook off

He Left OpenAI To Think Bigger - EP 53 Jerry Tworek Are all the AI superpowers playing it too safe?

Jerry Tworek, former VP of Research at OpenAI and 7-year veteran of the company explains why he left.

After pioneering reasoning models and techniques like RLHF, he found OpenAI is now more focused on monetizing LLMs than researching new techniques to make AI smarter.

There are Democrats in Congress earnestly posting that the problem with ICE is we haven’t spent billions of dollars training them.

If you think this is happening because they didn’t take a class explaining it’s bad then you’re probably too gullible to hold office.

One of the First Big Anti-AI Campaigns From Hollywood Is Launching Now Writers, actors and other musicians have come out in support of the Human Artistry Campaign’s “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” push for licensing and opt-out mechanisms for human-created works.

Hollywood movie stars including Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett, musicians such as One Republican and authors have banded together to launch an anti-AI ad campaign, “Stealing isn’t Innovation.”

They argue Big Tech is trying to change laws to steal their work without paying them.

CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story. How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.

A new survey shows 40%+ of execs say AI saves them 8+ hrs/week while ~2/3 of non-managers say it saves <2 hrs or nothing.

This is the second time I’ve seen this split, and it explains the CEO hype vs rank-and-file worker ambivalence.

LLMs excel at summaries and email drafts, aka exec busywork.

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The people of Iceland all day today

The trend of trailers for movie trailers is so weird. I just watched a trailer that let me know the trailer for the new He-Man movie drops tomorrow.

Idris Alba as Man-At-Arms? Interesting.

I was talking to a dev recently about how vibe coding and AI agents make the entire team more productive.

He shrugged and said he’s more excited about vibe debugging. Asking the AI agent, “Should feature X be showing up here? If so, why isn’t it?” is the game changer.

Then, I felt enlightened.

A cloud of fear hangs over Minnesota immigrant communities • Minnesota Reformer “I feel as though the weapon I built is coming to kill me and my people,” she said about her vote for Trump.

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Admitting that your vote for Trump was a weapon aimed at LGBTQ people but the only problem is that it’s now pointed towards you and your people is a sad & predictable outcome.

This is the story of a lot of immigrant Trump voters in 2024.

The Trump presidency is like getting a crash course in stock market manipulation 101. Hope you bought yesterday when the market dipped and sold today when it recovered.

TACO Time.

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge : PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings

A survey of 4,544 chief executives by PwC shows most CEOs haven’t yet seen financial returns from investments in AI.

While 30% report increased revenue from AI in the last 12 months and 26% are seeing lower costs, more than half (56%) say they’ve seen neither revenue nor cost benefits.

DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says It's a stunning admission from the Trump administration, after it battled in court over DOGE's rights to access and use Social Security data .

This is the least surprising news story so far this year.

Netflix Q4 Revenue Surges 17.6% as Streamer Reaches 325 Million Paid Subscribers The growth was also bolstered by pricing changes and increased ad revenue, which totaled over $1.5 billion for 2025

Netflix has built a product that has become indispensable because they understand their customers.

People complained when Matt Damon described how Netflix movies regularly repeat the plot in dialog because people are on their phones. Well, it works.

I stopped taking American voters seriously after the 2016 election season where polls showed the top fear of American voters was “corrupt government officials” so they then proceeded to elect Donald Trump in the next two out of three elections.

And yes, I know that was code for Hillary Clinton.

Vibe coding means the idea guys can finally find out they actually have terrible ideas.

Me after making it through another work day without breaking character on a Zoom call to point out exactly how dumb our current reality has become.

OpenAI CFO says annualized revenue crosses $20 billion in 2025 OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said in a blog post on Sunday the company's annualized revenue has surpassed $20 billion in 2025, up from $6 billion in 2024 with growth closely tracking an ...

OpenAI’s CFO shared that the company hit $20B in annualized revenue which is up from $6B.

In almost any other context, this would be a phenomenal business to have grown this much in about three years. However they need to hit $200B by 2030 to hit their profitability goals. 😬

The gloves are off in the feud between Sam Altman and Elon Musk The tech titans escalated their long-running feud on Tuesday, trading barbs in public posts about the safety of ChatGPT, Grok, and Tesla's Autopilot.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are going back and forth on X about whose product has killed more people, ChatGPT or Tesla Autopilot.

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Google's AI boss: No plans for ads in Gemini During our convo in Davos, Demis Hassabis and I chatted about ads in AI, Google's new deal with Apple, humanoids, and Gemini 4.

The head of Google AI was asked if they plan to introduce ads into Gemini since Open AI is doing so for ChatGPT. Tremendous shade in his response.

They don't have any plans to do so but he did say “maybe they [OpenAI] feel they need to make more revenue”

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,”sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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Farmer voted for Trump in 2024 and complains that China stopped buying American soybeans. He doesn’t know why, doesn’t blame Trump but thinks “someone in Washington dropped the ball”. 🤦🏾‍♂️