William Fitzgerald

Just bought my costume. #WarRavagedNYC dance party, anyone?

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

For your next ICE protest:

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Love this

Ex-Meta, Uber policy lead on leaving Big Tech Jena Wuu pioneered safety programs at Uber and media literacy initiatives at Meta. Today, she's changing things from the outside, and finding a voice of her own.

NEW: @aristeinhorn.bsky.social speaks with @jenawuu.bsky.social, ex-Meta and Uber policy lead, on what it was like inside those companies, what drove her to leave the tech world, and how she's changing things from the outside:

www.hardresetmedia.com/p/ex-meta-ub...

A selfie with Netanyahu turns into an employee and customer exodus Employee resignations from AI coding startup Vercel may signal a changing tide in the tech industry's attitude towards the war in Gaza

"What’s changed with the #Vercel example...is that there’s a certain level of boldness and freeness to those who are leaving and making their departure known."

- @aristeinhorn.bsky.social for Hard Reset:

www.hardresetmedia.com/p/a-selfie-w...

#ai #gaza

A selfie with Netanyahu turns into an employee and customer exodus Employee resignations from AI coding startup Vercel may signal a changing tide in the tech industry's attitude towards the war in Gaza

We tried to cover that in this piece on the fallout: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/a-selfie-w...

Email this evening: “A GENTLE REMINDER” those all caps aren’t very gentle bro

A selfie with Netanyahu turns into an employee and customer exodus Employee resignations from AI coding startup Vercel may signal a changing tide in the tech industry's attitude towards the war in Gaza

If you were only on bluesky last week you would have missed this. After Vercel CEO posted a selfie on X with Netanyahu a drove of customers dropped the company and some staff left. Tech culture has shifted on support for Israel.

open.substack.com/pub/hardrese...

Tech workers are resigning, and not afraid of being blacklisted Sparked in large part by the Israel-Palestine conflict, employees at large tech companies are leaving. What's next?

FYI we interviewed one of them:

www.hardresetmedia.com/p/leaving-or...

"A few hours later, I got a call from HR who told me “we can see you’re distressed.” They recommended that I go on sick leave and see a doctor, since I did use the word “distressed” in my email to Catz."

really interesting point in this NYT op-ed today

and now wondering who would you consider to influential Silicon Valley voices who are silent on Trump?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A

The nature of work is changing. Taxi drivers were the first to sound the alarm Move fast and break things.

“I don’t think many people are aware of this: There are still cab drivers in San Francisco who are forced to pay for medallions that are now almost worthless.”

open.substack.com/pub/hardrese...

I’m a priest. Here’s why you should reject Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk The cynicism of the billionaire venture capitalist stands in deep contrast to the true values of Jesus.

Somewhat related: Good oped today from priest in San Francisco responding to Peter Thiel’s Antichrist lectures sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

The Mirror We Deserve: What the Ryder Cup Revealed About America The Ugly American isn't just something the world has to deal with abroad anymore

“these fans didn’t betray American values. They reflected them.”

open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

With Trump’s new H1B policy, tech executives kiss the ring yet again When will Silicon Valley be embarrassed to be in the administration’s pocket?

"It’s clear that the demands and the extortion won’t stop no matter how many times executives kiss the ring."

- @williamfitz.bsky.social in the latest Hard Reset:

www.hardresetmedia.com/p/with-trump...

Shane Lowry enjoys a Magners after clinching the putt to retain the Ryder Cup

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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Wtf

“the valuation may be less than one times revenue.”

Q&A: Deep Inside the Mind of an A.I. Doomer The activist group Stop AI says that A.I. is going to kill us all. Full-stop. We talked with their founder about where this gloomy philosophy came from.

"How we most likely die is it wanting to cover the earth in data centers"

Most telling part of this interview with the StopAI guy is him arguing AI will build all the datacenters. It's not AI who will decide that, it's tech CEOs.

hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/q-and-a-de...

Huge

Congrats to everyone who worked to make this happen. So so many people got fired, took big risks, yet they kept pushing

For about a year now, Thiel has been publicly laying out his understanding of biblical prophecies and the potential for the rapid advance of technology to bring about an apocalyptic future. In a lecture Monday, he encouraged an audience to continue working toward scientific progress, whether in AI or other forms of technology. Fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said, according to people who attended.

New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

Sorry, AI won’t “fix” climate change OpenAI’s Sam Altman claims AI will deliver an "Intelligence Age," but tech breakthroughs alone can't solve global warming.

Here I also explained specifically why a fusion breakthrough doesn’t fix climate change: tl;dr: you still have to finance, permit & build tons of reactors (to say nothing of still needing to clean up fertilizer, airlines, cattle burps & more).

So cool congrats!

So smart

Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material.

www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

Ballers Bring Home Oakland’s First Baseball Title Since 1989 | KQED After the A’s departed the Bay Area, the Oakland Ballers came back from near-elimination to win the independent Pioneer League championship.

“The @oaklandballers.bsky.social believed when no one else did.”

www.kqed.org/news/1205707...

Confusion and chaos: Trump's $100K H-1B visa fee rocks Silicon Valley's hiring machine Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee sparked chaos in Silicon Valley, sending shockwaves through the tech industry as companies scrambled to adjust to costly new regulations.

🚨 48 hours of chaos. A scramble for flights. Tech workers walking off planes. Immigration lawyers working nonstop. The White House’s $100K H-1B fee threw Silicon Valley into turmoil overnight.

Big new feature from me + my dream team at @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com/trump-h-1b-v...

$100k?

Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.