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This is clearly heading in a direction where the USA is going to elect a huge number of socialists, who in turn are going to enact massive taxes on billionaires and break up the mo…

That's an incredibly nice story. Are you taking better care of yourself?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

They aren't going to do a thing to Altman except extract more bribes.

Government investment works. That's why America's billionaires are mostly just people stealing as much of it as they can.

You're right, but that GitHub is dead. Also, the former stewards of that open source goodness sold it to Microsoft for a cheap buck. Any goodwill they earned has been spent.

Get rid of their highest-paid employees, replace them with off-shoring and AI. Eventually the fact that the US military and government is getting tech support from overseas will ca…

This would have been obvious to anyone following the war in Vietnam, even. The Iranians have explicitly tweeted: "For years, we've been awaiting the Americans' entry into the desig…

I suspect every generation has multiple Einsteins, but they're probably getting killed in war zones or crushed under oligarchy.

The US intentionally created the ATC shortage. From Wikipedia: The PATCO Strike of 1981 was a union-organized work stoppage by air traffic controllers (ATCs) in the United States. …

Microsoft needs to be broken up.

That's basically Bernie Sanders modus operandus. Burlington was running budget surpluses when he was in charge. It's not hard, you just have to make rich people pay taxes. This is …

Mods are going to boot this off the front page.

I was getting a haircut last week and chatting about our kids with the stylist, who said (basically): "I just started letting my 7 year old on Roblox. I know its full of pedophiles…

I killed a book deal I had for this book I mostly finished: https://kevmo.io/zero-to-code/ I inked the deal in 2023, but shortly after felt like the market was too dead for newbies…

I wonder why they don't...

We are feeding children to the wolves to boost quarterly Big Tech numbers. Society is breaking down in part because of it. America would be a nicer place if Mark Zuckerberg went to…

It's not about fads. It's just collusion. American markets have largely consolidated into oligopolies, where just a handful of very large companies operate. It's extremely easy for…

You'd be better off just activating a real landline and not using an app.