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I guess maybe you throw GitHub copilot and 365 on top? Are they really making that much? This is all pretty stinky. Also $10bn is OpenAI
July 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I guess maybe you throw GitHub copilot and 365 on top? Are they really making that much? This is all pretty stinky. Also $10bn is OpenAI
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.......wait. Analysts believe Microsoft will only make $11.5bn this year in AI services.
Microsoft themselves said they were at "$13bn in annualised revenue" in their January earnings!
Maybe this is why they didn't report their ARR last earnings?
www.microsoft.com/en-us/invest...
Microsoft themselves said they were at "$13bn in annualised revenue" in their January earnings!
Maybe this is why they didn't report their ARR last earnings?
www.microsoft.com/en-us/invest...
July 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
.......wait. Analysts believe Microsoft will only make $11.5bn this year in AI services.
Microsoft themselves said they were at "$13bn in annualised revenue" in their January earnings!
Maybe this is why they didn't report their ARR last earnings?
www.microsoft.com/en-us/invest...
Microsoft themselves said they were at "$13bn in annualised revenue" in their January earnings!
Maybe this is why they didn't report their ARR last earnings?
www.microsoft.com/en-us/invest...
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The clearest example yet that AI is the new crypto:
CoreWeave says it agreed to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a ~$9B all-stock deal, set to close in Q4 2025, to expand its AI data center capacity (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
July 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The clearest example yet that AI is the new crypto:
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OpenAI spent $4.4B on employee stock compensation in 2024 which was higher than its annual revenue of $3.7B.
And that’s before the current talent wars where 9 figure paychecks are rumored.
And that’s before the current talent wars where 9 figure paychecks are rumored.
OpenAI’s Stock Compensation Reflect Steep Costs of Talent Wars
OpenAI has signaled it will hike pay for some employees in the wake of a raid by Meta Platforms on its artificial intelligence researchers. That could mean a significant increase in the billions of do...
www.theinformation.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
OpenAI spent $4.4B on employee stock compensation in 2024 which was higher than its annual revenue of $3.7B.
And that’s before the current talent wars where 9 figure paychecks are rumored.
And that’s before the current talent wars where 9 figure paychecks are rumored.
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everything old is new again.
(some of the earliest apps for the iPod touch where bluetooth based peer2peer messaging apps.
(some of the earliest apps for the iPod touch where bluetooth based peer2peer messaging apps.
Jack Dorsey shares TestFlight and GitHub links to his "weekend project", Bitchat, a decentralized P2P messaging iOS app that relies on Bluetooth mesh networks (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
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July 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
everything old is new again.
(some of the earliest apps for the iPod touch where bluetooth based peer2peer messaging apps.
(some of the earliest apps for the iPod touch where bluetooth based peer2peer messaging apps.
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Hello, sharks. What if there was a newspaper with an opinion section, and the opinions were good? With your help, we can make this a reality...
June 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Hello, sharks. What if there was a newspaper with an opinion section, and the opinions were good? With your help, we can make this a reality...
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Anyone not from early Bluesky will never know the pain of someone you blessed with an invite code unfollowing you three months later because there were only 300 people on the website and we all hated each other
June 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Anyone not from early Bluesky will never know the pain of someone you blessed with an invite code unfollowing you three months later because there were only 300 people on the website and we all hated each other
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There is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman’s pals in the Trump administration - including DNI Gabbard - have confirmed there is no nuclear weapons program.
Fetterman is lying. Openly. Demonstrably. Shamelessly.
Fetterman is lying. Openly. Demonstrably. Shamelessly.
June 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
There is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman’s pals in the Trump administration - including DNI Gabbard - have confirmed there is no nuclear weapons program.
Fetterman is lying. Openly. Demonstrably. Shamelessly.
Fetterman is lying. Openly. Demonstrably. Shamelessly.
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New York magazine publishing a cover story about Israel's war crimes in Gaza seems like a pretty strong indication that the liberal pro-Israel consensus is gone and never coming back: nymag.com/intelligence...
Israel’s Crimes of the Century
How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.
nymag.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
New York magazine publishing a cover story about Israel's war crimes in Gaza seems like a pretty strong indication that the liberal pro-Israel consensus is gone and never coming back: nymag.com/intelligence...
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This wasn’t supposed to be a prediction!!
June 17, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This wasn’t supposed to be a prediction!!
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Swindon
June 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Swindon
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Vox became an accidental training ground for YouTube’s best video journalists. With creative freedom and no reliance on Facebook metrics, they built skills fast. But without a solid business model, they left, taking their talent and reshaping online journalism on their own terms.
Why the best journalists on YouTube are all former Vox employees
The company became a skunk works incubator that invented its own language of visual storytelling.
thelongstory.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Vox became an accidental training ground for YouTube’s best video journalists. With creative freedom and no reliance on Facebook metrics, they built skills fast. But without a solid business model, they left, taking their talent and reshaping online journalism on their own terms.
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My former team shrank by half from '23-'25. But the team's metrics targets were raised by 20% every year, and partly the increase was justified by "improved productivity with AI."
Now that AI's productivity boost was measured, let me just plug it into my calculator here to see if the math works...
Now that AI's productivity boost was measured, let me just plug it into my calculator here to see if the math works...
AI chatbots have been rolled out across 100s of white-collar workplaces but their effect on hours & pay has been negligible accrdg NBER. On average, employees saved 3% of their time, while just 3%-7% of their productivity gains came back to them in the form of higher pay fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...
Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'
Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.
fortune.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My former team shrank by half from '23-'25. But the team's metrics targets were raised by 20% every year, and partly the increase was justified by "improved productivity with AI."
Now that AI's productivity boost was measured, let me just plug it into my calculator here to see if the math works...
Now that AI's productivity boost was measured, let me just plug it into my calculator here to see if the math works...
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This is not OK!
As context, immigration attorney @asgvisalaw.bsky.social posted yesterday that the public has a "right to access immigration proceedings in most cases."
As context, immigration attorney @asgvisalaw.bsky.social posted yesterday that the public has a "right to access immigration proceedings in most cases."
This is actionable. There's a regulatory right to access immigration proceedings in most cases. The only generally relevant exception is to protect the public interest and, unlike the removal orders themselves, that determination is subject to a regular APA challenge.
May 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is not OK!
As context, immigration attorney @asgvisalaw.bsky.social posted yesterday that the public has a "right to access immigration proceedings in most cases."
As context, immigration attorney @asgvisalaw.bsky.social posted yesterday that the public has a "right to access immigration proceedings in most cases."
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An underappreciated aspect of the new WMO report -- if the temperature predictions are correct, the world will pass 1.5C in as a long-term average (i.e., the _actual_ Paris goal) in 2027.
In just two years.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
In just two years.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Earth could cross a key climate threshold in two years. Here’s why it matters.
A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
An underappreciated aspect of the new WMO report -- if the temperature predictions are correct, the world will pass 1.5C in as a long-term average (i.e., the _actual_ Paris goal) in 2027.
In just two years.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
In just two years.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump subverting the census is one of the biggest threats to democracy.
Congressional & legislative redistricting & Electoral College apportionment depend on it.
The 2030 census takes place just over a year after Trump’s term ends. Even if a Dem won in 2028, they may not be able to undo the damage
Congressional & legislative redistricting & Electoral College apportionment depend on it.
The 2030 census takes place just over a year after Trump’s term ends. Even if a Dem won in 2028, they may not be able to undo the damage
NEW: Census Bureau lost over 1,000 employees through early retirement and voluntary separation offers in recent months and plans to cut some statistical work, acting Director Ron Jarmin says. "It feels a little bit like Thanos snapped his finger and a lot of your friends and colleagues went away..."
May 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Trump subverting the census is one of the biggest threats to democracy.
Congressional & legislative redistricting & Electoral College apportionment depend on it.
The 2030 census takes place just over a year after Trump’s term ends. Even if a Dem won in 2028, they may not be able to undo the damage
Congressional & legislative redistricting & Electoral College apportionment depend on it.
The 2030 census takes place just over a year after Trump’s term ends. Even if a Dem won in 2028, they may not be able to undo the damage
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Union contracts cannot be changed by executive orders. That’s not a thing. The problem with just litigating this stuff is, management will just stop adhering to the contract in practice. The solution is to stop working.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
May 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Union contracts cannot be changed by executive orders. That’s not a thing. The problem with just litigating this stuff is, management will just stop adhering to the contract in practice. The solution is to stop working.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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being an academic in 2025 means setting up google alerts for your name to make sure government robots aren't hallucinating citations to nonexistent papers to legally justify their new Make Everyone Dead policy
Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
being an academic in 2025 means setting up google alerts for your name to make sure government robots aren't hallucinating citations to nonexistent papers to legally justify their new Make Everyone Dead policy
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This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times
May 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times
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They attacked, traumatized and fired the competent public servants, and now want your sympathy for being out of their depth.
Dan Bongino has a nice cry on Fox & Friends: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, my wife is struggling... I stare at these 4 walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but I mean, separated. And it's hard."
(Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)
(Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)
May 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
They attacked, traumatized and fired the competent public servants, and now want your sympathy for being out of their depth.
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Watching some of the world's hugest a-holes get everything they ever wanted and find out they hate it is cold comfort in this nightmare timeline but i'll take it.
when everything is going great and you definitely love your job and you're not being criticized
May 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Watching some of the world's hugest a-holes get everything they ever wanted and find out they hate it is cold comfort in this nightmare timeline but i'll take it.
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Rep. Ashley Hinson told an Iowa town hall audience that God saved Trump’s life last July. She was met with an overwhelming chorus of boos.
https://trib.al/roGtK6n
https://trib.al/roGtK6n
It’s Happening Again: Town Hall Crowd Boos GOP Rep for Backing Trump
Iowa’s Ashley Hinson was booed and jeered when she backed President Trump on Wednesday.
trib.al
May 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Rep. Ashley Hinson told an Iowa town hall audience that God saved Trump’s life last July. She was met with an overwhelming chorus of boos.
https://trib.al/roGtK6n
https://trib.al/roGtK6n