Careerless

Microsoft is planning job cuts and focusing more on underperforming employees.

Do read the comments. If you were planning to go into tech, I’d advise against. It’s probably only going to get worse. MBAs are convinced they can replace people with AI so they are going to try that. It won’t work because they are clueless (whether we’re talking about AI or MBAs), but that doesn’t matter.

If it is enough to get a bonus, an MBA type will do it. And are in fact doing it.

The decline of tech as a career has happened slowly but is now unstoppable. It doesn’t affect me as much luckily because no AI, H-1B, fleet of underpaid Indians nor any combination thereof can replace me, but tech used to be a good path — one of the few remaining. Now that’s changed and junior people should avoid it unless it is a true passion.

Blame Canada

Right. Ain’t nobody invading fucking Canada. Lord knows they’ve screwed their own country up enough themselves without us having to do anything.

And the Panama Canal thing is indeed a warning to China. Believe me, China has gotten the message. Greenland is a non-issue too. Not to defend Trump, but he’s using fairly standard blustery businessman strong-arm fear tactics.

Engage

It amazes me too. That should have been the “Time to quit fucking around” moment and it just was not. NATO should’ve full engaged then and evicted North Korea and Russia from Ukraine.

And we did nothing. Nothing at all.

Oligarchia, Here We Come.

Permanent contraception surged after Roe v Wade overturned, study finds.

โ€˜It didnโ€™t use to be like thisโ€™: woeful US healthcare system exposed by CEO killing.

PSA: Tech companies are not building out a trillion dollars of Al infrastructure because they are hoping you’ll pay $20/month to use Al tools to make you more productive. They’re doing it because they know your employer will pay hundreds or thousands a month for an Al system to replace you. Exactly right.

Bluesky Proves Stagnant Monopolies Are Strangling the Internet.

TikTok Brainwashed Americaโ€™s Youth. Having an active propaganda arm of the CCP allowed to be ubiquitous in America is absolutely fucking insane.

How the AMA Undermines Primary Care.

Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a ‘community notes’ system similar to X.

US corporate bankruptcies hit 14-year high as interest rates take toll.

New jets help passengers avoid congestion at hub airports.

Politics is not about intellect but about power. And this is disproportionately possessed by the mega-rich.

The national park that draws mushroom hunters from around the world.

Russia uses less armor on frontlines as Ukraine reports destruction of some 13,000 armored units over year.

Metaโ€™s Fact-Checking Reversal Lets Zuckerberg Drop the Charade.