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Rh3t0ric (on bsky) 🔆 retweeted
I do not like you, Sam-I-am.
You will not have my fucking RAM.
Not only is this insane, but how would you possibly think saying this with society’s current view of AI?
I honestly believe you because the writing is too bad to be AI. I’m praying this is fake because the email is so unprofessional, and it would show how badly the education system has failed.
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The Brazilian stock market crashing after Lula won is proof that the stock market has zero relation to the wellbeing of the average person. Anyone who uses “but the stock market went up” as a political point should be ignored.
Holy shit what causes a side to be down for a month?
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I'm a disabled trans woman with cerebral palsy. I can't walk and can't work. We found me an apartment. I'm days away from getting out of this hotel, but if I can't cover move-in and the hotel bill lose it and end up on the street. Please help if you can
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Revenue of only ~2% of total evaluation is fucking INSANE
BREAKING: Anthropic officially files its S-1 registration statement for an IPO, seeking to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol $ANT.
FULL SUMMARY OF ANTHROPIC'S S-1 FILING:
1. Anthropic posted H1 2026 revenue of $16.3 billion with a net loss of $80.7 billion
2. Anthropic says it does not expect to pay a dividend "in the foreseeable future"
3. Expects to spend up to $120.5 billion on SpaceXAI and Nvidia compute
4. Expects to spend up to $114.5 billion with Google through 2033
5. Revenue growth rate "may not be sustainable" and "may decrease"
6. May be required to seek additional financing "sooner than expected"
7. 5% of Anthropic's shares will go to the "Anthropic Public Benefit Fund"
8. S-1 includes warnings of AI's "catastrophic existential risks to humanity"
Markets currently expect Anthropic to raise as much as $100 billion at a valuation of ~$2 trillion.
The company is reportedly targeting an IPO in the week of November 16th.
Holy shit it’s so over for tech and tech workers. 60,000 with Microsoft on their resume are about to hit an already dead job market
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
Holy shit, Matthew is such a soulless ghoul
Me: "Even if it was unpopular, are you saying the Democratic Party should not speak out against the president sending migrants who have committed no crimes to be tortured in a foreign gulag?"
@mattyglesias: "Yeah."
Me: "Just stay silent?"
Yglesias: "I think that sometimes, if you want to help people... you gotta win first."
Me: "They might be dead in three years time, by the time you win."
Despite all the arguments on this hellsite over the exact number of his Piker tweets, this was the part of my interview with Matthew Yglesias that really stood out to me. I was actually stunned by this response. Shouldn't politics also stand for something more than triangulation, polling and 4-D chess strategizing?
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…