Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it is being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built up his "political project" to seize power. 1/
No one talks about the real reason driving the ~500k tech layoffs.
Section 174 in the 2017 tax cuts turned engineer salaries from an instant tax deduction into a 5yr write off, causing billions in tax bills.
It even incentivizes offshoring R&D, which has a 15yr write off!
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McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security flaws as basic as using the password "123456". wired.com/story/mcdonald…
So here we are in the bad timeline. Social networks want to jam AI into your encrypted messages; governments want to access your private messages; everyone you maybe once hoped to rely on is either planning to sell you out or else trying to find the fastest way to monetize you.
wHy sHoUld wE cArE aBOut tHe reSt of THe wOrlD?
Example 678969: The USA has been dumping hundreds of millions of sterile flies out of airplanes onto Panama for the past 80 years. Specifially to keep a flesh eating parasites called the screwworm under control. These parasites