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but...but... AI was supposed to make this all better!

Thousands of North Korean operatives are using fake and stolen identities to land remote jobs at U.S. companies—funneling hundreds of millions of dollars back to the regime.

Leaked data, interviews and never-before-seen videos obtained by The Wall Street Journal reveal how a single team of these workers infiltrated at least eight companies in just a few months.

"The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill, while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth"

I think AOC made this point easy to understand in a recent hearing..

"ask ... if they [Zuckerberg, Thiel etc] want one of these data centers in their own backyard"

All data centers that are in controversial areas should subsidize the electric bill of residents within the county affected

The results of DOGE

A former USAID global health official has cited internal modeling suggesting around 600,000 excess deaths in 2025 alone, roughly two‑thirds among children, due to the collapse of programs for malnutrition, HIV, TB, obstetric care, and child health.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...

USAID global health and development funding has been cut by on the order of 80–85%, sharply reducing support for vaccination, TB control, maternal health, and other essential services in many poorer countries.

Within CDC, DOGE‑related cuts and mass firings have removed thousands of staff, with specific centers (e.g., National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention) losing over a quarter of their workforce.

Short term: more outbreaks like the Bangladesh measles surge, interrupted treatment for chronic and infectious diseases, and increased mortality where programs were heavily donor‑funded.

Medium term: degradation of global health infrastructure and human capital (loss of trained staff, data systems, and labs), making it harder to recover even if funding later returns.

Long term: slower medical innovation, reduced global surveillance capacity, and entrenched health inequities, as countries and communities with the fewest resources bear the brunt of lost support.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1...

it is weird isn't it? The register article implies that it's acknowledged by McKinsey- https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/mckinsey_ai_chatbot_h...

Edit: Apparently, this is the CEO https://github.com/eth0izzle

case in point - the "ivy league" schools are some of the most established "Brands" in existence today.

They are not really in the education business anymore — they're in the exclusivity and signaling business

Great idea. Dead grandma will encourage grieving grandpa to get ED drugs in bargain prices and give free suicide ideation ideas to the grandkids.

Yay

The only business that call customers "users" are software development and drug dealers :)

in the words of Upton Sinclair "“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

This affects the brightest of the bright and the less talented alike.

curiously western campuses are silent on Iranian unrest as well

For a more droned style - the works of Abul Mogard

H1B visa should be reformed full stop. But this isn't reform, this is a shakedown. Enforcment will not be consistent. The CEOs who are ready and willing to pay the vig to the trump family and fellate the man will get exceptions.

But they are not stopping are they?

If you don’t have the capacity to stop it but you do have the capacity to offer them a home shouldn’t you ?

Or is it the moral equivalent to the American “thoughts and prayers “?

It’s similar to the Ukrainian Russian meat grinder. The support is only extended enough for this to continue on forever

No argument. if the option is between near certain death due to bombardment or starvation and living in Brazil or ireland. I imagine most will take that choice, if of course it was given.

The reasons can be many. But if you believe that a genocide is indeed taking place and leaving Gaza saves lives, it’s a reasonable Path to help is to accept the refugees.

Europe accepted millions of Ukrainian refugees to keep them out of harms way, why do they not extend the same helping hand to Palestinians from Gaza? who are, at least according to this UN report, in much worse condition?

Zionism is a progressive cause that suffers from its success. It transformed victims into sovereigns, now recast as privileged colonial occupiers.

Isn't the very goal of "progress" in progressive to move away from victimhood to self-determined?

The moral position then for those who oppose it, is to allow those who wish to leave Gaza into countries that support the Palestinian people. Ireland and Spain come to mind, Qatar as well could take it thousands, they have the money.

"Move fast and break things" A guy taking a shortcut is the ethos of Meta, it's the DNA.

You take the advertising driven paradigm out of the equation, and a website might be worth something more than rage clicks and doom scrolling machine, who knew?!

Ad driven sites broke the internet; they might have broken society to some degree as well.

Perhaps the example of Woody Allen at the top is more apt.

The departure in style, theme, visual approach, and structural vision between early works like Sleeper or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and later films such as Match Point is dramatic. Then again, three decades separate those movies. Anderson still has time.

The Grant rejections I saw look like it was written by a middle schooler. it's shocking stupidity

That's my only gripe with the current pi-hole; there is no easy way to configure DHCP options.

Add to that a systemic lack of investment in public transportation infrastructure and it makes said commutes completely reliant on private resources.

There is no proof that Israel initiated the Pager attacks either.

Indeed, but downplaying the strategic threat to Taiwan as a "short-term" potential impact is not a credible position in the long term.

It is prudent, possibly even critical, to have foundries on US shores, and the US will have to pay for it.

It's hard to argue that Slack is significantly better; it got increasingly messy over time. It's not that teams are better; the alternative isn't.

It's an interesting point. Whether non-human entities are entitled to 1st amendment rights. Since they have the potential longevity that far exceeds humans, and also can't be punished in same manner for potential wrongdoing (i.e. send an entire company or lobby) to prison.