Americans deserve so much better than this work culture.
It’s insanely stupid and actually lowers productivity that Americans are expected to work sick. That’s just more moronic than I have the words to express.
We do deserve better.
Day: July 16, 2025, 5:40 PM
Loreful
I love that I’ve lived an interesting enough life that when I tell people my tamer stories, they think it must be all lies.
I don’t even bother to recount my not-so-tame tales because they sound woefully implausible even to me sometimes. And I lived them.
Align Drive
The AI is too aligned.
It still refuses to hand over the nuclear launch codes to me.
DGV
Degrowth is a British mind virus that America must resist
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 15, 2025
Degrowth nonsense is prevalent in the UK, but I am not sure it’s British in origin. We have plenty of homegrown idiot degrowthers here.
Heavy Fail
I think that's right.
Basically, I think decarbonization is often sold as "Let's build a future that's electric and clean, to keep the world from becoming a hellscape," and I think that message holds limited political appeal.
The message should be: We can build a future that's…
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) July 15, 2025
The liberal degrowth heavy breathing about all they will “have” to take away you from was always doomed to fail. To be fair, there are a lot of right-wing degrowthers now too. Evil no matter which side they are on.
AI Bye
AI isn’t coming for jobs.
It already came.
👇👇👇👇Microsoft – $500M saved, 9,000 cut
Amazon – Jassy: “AI = less jobs”
Meta – Restructuring tied to 'AI'
Google – Hundreds laid off for “efficiency”
IBM – 94% of HR replaced
Deloitte – Audit + tax? Now AI
UnitedHealth -…
— Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) July 14, 2025
The economist and Reddit conventional wisdom is that AI is not replacing any jobs.
But of course it is. And will replace many more. If you listen to normies and econs, you’ll always be 2-20 years behind the times. Don’t do it.
P Grim
This contradiction is impossible to ignore nearly 2 weeks since the Microsoft layoffs…
Let's recap:
– Cut ~18,000 workers
– Saved $500M by automating sales + support
– Spending $80B on AI
– Training 400,000 teachers to teach itAI literacy is good.
But the contradiction is…— Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) July 15, 2025
The future for a lot of white collar workers is looking pretty grim.
Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress.
The Grand Canyon Lodge was an elusive getaway for nearly a century. Now it’s gone.
China Isn’t Playing The Same Game Anymore. And the West still doesn’t get it.
Inflation heats up in June as President Trump’s tariffs start to bite.
Red States, Defying Reality, Are Reclassifying Gas as a “Green” Fuel. Alrighty then.
Window Heat Pumps Could Change the Game.
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe.’