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[Aurora Martel @AuroraMar1eL]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

Link
https://t.co/H2jhabQDu3

[Awantha Artigala @awanthaartigala]

Cartoon

[Bherunda_writes @Chathu_jazz]

Super proud of you !

[Signal School @IN_SignalSchool]

3/3

Lt Cdr Md Rishad Bin Shahadat @BangladeshNavyX stood first whilst, Lt Cdr YDL Mahesh of @srilanka_navy and Maj Mulewa Kevin Kalama of @kdfinfo stood second and third respectively. Lt Md Sabrang Ilaihaq of @_TNIAL_ was awarded the most spirited trainee.

[Lihini Fernando @LihiniFernando]

"Sri Lanka’s Presidency at Risk: The Blurred Line Between Public Duty and Private Life"

A President of a country cannot separate his private life from public life. The moment one assumes the office of Head of State, he ceases to be a private individual. His security, movements, and even his day-to-day engagements are under the control of the State.

The Presidential Security Division (PSD) is duty-bound to accompany him at all times, whether he is attending a state meeting, a private function, or even traveling abroad. A specific budget is allocated for this purpose, and his security detail has no discretion to abandon him simply because he is engaged in a personal activity.

Even if a President attends a private wedding, funeral, or visits a sick relative, the PSD must accompany him. His official vehicle too is part of the security protocol. Therefore, in practice, there is no clear distinction between public and private life for a sitting President.

This brings us to the case of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe.

After completing an official tour in the United States, he stopped over in London to attend his wife’s graduation. The expenses incurred for the days spent in London including the tickets of the security personnel who were constitutionally required to protect him as Head of State were later treated as misuse of public funds, and he was remanded under the Public Property Act.

If that is the yardstick, then the same principle must apply to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD).
👉He has, on multiple occasions, used his official vehicle and security detail for activities that are not strictly state-related. For instance, he has visited his mother in his official vehicle with his security team in attendance.
👉During the local government elections, he attended NPP political meetings using his official vehicle, state-provided fuel, and presidential security to safeguard him.

If the argument is that Ranil Wickremesinghe misused public funds because his security detail accompanied him to a private function, then by the same reasoning, President AKD too has committed misuse of state resources. His so-called "private" or "political" activities have been conducted with the full use of state property and personnel.

Therefore, if one President can be prosecuted under the Public Property Act for such actions, then justice demands that the same standard must apply to President AKD once his term ends. Selective accountability undermines the rule of law. Either the law applies equally to all, or it is reduced to a political weapon.

The reality that President Anura Kumara Dissanayakke never understood

👉By convention, every movement of the President, official or private, is accompanied by the PSD.

👉This is not optional; it is considered a state duty because the President represents the sovereignty of the people.

What this has ultimately done is set a dangerous precedent for the office of the President in Sri Lanka. By criminalizing the unavoidable overlap between public and private life inherent in the presidency, future leaders will constantly face the risk of prosecution for performing even the most ordinary personal functions while in office. This undermines the dignity of the highest office in the land and reduces it to a position perpetually vulnerable to political reprisals.

[U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka @USAmbSL]

Delighted to join the grand opening of Englander Beds’ flagship store in Colombo today in partnership with Richard Pieris & Company —celebrating the arrival of one of the oldest U.S. mattress brands and its legacy of American quality in Sri Lanka.  This 130-year-old U.S. brand brings more than premium mattresses—it brings better sleep, American innovation excellence, & deeper economic connections with Sri Lanka.  My remarks: https://t.co/3ywZEpPeRc

[Kavitha Ratwatte @KavithaRatwatte]

✅The Canadian 🇨🇦 government is stuck in the 1990s, when it granted asylum to fraudulent asylum seekers. After May 2009, your monuments need to be updated to reflect something similar to #SriLanka.

[Bherunda_writes @Chathu_jazz]

@SLPI
Discussion on National Media Policy organized by Sri Lanka Press Institute

[Bherunda_writes @Chathu_jazz]

Maybe I should save this to show my toddler one day that this was his first tweet!

[Bherunda_writes @Chathu_jazz]

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[Bherunda_writes @Chathu_jazz]

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[Bherunda_writes @Chathu_jazz]

#supportherrun campaign launch by IFES Sri Lanka

[Alex Jones @RealAlexJones]

Breaking! WH Press Sec Sets Record Straight Federal Funding Freeze To Totally "Confused" DC Elite Media

More Breaking News And Reports Here:
https://t.co/o6sm9YqH9z

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

Dear son, read this carefully.

[Bible 365 @Bible365_]

Matthew 6:34

[Bherunda_writes @Chathu_jazz]

@dialoglk high time to train customer agents on effective communication. I have been trying to get an answer for a simple questions and non of the agents could provide me with an answer. Their way of communication shows they do not intend to serve

[Bherunda_writes @Chathu_jazz]

When are we getting over with “cash da card da” 🤷‍♂️

[Ranil Wickremesinghe @RW_SRILANKA]

අනුර දිසානායක ජනාධිපතිතුමනි,

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නමැති ආදරණීය දරුවා මම ඔබට මහත් සෙනෙහසින් භාර දෙමි.

ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ

அநுர திஸாநாயக்க ஜனாதிபதி அவர்களே,

நான் அன்பு வைத்துள்ள இலங்கை எனும் பாசம் மிகுந்த குழந்தையினை உங்களிடம் ஒப்படைக்கிறேன்.

ஜனாதிபதி ரணில் விக்ரமசிங்க

President Anura Dissanayake,

With deepest affection, I entrust to you “the beloved child of Sri Lanka.”

President Ranil Wickremesinghe

[Evarts @r_evarts]

This is Mr. Cyril. He walks daily from Embuldeniya, Nugegoda, Pitakotte, Pelawatta to Battaramulla selling his coconut husk carved ornaments. The monkey is Rs. 850/- & the bird house is Rs. 750/- He lives in Pahala Kosgama. Other designs available too. Please share.

[Bherunda_writes @Chathu_jazz]

Anyone experiencing power cuts ? #lka

[Sankhitha Gunaratne @SankhithaG]

‼️‼️HUGE NEWS on the asset declarations front! The asset declarations of over a 100 top officials, including of Pres. @RW_UNP just became publicly accessible on the https://t.co/HY7Q4FSqD9 webpage! Go take a look.

However, so much information is unnecessarily REMOVED. #lka(1/5)