So my dad has been ending every phone call with "stay dangerous" instead of "goodbye" for like six months now. We all thought he was just being a weird dad. Turns out he's been mishearing the ending of a podcast he listens to. The host says "stay curious" but my dad is slightly deaf in one ear. He's been going around telling his coworkers, my grandmother, and apparently his DOCTOR to "stay dangerous" this entire time. My mom only found out because his doctor called to check if everything was okay at home. My dad has now decided he likes his version better and refuses to stop. Yesterday he told a nun to stay dangerous.
I see a lotta people on the timeline freaking out about the JPM DEI woman getting paid $300K, about that girl at stripe getting $300K, and now the below.
A lot of you have no idea how much inflation there’s been over the past few years, especially in the NYC area.
I’d say new pay scale in Manhattan is something like this-
Entry level- $250k, if you’re in your mid 20s at a good firm you need to be clearing this
Middle management- $500K to $1MM, this is basically middle class now
Doing well- $3MM plus
If you’re surprised by the White Party offer, you’re not seeing what’s going on
BREAKING:
OpenAI is about to put ads inside ChatGPT.
Starting in Japan.
The most-used AI product on earth.
Is becoming an advertising platform.
This is bigger than a single regional rollout.
It's a signal about the entire AI economy.
Remember the numbers.
OpenAI lost $38,500,000,000 in 2025.
Spent more renting compute from Microsoft than it earned in total revenue.
Subscriptions alone can't cover that burn.
So now comes the next phase.
Ads.
The same playbook that turned Google and Meta into giants.
Free product. Massive audience. Sell the attention.
But here is the deeper story.
When a company starts showing you ads.
You stop being the customer.
You become the product.
The AI tool you trust to answer honestly.
Now has a financial incentive baked into what it shows you.
This is the tradeoff at the heart of free AI.
Someone has to pay for the compute.
And if it's not you through a subscription.
It's you through your attention.
The era of clean, ad-free AI was always temporary.
Japan is just where it ends first.
God bless Tom Cruise for fighting so hard for cinema. Hollywood is the cultural backbone of Los Angeles. We cannot lose it. GO TO THE MOVIES. It's amazing what a gallon of popcorn, turning off your phone for 2 hours, and enjoying a flick with 100 people does for your soul.