Jesse VodkaPepper

Jesse Vodkapepper
Wage Slave God.

[Jesse VodkaPepper @Sahdow]

#Robots and #automation are taking away more #jobs than #immigrants. Forget #buildthewall, let's #buildastaircase

[xo ᥫ᭡. @mariamartexo]

you know where being a good person takes you? into bed with pretty ladies

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

🚨🪐 **BREAKING:** NASA has released a stunning new image of the enormous **hexagonal storm** at Saturn's North Pole.

Spanning more than **20,000 miles (32,000 km)** across—large enough to fit **around four Earths** inside—it remains one of the Solar System's most extraordinary mysteries.

First observed by **Voyager** in **1981**, the giant six-sided storm has persisted for **over four decades**, astonishing scientists with its remarkable stability. Researchers believe the phenomenon could be far older than our observations suggest.

🔭 Saturn continues to surprise us, reminding us just how incredible and mysterious our universe truly is.

📸 **Source:** NASA

#NASA #Saturn #Space #Astronomy #Science #SolarSystem #Universe #SpaceFacts #Cosmos

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

Austrian Felix Baumgartner becomes the first skydiver to break the speed of sound, reaching a maximum velocity of 833.9mph (1,342 km/h)📸 Jean-Pierre Tessari

[Kairos.MP5 @KAIROSMMA2]

OH MY GOODNESS. I never thought I would ever say this . BRYCE MITCHELL IS FUCKING SPITTING

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Corporate America are the dumbest fucking people on the planet. They prove that every day.

[Jesse VodkaPepper @Sahdow]

@0TulsiGabbard2 Sadly I don't buy it. If that were truly the case, they wouldn't have re-elected him

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

1/2
I'm sick of hearing Trump supporters say something along the lines of, "How you all feel about Donald Trump is how we felt about Obama!"

That's bullsh*t.

Most of them hated Obama for two main reasons.

1. He's a Democrat

2. Because he's half Black

When Obama was in office, Republicans went after him for the dumbest crap I've ever seen. I saw segments mocking him shopping for Christmas gifts for his daughter. There was one where they belittled him for wearing a helmet while riding a bike. They pushed conspiracies about whether or not he was an American that were completely unfounded. They called him a Muslim, even though he had a well-documented history of Christian church attendance — unlike Trump. Many still believe Michelle Obama is actually a man and called her a communist for trying to encourage Americans to work out more and eat healthier. You know, what Trump supporters today call "MAHA," proving, once again, that they don't really have any real values other than opposing whatever Democrats support.

Then we can't forget the unforgivable — tan suit. No president will ever do something as scandalous as wearing a tan suit.

Yes, it's normal for Republicans to oppose a Democrat. But don't even try to compare why we all oppose Trump to how Republicans were against Obama.

Obama never publicly and personally attacked judges when they ruled against him.

Obama didn't sue his own IRS, of which he is the executive, for $10 billion, only to have his Department of Justice "settle" the lawsuit for $1.8 billion in a slush fund he planned to personally control.

Obama didn't name his personal attorney the acting attorney general.

Obama didn't defend the killing of unarmed American citizens by federal agents, labeling those unarmed Americans as "domestic terrorists."

Obama didn't sue universities that taught material that he disagreed with.

Obama didn't sue media outlets for reporting stories about him he didn't like.

Obama didn't gut funding for medical research.

Obama didn't appoint his top political donor, and the richest man in the world, to a very powerful position within our government.

Obama never tried to put his name on U.S. currency, get a new piece of currency produced depicting his face, put his face on passports, put banners of himself on government buildings, or push for the construction of ballrooms or arches he wants named after himself.

Obama didn't even come up with "Obamacare," that was Republicans trying to slander the former president. The bill's actually the Affordable Care Act. So, even his signature piece of legislation, he didn't name after himself. But Trump did name his online prescription site and child savings accounts after himself.

Obama didn't constantly call for media personalities to be fired for criticizing him.

Obama didn't have his FCC go after networks for not firing those individuals.

Obama didn't order the Department of Justice to go after his enemies.

Obama didn't fire attorneys general for not bowing down and doing everything he told them. He damn sure didn't call files related to child predators a "total hoax," as Trump's called the Epstein files.

Obama wasn't out blatantly manipulating the markets and engaging in insider trading.

Obama didn't accept a $400 million plane from Qatar he then used hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars to fix up, which he plans to take with him when he leaves office.

Obama didn't call elections that didn't go his party's way "rigged."

Obama didn't order "blue states" to unethically redraw congressional maps, trying to give Democrats an advantage in midterm elections.

Obama didn't constantly attack our allies while kissing the ass of dictators like Vladimir Putin.

Obama didn't start a war with Iran he promised he wouldn't start.

Obama didn't run up record deficits, he actually reduced them.

Obama didn't try to take over the Kennedy Center and put his name on it.

[Nard @Narddog4747]

America has lost ~$450 billion from outsourcing IT to India in the last 6 years alone.

I've worked through 15 different technology implementations for healthcare providers over the past 6 years. Small scale to enterprise level.

While the data is clear on the amount of foreigners that have been given US based tech employment, what it precariously omits is the enormous scale of reliance on offshored labor. This is an opaque process to most people, even corporate Americans don't understand what is actually happening.

Every single project I was involved in used Indian consultants. Scrum masters, data analysts, DevOps & SWEs, project managers - all Indian. The service team - call center reps, client managers, Their work was horrific and constantly needed micromanaging. It would take 6 Indians to complete a simple SQL pipeline for SFTP prep that an American dev could solo in half the time. Project documentation was atrocious, filled with grammatical errors making it largely undecipherable. Deliverables were always late.

Firms like Deloitte, Accenture, PWC, EY, Optum and Huron all have what PWC calls "acceleration centers" where these people are employed. Primarily in India, but also in Malaysia, the Philippines and Mexico. Massive corporate buildings that cram thousands of these people to do work that would require 1/10 of the amount of Americans.

I often wondered, why? The answer is simple - build a deliverable that (barely) functions but breaks enough to keep the client engaged long term. The money isn't in the project, but all the servicing behind it. Using offshore labor allows these companies to arbitrage labor cost exponentially, meaning massive profitability for shareholders.

Example:

A company pays Deloitte $400k to build a new inventory software system. After it’s live, they sign a 5 year support contract for $180,000 per year so Deloitte’s team fixes problems, updates it, and keeps it running. That turns a $400k project into $1.3 million total revenue for Deloitte over time.

But the devil is in the details.

Mostly all of development work for the inventory software is done offshore in India, where Deloitte’s developers cost the firm about $25k–$35k each instead of using American developers who cost $110k–$150k each.

In that same $180k per year support contract, Deloitte will use offshore teams in India (costing the firm ~$15k–$25k) instead of Americans (who cost ~$90k–$120k).

Every offshore hire means roughly $60k–$90k in American wages that never enter the U.S. economy.
Over 5 years that’s $750k–$1.2m+ in lost U.S. wages that will never enter the American economy, from one single project.

Scaling of this issue is imperative.

An estimated 150,000 projects have been completed by professional firms since 2020.

Low end: 150,000 × $750,000 = $112.5 billion

High end: 150,000 × $1,200,000 = $180 billion

However, these are only first order effects. If we account for second order (wages supporting local economy and everything downstream) we can conservatively estimate a 1x-1.5x multiplier so the real cost for America looks more like this:

Low end: $112.5B × 2.0 = $225 billion

High end: $180B × 2.5 = $450 billion

$35-70 billion per year on IT outsourcing alone.

Professional companies are expanding very rapidly on this front, largely through AI marketing slop to blissfully unaware boomer corporate executives, embedding their useless AI into their bread and butter - outsourced service model.

There are virtually no indicators that anyone will do anything about this.

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

CUT AMERICAN.
HIRE FOREIGN.
WALLSTREET REWARDS YOU.

This CISCO layoff is not being talked about enough.

Recording record revenue and announcing mass layoffs on the same day should seriously be illegal. But if our markets reward it - why would they stop?

[Jesse VodkaPepper @Sahdow]

@LayoffAI @kevinolearytv Einstein didn't come here on an H1B, he was a refugee who sought asylum in our country.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

INCREDIBLE!

Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson who had Trump’s FBI raid her home and take her phones and laptops, just won the Pulitzer Prize with the Washington Post.

Congrats!!

[Kyle McDonald @kcimc]

i made an app for tracking whether the oligarchs are actually fleeing city centers https://t.co/Fog0lIQhrA

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

THIS IS INSANE!!!🤯

China just made it ILLEGAL to fire a human worker and replace them with AI.. and the way they found out is insane..

a quality assurance supervisor named Zhou worked at an AI company in Hangzhou.. his job was verifying AI-generated content.. matching user queries with model outputs.. filtering hallucinations and illegal content..

he was literally training the AI to do his own job..

once the model got good enough.. the company told him they were moving him to a lower position.. with a 40% pay cut.. from 25,000 yuan to 15,000..

he refused.. they fired him..

he sued.. and won..

the Hangzhou court ruled that replacing a human with AI is not a valid reason to fire someone.. period..

their logic.. adopting AI is a voluntary business decision.. not an earthquake.. not a government shutdown.. not a force majeure event.. it's a choice the company made to save money..

and because it's a choice.. the company has to absorb the cost of that transition.. not dump it on the worker..

this wasn't a one-off ruling either..

in Beijing.. a map data collector named Liu spent over a decade manually collecting geographic data.. the company switched to AI-automated data collection.. eliminated his entire department.. fired him..

he sued.. won.. exact same reasoning.. AI adoption is a proactive business strategy.. not an unforeseeable external shock..

and here's what's happening in the background that makes these rulings so urgent..

unemployment for chinese workers aged 25 to 29 just hit a record 7.7%.. the highest since they started tracking that age group separately..

companies across china are literally forcing employees to document their daily workflows so AI models can learn to replace them.. workers are training their own replacements and they know it..

a 24-year-old engineer built an open-source tool called "Colleague.Skill" that scrapes your work chat history, emails, code commits, and documents.. and creates a digital clone of you that can do your exact job after you're gone..

he meant it as a dark joke.. it got 13,400 stars on GitHub in three weeks.. top 0.1% of all projects globally.. because it wasn't really a joke.. it was exactly what companies were already doing to their employees..

workers in Shanghai and Beijing told MIT Technology Review that management was actively coercing them to document everything specifically to train AI replacements..

china's response.. make it illegal..

the State Council launched the "AI Plus" initiative.. a ten-year plan that explicitly mandates AI must augment workers.. not replace them.. companies must use AI to upgrade existing roles.. not eliminate them..

by 2027.. smart devices and AI agents must reach 70% penetration.. by 2030.. over 90%.. but the growth has to create jobs.. not destroy them..

now compare this to the US..

in america.. at-will employment means your company can fire you and replace you with AI tomorrow.. no warning.. no severance negotiation.. no retraining obligation.. as long as they're not discriminating based on race, age, or disability.. it's perfectly legal..

there is no federal law protecting american workers from AI displacement.. none..

california proposed a bill requiring just 30 days notice before deploying AI that affects employment.. that's the most aggressive protection any US state has attempted..

china made it illegal to fire you.. america doesn't even require a heads up..

and here's the irony nobody is talking about..

china.. the country the west accuses of having no worker protections.. just gave its workers more protection from AI than any democracy on earth..

the question isn't whether AI will replace jobs..

it's whether your country will protect you when it does.

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

AI will take some jobs, but it will create countless new jobs too—exciting jobs we can’t even imagine yet.

A year later those will also be done by AI, but there will be new jobs—exciting jobs we can’t even imagine yet.

Six months later those too will be done by AI, but

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

A hero, that’s who 🫡

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Aww it's a baby and they gave him to his mother... Sometimes a small act of kindness can change an entire life 💖

[Michael Colon @colen_mike52397]

@RealMartyT7 @ThatLibBitch

[Anonymous @YourAnonOne]

#BREAKING: A Chinese court has ruled it illegal to replace human workers with AI purely for the sake of cost-cutting.

The court decided that companies hold a social responsibility to treat workers fairly and pay them what they're worth.

[Elias @iam_elias1]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·
https://t.co/4m8E9jQNYm

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously banned Senators from trading on prediction markets, effective immediately.