Here to Watch It Burn

Mediocre reply guy shoveling coal on the Titanic.

[Here to Watch It Burn @WindowToTheAbys]

What did you all think "acceleration" looked like?

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

ASTRONAUTS ON INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ORDERED TO SHELTER IN SPACECRAFT, PREPARE FOR EVACUATION OVER WORSENING AIR LEAKS ON RUSSIAN SEGMENT - NASA

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

U.S. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FACE TOUGHEST SUMMER JOB MARKET SINCE 1948: FORTUNE

[Here to Watch It Burn @WindowToTheAbys]

@Groypercooks You don't say...

[Here to Watch It Burn @WindowToTheAbys]

This was what we all we once focused on in the right wing sphere. Notice how we only debate gender wars, and foreign wars? Notice how we have all been overwhelmed and distracted from the crisis? Not accidental. Many things need to be solved, but order of operation is important.

[White Papers Policy Institute @WhitePapersPol]

We have been the most generous country in the world, to our detriment.

25% of all Mexicans live in the US. 70% rely on welfare.

~10% of Guatemalans live here. 77% are on welfare

12% of Nicaraguans live here. 75% rely on welfare

12% of Haitians live here. 53% rely on welfare

[J. Whitebread @JWhitebread1]

Pitch for a future scifi dystopia. The world is seemingly very advanced, rich, prosperous and happy. Technology is woven into every facet of their lives and everyone has AI agents to help them with even the smallest tasks. Life is good, but almost no one, even the smartest, knows exactly how it all works.

Every once in a while however, a catastrophic systems failure happens, threatening everything. Disaster is always narrowly averted though by a mysterious group of engineers that operate mostly out of site but sweep in during times of great need.

The engineers have an almost mythical status in society and operate more like wizards and demigods, and their methods are nearly inscrutable to the general population. Our hero aspires to be one of them. After years of hard work, he is accepted to their school. On day one, they strip him of his phone, his ai agents, all his technology. He is taken to a remote monastery with no wifi, no ai, no agents, no technology more sophisticated than a chalk slate. The first class has nothing more complicated than a sand pit where they write equations in the sand using a stick. Only after years of working only with pure abstract math do they allow him to use an abacus or a slide rule, which are limited to upper classmen.

This is the way it has been for generations. This is the only way to ensure that people are actually learning and not just being guided by their technology.

[Here to Watch It Burn @WindowToTheAbys]

Its all so nakedly fake.

[Zack Korman @ZackKorman]

Anthropic, now sitting in the lead, would like all AI research to stop. Preferably until IPO. Because safety.

[Zack Korman @ZackKorman]

Anthropic, now sitting in the lead, would like all AI research to stop. Preferably until IPO. Because safety.

[wizplum @wizplum]

@curious_founder There's 2 million developers in the US. If 100% of them spent $1.5k/mo, that would be $36B/year (1.5k*12*2M) which is already less than Anthropic's last whispered "run rate" of $45B. So developers have to spend a lot more than $1.5k or everyone else needs to spend at that level.

[Here to Watch It Burn @WindowToTheAbys]

Has everyone lost their minds?

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

A lot of people have been using Uber's new budget as evidence that the AI bubble will pop. But their new budget is $1,500/mo per developer.

If 10% of America's 1.5 million developers had that budget, then they'd be spending $2.7 trillion per year.

My point isn't that this is how much developers will spend on AI coding tools necessarily, but just that $1,500 / mo is actually a lot of money.

So Uber is actually probably a pretty good argument that companies are willing to spend a lot of money on AI.

[wispem-wantex @wispem_wantex]

@buildwithparas That take is pretty common. I'm talking about at the systemic level; the economy as a whole is being slowed down by AI, not just individual developers. I haven't seen anyone be that bold

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔UC Berkeley's computer science department just posted its worst failure rates in years. 35.3% of CS 10 students got F's in spring 2026, up from under 10% in prior semesters. Professor Dan Garcia says the primary driver is a "vast increase in academic dishonesty" through LLMs. Students use AI to complete assignments, never learn the material, then fail exams. His office hours, once full, are now empty.

My Take
Companies are firing experienced engineers while the pipeline that produces new ones is being gutted by the same technology. Students use AI to bypass the hard part of learning, show up to exams without the understanding, and fail. One professor discovered a student's linear algebra class had an "open AI" policy for homework and exams. That student then couldn't do basic linear algebra in the next course.

Both ends of the workforce are eroding at the same time. Senior engineers are getting cut to fund AI spending. Junior engineers are graduating without the skills because AI did their coursework. And the companies spending trillions on these tools haven't connected those two facts yet.

Hedgie🤗

[Tom Thiessen @tomthie55en]

Women are literally sacrificing their children daily to the idols of career, autonomy, sexual immorality, and equality.

Odd how little we hear about that.

[Ben Horne @benjamin_horne]

Dario this morning:

“Ok guys, here’s how it’s gonna work. We’re gonna tweet some scary ominous nonsense from our main account.

Then, in the hours that follow, everyone quote tweet it and double down on the fearmongering.

Coordinated marketing bullshit like this is how we can keep our valuation up before the IPO. Only need to do it a few more times after this, I promise.

Ok, everyone ready?? Break!”

[Authentic Right @ReactionaryPhil]

To say one is more or less evil is an admission that both are evil and Christians are not permitted to tolerate evil. Crushing foreign gang rapists and ending abortion are not mutually exclusive propositions.

[Here to Watch It Burn @WindowToTheAbys]

You'll never guess what this is a comment on... AI psychosis is real.

[Esau @rtalbot]

@atmoio Has music lowered the cost of Healthcare? Does your love for your mother made rent more affordable? Does the taste of lemonade make college more affordable? What good are these things?

[pegboard @pegboard696969]

@JasonBotterill Anthropic reinvents a week in programmers life from first principles (now with AI agents).

Everything works great and I dont underdtand why my boss even pays me, I dont do anything. Oh we have a bug? i dont undestand whats wrong and I WILL KILL MYSELF

[Apolitical @Apolitical3678]

High IQ antisemitism is when you never talk about jews and let them run your country in peace

[Lost Internet @LostMemeArchive]

Ultima Online once had an in-game king who was supposed to be unkillable.

He was played by the creator of the game.

During a public speech, someone threw a fire field spell at him.

The server had crashed earlier, and when he logged back in, his invincibility flag wasn’t on.

So the king just died in front of everyone.

The devs spawned demons in revenge.

The assassin escaped.

[TheTinMen @TheTinMenBlog]

This is staggering –

Of the 369,000 jobs the U.S. Labor Dept. says were created since last year, nearly all - 348,000 of them - went to women, and only 21,000 went to men.

Basically, that means 94% of the net employment growth in the U.S. went to women.

Ninety four percent!

[Anthony Fava @FavaAnthony]

While Ligonier promotes singleness, John Calvin argues that God values motherhood more than being a girlboss