Chris Beavers Jr.

Carnival Music Co

[Naval @naval]

The human brain isn’t designed to process all of the world’s breaking emergencies in realtime.

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

If you’re tired of seeing my face in your newsfeed or on the TV, apologies in advance, because it’s about to get a lot worse. By the end of the year, you’re going to be absolutely sick of me, due to America’s ever widening skills gap, and our ongoing attempts to close it with a record number of work ethic scholarships from mikeroweWORKS, and therefor, a record number of invitations to apply.

The situation is serious. Skilled tradespeople are retiring much faster than they’re being replaced. For every 5 that leave the workforce, two come in. The math is not sustainable, and not a week goes by that I don’t hear from some industry leader wondering if I can help with their recruiting challenges. Every trade is in demand like never before. In fact, there’s been so much outreach from so many CEO’s and elected officials, that we’ve doubled the size of our scholarship fund, and extended the application period this year from six weeks to nine months.

Last year, we received 10X the number of applications we normally get, and this year, with the disruption of AI, I suspect the number will be even higher. These are AI-proof, six-figure jobs that don’t require college debt, but instead, training. Thus, I will be cluttering up the media landscape with an onslaught of invitations to apply for scholarships, (like the one attached,) and good-natured appeals to support our efforts with a modest (or immodest) donation.

Toward that end, I’m pleased to announce that the enrollment period is officially open. Funds are now available to help train the next generation of skilled workers. My goal this year is to award $10 million in scholarships, and you’re invited to apply today. Or, if the spirit moves you, to support our efforts with a donation of any size. The donate button is big and red and hard to miss at https://t.co/uolhGspFtN.

If nothing else, please share this, so others can be similarly annoyed with another unsolicited invitation to help us close America's skills gap.

[Chris Beavers Jr. @cbeavers855]

@NoLimitGains @grok what do they mean by “all lawful purposes”

[Chris Beavers Jr. @cbeavers855]

@DudespostingWs He has food…

[Chris Beavers Jr. @cbeavers855]

@fbinegotiator @grok what podcast is this from

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I announced a milestone.

30% of our code is now written by AI.

I called it "engineering velocity."

The board loved that phrase.

They didn't ask what the code does.

Neither did we.

It compiles. Usually.

That's the metric.

Someone asked about testing.

I said "AI-assisted quality assurance."

That means the AI writes the tests too.

For the code it wrote.

It finds no issues.

Very efficient.

This week we admitted Windows 11 core features are broken.

Audio doesn't work.

Explorer crashes.

Updates fail to install.

Users asked why.

I said "we're investigating."

Investigating means reading the code.

The code the AI wrote.

That no human understands.

Because understanding isn't scalable.

Our CTO says 95% of code will be AI-generated by 2030.

I believe him.

I have to.

We fired the people who would check.

They were "non-essential headcount."

Essential means writes code.

AI writes code.

Humans are overhead.

Overhead gets optimized.

We optimized 10,000 engineers last year.

This year the bugs arrived.

Unrelated, obviously.

The engineers we kept are debugging AI output.

They don't understand it either.

But they're "cross-functional."

Cross-functional means they do everything.

Everything means nothing well.

A user asked why their audio disappeared after an update.

I said "install updated drivers."

They asked why the update broke the drivers.

I said "report it via Feedback Hub."

They asked what happens to feedback.

I said "it helps us prioritize."

Prioritize means add to backlog.

Backlog means never.

But politely.

Someone on Hacker News called this "a privacy and consent disaster."

I called it "an evolving user experience."

Same thing. Different framing.

We released a fix.

The fix broke something else.

The something else was also written by AI.

The fix was also written by AI.

They're collaborating now.

I call it "autonomous iteration."

The autonomous iteration has created 47 new bugs.

Each bug spawns a fix.

Each fix spawns two bugs.

Exponential growth.

Just like our stock price.

Unrelated, obviously.

Satya told Mark we're at 30%.

Mark said he didn't know Meta's number.

Sundar said Google is also at 30%.

None of us know what the code does.

But we know the percentage.

Percentage is a metric.

Metrics go in earnings calls.

Earnings calls move stock prices.

Stock prices determine bonuses.

Bonuses determine success.

Success means the bugs don't matter.

Users asked when Windows will work again.

I said "we're committed to quality."

Quality means it ships.

Ships means it's your problem now.

Thank you for being part of the Microsoft family.

Family means you can't leave.

We're in your enterprise agreement.

For three more years.

The circle of innovation.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW. Brown University student Alex Shieh previously EVISCERATED the school's administrators for having a $46 million deficit, despite surging costs for students.

They pay $90K+ PER YEAR.

Alex Shieh: "What about the kids who weren't born on third base?! [...] Brown is on track to run a $46 million DEFICIT this year. WHERE is all the money going?"

"I'll tell you where it's going. It's going into an empire of administrative bloat and bureaucracy! Brown employs 3,805 full time non-instructional staff for just 7,229 undergrads. That's one administrator for every two students."

"This isn't education. This is bloat paid for on the backs of students and families who are mortgaging their futures for a shot at a better life!"

HE'S SPOT-ON.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Study Finds 100% Of Male Hikers Are Imagining They Are On A Quest During The Third Age Of Middle-Earth https://t.co/2fMeM2eis7

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

USC President Kim asked me for my thoughts about Charlie Kirk at USC’s Democracy Day celebration.

There’s something more important than my message in this video. It’s what you don’t hear. No heckling. No disrespect. No shouting.

I know that social media shows us the worst of humanity, and a few people celebrating a death will get more attention than hundreds of respectful people.

Don’t let these companies and the rage influencers that profit from them convince you the worst of us are the most of us. They are a tiny minority that gets too much attention because anger makes you post, repost, and like.

This was an audience of almost 500 students, and zero disrespect. That’s how most of the real world outside of the internet is. If you find yourself falling for the anger, go out in the real world and make yourself human again.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

The Left lectured us for the last decade about the dangers of violence from the Right

From the assassination attempts of President Trump

To Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO, being murdered

Now to Charlie Kirk

The danger was actually on the Left

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Is CNN using an orange filter on President Trump?

[Pick 6 Pack @Pick6PackFB]

What the hell is going on in College Station?

#CollegeFootball

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

RFK, Jr. Jumped In Dark Alley By Count Chocula, Chester Cheetah, Kool-Aid Man https://t.co/5KkVll3UCT

[Chris Beavers Jr. @cbeavers855]

@dieworkwear Way to generalize 73,000,000 people.

[Sean Johnson 🔥 @intentionally]

I voted for her. I think he’s a bad guy.

But if you lose the senate, house, electoral college AND popular vote, and you think the lesson is half the country is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and stupid… wrong lesson. And the same thing will likely happen in 2028.

[Chris Beavers Jr. @cbeavers855]

@dieworkwear It’s extremely simple that American economic health begins with American jobs and American real estate. It is also extremely simple that 5 million illegal immigrants a year cost Americans way more than a +\- $20 up-charge for jeans.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

One of the most annoying ideas at election time is that if you choose one of the two options presented to you, you are now part of that tribe and agree with all the views of all the people who also chose that option.

It is so stupid and not how most sensible people operate.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Political season has brought out the worst in many people.

Extreme division in itself is a bigger danger to our nation than either candidate.

Don't believe anyone who's telling you to hate the other side.

We're in this together 👊

Tomorrow, go vote.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

#9 - Jon Stewart Mocks Media Outrage Over Comedian’s “Very Funny” Jokes at Trump MSG Rally

“There’s something wrong with me. I find that guy [Tony Hinchcliffe] very funny.”

Bringing Hinchcliffe to a rally and having him “not do roast jokes” would be “like bringing Beyoncé to a rally and not having… Oh.”

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