Hemoo

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things most Americans agree on:

Groceries cost too much.

Tariffs suck and make no sense.

Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.

The debt is a mess.

The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.

Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.

Americans are exhausted.

AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.

Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.

Canadians are super fucking cool.

Mexicans are chill.

Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.

Good neighbors are a blessing.

Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.

We all question, are we alone in the universe?

We all fuck up along the way.

Epstein didn’t hang himself.

The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.

The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!

Things we’re told to fight about:

Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.

That’s the joke.

[Hemoo @himaninaresh]

@MeghanMcCain Now do Paxton

[The Seeker @TheSeeker268]

Impressive numbers, but why are Indian-born CEOs so disproportionately successful at the top? It's not random luck or a secret conspiracy by our elites to make everyone do bhangra by 2036.

First, there’s a huge selection effect. India’s massive population creates extreme competition. Academic achievement is drilled in from childhood. Indian families prize tech/medicine/business intensely, and everyone is hungry to compete and rise.

Among them, US pulls in some of the most highly educated, ambitious talent India produces, through H-1B and other skilled worker pipelines.

Indians who make it to the US are the ones who beat insane odds at home, then again in immigration, then again in corporate America.

So, the starting pool is already super filtered.

Second, english fluency, which gives them a clear advantage when it comes to managerial roles, presentations, and boardroom confidence, when compared to other immigrant groups, like Chinese, Japanese, or Korean counterparts.

There’s also a brain-drain factor. Countries like Japan, Korea, and increasingly China are much better at retaining their top talent because their domestic industries are already highly developed. India still loses many of its brightest people overseas because the West offers bigger opportunities and compensation.

And finally these CEOs didn’t appear out of nowhere. People like Pichai and Nadella spent decades inside their companies, built products, managed teams, and consistently delivered results. Pichai, for example, played a major role in building Chrome. Boards and shareholders simply reward the people producing the best results.

Add all those factors together - selection bias, culture, demographics, and merit - playing out at scale, and it’s not surprising at Indians are so visible and successful at the top.

[Sandeep Kaushik @skaushik100]

I didn’t love the mayor’s flip comment, but the current hyperventilating right-wing portrait of Seattle on this site as a total backwater shithole where no business (or sane person) would ever want to be if it wasn’t for the low taxes on rich people is pretty funny.

Last time I checked, Seattle is:

(a) home to two of the seven biggest global tech giants (well, technically Microsoft is across the lake);

(b) the site of one of the country’s top 5 (and globally, top 10) public research universities;

(c) the most educated big blue city in the US, where 70 percent of residents over the age of 25 have a bachelor’s degree, and one of the three most literate;

(d) the third most affluent blue city in America, with a (still) fast rising median household income;

(e) a city that, after being the fastest growing big city in America in the 2010s, continues to grow - our population growth is on track to make us bigger than San Francisco before the end of the decade;

(f) blessed with a temperate climate where it rarely gets very cold or hot and with a breathtakingly beautiful Puget Sound landscape where mountains, ocean and islands are near at hand (the crappy weather claim is the funniest one of all - have any of these people ever spent a summer in the Pacific NW?);

(g) in close proximity to three of the US’ 63 national parks, which together draw millions on annual visitors;

(h) ranked just this year as the most livable city in the US based on an analysis of six criteria: quality of life, safety, healthcare access, disposable income, air quality and unemployment rates.

Oh, I could go on, but tell me again how our dark, damp winters are going to be the end of us all now that we’ve added a relatively modest tax on very high earners.

[Hemoo @himaninaresh]

@AriFleischer Remind me what Trump said after Paul Pelosi was attacked. Please remind us Ari Fleischer

[Hemoo @himaninaresh]

@AriFleischer Only a psycho would think Obamas message is divisive. Your guy had called the left “deranged”, “radical left lunatics”, “evil”, “sick” “crazy”. “Traitors”.

[Hemoo @himaninaresh]

@AriFleischer Now do Trump.

[Peter B @realpeteyb123]

Amazes me that people will wait in long lines & purchase tickets for the best views but will sit next to an airplane windows, 35k feet above Gods creation & not open the window or look out.

We flying over mountains, oceans, sunsets most people will never see in their lifetime.

[Lori Love @thereallorilove]

Gotta love how NASA wants us to believe they have the ability to take super clear, high resolution videos in outer space but for the astronaut recovery they have to use a camcorder from 1998. 🥴

[Hemoo @himaninaresh]

@komonews Are we going to remove Gandhi and MLK too?

[Paul Mit @pmitu]

Me reviewing the code written by Claude before pushing it to production

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

[Opinion Bakery @IndiaSpeaksPR]

BREAKING: President Trump leaks multiple Whatsapp messages to him from Prime Minister Modi

[Hemoo @himaninaresh]

@NRO It’s literally our country’s motto. “E pluribus unum”

[Hemoo @himaninaresh]

@megynkelly It’s literally our country’s motto. “E pluribus unum”

[Hemoo @himaninaresh]

@MeghanMcCain It’s literally our country’s motto. “E pluribus unum”

[Hemoo @himaninaresh]

@MeghanMcCain We could say the same about Sarah palin

[Hemoo @himaninaresh]

@CurtisHouck @ScottJenningsKY Wasn’t he the same guy who made fun of Travon Martin while his family was grieving?

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Hemoo @himaninaresh]

@chamath Did he take away oil subsidies too?