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@paulg I am the type of prof that literally gave people the exam questions with minor changes as part of their weekly quizzes and yet still people managed to fuck up their exams. I even told them I would do this. “I want you to learn this and be successful.” This was CS grad students.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“The 9,000 who never made it home”

In 2013, British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss created a striking temporary artwork on the beach at Arromanches, Normandy. Known as The Fallen 9000, the project involved volunteers using stencils and rakes to etch thousands of human silhouettes into the sand, each representing a life lost during the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944.

The silhouettes commemorated Allied troops, German soldiers, and civilians who died during one of the most pivotal days of World War II. What began as a small volunteer effort quickly expanded as hundreds of local residents joined in to help complete the installation.

Its most powerful feature was its impermanence.

Within hours, the incoming tide slowly washed the figures away. That was exactly the intention. The artwork served as a reminder of how individual lives can fade from memory, even when the events they shaped alter the course of history.

On D-Day, more than 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, launching the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi occupation. The operation breached Hitler’s Atlantic Wall and helped pave the way toward the end of World War II in Europe.

Created for International Peace Day in 2013, The Fallen 9000 was designed to highlight the human cost of war rather than the military scale of the invasion. According to History Hit and Colossal, the installation honored all those killed during the landings—civilians, German forces, and Allied servicemen alike.

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@dedene I genuinely don’t get what folks are doing to rack up these crazy costs—do you have 1k+ MCP tools? My org of just over 50 engineers has used Claude Code with AWS Bedrock for over 6 months. Monthly bill is around $15k, or $300/dev/month. Cloudwatch metrics per user/model.

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

This is what AI was made for 🤣

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.

Almost nobody understood what he said.

Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”

Not tech startups.

The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.

The businesses that actually run the physical economy.

They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.

Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”

Software is dead.

The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.

AI ends the contract.

The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.

But customized by whom.

The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.

Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”

That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.

Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.

Let them fight.

Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.

Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.

It collects where the brain meets the business.

Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.

Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.

Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.

Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.

That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.

You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.

The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.

33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.

Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

[Nicolas Bustamante @nicbstme]

https://t.co/v7sot4WCI2

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@shazzity “According to Evercore ISI, a research firm, the new levies will raise America’s effective tariff rate from about 2% at the end of last year to 24%, the highest for over a century.”

https://t.co/PV1sOmtAmP

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@elderemo_mama @UncorkedMama It depends a lot on the educational background of the parents in the district. Near me, public schools near Garmin engineering HQ are excellent because the parents achieved their success through education and are therefore super on-the-ball about their child’s.

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@MichaelJStern1 It’s the economy, stupid.

James Carville.

Biden was slow to respond emotionally and fiscally to the inflation and the pain on everyday Americans. She owned it when asked what she would do differently and said nothing.

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@drvolts Christian nationalists know he is a sinner extraordinaire, but he attacks liberals and LGBTQ folks. Farmers and laborers know he ignores them and lives in a gilded mansion, but he attacks China and elites. He is a feel good hit for those who had this bumper sticker.

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@drvolts It’s really quite simple. They love him because his enemies are their enemies. They mistakenly believe that the enemies of my enemies are my friends. All the things you believe are defects are features in their minds, because he attacks their mutual enemies.

[William Yang @WilliamYang120]

Chinese dissident journalist Sun Lin, who used the pen name Jie Mu, has died following a raid by state security police on his home last week, Radio Free Asia has learned. https://t.co/69XjFKiqAb

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@capitalismandf1 @JerusalemDemsas It’s terrible if you are Asian and have a child in daycare as many aren’t trained to recognize the Mongolian spots present on 80% of Asians. CPS training materials often tell caregivers that marks in areas such as thighs, lower back and buttocks are suspect. It’s discriminatory.

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@scottjshapiro Jesus, at least getting Rickrolled includes a catchy 80s beat and a sense of belonging to a large community of those who have been rolled. Threads is like signing up to be Wilson in Castaway—forever alone on an island.

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@MrSeanHaines @jinpeili Ditto in 2019. Your #4 was my number one: lack of transferable experience that would be recognized in a Western company. Once I understood this, I surmised either stay the next 20 years of my career or leave now. And the former didn’t seem tenable under Xi.

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@RepMTG Speak for yourself. I didn’t feel this way for a even a single iota of time.

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It is surprising how many tech companies, including @Meta, who loudly proclaim a vision of the future online, still want to chain folks to a desk. https://t.co/RWiypTasXK