Kirk

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I’m like the opposite of AI. It took me over half an hour to write a simple email, and I didn’t consume a single drop of water all day.

[Washingtonian Problems @WashProbs]

Could you imagine getting off of a DC Metrobus and being swept away 💀

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

No vote in Tennessee (+1 GOP)
No vote in Florida (+4 GOP)
No vote in Missouri (+1 GOP)
No vote in North Carolina (+2 GOP)
No vote in Texas (+5 GOP)

Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out.

MAGA has rigged the system.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The goal of the game UNO is to have no cards you fucking idiot.

[Kirk @kirkfitz]

@KangofQueens @amNewYork Congestion pricing is making our infrastructure ✨more functioning✨

🤯🤯🤯

[Kirk @kirkfitz]

Rot in Hell Sloth World owners 😡 poor creatures.

[Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost @RepMaxwellFrost]

I am appalled to hear about the 31 sloths who died under the “care” of the not yet opened Sloth World in Orlando.

These sloths — naturally solitary animals — were put in the worst conditions possible. They were taken from their natural habitats to a packed warehouse that wasn’t properly heated and allowed for the spread of deadly viruses, leading to a stress-induced death.

My office is looking into this tragedy, and we will coordinate with local officials to determine how to best move forward.
https://t.co/sk7m5bDjjJ

[Tim @trouble_man90]

Yea we joke about the double standard in the media, but this is legitimately insane.

[Kirk @kirkfitz]

@mattadler81 Blue Bottle. Always.

[Kirk @kirkfitz]

@mattadler81 You got the coveted ramp pie! I hope they have them this weekend.

[Kirk @kirkfitz]

@kzear @mattadler81 It was so good!!

[GFed🇺🇸 @GfedGoCrazy]

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

[Kirk @kirkfitz]

Awesome bus dispatching ⁦@NYCTBus⁩ ⁦@MTA⁩ two bunched busses then a 13 minute wait for two bunched busses. There are now bus lanes on 14 St so this poor service is all because of operations.

[Kirk @kirkfitz]

@parthhkotak @AmtrakNECAlerts NRCC republican fund raiser

[Kirk @kirkfitz]

@Metrorailinfo What is the event? Why is public infrastructure shut down for a private event? Is it a republican fundraiser?

[Kirk @kirkfitz]

@flyLAXairport why is the shuttle bus between T6 and B taking 25+ minutes? More than a hundred people waiting for it currently. Your website says every 10 mins.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control:

TikTok
CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Cartoon Network
Comedy Central
DC Studios
Fandango
Miramax
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
And more

This is oligarchy.

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

Amazon just confirmed 16,000 layoffs but sources inside are telling me the real story is so much worse

Word from three different VPs: the 16K number is just "Phase One" - internal docs show another 14,000 cuts planned for Q2

A director in AWS walked me through their new "efficiency matrix" - entire teams being replaced by 2-3 senior engineers running Claude Sonnet workflows

The Alexa division got completely hollowed out. 847 engineers two months ago. 23 remaining after this week. All hardware development moved to a Bangalore team of 31 contractors with Cursor access

Here's the sick part: they're making the outgoing engineers document their entire decision-making process into "knowledge transfer sessions" that are being recorded and fed directly into training datasets

One L7 told me he spent his final two weeks creating detailed prompt libraries and workflow documentation. Thought he was being helpful for the transition

Turns out he was literally training the AI agent that replaced his entire org

The contractors offshore are using his exact prompts and shipping features 40% faster than his old team of 12 Americans ever did

Internal Slack shows leadership celebrating "operational excellence" while badges get deactivated in real-time

They're calling it "right-sizing for the AI era" in the all-hands

But the P&L sheets I'm seeing show $280M in salary savings this quarter alone

The knowledge extraction is complete

If you're still at Amazon and haven't started job hunting, you're already dead

[Kirk @kirkfitz]

@jeffrey_siebert Please stop using AI generated images. Pay an artist.

[Kirk @kirkfitz]

Y’all egg rolls come in the same white bag as Walgreens prescriptions