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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 4h

Amazon plans to cut 15% of HR staff. I guess it makes sense that if all you’re doing is layoffs and ignoring people’s feedback about RTO, then you probably can replace your HR department with AI.

Amazon is planning a new wave of layoffs, sources say | Fortune

Amazon's 10,000-plus employee HR division, which includes recruiters, is expected to be among the hardest hit in the job cuts.

fortune.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 6h

"One of the reasons we release technology like this is we see something coming and know that in some number of months or years it's gonna be widely available through open source models." - Sam Altman when asked about Sora being used to make realistic deepfakes and people removing its watermarks.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10h

Some context

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10h

Young Republicans group chat.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12h

Walmart is up 5% today because you can now buy goods from Walmart in ChatGPT. Recently Sam Altman was shocked that deals they announce results in a stock pop for the partner. I feel the same way.

How much volume will shopping in ChatGPT drive to move the needle on Walmart’s $681B in annual revenue?

Walmart teams with OpenAI to let shoppers buy products through ChatGPT

OpenAI and Walmart announce ChatGPT shopping integration that will enable Walmart shoppers to buy products within the AI chatbot platform soon.

www.foxbusiness.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12h

Marc Benioff is talking his book by sharing how AI has helped Salesforce save $100M by replacing customer service agents with AI.

Since they sell AI agents, this is essentially a sales pitch for their product.

Salesforce Says AI Customer Service Saves $100 Million Annually

Salesforce Inc. said it’s saving about $100 million a year by using artificial intelligence tools in the software company’s customer service operations.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12h

Can you read? It literally says erotica in the screenshot.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12h

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health

Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.

capitalbnews.org

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12h

ChatGPT is bringing back sycophancy and will now allow adult content like erotica because they’ve addressed mental health risks in the app.

Given the big checks they’ve written, OpenAI will need to apply every growth lever to meet expectations. Thus embracing porn is a no brainer as a growth unlock

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

GoFundMe wanted to build a service to help groups fundraise for social projects and then it became a backstop to our broken healthcare system.

It looks like they are now a backstop for our broken system when it comes to food insecurity especially given cuts and the tanking economy.

GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food

GoFundThis: Some surprising items have begun to make the list for crowdfunding lately, according to this CEO.

finance.yahoo.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

Klarna’s CEO says AI let them cut staff from 7,400 to 3,000, while growing revenue 38% YoY despite some high-profile missteps.

He’s also skeptical AI will create enough new jobs to offset losses, pointing to Brussels translators who can be replaced by AI yet not easily retrained.

AI enabled Klarna to halve its workforce—now, the CEO is warning workers that other ‘tech bros’ are sugarcoating just how badly it’s about to impact jobs | Fortune

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, who told Sam Altman he wanted Klarna to be ChatGPT’s “favorite guinea pig,” says too many CEOs are downplaying how disruptive AI will really be.

fortune.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

People telling me that Trump didn’t forget he was the president on January 6th 2021, he’s trying to convince his followers he wasn’t.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

Who could have guessed that the Biden administration signing a bipartisan law to get TikTok banned would lead to Barron Trump on its board and the company owned by a consortium including Larry Ellison & Rupert Murdoch?

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d

Dude really forgot he was president on January 6th, 2021. We’re so cooked.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d

It’s hard to imagine anything more performative and pointless than protesting at Kamala Harris’ book tour.

This is the epitome of virtue signaling instead of actually trying to help a cause.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d

It's tough to take these arguments seriously from those building AI slop TikTok.

You can read the entire essay below

Superintelligence Isn’t Enough

AI has many answers—but it can’t by itself build a new society.

www.persuasion.community

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d

Fukuyama debunks the AI abundance myth: we can't feed or clothe all not due to a lack of smarts, but priorities and resources.

The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

What in the nepo baby is this?

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

It sounds like all those scientists at the CDC that Russ Vought was bragging about laying off are now being asked to take their jobs back.

I guess studying and preventing the spread of contagious diseases isn’t “too woke” after all.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

The corporate myth is that embracing AI will get you results that are cheap, fast and good with fewer employees.

The reality is a lot of companies will find out they got things done for a lot cheaper and a lot faster but if definitely wasn’t good.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

Doing this while making it harder for regular people to get COVID vaccines. Anti-vax in the streets and pro-vax under the hospital sheets.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

On the one hand, it’s wild that Tesla’s full self driving mode doesn’t stop at train tracks but on the other hand who is trusting FSD to drive for them when there’s an oncoming train?

That’s incredibly bad judgment.

Tesla Full Self-Driving fails at train crossings, drivers warn

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told NBC News that it had spoken to Tesla about mishaps at train crossings.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

50x leverage means you can put in $1K, borrow $49K, and have $50K of crypto in your account. A 2% gain doubles your money. A 2% loss? You’re wiped out and your crypto is sold.

Setups like this is exactly why crypto tanked harder than stocks on the tariff news.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

The scale of this week’s crypto crash is stunning. $16.6B in losses due to margin calls on 1.6M accounts averages to $10,000 lost per person betting on crypto always going up.

A lesson for many on the downside of borrowing money to gamble.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

America right now: what if the worst person you know who was also the dumbest person you know was in charge of a critical government agency?

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