A common approach to taking out powerful people is to erode the support by taking out all of the inner circle first. Then, when you get to the big shot, they have no backing.

The longer it stays that way the longer we have before the inevitable enshiitfication and we have to start looking for somewhere else to go.

You also have to be a vegan now.

This is from their IPO filing. Here is one article about it: https://www.businessinsurance.com/anthropic-warns-ai-losses-could-exceed-insurance-industry-capacity/

Not every company goes through that many layoffs, but many of them do. I lost count after surviving 25 layoffs. I have been caught in a few over my career. What gets scarier is as you get older you run into ageism too, but there is absolutely nothing you can do to effectively hide your age.

Anyway, the employment insecurity is part of the point of the layoffs. They keep you on edge. You push yourself harder and are afraid to take vacations. Nothing makes those elitist investors happier (except for the promise of AI).

But you are human. You have to take breaks. You can burn out. You need time and space to be yourself. It has been proven over and over again that productivity goes up when you do. The investor class may be our superiors, but they aren't always the smartest. Instead they just use people up and replace them.

If you get the axe, move on and try for something better next time. Half the time you can team up with your fellow layoffees to end up working somewhere else together. Maintain those connections - that is the important part of surviving this world.

The uncertainty and stress is why they pay you the big bucks. You have to take care of yourself though.

Fintech is the worst industry to be in. Avoid that. It is a culture of numbers, not people.

There are two disturbing the peace. One is close to 2 miles away. The other is about 1 mile. Yes, they are that loud. We can hear them throughout our house with all windows and doors shut.

As someone who now lives near a data center I can verify the noise sucks. Hell moved in next door.

At least one fretless. Also need a travel banjo. And one for playing at campfires. A banjola would be nice. One strung with nylon strings and one with steel strings. Maybe a long neck too. A cello banjo would be fun. 3 is a minimum. If I count my banjo ukuleles I think I am up to 12 (?). Maybe 13? Still not enough.

I use a Linux desktop for work. My employer is constantly threatening to replace it with a mac "so they can control it". Their main control point is microsoft defender. I would rather have defender on my work machine than be forced to use a mac.

Parsnips are good too.

Turnips are an under rated food. One of these days they will be trendy again.

Next they will add more AI and more tracking and more ads.

So this is why Elon has been so upset over it.

And some people thought the milk froth was milk.

Really expensive self driving tanks that can also be submarines but parts fall off when they hit a bump.

I have mine mounted on the wall over the AC vent. Sometimes it flutters in the breeze, but it is cool and fresh in the summer and warm and cozy in the winter.

Just tell them it is for AI.

Highly organized movements usually have a strong leader/organizer with clear decision trees. Right wing politics like that approach. Left wingers tend to prefer concensus decision making, inclusion, open debate, and flinch from anyone who tries to assert total control. As a result, in spite of having wider coalitions and really great ideas, leftist movements often lack that command and control infrastructure we tend to associate with the term "well organized".

This reminds me of the "Heretical Fishing" series by Haylock Jobson. It is a cultivation story about the magical effects of fishing.

Those are great points. The equation is more complicated though. Agents can work 7x24x365, never needing vacations or time off. Never getting sick. You can scale up or scale down instantaneously without having to fire anyone or hire recruiters or temp agencies. They never sue you for sexual harassment. They never complain. You don't need office space for them, or parking, or coffee. You don't have to take mamby-pamby management classes to learn how to boost you DEI or "EQ". These things are a real capitalist wet dream. Especially when there are interchangeable vendors with no clear differentiators. Even more so if you don't care about "customers" either. If you sell to the government or other businesses or even just to other divisions in your own company, the customer is irrelevant. Only the bottom line matters.