In 1981, PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) went on strike, demanding better working conditions and pay.
President Reagan responded by firing 11,345 striking controllers.
I don't think there's a labor shortage.
I'm currently looking for a job in Hong Kong - literally any job I can get over there.
I saw a listing for a job sorting rocks but I wasn't qualified because...
It required a degree in sorting rocks.
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Michael Leung retweeted
Just talk to me here in the thread. I already have another anon wanting to help me. Here's the idea, I fork my project mindapp.cc so it's more chat oriented. I keep a Twitter Space open while I work on it so ppl know I'm legit. That's the idea. What should I do next?
Michael Leung retweeted
I'm not messaging anyone I haven't met IRL. Everything will be transparent. CT is filled with scammers. Nothing on you personally.
CT is seriously lacking honest people. I just witnessed a team with a working project rug the coin for maybe $20k. Sadly, I should've saw it coming.
I think I'm ready to make a product-backed coin. I want everything to be transparent because it's so easy to get scammed in crypto. Here's what I'll do, while I'm coding, I'll keep a Twitter Space open so people can talk to me about what I'm building.
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Michael Leung retweeted
It's projected to take the City of Boston 20 years to build a single train station.
So here's a thread on how long it took to build other things.
It took six years to build the Transcontinental Railroad from Omaha to Sacramento, including hundreds of stations along the way.
Michael Leung retweeted
I did food delivery for 4 days and I learned that there’s a black market for the use of other people’s accounts. If you’re someone who can’t make an account (e.g. you don’t have an SSN), you could pay someone who does have an account, deliver on their behalf, and split the profit
Michael Leung retweeted
Here’s an idea. What the trenches lack right now are devs you can trust. Portnoy and a few others stay true to their word and I appreciate that. Since I’m basically a nobody in the crypto space, what can I do to build up a reputation as that guy that makes successful meme coins?
Incredible.
A senior tech recruiter from Amazon emailed me asking if I'd like to work there.
I said let's get on a call.
He asks me when I'm available.
I let him know.
Haven't heard from Darius since.
Good luck to anyone looking for a job!
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Michael Leung retweeted
I resigned from xAI tonight.
It makes me very sad, but was the right thing to do -- and here's why.
xAI told me I either had to delete the post quoted below, or face being fired.
After reviewing everything and thinking a lot, I've decided that I'm not going to delete the post -- which is very clearly a harmless personal opinion.
Why did they tell me to remove this opinion? Well, according to them, the reason is that I acknowledged that Grok 3... exists.
I wish I was joking. I'm not. That's the reason -- the fact that I wrote "Grok 3 (TBD)" is grounds for being fired.
But wait, hasn't Grok 3 been officially acknowledged by xAI? Yes. Yes it has.
I'll post below the official xAI blog post talking about Grok 3, along with many public Elon posts and video where it is repeatedly acknowledged.
To be clear, the post they wanted me to remove is 100% just my personal opinion. I do not know where Grok 3 will stack up against other SOTA models. Hopefully it does well, I don't know. That's why it says "opinion" and "to be determined."
It will probably be pretty good at some things and imperfect at others. I didn't think this was a particularly wild opinion.
Again, their official demand said that even writing "Grok 3 - TBD" is somehow "confidential information." This is absolutely absurd, since it's repeatedly been acknowledged by the company and its famous CEO.
Are they mad that my clearly-labeled opinion didn't guess that the still-unreleased Grok 3 will be higher? Maybe. Probably. Again, maybe it is at the top, I genuinely don't know. That's why it says "to be determined."
The specific feature of Grok I spent the majority of my time working on with a really hard-working team is very cool and I hope it works extremely well for everyone. I won't say what it is because that would be **actual** confidential information. (Maybe after it comes out.)
I still hope Elon and xAI win. Yet......
It's very disappointing to me that a company and leaders who supposedly champion free speech and openness would try to fire a low-level employee over a clearly-labeled opinion that contains absolutely nothing controversial, but here we are.
The entire situation has been very strange. I thought about just deleting the damn thing.... But you know, once you start caving and giving up holding mild personal opinions, the slope becomes very slippery.
I'll keep my speech and dignity and get another job, or build one. Catch ya on the flip side.
