I design real work for teens with real companies. Journalist with words in @livemint, @the_hindu. Built the Bangalore Schools community (88k+). DMs open.
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Joined February 2010
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“You could whisper down a well. You could write a letter and keep it in a drawer. You could inscribe a curse on a ribbon of lead and bury it in the ground to lie unread for thousands of years. The point is not to find a reader, the point is the telling itself.” - Anne Carson
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Nota bene: Central to Amodei's vision for how AI will "cure" mental illness is genetic screening, meaning he expects human reproduction via sex to be largely replaced by mass embryo production and mass screening in labs on this same timeline:
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After spending a year publicly telling the world that AI is:
* Going to take away everyone's jobs
* Hack everything
* Probably kill us all
AI executives are shocked that there may be calls for regulation.
Crazy right?
Seriously, if there's an upside to what they are doing they have done a shit job of selling it to the public.
Maybe they should have cured a few diseases or something before they unleashed AI cyber hacking on the world and AI math slop? Ya think?
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This really resonates with me
I have zero desire to have agents triage my email, go shopping for me, analyze my kid’s homework or whatever
I’m not mad, these are just not problems I have that need solving. And lmao that most of this crap comes from grifters 😂
I wouldn’t be surprised if 95%+ of devs spending $10K+ per month on AI, globally, were based in the Bay Area
Nearly everyone I talk here (devs, founders, CTOs etc) are AI-pilled in ways I rarely see outside. AI-pilled as in obsessed building more with agents, running agents when they sleep, designing loops to auto kick-off, running them during their commute. And talking with each other how and what they do and then taking those ideas and trying it
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I wouldn’t be surprised if 95%+ of devs spending $10K+ per month on AI, globally, were based in the Bay Area
Nearly everyone I talk here (devs, founders, CTOs etc) are AI-pilled in ways I rarely see outside. AI-pilled as in obsessed building more with agents, running agents when they sleep, designing loops to auto kick-off, running them during their commute. And talking with each other how and what they do and then taking those ideas and trying it
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The election is a rejection of Silicon Valley's worldview, of tech oligarchy, of AI-powered inequality and replacement of human labor, of Musk, of kleptocracy
It's a rejection of the culture war, the scam economy, AI, the surveillance state. All of it
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Wish I can join Canva just to get fired by them.
🚨 Canva is firing people and giving them at least six months' pay, their MacBooks, a year of LinkedIn Premium and a $10,000 grant to start something of their own.
People are calling it a masterclass in how to do layoffs. Maybe it is. But I read Melanie Perkins' memo, and the word "AI" isn't in it.
1,271 people are affected, 22% of the company.
Not all of them are leaving. Some are getting new roles or being asked to move to hubs like Sydney.
The memo puts it down to growth slowing for the first time in a decade and "new technology."
Her August letter to shareholders was more specific. It said the average cost of serving an AI task was too high and Canva was "relying too heavily on frontier models," so it slowed the rollout to fix the costs and cut this year's growth forecast from 30% to 20%.
Early backers Blackbird and Airtree marked Canva down from $42 billion to $34.9 billion.
Canva ended 2025 with about 265 million monthly users. Roughly 31 million pay. By July, monthly users were down to about 208 million.
That's a lot of free accounts to run expensive AI for, and ChatGPT and Gemini will now make the poster or the slide deck people used to open Canva for.
In 2023 Canva said it had "no plans to do any lay-offs." In 2025 it cut 10 of its 12 technical writers.
It's been cash-flow positive for nine years, but leaked numbers show revenue barely moved this year.
This is what it looks like when AI squeezes a company rich enough to hand out MacBooks and $10,000 grants.
Most software companies feeling that squeeze aren't.
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Spoke to a fellow writer yesterday and the discussion gave me more clarity than the kind of vague brainstorming that AI does. I miss the days when I wasn’t a freelancer and I could thrash an idea out with others.
Maybe one should build a community for independent writers and creators who can use the piercing clarity that a newsroom offers.
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Every tech bro rn
🤖 Made with AI
People should always be in control of the future.
OpenAI is against the notion that it would be acceptable for people to be relegated to a role of doing things that “AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans”.
People should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress.
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Google also forces websites at large to opt in to AI training if the website still wants to appear in Google search results.
Google abuses it's monopoly position at every chance it gets.
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Google is using its search monopoly to coerce schools into adopting AI. This highlights the danger of allowing an unregulated monopolist to control an essential service.
Multiple courts have found Google liable for violating antitrust laws, and this latest move shows it remains unchastened.
As the public increasingly pushes back against the use of AI in schools, Google is making clear it will punish those who don’t fall in line.
Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that opt out of A.I. for kids.
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The fact people are mad on Cartoon Saloon for simply protecting their copyright against unauthorized use by an AI creator…. what is this 😵💫😵💫
I’m actually someone with a sense of right mind and happy to see them do this
Need more companies to act like this
