Notices by Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life@mas.to), page 10

Wonder if all the people who blamed the shooting on rhetoric from the left will now criticize the rhetoric from the far right that claimed conservatives were not extreme enough?

Crazy when purity tests are about how much you hate immigrants.

Tesla’s board is going on a press tour to convince shareholders to vote to give Elon Musk a trillion dollar paycheck.

I don’t think a more compromised board has existed in the entirety of history.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/business/tesla-elon-musk-pay-robyn-denholm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU8.n_HN.R7KxrvtS2ndy&smid=url-share

“There’s 1,400 employees at Opendoor. I don’t know what most of them do. We don’t need more than 200 of them” - Keith Rabois, new chairman of Opendoor

Imagine hearing that your employer has a new board chairman and this is what he says in the ir first interview on CNBC. Tech companies are really at war with employees these days.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/opendoors-keith-rabois-company-needs-to-cut-85percent-of-its-workforce.html

The defining characteristic of the Trump era is the idea that grotesque levels of racism is OK if you just say it earnestly enough and don’t use any slurs.

This country is going to spend more energy debating the redesign of the logo for a chain restaurant that looks like your grandma’s attic then on why we refuse to keep children safe from weapons of war.

Marvel Studios leaving Georgia and taking all its productions to the UK because they don’t have to pay for employees’ health insurance there due to universal healthcare is a valuable lesson for America.

We’ll ignore it but the lesson still stands. Universal healthcare creates jobs.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2025/08/26/is-marvel-leaving-georgia/85829404007/#

Sam Altman complaining that too many users on X and Reddit sound like ChatGPT powered bots is like the Joker poisoning the water supply then complaining the water tastes funny.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/sam-altman-says-that-bots-are-making-social-media-feel-fake/?utm_campaign=social&utm_source=threads&utm_medium=organic

My entire life the pattern has been

1. Republican president ruins economy.
2. We elect Dems to fix it.
3. Republicans obstruct pace of progress and people get frustrated with Dems.
4. We elect a Republican president
5. Go back to step 1.

OpenAI published a paper showing that LLMs hallucinate for two primary reasons: first, due to statistical errors during training, and second, because LLM evaluations reward confident, even if incorrect, guesses but penalize “I don’t know”. So LLMs are trained to always guess when they aren’t sure.

The paper proposes that to fix this, we must modify LLM evaluations to properly reward models that acknowledge when they don't know the answer.

https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate/

The percentage of Americans that believe immigration is a net benefit to America reached its highest point this century, 79%, in Gallup’s most recent poll.

These reverses a downward trend starting in 2021.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigration-abated.aspx

Kinda wild to say “Vimeo is a family” and announce 10% layoffs in the same post.

The culture of working in tech these days is being constantly worried about being overworked or unemployed.

Take care of yourselves. We are replaceable cogs to our employers but irreplaceable to our family and friends.

The Economist argues that a lack of robots is in major European cities will be a wake up call that they’ve fallen behind the rest of the world.

Ignoring that this is a strange take — if limited mass transit, no universal healthcare and widespread gun violence hasn’t convinced Americans they’ve fallen behind, why would lack of Waymos make Europeans feel similarly?

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/09/04/robotaxis-will-be-the-sputnik-moment-for-a-declining-europe?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=68ba77b55102e60001abec1a&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Over on Twitter/X, the DoJ posted an Apple Notes app screenshot apology (30% battery) for getting tricked by a fake Tinder account from James O’Keefe into admitting they planned on covering up the Epstein list.

Someone called it late-stage Idiocracy.

No price is too high to pay to own the libs.

That we would end up with Trump setting himself up as a dictator for life with the blessing of conservatives was clear as far back as 2021.

The Internet of Things ended up being the internet of unsupported products.

Google is ending support for 1st & 2nd generation Nests and completely pulling out of Europe.

Imagine having to replace the thermostats in your home because a reorg at some big tech meant it was no longer a priority.

https://www.theverge.com/news/656332/google-ending-support-nest-thermostats

Crazy for the world to be mourning that you’re still alive.

I can’t wait until we try to replace doctors with AI.

Taco Bell is reconsidering its use of AI in drive thrus after a series of comical mishaps including a person crashing the system after preferring 18,000 waters.

This is an example of how hype has outrun capability when it comes to AI. Sure, AI can make workers more productive in certain scenarios. But unsupervised AI as a replacement for human workers is a huge gamble given the current state of the technology.