Notices by Jessica Lam 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🎨 (kangaroo5383@mastodon.social)

“They are going door to door… even citizens”

https://youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU?si=JjSO3fA6u6KPHZ8W

Merry Christmas

TIL that apparently A Wonderful Life was (is?) considered anti-capitalist and un-American 🤔 because it was critical of “the rich”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/weird-story-fbi-and-its-wonderful-life-180967587/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=12222025&utm_content=instagram-bio&fbclid=PAVERFWAO27kxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAacFeLRzYryBGC4FgW4vf8GctELNhI4IJXUjaQblhRJTQzT6rmnLijKDjwcwHw_aem_-yS6nACH3FnUgxcYc7U37g

🤪 accurate

I don’t think I’m overreacting, nor do I want to be fearmongering, but I sure hope I’m not under-reacting…

“Trump said. The money would go to pay the armed forces while the government is closed. “Today, he sent us a check for $130 million.””

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/10/trump-donor-funded-military/684713/

Ah AI, automating incompetence en mass. Well done.

“Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers”

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_various&utm_campaign=specialrec_Active&deliveryName=NL_HBRRecommends_20250925

Looking at the lolz Meta hiring trend…

Y’all know that they often fire ppl right before the first year cliff right? And that the comp packages are almost all stock? I’m so curious to see who make it past 1st year 🙄

Alsooo the only AI companies making money from AI are the AI services companies selling the service to companies…uhh bag holders

just sayin’ 😗

A surprisingly helpful book

https://open.spotify.com/show/5fCc0rJz6FYuMAncc5o1tM?si=LDNSXWpSS56HxEoNGkKhvA

And I’m not just talking about startup / tech bro bs. It shows up in art markets too. Contemporary art markets in the west primarily are interested in what is generally considered low skills-high marketing pieces. Whereas realism is and continues to be highly developed in eastern markets. Again here - the actual skills for rendering realistically is mocked in much of the west as “copying reality” - which is not actually true if you have developed eyeballs 😅

As someone interested in both eastern and western cultures, there’s an interesting trend around the perception of “skill” I noticed recently(?)

In western markets, the emphasis seems to be around “confidence building” and personal brand / perception crafting as primary. In asian markets, the emphasis is on education and whether you can show you actually know the information. Ironically, education is actually mocked in many primarily American circles. (See glorification of college dropouts)

// end random topic that piqued my interest, also possible annoyed at random celebrity paint splashes, also annoyed at ppl confidently spewing dumb bs, also annoyed at ppl who ignore reality etc etc

Why does this matter? I think it comes down to fundamentals. When you do long term investments, you look at “fundamentals”, because at the end of the day, those are the real value creation mechanisms when all the fluff of market hype is corrected for.

Marketing and perception can drive a lot of capital movement (ahem sv) but once ppl wise up to the created myths, all you have left are balance sheets real math. A great example is tsla crashes and hype as well as openAI sucking (vs DeepSeek)

Also maybe this my long winded way of saying geeze i wonder when the US capital market gonna collapse but I guess that’s why all the tech ceo and vc’s are begging the President of Corruption to use policies to save them from actually having to compete on fundamentals..

* points to more affordable and way more advanced BYD as banned from sale in the US *

“Yay free market capitalism except when I’m losing then it’s policy rigged nationalistic monopolies aka socialism for billionaires “ 😜

The worst of “dumb America things”

- put AI in front of everything
- no medical training but think they are smarter than doctors
- conspiracy level alternative medicine
- injecting ppl randomly with bleach
- exorbitant fraud level $$$ “medical” treatment $$$

My bet is Brain Dead Kennedy will have FDA approve this

https://apple.news/ABu1enw0fTDq4piGwGXWdWg

What kind of parents tell their kids they should be thankful they took them to the hospital when they are sick and that you now owe them your life…

🤷♀️

@greenhombre @randahl is it tho? Seems like late stage cancer 😥

#independenceday

Billionaire bro-liarch openly offering to buy a winner to be their pawn.

“Importantly, there are hundreds of million of dollars of capital available to back a competitor to Mamdani that can be put together overnight (believe me, I am in the text strings and the WhatsApp groups) so that a great alternative candidate won’t spend any time raising funds. So, if the right candidate would raise his or her hand tomorrow, the funds will pour in,” he added.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna215821

🥲✨

https://apple.news/Ag5Z-wicDScqHdMFuEX0SCQ

@WarnerCrocker o wow what the actual f

Proud of you, LA

But also wtf.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/immigration-raids-los-angeles