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Last Notes npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Anthropic AI researcher, Julian Schrittwieser, responds to Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang signing a letter supporting Chinese open weight AI models. 😬 https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/982/886/654/107/470/original/bc88ae8b0bd44405.jpeg https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/982/886/950/260/019/original/d3168958523ae3dc.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo This is an unsurprising take for a policy wonk. Admitting that policy decisions like making it harder to get healthcare, going to war, making it easier to access guns or cutting support for lifesaving food & drugs directly kills people would essentially declare government bureaucrats murderers. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/981/132/537/400/799/original/346d9f5c6a347518.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo BREAKING: SpaceX Set to Wipe Out $1 Trillion in Value as Shares Slide Below IPO Price https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/935/823/310/115/662/original/5c00205427108642.mp4 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Whiny guys whose entire personality is “no one wants to hook up with me because of my shitty views” is such an embarrassing modern phenomenon. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/927/735/517/646/883/original/15fd76a69b7421f9.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo As AI companies have switched businesses to token based pricing in recent months, it’s now common to hear reports of companies questioning the ROI of AI tool usage and scaling back employee adoption. To pay for the data center investments will require even higher pricing and more business adoption but the value may not be there. https://blog.dshr.org/2026/06/ais-affordability-crisis.html?m=1 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo It’s been an interesting year where people have been arguing with me that AI productivity gains don’t exist and now every week some new big tech company says we’re letting go of 10%-20% of our employees due to AI. It’s hard to write about AI productivity without it feeling grim. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Uber has already exceeded its annual budget for AI tools due to internal usage of tools like Claude Code. We’re in a honeymoon period when it comes to AI agents which will end as companies figure out where it adds value and doesn’t. At that point, I expect a lot of the wastefulness around how Claude Code uses tokens to be fixed either by Anthropic or Open Source alternatives. https://aimmediahouse.com/ai-manufacturing/uber-let-ai-write-the-code-it-blew-the-budget npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo My boss vibe coded this over the weekend and now it’s my problem is going to be its own genre of developer complaints in the coming years. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/008/780/430/338/609/original/71f1172c7347c0e3.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo This week Microsoft stock tanked -12% on revelations that 45% of its Azure customer backlog is OpenAI. Oracle is now struggling to get loans to pay for its data center buildout to meet its $300M deal with OpenAI. They may need layoffs to come up with the money. The underlying theme being bankers don’t believe OpenAI will have the money to pay these bills and it’s pulling down companies doing business with it. https://www.cio.com/article/4125103/oracle-may-slash-up-to-30000-jobs-to-fund-ai-data-center-expansion-as-us-banks-retreat.html npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Admitting that your vote for Trump was a weapon aimed at LGBTQ people but the only problem is that it’s now pointed towards you and your people is a sad & predictable outcome. This is the story of a lot of immigrant Trump voters in 2024. https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a-cloud-of-fear-hangs-over-minnesota-immigrant-communities/ https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/935/003/706/876/139/original/bea16970b3080208.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Matt Damon talks about how Netflix designs movies around distracted couch watching. Front-load the big action scene in the first 5 minutes to keep people from bouncing versus the end in a theatrical release and repeat the plot 3–4 times in dialogue because people are on their phones while watching. https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netflix-movies-restate-plot-viewers-on-phones-1236633939/ npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo This poll is basically “Should we be the villains of World War 3?” and it’s good to know 30% of Republicans are like “why not?” https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/917/197/207/516/978/original/89dfb73e30782e52.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo There’s no way party that has masked government agents in major cities rounding up anyone who looks Latino or African and throwing them in prison camps while shooting people who get in their way can win free and fair elections. Malfeasance is their only option. We should expect all sorts of shenanigans. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/914/500/151/047/768/original/a20d56aa34c26dc1.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo “Answer independence: Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. Answers are optimized based on what's most helpful to you. Ads are always separate and clearly labeled.” - OpenAI Ads Principles In practice: https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/908/404/146/460/337/original/91cb36a37c76770b.mp4 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The Overton window has fully shifted to “do you deserve to get shot in the face by government agents if you don’t get out of your car when asked?” We are so lost if this is what the paper of record considers a valid discussion. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/905/822/205/477/122/original/7415db26fe749f04.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Wikipedia turns 25 today and announced that the major AI companies now pay for enterprise access to Wikipedia data. It’s an interesting shift that if you contribute to GitHub or Wikipedia, it’s less that you’re contributing to the fountain of human knowledge and more that you’re training AI for free. https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikipedia-microsoft-meta-perplexity-ai-training-wikimedia-foundation npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Saw a Fox News clip and then this post that implies that the official MAGA position is that government agents can kill you if you annoy them while in the middle of trying to deport suspected undocumented immigrants (who are most likely U.S. citizens anyway). These are the demons our parents warned us about. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/893/679/240/495/411/original/db1e0d672ae55002.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo When people say “stop making things political”, they mean you should stop making them feel uncomfortable that the system that oppresses you benefits them. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Problem solving, the ICE way. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/862/635/740/051/935/original/92351f1e61dbb533.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Import your medical records into ChatGPT. What could possibly go wrong? https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/chatgpt-health-tab-apple-fitness-apps npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo There’s a saying that the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. I see plenty of developers insisting AI coding tools are overhyped and error-prone. But I’m also starting to see the opposite, people who’ve fully embraced them and now find they’re so good it’s triggering a real crisis of confidence. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/853/867/917/695/585/original/84c7f6fc693bee82.jpeg https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/853/868/214/185/821/original/4eed2043353f5d31.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo There’s a California ballot initiative that will levy a one-time tax of 5% of a billionaires who lived in the state as of January 1st 2026, if it passes. Larry Page, the second richest man in the world has moved out of California to avoid the tax. https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-leave-california-wealth-billionaire-tax-koop-google-2026-1 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Last year I told a friend that the best case scenario for Trump 2.0 is we turn into Putin’s Russia and worst case Germany in the 1930s-1940s. My friend thought that was overly pessimistic. Almost a year later, less so. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/848/768/308/952/699/original/576ec0ec02b013f7.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Casey Newton followed up on the viral “Desperation Score” food delivery hoax. He got in touch with the original Reddit poster who shared an Uber Eats ID and an 18-page document about the alleged internal workings at Uber Eats. Both turned out to be AI generated. This is trolling in the age of LLMs. https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/?media_id=3803745319989638545_63247015229&media_author_id=63247015229&ranking_info_token=GCA2N2YyZWFmYjBmOWM0OGM0OWU5ZTU1Y2YxNjU0NGJhOCX+m9YDJo6c45UNGBMzODAzNzQ1MzE5OTg5NjM4NTQ1KAN2bGwA&utm_source=ig_text_post_permalink npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo As if there weren’t already enough ethical considerations to using ChatGPT. 🤦🏾♂️ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump-230342268.html https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/843/070/258/570/830/original/b382ad28cf263aff.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Stephen Miller’s wife promising the U.S. will keep invading countries until the Epstein Files are a distant memory. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/840/473/448/778/624/original/41042f12bcbcbb7f.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The American government is finally going to run a free healthcare program. Unfortunately it’s in Venezuela not the United States. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/833/999/032/981/807/original/43678970b5e80d5f.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Jaana was a distinguished engineer at GitHub and is now a principal engineer at Google. I expect to see more testimonials from accomplished software engineers in 2026 about how AI agents are making them more productive. Engineers posting about how AI tools don’t work will increasingly look like a skill issue than a problem with AI tools. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/832/534/125/335/842/original/e482f86c49cd4f45.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo R.I.P. CBS News 1927 - 2025 https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/829/417/102/650/247/original/d5f46cf21865b86b.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo $TSLA fan believes the only reason Tesla sales are falling is because consumers don’t do product research and have been brainwashed by anti-Elon propaganda. Ok. 🙃 https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/828/626/074/550/224/original/693da1df87c593f2.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Hard to be mad that a mayor’s wife has $600 boots she paid for when the president is a crypto billionaire who got a $400M plane as a “gift” that he didn’t pay for. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo In an alternate reality I just took a Tesla robotaxi to the spaceport for my annual trip to Mars. In this reality, we are watching performance art of how the world’s richest man is also its biggest grifter https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/826/475/389/847/240/original/de3ca085f6c93b2d.jpeg https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/826/476/070/806/939/original/113bff12c3ffee30.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Zohran Mamdani creating task forces to fast track building more housing is 🤌 😚. I see his candidacy as the anti-Trump. With Trump we’ve seen a model of leadership that is completely self centered, corrupt and incompetent. With Mamdani we get to see inclusive, progressive and competent leadership https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/825/722/572/964/186/original/3e094b8118354dd7.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Happy New Year. May everything fall into place for you in 2026. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/817/878/018/917/194/original/c989522f47e5b489.mp4 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The remote controlled robot version of shooting yourself in the foot. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/799/214/032/258/250/original/3c823f1b5a1921f0.mp4 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo “If you close your eyes and you don’t look at the code and you have AIs build things with shaky foundations as you add another floor, and another floor, and another floor, and another floor, things start to kind of crumble,” he said.” - Michael Truell, CEO of Cursor — Nothing controversial here. If you have AI write a bunch of code that you don’t understand then you’ll eventually have a bad time. https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/cursor-ceo-michael-truell-vibe-coding-warning-generative-ai-assistant/ npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Results from survey of 1,750 tech workers who use AI tools • 55% say AI has exceeded their expectations, and almost 70% say it’s improved the quality of their work. • Over half said AI is saving them at least half a day per week • PMs see the most value from using AI to write PRDs (21.5%), create mockups/prototypes (19.8%), and improve their communication across emails and presentations (18.5%). • A massive 92.4% report at least one significant downside to using AI. https://substack.com/home/post/p-182300823 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Quite the coincidence that the QAnon movement died just in time to miss this moment. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I’m shocked at how high the approval numbers were in February and still are in December. 3 out of 10 approving of the job he’s done this year is wild. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/765/859/816/006/792/original/db31344365d0b5ff.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I’ve argued that calling out games for using generative AI is a losing battle because this is just how software is built now. Expedition 33 lost its Game of the Year and Debut Game awards from the Indie Game Awards. If they built an award winning game using Gen AI, one could ask why we should want worse Gen AI-free games instead? https://www.theverge.com/news/849144/indie-game-awards-game-of-the-year-expedition-33-generative-ai-chantey-modretro?utm_content=buffer2a7fb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bsky.app&utm_campaign=verge_social npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Thanks to new rules that require reviewing social media of visa applicants creating month long backlogs for renewals, Apple & Google has warned employees not to leave the U.S. as they may be unable to return. This now creates a risk of overstaying visas and becoming a target for an ICE raid. This is an active war on legal immigration. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-tells-visa-holders-stamp-leave-us-return-delays-2025-12 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that the police don’t need a search warrant to request your Google search records because “it is common knowledge that websites, internet-based applications, and internet service providers collect, and then sell, user data.” 🤦🏾♂️ https://therecord.media/google-searches-police-access-without-warrant-pennsylvania-court-ruling npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The Trump administration gutting so much fundamental research is going to set the U.S. back so much in ways that will shock historians in the future. The current deliberate tanking of the economy will seem mild in comparison. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I was at a recent work event where multiple people noted that predictions I’d made about certain trends had come to pass. They were essentially “elephant in the room” topics that were unpopular to discuss. I feel similarly about my posts here. There’s visible discomfort when I write about AI. I was about to write about how China is increasingly surpassing the U.S. technologically and our only leading edge is AI which is mostly led by Chinese researchers. But it seems a similarly fraught topic npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Tesla's robotaxis crash at 10x the rate of human drivers. Last month, Tesla confirmed the fleet had traveled roughly 250,000 miles. With 7 reported crashes at the time, Tesla’s Robotaxi was crashing roughly once every 40,000 miles (extrapolating from the previously disclosed Robotaxi mileage). For comparison, the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles. https://electrek.co/2025/12/15/tesla-reports-another-robotaxi-crash-even-with-supervisor/ npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I can’t believe someone who won the FIFA Peace Prize would act like this. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The AI boom is now sucking the oxygen out of multiple sectors. It’s inflating memory costs and Micron has even ceased consumer sales to focus exclusively on data centers Another side effect of the AI boom is that municipal construction projects are now getting delayed as building AI data centers has taken up most of the capacity of construction companies. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-12/ai-data-center-boom-may-suck-resources-away-from-road-bridge-work?embedded-checkout=true npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I’ve never seen anyone who complains about government spending on healthcare or student loan forgiveness bring that same energy to military spending. The Pentagon has failed 7 audits in a row accounting for $4T in assets. Yet the department of war’s budget keeps going up. https://econofact.org/factbrief/has-the-pentagon-failed-its-7th-audit-in-a-row npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I’ve always thought artists were fighting a losing battle against Generative AI but it’s still startling to see Disney fold completely. Signing a deal to use OpenAI tools in their work and licensing characters to be used in fan-made videos in Sora is a full-on embrace of generative AI. They folded. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo This is a great analysis of why conservatives feel persecuted for others simply existing or being acknowledged. It’s fear their identity and choices will stop being mainstream or normal. That’s why they get upset at Happy Holidays (acknowledging other religious celebrations exist) versus Merry Christmas. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/701/544/055/102/514/original/69963a1359fe0a2f.mp4 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Google Slides "Beautify This Slide" feature https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/698/131/865/924/245/original/4d546a21c401ed93.mp4 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The Ellison family has promised Trump that if they get to purchase Warner Bros then they will revamp CNN to make it more friendly to his administration. It remains to be seen if Netflix can match that offer. https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramount-netflix-warner-bros-battle-ellisons-a86fe15c?st=6zkB6m&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&media_id=3783530900685204441_63085548079&media_author_id=63085548079&ranking_info_token=GCAwOGRlNDVkMmY5ZDk0YTVlYTVkNjJkMjc4MTcyZmYxOCXG9vkCJtzvvJMNGBMzNzgzNTMwOTAwNjg1MjA0NDQxKANzbmIA&utm_source=ig_text_feed_timeline https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/687/629/800/429/753/original/6decfa0595f6277a.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically and there are 40% more women enrolled in institutions of higher learning than men. If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/12/04/trump-dei-ban-college-men/ npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Even if Michael Burry is right that there’s an AI bubble, it feels like the wrong near term bet to short Nvidia. During a gold rush, it’s obvious that not every prospector will get rich but it would also be unwise to bet the company selling picks & shovels would fail first. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Donald Trump’s birthday will now be a free entry day at national parks while Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth will no longer be. Day 321 of racism and personal aggrandizement as government policy. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7l4n89lr1o npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo When you ask Fortune 500 CEOs if they will share metrics on the benefits of RTO or AI adoption. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/666/772/362/118/719/original/ea2a4588f1af97a3.mp4 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo On one hand we’re supposed to believe DEI is bad and a form of reverse racism. On the other, the president of the United States and the richest man in the world regularly go on racist tirades about how there are too many black & brown people in America and white women need to be having more babies. https://www.theverge.com/news/837423/elon-musk-x-racist-posts-minnesota npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria. This is so gross. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/02/hernandez-trump-pardon-prison-honduras/ npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo While I’ve seen a number of reports emphasizing record spending on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there’s an interesting detail. Salesforce reports their data shows prices are up 7% year over year while orders are down 1%. So the record spending is due to inflation not increased buying. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/29/black-friday-sets-online-spending-record-of-11-8b-adobe-says/ npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Costco is suing the U.S. government and wants a full refund on all the tariffs it has paid, arguing that they’re illegal. I’m curious to see if this is where the Supreme Court finds their spine or if they decide King Trump can create arbitrary taxes whenever he has a bad day. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/costco-sues-trump-tariff-refunds-rcna246860 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo A trap I see product teams fall into is confusing activity with progress. Progress is having a goal and hitting milestones towards that goal. Reducing app startup time by 5 seconds, growing active users to 50K or making $500 in sales are all goals you can make progress towards. Activity is work that feels like it gets you towards that goal but actually doesn’t. How much code written or PRDs produced are examples of activity that people confuse with progress. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Imagine working a 36 hour shift to deliver a chatbot that says Elon Musk is fitter than LeBron and can swim better than Michael Phelps then jumping online to brag about it. Batman couldn’t beat this out of me. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/641/283/313/789/825/original/a8ec6af5589c3a4a.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo This tells a story of a 26 year old PwC consultant who worked on building AI agents to reduce staffing by 30% needed for client projects, only to get laid off himself due to AI efficiencies. I think this is where reality meets the hype. AI fully replacing people is a pipe dream but reducing a team of 10 down to 7 who now additionally have to review LLM outputs is happening everywhere. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-replacing-entry-level-jobs-gen-z-careers.html npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I’d love tech CEOs to stick to a lane. Either AI makes workers so much more productive that they need to do layoffs or there’s so much work to and so few people to do it that everyone needs to work nights and weekends. Now it just comes across that layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story. https://www.itpro.com/business/business-strategy/infosys-narayana-murthy-996-72-hour-week https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/629/358/807/416/695/original/791b61c6cbcb7b2f.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Atul Gawande. People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death. https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/ npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work? https://www.businessinsider.com/executives-adopting-ai-higher-rates-than-workers-research-2025-10 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo agree with Tim Sweeney that having a “Made with AI” label on games will be superfluous over time. Every aspect of building software will use AI and having such a label is equivalent to having a “Made with a computer” label. If a game doesn’t have it, then it’s more likely it’s a lie than no aspect of its production involved AI. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-sweeney-says-platforms-should-stop-tagging-games-made-with-ai npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The myth that a bunch of young hackers can solve any problem was debunked by DOGE. But the larger moral stain is that this was a heist. Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/622/663/715/778/063/original/123423b95bc980ad.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo 2025 in a nutshell https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/619/737/420/223/577/original/faa30ddea8ec74e3.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo AI has transformed tech interviews into a game of cat and mouse. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/619/561/412/680/966/original/d765424a71a2cd6b.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Generative AI is a Dunning-Kruger accelerator, it enables people who know next to nothing about a subject believe they are more capable than experts. We are going to see some remarkable failures stemming from this phenomenon. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/618/473/893/591/381/original/bae61a0f60190a5f.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Apple sitting out the AI race and simply getting Gemini for free, from Google, who’s now the clear front runner is a generational CEO chess move. Contrast this with Elon Musk getting a trillion dollars for destroying Tesla’s brand. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo All DOGE achieved was firing a bunch of critical government employees (many who were rehired), gave private government data to external entities and condemned hundreds of thousands of poor people in developing countries to death by destroying USAID. I don’t say this lightly but a lot of people should be in jail and would be if there was justice in this world. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-on-its-charter.html npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I think Claude Code has achieved AGI https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/595/396/820/385/587/original/fe97303d3d47fc25.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Grand opening, grand closing. X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/595/385/217/842/142/original/fddeaf7ff714cb22.jpeg https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/595/385/555/575/748/original/ab01ae2a1f8a3d40.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo This week Google’s stock price hit an all time high and its market cap passed Microsoft. All thanks to the release of Gemini 3. The sleeping giant is now awake. Gemini 3 beat the latest ChatGPT and Anthropic systems on most expert, logic, math, and vision tests, trailing only Claude Sonnet 4.5 on a coding benchmark. I’d already started using the Gemini app more after the disappointment that was ChatGPT 5 but now it’s my daily driver. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-gemini-3-ai-behind-scenes-e1787729?st=fERVsx npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo 4,700 of the 14,000 people laid off by Amazon were in WARN states which allows us to get a more detailed breakdown of the eliminated roles. 500 of the 4700 were PMs while 1,800 were engineers - the largest discipline impacted. SDE II roles were most cut, contradicting the narrative this was about eliminating management layers. This continues the trend of big tech eliminating junior roles due to “AI efficiency gains.” https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-filings-show.html npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I’m confused, I thought the other countries paid the tariffs? 🤷🏾♂️ https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/585/435/766/057/156/original/6e283c0cda9ef8c8.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Elon Musk’s anti-woke version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, cites neo-Nazi forums in multiple places as source. A great validation of the notion that when people say they’re anti-woke, they just mean they’re hyper racist. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-grokipedia-wikipedia-neo-nazi-grok-42-encyclopedia-rcna244749 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Nothing but bangers from The NY Times Pitchbot this morning. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/544/101/123/638/668/original/0538a8f8247bb6a9.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo While mainstream coverage of AI productivity gains has been focused on layoffs at Fortune 500 companies, I've seen VCs increasingly talk about how small teams are getting to millions in revenue faster than they've ever seen due to adopting AI. Y-Combinator made similar claims to the below in May. Fundamentally AI productivity gains are real and many companies need fewer people than they did a few years ago to get the same output. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/542/154/280/701/998/original/698c5183d5291389.png npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo So our entire economic well being hinges on a company with $20B in revenues spending $1.4T on AI infrastructure when there isn’t enough electricity generated on the planet to power that many data centers? https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/536/926/457/375/169/original/e0bab59f2c91d4d4.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo ┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ celebrate Kim Davis having to pay $360K to the gay couple she denied a marriage license ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔ npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo If your religion says you can’t do something then don’t do it. Don’t get the law to force other people to conform to your religion. Muslims can’t drink alcohol but I’ve never heard of a Muslim going to the Supreme Court to get neighborhood bars shut down. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Me liking every post about the Supreme Court rejecting Kim Davis’ bigoted attempt to overturn marriage equality. She now has to pay $360,000 in damages and legal fees. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/528/016/782/741/606/original/263f97905deb3854.png npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo What it’s like living in Chicago during ICE’s Operation Midway Blitz. https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/525/345/215/316/070/original/d1f849246adfeb23.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo There isn’t much evidence that layoffs are being caused by AI taking people’s jobs. For big tech, such as Amazon’s recent layoffs of 14,000 workers, the reason seems to be a combination of cutting headcount to balance increased spending on AI infrastructure and anticipation of (not realized) AI productivity gains. https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo A 30-year mortgage means you’ll own the house by the time you retire. A 50-year mortgage means you’ll die still owing the bank money. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo A year after this was published, the U.S. saw the largest number of layoffs since 2003. This is after less than a year of Trump’s policies. The blue wave on Tuesday will be swamped by what happens during the midterm elections after a year of Trump’s destructive economic policies. No wonder he’s crashing out on Truth Social. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/516/739/113/040/514/original/5b3d61e0cec49304.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Same here. I’ve never even seen a group of friends. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/516/178/334/301/881/original/ac24fd0142d3620a.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo If AI actually delivers on the hype, what do you expect the impact will be to societies? npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo One of my favorite features of ChatGPT is that it learns about you based on your usage. Now when I ask it to summarize an article or paper, it also includes an additional analysis from a tech and business strategy angle given those are my usage patterns. I wish every app had this level of smart personalization. Especially map apps that I use daily yet struggle to figure out my travel patterns. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo "Our country will be woke no longer." - Donald Trump https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/515/154/928/309/370/original/7779df1c48c843c3.png npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo FIFA making up a Peace Prize to award Donald Trump is the most on brand thing they’ve done this year. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/fifa-to-award-new-peace-prize-at-world-cup-draw-in-washington npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Sure the economy is bad and the stock market is tanking but the president is a crypto billionaire and Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire so really capitalism is winning. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo One of the things I’m most thankful for is that I didn’t push my kid to get into tech. The entry level job market is non-existent and the entire industry is spending trillions of dollars to replace their experienced workers with chatbots. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/506/316/557/846/616/original/e48ee2e0c42fcb9b.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo OpenAI is asking the U.S. government for loan guarantees to fund its staggering $1 .4 trillion+ AI infrastructure build-out. Basically if OpenAI can’t come up with the money after taking out loans then taxpayers will bail them out. They finally played the “Too Big To Fail” card. https://investinglive.com/stock-market-update/icymi-openai-asks-us-for-loan-guarantees-to-fund-1-trillion-ai-expansion-20251105/amp/ npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Watching Fox News reporting on the election results https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/500/103/756/975/399/original/c831873db8095043.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Investors woke up this morning and decided we’re in an AI bubble after all. Palantir beat expectations and posted upbeat guidance but is down -8% and Nvidia down -4% after Michael Burry disclosed put options with a notional value of about $187 million against Nvidia and $912 million against Palantir. The market decided if he’s willing to bet $1B+ that we’re in a bubble then he might be onto something. https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/494/560/061/687/089/original/95c7a50e049027f4.jpeg https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/494/560/572/185/755/original/8154c7d8270a5dcc.jpeg npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo OpenAI has now committed to $1.4T in AI infrastructure spending on chips, cloud devices and data centers. If it falls through, there will be significant ripple effects as many companies have their fortunes tied to its success. The AI bubble popping won’t just take down AI startups. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-openai-becoming-too-big-to-fail-400bac2c?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdnRE3GIMgSqlOdliRLTxOZTWCZGtALTJtQyoSy69o-exPQNMcQkvjvmRs3YKY%3D&gaa_ts=6907f35c&gaa_sig=_s85kvTz8t5NVsa9apqTjJUKp9d0qze9OJZUlhnzE7b0hZKh1jpFLRp8vSiVF1U-saUkW1i-T6kb9lxsGrPzBA%3D%3D https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/482/837/717/090/683/original/b1a06e7cc519d514.jpeg