Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Boiling the frog works. Martial law being declared in the nation's capital city is barely a trending topic and we're not even through the first year of the administration.
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Still mind blown that we now have arbitrarily set import taxes (tariffs) and export taxes (15% revenue share from GPUs sold by Intel & AMD in China) with no actual laws written.
Congress is superfluous at this point. We just have a unitary executive.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/trump-bid-for-cut-of-nvidia-amd-revenue-risks-dangerous-world?embedded-checkout=true
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
One thing that was underestimated in the early days of the web was how far “just a click away” is in reality. People thought Google & Amazon could never dominate because competitors were just a click away.
Rampant misinformation exists online despite the ability to fact check on Google or Wikipedia being just a click away.
We totally misjudged how lazy people actually are.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
How the typical software engineer views the typical PM.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
The upcoming jobs and inflation numbers are going to more cooked than a bowl of spaghetti to hide the damage being done by these policies. 🍝
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
This is sad but unsurprising. The Associated Press is ending its weekly book reviews because the audience for it is relatively low compared to the effort needed to plan, coordinate, write and edit reviews.
https://dankennedy.net/2025/08/08/the-associated-press-tells-its-book-critics-that-its-ending-weekly-reviews/
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
For new followers: As long as I’ve worked in tech, I’ve written about technology I think is cool and the potential impacts if misused. Social media gives everyone a voice and the ability to build community but that means terrible people can also do so.
AI gives you close to or superior to human level intelligence in your pocket. On the flip side, society has no strategy to deal with the decimation of white collar jobs or how to handle people becoming dependent on AI in a variety of ways.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Replit’s CEO shared a chart of their leaked financials and two things were striking
1. Despite all the hype, this was a $2M/year revenue company for most of last year.
2. Demand for AI coding agents is massive as evidenced by revenue growth of even a minor player (relative to Cursor or GitHub Copilot) like Replit.
This provides good context on tech job market woes.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Unemployment rates are 6.1% for recent computer science and 7.5% for recent computer engineering grads while biology and art history graduates are 3%.
The dream of “learn to code” has become a nightmare and people are now extolling the virtues of humanities degrees on X.
I feel like our industry has betrayed these kids and there’s little one can do to help.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
The New York Times continues its quest to satirize itself by writing serious articles about topics that would be a joke headline in The Onion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/opinion/hollywood-entertainment-woke-progressive.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c08.sPf_.Ws-_1o6X1n-W&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare