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This is an interesting exchange and I love it. I even got the vapors. 😂
Andrew Ross Sorkin gushes over Trump's new America. gov website on live TV while Joe Kernen sits there stunned.
Sorkin is not a Trump fan, and he lets that be known. But the moment he said the word "credit," Kernen nearly fell out of his chair.
SORKIN: “I want to be clear. I am actually not critical of the president in this instance at all, because I actually think it was great to bring everybody together.”
“For 29,000 websites, the ability to get a passport, the ability to get your medicare. I mean, the it was like being at a product. It was like being at an Apple product announcement. And when they went through what they did and the president was there in the morning and walked through what they were doing, and Marco Rubio was there, Scott Bessent was there, the whole cabinet was there. It was one of those moments where you actually thought the government was working for you, really? And Gebbia deserves an extraordinary amount of praise for it.”
KERNEN: “Do you feel great? Are you have the warmest fuzziest feeling right now listening.”
SORKIN: “And by the way, the president deserves credit for that."
KERNEN: "Oh my God!"
SORKIN: "Credit for putting you in that role. And Jeb and his team putting it all together.”
KERNEN: “So now I'm getting hot flashes. Wow. So this is just amazing.”
CONTEXT (What happened): Trump launched America. gov, a single government site meant to replace 29,000 federal websites for things like passports and Medicare. It was built by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, and Sorkin was in the room for the demo.
Sorkin also credited the Trump accounts interface as "really easy to use" and "like using a real app."
Truth 💯
Elon Musk becomes deeply moved, and deadly serious, when Bret Baier asks him why he called Sen. Mark Kelly a "Traitor" for pushing to send more US aid and weapons to Ukraine.
Watch every second of his response.
"We should have empathy for the thousands of people dying everyday in the trenches. For no movement in the lines. For the past two years thousands of people have died every week for nothing."
"I take great offense at those who put the appearance of goodness over the reality of it. Those who virtue signal and say we can't give into Russia, but have no solution to stopping thousands of kids dying every day."
"I have contempt for such people and I want to make that clear. Because they're virtue signaling and their lack of a solution means that kids don't have a father. It means parents lost a son. For what? Nothing."
Steve Johnson retweeted
Can we please have this woman run for anything so that we can elect her and ultimately make her POTUS?
Portland are you listening?
"Perhaps the strongest rebuke from the business community since Mayor Wilson took office."
Some of the dozens of local businesses who signed the letter demanding action on public safety from Katie Wilson and the Council:
Seattle Mariners
Nordstrom
Alaska Airlines
T-Mobile
Microsoft
Fred Hutch
Costco
Pemco Insurance
PSE
Kaiser Permanente
Starbucks
Virginia Mason
Zillow
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
We are seeing a lot of criticism from folks online that these businesses supported the very people who are driving Seattle towards disaster. This criticism is totally fair and warranted, but should be followed with the caveat; this demand letter is real and does not sugar coat ANYTHING.
Reading between the lines, it represents a major change in that these organizations are no longer afraid of retaliation, if they speak up. It needs to lead to a greater participation statewide, as well as more letters (with bite) to lawmakers that they are not afraid of cracking some eggs when insisting on sound policy.
(And for goodness' sake; they need to not support the people causing the problems.)
@hanamkim | @fox13seattle
'Seattle corporations call on mayor to crack down on crime'
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I agree. Do think eventually you no longer need to give context to the problem or outcome you want? And the no mote around your data is a real power and if you ever loss access to compute capability your AGI is also toast.
Steve Eisman of The Big Short is absolutely correct here, they're trying to convince the government to bail out the trillions wasted on attempting to achieve AI
Now they know it's impossible and the lending has run dry.
Sam Altman is a sociopath and LLMs only do what you tell them to. He's the perfect person to be blamed for the collapse of the financial system and imposition of digital IDs.
This is amazing if you think about how a child learns to walk and climb, they start out slow, but after enough repetition like an adult, we can go up and down up and walk around and down very quickly eventually
How much would my home be worth in California in a comparable neighborhood? zillow.com/homedetails/4570-…
"Wealth Tax Is THEFT" – Mark Cuban WARNS Ro Khanna Over California Tax youtu.be/X3IpUPtG3d0?is=w7jB…
Money can move
This is a perfect example of how skills from gaming transfer to real careers. Simulation games build critical thinking, problem-solving, and quick decision-making under pressure—the exact abilities needed for high-stakes jobs like air traffic control. Love seeing this! ✈️🎮 #workforcedevelopment
🚨 GAME CHANGER
In April, we launched a NEW CAMPAIGN to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers — and supercharged the entire hiring process to get the BEST & BRIGHTEST in faster. The results are HISTORIC ✈️
✅ 94% of hiring goal met — fastest time ever to reach target
✅ 2,000+ hired — the most in a single year
✅ 2,000+ “best & brightest” candidates in the pipeline — reaching the Academy quicker than any class before them, thanks to the most streamlined hiring process
We’re building the strongest, sharpest workforce in aviation history ✈️
This is going to happen whether you like it or not—it's called value creation. If you create value, you get money in return; the more money you have, the more influence you will have. Just having your collective voices heard does not create value unless you believe creating legislation to extract and distribute is value creation. The money is the derivative of value creation.
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It’s called operating from Business first principles the farther you get away from that the more failure you will see.
Steve Johnson retweeted
THIS
Columbia left downtown. Nike has been in an unincorporated campus for years. Tube Specialties in east county shutting down its last plant to move to South Carolina. Oregon Ironworks acquired (twice) then shut down almost all operations here. 40% downtown vacancy rate. Tallest building in downtown sold for 80% less than its prior sale. Shortest school year in the country. 47th out of 50 states in elementary school reading and math. Homelessness rampant and getting worse.
Sure, we’re doing great.
Steve Johnson retweeted
If you ever want to see what happens when the city says “then let them leave, we’ll be fine without them,” please look at Mall 205, Lloyd Center, The Pearl, and all the shuttered businesses downtown. Their track record is abysmal.
Steve Johnson retweeted
I spoke to school superintendents this week.
I explained that if a foreign adversary was trying to ensure our children were sick, depressed, and unproductive - they would serve American children what we currently offer in many schools.
Here’s a menu from a leading school district this week:
➡️Monday: Breaded chicken nuggets with fries
➡️Tuesday: Pepperoni pizza with applesauce
➡️Wednesday: Cheeseburger with tater tots
➡️Thursday: Breaded chicken sandwich with curly fries
➡️Friday: Cheese pizza with marinara sauce and fruit juice.
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The reasons we have the highest childhood chronic disease rates of any society in human history aren’t complicated - and it starts with taxpayer dollars going to inexcusable menus like this.
The good news is there wasn’t a person I spoke with in the room who didn’t agree that our school lunches are a national embarrassment, and we can do better under current budget levels.
For the first time in modern history, there is political momentum at the White House to fix this - and we will in collaboration with schools around the country.
If you are a leader in a local school district working against special interests to change these menus and protect kids, you are doing God’s work. More help is on the way.
Steve Johnson retweeted
Starbucks spends $400 million a year on software. Yesterday they announced they're moving off IBM and Microsoft to build their own custom systems in-house.
IBM dropped 3% and Salesforce dropped 4% on the news.
And honestly this is, unequivocally, the biggest signal I've seen since OpenAI and Anthropic launched their consulting arms back in Q1. The largest companies in the world are done paying for software that half fits how they work.
We saw this coming about a year ago. Moved everything we build off Airtable and low-code tools and went fully custom. Already paying off, and it's only going to compound from here.
This is the opportunity right now.
You get all of a company's data into one system. You build out a single operating system for the entire business. You cut out bad, redundant processes. Then you layer AI on top of it, under the correct processes.
That's the core of AI consulting. Helping companies actually operate better.
There are a lot of fly-by-night offerings circulating right now when it comes to Ai Services.
For example, 'second brains'.
Throwing scattered data into a second brain while the processes underneath stay broken does nothing. The companies who will absolutely destroy their competition over the next 5 years are rebuilding how they work from the ground up.
Starbucks is showing you what other companies will be doing over the next several years.
Your job is to position yourself to facilitate that process for as many companies as you can.
Steve Johnson retweeted
David Sacks: The DSA is taking over the Democratic Party, here are their radical policy goals
“They actually say they want to abolish the Senate.
They want to abolish the carceral state, that means basically police forces and prisons.
They want to abolish ICE and grant amnesty for all, they do not support any deportations whatsoever.
They want to replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary that is chosen by and subordinate to Congress.
So this would be a total makeover of our constitutional system.
They want public ownership of major corporations.
They want to defund the Department of War.
This is a very radical organization, and you would laugh at a lot of these types of proposals, but you can't really laugh at it anymore because these guys are taking over the Democratic Party.
They do not actually see the traditional establishment wing of the Democratic Party as an ally. They see it as an obstacle.
A DSA co-chair said, ‘We're using the Democratic Party as a ballot access vehicle, not because we share its goals. We build our own organization, get elected under the Democratic label, caucus with Democrats when it's useful, and push our own agenda from the inside. We see the Democratic establishment as an obstacle, not a home.’
So the DSA is coming for the Democratic Party. It controls the base now, it's where all the energy is. I think this takeover will continue.”