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A look at Uber's layoffs and public visa-filing records, including what overlapping totals can and cannot tell us about jobs.
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Satya Nadella Wiped an H-1B Transparency Repo That Exposed The Lie
Josh examines the removal of a public Department of Labor H-1B data repository from GitHub and the transparency questions it raises.
Oculus Co-Founder: AI Will Replace Hollywood Crews
A conversation with Jack McCauley, who helped build Guitar Hero and scale Palmer Luckey's headset into Oculus, about engineering, AI, and Hollywood crews.
The First Rung Is Gone
AI, remote work, and companies that refuse to train are deleting the first step of white-collar careers. New grads need proof, not more blind applications.
Read the essayTechnology Keeps Creating the Problems It Later Sells Us Solutions For
Technology solves real problems, then sells us the next problem it creates. A walk through car-centric design, GLP-1 drugs, labor markets, and the bill.
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