The topic of the week, H-1B visas are being overhauled. The Trump administration announced a new $100,000 fee for all future H1B applications. It's a onetime fee.This is a huge jump. The current fee is nothing. It's like 2 to 5K.Every discussion I've ever had about H-1Bs in relation to IT and consulting has always been about saving money. It's a giant scam on the bottom half of these. I witnessed it firsthand.When I was in IT in the early 90s, the abuse was happening all the time and it was indentured servi ...

Look, I believe in the fierce independence of our educational institutions and I worry that if we are swaying in one direction or another based on who is in office, then we don't have the trust of the American people. And I think we failed in some ways to show that we could self-regulate and do that ourselves. But the goal in my mind is to get back to a place where it's clear that universities aren't political organizations, aren't taking a position, that we are focused on bringing the best and brightest to ...

Let's talk about Larry and David Ellison. They're making massive media moves both in legacy and social media. Let's talk about the legacy stuff first.Paramount Sky Dance merger is basically a month old and already CEO David Ellison, that's Larry Ellison's son, is looking to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery. As you probably know, they're run by David Zazlov. They own CNN, HBO, DC Comics, Discovery, a bunch of other brands.And that would put the Ellison's in charge of not just CBS News, which owns 60 Minutes ...

[Music] I honestly believe that the AI revolution is underhyped. Now, why is this all important? >> Eric Schmidt is here. He's the former Google executive chairman and CEO. >> These agents are going to be really powerful, and they'll start to work together. We're soon going to be able to have computers running on their own, deciding what they want to do. Now we have the arrival of a new nonhuman intelligence which is likely to have better reasoning skills than humans can have. >> So if you were emperor of t ...

This is, you know, a situation where I'm just perplexed and I guess it goes back to where you started, Chamath, that there are some number of people who are sick right now in our society and it seems to be young men. It seems to be the co generation. How does a person that is seemingly a 4.0% student on the right track getting a scholarship, how do you so severely go off the rails.And then how do you end up in a place where you believe that something like this is even tolerated or justified. How can a perso ...

Algorithms must be disclosed and you must have the option given to you upfront to switch your algorithm. There should be a B ya, bring your own algorithm. There should be an algorithm store.If you could say, I want one that just gives me a chronological feat. I want one that is from the highest quality sources. And then you should be required to show what the default algorithm is doing.And if you don't do that, I think you should lose your section 230 because an algorithm is more powerful than an editor at ...

Let's talk about Larry and David Ellison. They're making massive media moves both in legacy and social media. Oracle is now the heavy favorite to acquire Tik Tok.Here's what our partner Poly Market, shout out to my guy Shane, 84% Larry Ellison or Oracle, acquire Tik Tok, that's up over 20 percentage points in the last couple of days. Paramount Sky Dance merger is basically a month old and already CEO David Ellison, that's Larry Ellison's son, is looking to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery. As you probably ...

One of the most powerful things that I think Charlie got absolutely and precisely right was the plight of young people, meaning the malaise and the anxiety and what was at the root cause of it. At the root cause in the way people think and now in the way people act is economic instability. Charlie does a really good job of very precisely putting it into a box what they're going through.the lack of home ownership, the overwhelming and just crushing debt, the failure of the school system, the inability to fin ...

He was too smart, too open, too honest, too willing to engage in discourse, too willing to debate. He was too effective in changing people's minds. And I think that's why he became such a cultural threat.It wasn't his controversy, it was his effectiveness. And it wasn't necessarily the things he said, because there are people out there who say far more controversial things than Charlie. It's that he sounded sensible and he changed people's minds through his discourse. And as he changed people's minds, I thi ...

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