Silicon Valley built the Maven AI system for the American military. @alexshultz.bsky.social looks at the disastrous role Maven has played in the first few days of the Iranian war:
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-pentag...
Nearly 1,000 Google employees are calling for military limits on AI amid Iran strikes and Anthropic fallout:
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/a...
I assume the calculus for tapping Markwayne Mullin is you have to pick someone stupid enough to get excited about a job offer phone call from Donald Trump; someone who, in their excitement, does not consider how 2 years as DHS head under a lame duck is 100x worse than being a Senator in a safe seat
Jack Dorsey wants you to believe that mass layoffs are the future of tech to justify anti-worker AI. But a new economics paper offers policy directions to change that.
@byjacobward.bsky.social dives in for Hard Reset: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/actually-j...
As a media intern at Uber, @aristeinhorn.bsky.social heard that Emil Michael was an expert "dealmaker." A decade later, the Uber-Exec-turned-Pentagon-Undersecretary's participation in the Pentagon AI negotiations casts doubt on that.
Read the whole story: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/behind-the...
Join HARD RESET MEDIA x iceout.tech for a night of coached rock climbing & drinks, FRIDAY 3/13 from 5:30-8:30 PM. As ICE continues to expand across Texas, we'll chat about our answer to the question: as tech people, what can we do?
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Today, Trump demanded government agencies stop using Anthropic, an order which comes amidst the tech industry *finally* taking some sort of stand against authoritarianism.
@williamfitz.bsky.social broke down how it happened for Hard Reset: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-tech-i...
“A few short weeks ago if someone told you that staffers within big tech and the AI labs were organizing collectively to push back against Trump’s agenda, you wouldn’t have believed them.” My post today for @hardresetmedia.com
open.substack.com/pub/hardrese...
Just how righteous is Anthropic's stand against the Pentagon? After all, it was Dario Amodei's greed which got them into those government contracts...
@alexshultz.bsky.social digs into the high stakes staring contest: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/dont-be-fo...
"She’s friendly. She’s direct. She wants to know if you’ll sign a petition calling your county and its cities to cut every financial tie to Musk’s companies."
Exclusive: @byjacobward.bsky.social talked to Cath Posehn about how she got Davis to divest from Musk: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/one-protes...
"It also fits into this idea, perpetuated by Donald Trump, that the world as run by capitalism is divided into 'winners' and 'losers.' In reality, in many cases, it’s actually being rigged to create this division."
In January, an anonymous trader made $400,000 on Polymarket by placing bids about Nicolas Maduro's arrest.
@aristeinhorn.bsky.social spoke to several whistleblower lawyers about the effect of insider trading on prediction markets:
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/could-whis...
@alexshultz.bsky.social dug into the documents. Read the whole story here: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/new-court-...
Snapchat: “teens and young adults are at the core of the Snapchat phenomenon.”
YouTube: “Solving Kids Is a Massive Opportunity” “kids under 13 are the fastest-growing internet audience in the world.”
Court filings show that social media addiction in kids is ABSOLUTELY by design.
"The displacement that states should be preparing for is real. But as companies continue to woo shareholders with talk of AI doing the work, we’ll need to sharpen our ability to read between the lines."
@byjacobward.bsky.social on layoffs and "AI-washing": www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-ai-tha...
My "People are not personally profiting from the Board of Peace" tshirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.
in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.
On art: "That impulse – the artist’s anguish, the need to make the private communicable – is something that will never go away. It’s the context that allows a piece of art to move people across space and time.
Anything produced by AI definitionally doesn’t have that context."
On OpenAI: "OpenAI did publish principles of what they will and won’t do with advertising. But the principles are very vague... they’re contradicted by simultaneous incentives to override them. Why should we trust them to hold to vague principles that they have billion-dollar reasons to override?"
OpenAI crossed research scientist @zhitzig.bsky.social's "red line" of advertising without guardrails protecting users' personal data. So she quit.
An exclusive interview with the poet-mathematician from @aristeinhorn.bsky.social: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/a-poet-mat...
Tired of letting GenAI have all the fun?
Inviting all techies, founders, engineers, and builders to enjoy this guided workshop + happy hour event. We'll explore the capacity for *human* imagination & question the role of AI in both art and industry!
TIX: luma.com/jdwc707q
Perspective from inside the tech industry: "We want our country back. And we can take action now to reclaim it. We can speak out when we can and where we can."
Read Joshua Yurtsever's guest article here: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/tech-ceos-...
After Marc Benioff's awful attempted ICE joke, disenchanted Salesforce workers are quickly growing more impatient with his out-of-touch approach.
@alexshultz.bsky.social explores how the CEO's downward spiral is reflected in the company's Q1 results.
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/marc-benio...
I was one of those laid off. I agree that the Ohana sentiment seems dubious. I kinda felt that the culture within the company was more cult than strategic. Don’t get me wrong, lots of good people there and talent but the company didn’t end up being a good move for me. Unfortunately I went from a mid level position with 25 years of experience to sleeping in my car driving uber. Not sure if having them on my resume has hurt my employment opportunities or if it’s just the current state of the job market.
"Unfortunately I went from a mid level position with 25 years of experience to sleeping in my car driving uber. "
A reddit comment in response to @alexshultz.bsky.social's story on @hardresetmedia.com yesterday
www.reddit.com/r/technology...
This internal message from Slack general manager Rob Seaman is also quite something: “I want to acknowledge the jokes that happened this morning at CKO. I cannot defend or explain them. They do not align with my personal values and I know this to be the case for many of you as well.”
We’ve been told that an internal letter circulating at Salesforce asking Benioff to denounce ICE and commit to no new contracts with them has over 2,000 signatures…
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/marc-benio...
“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”
"It’s clear that except for a couple of industries, the private sector is being restructured around what AI might eventually make possible, and corporate tolerance for the reputational risk of AI-related layoffs is growing."
"A Harvard Business Review survey found that 60% of organizations have reduced headcount 'in anticipation of AI’s future impact.'"
@byjacobward.bsky.social on the AI-shaped hole in this month's jobs report:
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-jobs-r...
"Music from humans is at risk of being more easily chopped up or copied–with a focus on distribution systems rather than what’s musically compelling or from the soul. Music, as it becomes cheaper and faster to make, may become inherently 'cheaper.'"
