Zuckerberg won't be beaten by Donald Dumb's firing of hundreds of thousands of hard-working Americans. He too can exercise his "power" just for the fun of it, just because he can. And he has dutifully been kissing Trump's ass, begging him like a kindergartner looking for a friend. He is helping Trump demolish the Outhouse and build his "Trump's Ballroom" in its place so people, centuries from now, can marvel at the achievements of the dumbest Pharaoh the US ever had. I suppose Trump is also planning to have his cadaver mummified or deep-frozen (together with his dumb wife Melania); "great men" like him do live eternally, either in a medbed or in the afterlife.
I don't understand how millions of Americans continue to feed Zuckerberg their own personal information so he can make money off their backs, become a sycophant to Trump, grow his wealth beyond the billionaire level... Those who use Facebook and Instagram are like sheep led to the slaughter with a smile on their stupid faces.
And that's not all.... Artificial Intelligence will replace many of your jobs, my dear readers. It sounds inevitable. So what is, in your opinion, the solution to two concurrent occurences:
1- Humanity is growing ever more numerous. A century ago, a baby born to its parents cost close to nothing to raise it. A baby born today will cost its parents such expenses as expensive schooling, cell phone, a computer, a car, a television, dozens of subscriptions to apps, special classes (art, dance, martial arts, swimming and other sports....), very expensive me-too imitation clothing.... Who knows how even more complex our world will be in the near future... No wonder people are choosing not to marry and have children.
2- Automation will replace more and more people. So what do you do with many more people with less and less jobs for them?
I'LL LET YOU RUMINATE AND CHEW ON THIS ONE. I HAVE THE ANSWER, BUT IT IS POLITICALLY NOT CORRECT. SO I'LL WAIT.
I am not throwing climate change into the mix because it is an equalizer of sorts. All humans will be equally affected by it as it gets worse. I AM A CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTIC, but NOT because I doubt its occurrence, nor do I doubt the human contribution to it. However, what I never hear from fellow scientists who keep pushing the catastrophic scenarios, particularly on the disappearing biodiversity, is that life is extremely malleable and highly adaptive to the most extreme of conditions.
Life is not static, it is not fixed. But the puny time-scale of our existence is not in phase with the geological time-scale of life's history on earth, which is why many people don't understand what is going on. The compound ecosystem we have today is only a split-second snapshot in a very long and slow movie of constant change, upheavals and adpative replacements. Life as we know it is NOT destined to last forever. So when a bird or a moth disappears by extinction, yes, this will disturb and disrupt an entire chain in a particular ecosystem, but it is not the end-all. It is, in the grand scheme of things, normal. When a link in the chain of an ecosystem is disrupted (say by an extinction), haven't scientists learned and understood from a 5-billion-year-long history of life on earth that that link in the chain will inevitably be replaced by another/a new link (species) that promptly fills the now empty niche?
Over the course of life's evolution on earth, we've had many episodes of mass extinctions and climatic changes, none caused by humans. Some 99% of all species that ever appeared on earth have gone extinct. The human species is no exception. There will be a time in the future when some other dominant species (say, squirrels) would have evolved to rule over the earth and that would have no idea that a human species ever existed (except for the rare skeletal remains that may surface here and there). When dinosaurs ruled, mammals were tiny and lived in the shadows of the great reptilians. When the latter went extinct, mammals thrived and came to dominate.
Just as we unearth dinosaur remains and other fossils today, new life forms would have evolved that would encounter our remains and not know what they are. I don't think we will ever have intelligent life of the human caliber again after the extinction of the human species. Our evolution is one giant act of a random adaptation - i.e. chance - the evolution of likes of which is highly improbable.
As Zuckerberg is looking to stash many more billions in his socks drawer by discarding the "non-performers" in his kingdom, his domination of half of humanity will increasingly rely on machines.
WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH ALL THESE BILLIONS OF HUMANS WHOSE INDUSTRIAL AND DIGITAL REVOLUTIONS JOBS HAVE VANISHED?
AGAIN, I HAVE A POLITICALLY NOT CORRECT ANSWER THAT SHOULD WAIT ITS PROPER TIME.
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Read the leaked email Meta sent to the employees it just fired
Patricia Battle
Sat, October 25, 2025
Meta, which operates social media platforms Instagram and Facebook, raised eyebrows earlier this year when it warned employees in a memo that it plans to make vital cuts to its workforce this year.
In the memo, sent to employees in January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will eliminate about 3,600 jobs, approximately 5% of its workforce, as it doubles down on investing in artificial intelligence, developing its smart glasses, and “the future of social media.”
He said the cuts would be based on performance, stating that the company will have an “intense year.”
“I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster,” said Zuckerberg in the memo. “We typically manage out people who aren’t meeting expectations over the course of a year, but now we’re going to do more extensive performance-based cuts during this cycle.”
Over the past few months, Meta’s layoff plan has dramatically unfolded:
The first round of Meta’s layoffs kicked off on Feb. 10, impacting almost 4,000 employees in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
Meta later faced backlash from laid-off employees who claimed they weren’t low performers at the company since they received "At or Above Expectations" ratings in their 2024 mid-year reviews.
In April, Meta laid off over 100 employees in its Reality Labs division, affecting employees who develop virtual reality, headsets, and other wearable technology.
In June, Meta reportedly sent a memo to its managers instructing them to give 15% to 20% of employees who are part of large teams "below expectations" performance rating in their mid-year performance reviews, which started on June 16, to help it "make exit decisions."
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to conduct significant layoffs across the company.Bloomberg/Getty Images
Meta makes another major round of job cuts
Meta recently conducted another round of layoffs right before the holidays, impacting 600 employees in its Meta Superintelligence Labs division, which is responsible for developing AI technology.
The move comes after Meta finalized an almost $15 billion investment in Scale AI in June, leading to Scale CEO Alexandr Wang becoming Meta’s chief AI officer.
In a memo to employees on the cuts to the Meta Superintelligence Labs division, Wang said that having fewer workers in the department will make decision-making easier, according to a recent report from Business Insider.
"By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact," wrote Wang.
He also said the company is “supporting the majority of those impacted in finding new roles at the company.”
The layoffs follow a growing trend in corporate America that is raising eyebrows. So far this year, 39% of companies have already conducted layoffs, according to a recent survey from Resume.org, and 35% expect to reduce headcount before the year ends.
“AI adoption is going to reshape the job market more dramatically over the next 18 to 24 months than we’ve seen in decades,” said Kara Dennison, head of career advising at Resume.org, in the survey.
“We’ll see continued displacement of routine and process-driven roles as well as entirely new categories of work centered on AI oversight, data ethics, prompt engineering, and human-AI collaboration.”
In the memo to employees, Wang said despite recent layoffs, Meta “will continue to hire industry-leading Al-native talent.”
Here is the full email Wang sent to employees about layoffs
“Earlier today, we made some changes to MSL to move us toward being the most agile and talent-dense team in the industry. By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact.
It's never an easy decision to say goodbye to colleagues. These are talented people who have worked extremely hard and contributed to our Al effort. Anyone in North America whose role was impacted has already been notified. Those who may be impacted in EMEA have been notified and remain subject to consultation.
We are supporting the majority of those impacted in finding new roles at the company. We have spun up a tiger team of recruiters to help this group find the right match for their expertise and land in roles through an expedited hiring process.
This by no means signals any decrease in investment. In fact, we will continue to hire industry-leading Al-native talent. Our goal is to enable MSL to move faster. We remain excited about the models we are training, our ambitious compute plans, and the products we are building, and I'm confident in our path to superintelligence.”
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