Over 3.3 million Californians have cast ballots for the June primary. Returns as of May 30 per @Political_Data: 🔵 DEM: 1,540,171 🔴 GOP: 1,126,628 ⚪ OTH: 693,445 % Turnout by Age 18-34: 5% 35-49: 8% 50-64: 15% 65 : 30%

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Some people in SF are offering $1M above asking price and it's still not considered competitive, said a real estate agent. Some of his clients who work in A.I. made all-cash offers, agreed to close quickly, waived contingencies and it wasn’t enough. nytimes.com/2026/05/29/reale…

MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart statnews.com/2026/05/27/scie… via @statnews

BTW, I approached ABC about buying back the former FiveThirtyEight IP*, and they said they wouldn't sell at any price because I'd criticized their management of the brand. Costing Disney shareholders $$ b/c of their vindictiveness. * I own the models but the trademarks, etc.

nike sent me a survey about how making a donation to trump’s ballroom would impact my view of their brand

JUST IN: Switzerland to vote on capping its population at 10 million.

The Golden Age of America begins right now!

LVFC might be the first con without drama

When gay guys turn 25, they have to pick a subclass: - mental health bloggers / photoshoot models - lgbt charity activists / speakers - fitness and 10k run gays - pokémon and/or digimon gays - Stans - books/film gays - STEM and PhDs - dog /or cat gays

OpenAl is offering private-equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5%, as well as early access to models not yet in public release.

SAN FRANCISCO: 🚨 like Trump, Lurie is cutting city departments in order to consolidate mayoral power and to cut or eliminate: the arts, trees, parks, public health, disability services, the library. 🎭📚🌍🦽 Protest against Charter Reform TODAY, March 17th, 2pm at City Hall.

What HR asks for = Payslip What HR actually wants = Supporting data about your value So instead of reacting with "red flag" or "I know my worth", take a breath & handle it like a pro. Here's how: Try this instead: "I’ve signed an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement ) with my current company so I can’t share my payslip, but I’d be happy to provide alternative documents to help assess my value" That’s how professionals talk. Not defensive, not dismissive, just clear & respectful. Here are solid alternatives you can offer instead of a payslip: ✅ Confirmation/Promotion Letter • Shows your position, title progression & trust gained over time ✅ Retirement Contribution Statement • A great non-sensitive indicator of monthly income • NSSF (Kenya, Uganda) ,RSA (Nigeria) , Social Security, Pension Contributions ✅ Portfolio Job Description • Includes key responsibilities, KPIs & real contributions ✅ Letter of Recommendation (with role/title mentioned) • Especially impactful if it comes from a direct supervisor These give HR confidence to recommend you without needing your payslip. It also shows your initiative & transparency. You are never obligated to share your payslip. But rejecting professionally (and offering alternatives) builds trust & gives HR the data they need, while keeping your privacy intact. When you show maturity, clarity & class, your attitude becomes your strongest offer. Let HR see that! No interview invitation in the last 6 weeks? Let’s help you fix that CV and get you noticed. Email your CV to cv@oyk.co.ke with subject 'Revamp'.

this has been an open secret in tech for years and if you’ve been following my threads you already know where I stand on this I genuinely believe Palantir was never just a government contractor it was always designed from day 1 to embed itself so deep inside the intelligence & defense apparatus that ripping it out would be like trying to remove the nervous system from a living body you need to understand how this works on a technical level to really grasp the scale of what I’m describing Gotham & foundry are data integration platforms that plug into every single information source an organization has, internal databases, intelligence feeds, comms, satellite data, financial transactions, social media…everything gets funneled into a single ontological knowledge graph and here’s the key, once you’ve connected 5y of an intelligence agency’s data or a defense ministry’s operations into Palantir’s architecture you’ve created a technological dependency that is virtually impossible to reverse bc migrating that graph to another system would mean rebuilding the ENTIRE institutional memory of the organization from scratch I’m telling you this is vendor lock-in at the scale of a nation state & I’m personally convinced it was designed to work exactly this way from the beginning by the way palantir is just the most visible case, you should know that the same exact playbook is running across the entire deftech ecosystem right now, companies building AI systems for surveillance targeting & predictive intelligence are quietly rotating former employees into regulatory agencies & defense departments the revolving door between silicon valley & the pentagon has literally become a conveyor belt at this point & I think the boundary between private tech infrastructure and state power is dissolving way faster than anyone wants to acknowledge and I’ll add something that I believe makes it even more concerning these systems are increasingly autonomous meaning the AI layer is making recommendations that humans inside gvt are rubber stamping without fully understanding the underlying logic I’m deeply convinced that the most important power shift of this decade is happening in complete silence and I think most people have absolutely no idea, this is the moment where the companies building the tools of governance become indistinguishable from governance itself & believe me by the time the general public figures out what happened the integration will be too deep too complex & too classified to ever be unwound