X is now letting AI decide your fate.

rick · 6/27/2025, 7:35:29 PM · permalink

Human devaluation.
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Microsoft is gearing up for yet another round of layoffs. The tech giant is reportedly going to cut jobs in the Xbox division next week as part of its organisation-wide restructuring. Managers in its Xbox division are anticipating substantial cuts, according to a report by Bloomberg. However, there is no official announcement yet.

This would be the company’s fourth round of layoffs in the past 18 months. Three major cuts in 2024 have already led to closure of several subsidiaries. Xbox reportedly has been under severe pressure from Microsoft executives to amp up its profit margins ever since it acquired Activision Blizzard in 2023 for $69 billion.

Earlier this month, it was reported that the company was planning to cut thousands of jobs especially in sales. This is seen as a part of its latest move to cut down its workforce as it pumps billions of dollars into AI development and infrastructure such as data centres. Microsoft is planning to enact these layoffs in early July after the end of its fiscal year. The job cuts may not solely impact sales teams, and its schedule may change.

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When it comes to Microsoft’s gaming division, the company laid off 650 employees in September 2024. These job cuts were announced by Xbox chief Phil Spencer who, in an internal memo, stated that the development was owing to the post-acquisition team structure. These roles were mostly corporate and supporting functions.

This would be the second massive layoff. In May, the company had announced job cuts impacting over 6,000 people mostly from product and engineering positions. However, back then sales and marketing teams were spared. As of June 2024, the company had 228,000 workers out of which 45,000 in sales and marketing.

Overall, the tech industry has been reeling from mass layoffs. As of June 26, 2025 as many as 147 companies have laid off 63,443 employees as per layoffs.fyi, a site that tracks layoffs in real time.

This is the year Intel has laid off the most employees. In April, it was reported that the company had plans to cut nearly 20 per cent of its staff which amounts to about 22,000 positions. The company claimed that the layoffs were a part of its broader strategy to streamline management and rebuild an engineering-driven culture.  
https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/xbox-division-job-cuts-thousands-at-microsoft-brace-for-yet-another-round-of-layoffs-10089768/

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mrinfinity · 4/12/2025, 6:45:40 AM · permalink

For those out of the loop  
[Elon recently appealed the $56 billion payday his board of family and friends 'approved' at Tesla; he won't get it, and was denied for good reason from a Delaware judge. Now we all know why he hates the judicial branch so much.](https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/musk-launches-appeal-restore-56-billion-tesla-payday-2025-03-11/)  
  
Tesla shares dropped so low that the loans taken out against them as collateral can be collected on; they'd come collecting sooner or later; so the need to sell 'X/Twitter' to xAI, especially for the data harvesting is abundantly clear; he's obviously up to nefarious things behind the curtains with his evil villain act.  
  
A clever loophole to give its ownership as stock to the constituents of xAI and then give it its own valuation of $10billion less than what he bought twitter for to write it off as a loss. I'm sure there's some legal mumbo jumbo for it all, but in a matter of speaking, he took it from one table to another table and said 'here you all get a piece of this pie its yours and its worth this much but i get to be in charge of it all' -- nothing changes other than he gets to keep Twitter as Tesla tanks.  
  
xAI is nothing better than DeepSeek running on lesser hardware which can be build in datacenters at a fraction of the cost.  
  
On the evil part of the data collection side..  
To ask an AI, 'Hey Grok' or 'Hey LLaMA' -- 'What is the customer rapport for  and their customer base, and what is the level of interaction, can you interpolate their customer satisfaction rate from their engagements and compare it with this brand and this brand and tell me the key differences between them all?'. This level of data is expected; and valuable, especially if you can see your competition.  
  
We common folk ain't gettin' access to that. Imagine that.  
  
'Hey Grok' 'Tell me what the people of these traits are talking about and what are the things they all buy or do'  
  
Agencies that are strictly X.com with public press and rapport are killing the decentralized web and creating central points of failure. We want websites, not to kill memos and press releases from websites and put them in one place.  
  
[Social Security Administration Goes full X.](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5245029-social-security-administration-social-platform-x-releases/)  
He said he wanted to be for the people. He wasn't. He went on stage at CPAC high on drugs waving a chainsaw around called the chainsaw of bureaucracy. I'm not sure I'm down with that.  
  
Anywho  
I don't know if anybody else can see it, but he just wants to funnel everything through X.com [as an everything app](https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-elon-musks-x-the-everything-app/) and even [has partnerships with Visa](https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-x-money-visa-payments-ed4538e0be2deb5fb5767ffb39ba25f3) which in short, wants to add the Alibaba/Amazon aspect to everything.  
  
Low orbit starlink satellites have a duration of 0-5 years of orbit time before crashing to Earth or other mechanical failure. SpaceX can't launch a rocket to save itself, Tesla got 'We the peopled' to his own dismay. He bullshits us by trying to relate to us, [paying gamers to stream as him to deceive us in to thinking he can run 35425 companies and become a pro gamer at the same time.](https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-admits-to-paying-people-to-play-video-games-for-him-2000552872) Then admits to us he did it as if we're cool with that.  
  
Jokes on him, as he [showed us his broken in-flight starlink](https://uk.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-rage-quits-livestream-153149562.html?guccounter=1), he kept dying to the tutorial boss -- he didn't rage quit; the connection finally dropped; showing starlink being broken.  
  
He wants to rule the world. He wants AI to rule the world, but what he doesn't and can't possibly understand is  
  
It's [human decency that rules the world.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/childcare-new-mexico-poverty)  
  
We're not just numbers or some pawns to be manipulated. We're people. Human beings. Capable of decency, and great things.  
  
Funnel that, Elon.

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