I think the main reason is that "Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing."

And stardust and gum. Sounds like someone has been throwing parties with tax dollars.

The moment I hear that song I take a turn of 180 degrees.

Welcome to EJBs or Enterprise Java Burgers, where you don’t just order a burger, you instantiate a BurgerOrderFactoryBuilderProvider that passes through the DiningRoomController to the PattyHeatProcessingService , the CheeseRepositoryImpl tries not to throw a MissingCheddarException, and your meal finally returns as a BurgerDTO wrapped by the BurgerRepresentationMapper, assuming the whole place doesn’t hit a ServiceUnavailableException.

China should be rewarded for this. I am tired if this anti china war mongering, china is the future.

The transformation will also include streamlining internal systems, eliminating redundant processes, and adopting AI tools across all key operations. Fiverr plans to reinvest a portion of the savings to build a more scalable and performance-driven infrastructure. The remainder will boost Adjusted EBITDA, now expected to hit its 25% margin target by 2026—ahead of schedule.
Strategic Focus Shifts Toward AI-Native Infrastructure

The restructuring supports Fiverr’s strategic pivot to become a platform built on AI from the ground up. The company is rolling out a modern, AI-native infrastructure aimed at increasing internal efficiency and reducing operating costs. This transition aligns with broader trends in the tech sector favoring automation and leaner teams.

Fiverr has already implemented AI in areas such as fraud detection and customer service, where automation reduced support ticket times. These early wins have shown how AI can replace manual effort and streamline backend operations effectively. This success has encouraged deeper investments in platform-wide AI deployment.

The company will focus on upskilling current employees while recruiting new talent with AI-specific capabilities. Fiverr will also expand into higher-value enterprise segments with targeted go-to-market initiatives. The company expects these changes to increase platform scalability and strengthen long-term competitiveness.
Business Outlook Remains Steady Despite Workforce Cuts

Despite the workforce reduction, Fiverr maintained its guidance for Q3 and full-year 2025 without changes. Management stated that customer experience and marketplace operations will not face disruption due to the restructuring. The platform will continue to deliver services as usual, supported by its automated and self-service framework.

Fiverr confirmed that outgoing employees will receive severance packages, extended healthcare, and job transition support. These steps aim to ease the impact of the layoffs and uphold the company’s reputation among its workforce. The leadership stressed that the company must return to a more agile and growth-focused structure.

While the company continues to face pressure in public markets, it remains confident in its transformation plan. With aggressive reinvestment in AI capabilities and a simplified corporate structure, Fiverr aims to build a future-ready platform. This strategic overhaul positions the company to scale faster while managing resources more efficiently.

in my hometown Ghent in Belgium our football club AA Gent is known as the Buffalos. the team logo shows a Native American head with a feathered headdress and the female mascot is called Squaw Mel. it goes back more than a hundred years. when Buffalo Billâ(TM)s Wild West Show came to town in the early 1900s students at the university started calling each other Buffalo and yelling it at matches. it stuck, spread through the city and eventually became the team s identity. the problem is that what once seemed cool or exotic is now seen differently by some. the Wild West shows used a lot of stereotypes. every few years the debate pops up again, even in papers like the New York Times, because they saymore and more people see the mascot name and the headdress logo as outdated or offensive. Ghentâ(TM)s city government has a strong Green Party presence, (the same party that once suggested people eat their Christmas trees after the holidays), and they have also weighed in on cultural issues like this. for most locals otoh the Buffalo name is their identity and a tradition.

Same here. I stole mine from a local bookstore, mid eighties. I spent weeks maybe months reading the assembler listings. Now it turns out I have been obsessed by code written by Bill Gates! In his last book he talks about optimizing the code in his head while hiking with his friends.

So the scary bit about the AMOC collapse isnt just that it is a big climate shift, it is that it is a bifurcation problem. You do not just dial it down and then dial it back up later. Once you cross the freshwater threshold and the overturning circulation stalls, the system snaps into a new stable state. That is how nonlinear dynamics works: the stability basin changes, and you do not just reverse it by undoing the last couple gigatons of ice melt. To turn it back on, you have to reset the whole system, which for the AMOC means millennia of rebalancing salinity and temperature gradients.

And that is why people keep stressing tipping points. We are running a giant uncontrolled experiment where the worst case outcome is not just warmer summers but irreversible restructuring of the global climate engine. The models already show hysteresis: collapse is way easier than recovery.

So if it goes, it stays gone.

People choose to be solopreneurs because they can. When I started In the nineties, being a solopreneur meant high startup costs for office space, servers, distribution, ads. There were gatekeepers everywhere. You could not even incorporate in my country. Today a laptop, $20 worth of SaaS tools, and an internet connection in a coffeeshop gets you global reach, easy community building, near instant mvp validation, AI doing the work of a small dev plus marketing team. the leverage has become orders of magnitude higher.

lungs transplant is tougher than hart or kidneys. The problem is not just the mechanics of breathing, it is immunology. Human antibodies target sugars and proteins on pig lung cells, triggering massive immune rejection and clotting in the capillaries. And unlike the heart, which mostly functions as a mechanical pump, the lung is an immune hotspot, constantly exposed to pathogens. Pig lungs also express antibodies and immune molecules that differ from humans, making them particularly prone to attack when connected to human blood. There is also a risk of pig specific viruses.

You can actually look at this as two different Nash equilibria.

In Europe, the âoegameâ has settled around broad support for redistribution and safety nets. That means higher taxes, but also universal healthcare, strong labor protections, etc. The result is lower variance: most people are reasonably happy and secure, but thereâ(TM)s a cap on how high the winners can fly.

In the U.S., the equilibrium looks very different. The system is tilted toward individual opportunity, lower taxes, weaker safety nets. That creates much higher variance in outcomes â" a few people end up much better off than they would in Europe, while many end up worse. What keeps it stable is the belief in the âoeAmerican Dreamâ: even if youâ(TM)re not rich now, you think you might be someday.

So itâ(TM)s not that one side is âoerightâ and the other is âoewrong.â Theyâ(TM)re just different stable outcomes of the same underlying social tradeoff: maximize broad satisfaction (Europe) vs. maximize upside potential (U.S.).

no I heard he's dead.

As if this is going to save them. I could clone fivrr over the weekend but why would I they are toast.

if you ask chatgpt I think they will be fine