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Block CEO Jack Dorsey Announces 4,000 Layoffs Due to AI, Stock Surges as Result

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The age of AI is in full swing, but for some workers, it is ushering in uncertainty rather than opportunity.

Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and now CEO of Block, has announced that Block will lay off nearly half its employees to implement more AI tools across its tech platforms.

Block, which owns Cash App and Square, will cut 4,000 employees, which makes up 40% of its employees.

In a memo issued by Dorsey, he wrote, “We’re reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000.”

Block CFO Amrita Ahuja followed up on Dorsey’s memo by adding, “We see an opportunity to move faster with smaller, highly talented teams using AI to automate more work.”

Per The New York Times:

Block, the financial technology company that owns Square, Cash App and Tidal, said on Thursday that it was cutting 40 percent of its work force as it embraced new artificial intelligence tools.

About 4,000 employees are expected to lose their jobs, Jack Dorsey, the company’s top executive, said in a social media post.

The cuts, made as Block reported strong financial results for its most recent quarter, are perhaps the most striking example so far of a technology company’s making plans to eliminate employees because of A.I.

Mr. Dorsey wrote in his post that he wanted to act decisively rather than “cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out.”

Despite Block announcing cuts, Wall Street saw the move as a buy signal, and stocks surged 20%.

Harvard Business Review reported that CEOs from Fortune 500 companies, such as Ford, Salesforce, Amazon, and JPMorgan Chase, have stated that in the near future, many white-collar jobs at their companies will be replaced with AI.

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Jimmys Strikes Again! Baltimore Seafood Joint Ratios Baltimore Sun and New York Times with “Go F*ck Yourself” Comment after Anti-America Social Media Posts – Baltimore Sun Issues Pathetic Response (VIDEO)

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Baltimore seafood restaurant Jimmy’s Famous Seafood is going viral once again after nuking the New York Times and the local Baltimore Sun for their biased reporting on the Team USA Men’s Olympic hockey team’s victory. 

This comes after Jimmy’s offered a viral response to the Huff Post’s reporting on the Olympic games and the psychological terror you should feel, rooting for your country while Trump is in office. “Go f*ck yourself,” the restaurant wrote on Sunday following Team USA’s historic win, gaining the restaurant national spotlight for speaking on behalf of Americans who love their country.

The New York Times apparently didn’t get the memo, claiming in an editorial that the team won the gold medal but “lost the room” when they took a congratulatory call from the President of the United States and decided to celebrate their win at the White House.

“It’s a costly image. What they’ve lost won’t appear in a record book, and in a few years, the appearance will be a faint memory to most. But during a time in which every action seems consequential, they handed over the power of unity. Their triumph is now attached to Trump. His track record suggests it won’t be used to celebrate everyone. It is more likely to be framed as dominance than shared aspiration,” Times Athletic columnist Jerry Brewer wrote of Team USA’s visit to the White House and attendance at Trump’s State of the Union speech.

Jimmy’s Famous Seafood took to the comment section with another “go f*ck yourself” post.

Two days later, in the reader commentary section published by the Baltimore Sun, one reader expressed condemnation for Jimmy’s Famous Seafood for using “foul language” against the anti-American propagandists in the media.

Hilariously, the reader says she has an issue with Jimmy’s language and the nationwide support, writing, “I am a 69-year-old female who was told by a younger male on Tuesday morning to ‘go f*** yourself’ simply because I asked him to slow down on our neighborhood road.” She goes on to describe how she berated the driver for going six miles per hour over the speed limit before he responded, “f*ck you” and “go f*ck yourself.”

“I see now why he thought it was totally OK to tell that to an older woman trying to get cans out of the roadway,” she writes, blaming Jimmy’s for her dispute with a random person.

Jimmy’s responded to the Karen with its now-famous three-word response: “Go f*ck yourself.”

Caleb Townsend of the Baltimore Sun later issued the paper’s pathetic rebuttal outside of the restaurant, which he was ostensibly not allowed into, whining about the restaurant’s rhetoric. Townsend pleads with the restaurant to give him “a thoughtful dialogue, a good conversation, one free from profanity.”

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Hi, I’m Caleb Townsend with the Baltimore Sun, and today, Jimmy’s Famous Seafood told us to go f*ck ourselves. Here’s how it happened. Jimmy’s loves the Olympics, and they love America, some people might argue too much, like the Huffington Post. They recently wrote an article about the complex feelings that some Americans have expressing patriotism in a time where people feel it’s hard to be patriotic. Jimmy’s Famous Seafood responded thoughtfully and tactfully. Just kidding. Then, we at the Baltimore Sun published a letter that a reader wrote to us. The article, entitled “Foul Language is Never Helpful,” was published on our website. Surely, Jimmy would respond thoughtfully, and– Oh, they didn’t? Oh, they said it again? Well, Jimmy, if you’re seeing this, I want to have a thoughtful dialogue, a good conversation, one free from profanity, and hopefully we can get to the bottom of this. Your move, crab man.

The Gateway Pundit reported on Jimmy’s response to the Huffington Post on Sunday after the far-left rag trashed the Team USA Olympic hockey team and Americans who celebrated their victory.

“If waving the American flag or chanting ‘USA!’ turns you off right now, you’re not alone,” the paper wrote on X, sharing an article about how Americans would be right to feel “national shame.”

And Jimmy’s responded with an absolute gem, telling the paper to “go f*ck yourself” in a comment that received over 17 million views and 100 times more likes than HuffPost’s original tweet.

GO WOKE, GET ROASTED: Family-Owned American Business TORCHES Fake News HuffPost — Tells Them to “Go F*** Yourself” After Outlet Suggests Pride in Team USA Hockey Win Is a “Clinical Disorder”

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Urges Embassy Staff to Leave “TODAY”

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Via U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has urged staffers at the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem to leave today.

In an email sent out to staff at the U.S. embassy, Huckabee wrote, “Those wishing to take AD (Authorized Departure) should do so TODAY.”

Huckabee further wrote, “While there may be outbound flights over the coming days, there may not be.”

The Ambassador’s announcement comes as tension with Iran has increased in recent weeks, as the U.S. military has built up its largest force of warships and aircraft in the Middle East since the Iraq War.

Per AP:

The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem implemented “authorized departure” status for non-essential personnel and family members, which means that eligible staffers can leave the country voluntarily at government expense.

The U.S. Embassy in Israel on Friday told its staff that it could leave the country and urged anyone considering departure to do so immediately.

In an email U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee urged staff considering departure to do so quickly, advising them to to focus initially on getting any flight out of Israel and to then make their way to Washington.

“Those wishing to take AD should do so TODAY,” Huckabee wrote, using an acronym for “authorized departure.”

Huckabee’s statement came shortly after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he is scheduled to visit Israel on Monday regarding matters relating to Iran and the 20-Point Peace Plan for Gaza.

The U.S. Embassy is not the only embassy calling for its citizens to depart the region.

Reuters reported that China, on Friday, urged its citizens in Iran to evacuate immediately, citing escalating tensions between the United States and Iran.

Vice President JD Vance, on Thursday, told The Washington Post on the topic of potential armed conflict with Iran, shared, “I think we all prefer the diplomatic option, but it really depends on what the Iranians do and what they say.”

Last Thursday, President Trump threatened to escalate military tensions with Iran within the next ten days if they don’t make a deal regarding deconstructing their nuclear enrichment program.

The 10-day warning Trump gave will end on March 1.

READ:

(VIDEO) Trump Threatens Iran if They Don’t Make a Deal – “You’re Going to be Finding Out in the Next 10 Days… Bad Things Will Happen if it Doesn’t”

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Pro-Trump Attorneys Reportedly In Talks With White House to Get Trump to Declare National Emergency Giving Him ‘Sweeping Powers’ Over Elections – Team Trump Responds

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Pro-Trump lawyers are reportedly trying to persuade President Trump and his team to go all-out to secure America’s elections this year by invoking an unprecedented executive order, and they may soon get their wish.

As The Daily Mail reported, attorneys with ties to Trump are talking with the White House over an election plan, citing “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”

From The Daily Mail:

Attorneys close to Donald Trump are urging the President to declare a national emergency that would allow him to take sweeping powers over the crucial midterm elections.

Peter Ticktin, who has known Trump since they attended New York Military Academy together and represented him in court, is part of a group of pro-Trump lawyers in communication with the White House over the election plan.

He and his allies argue in a 17-page draft of a presidential executive order that supposed Chinese interference in the 2020 presidential election allows Trump to declare such an emergency.

‘There is now clear and compelling evidence from court cases and forensic analysis that these threats have not been mitigated but instead have intensified,’ the draft reads. ‘This constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.’

As The Mail notes, this order would allow President Trump to mandate voter ID nationwide, ban vote-by-mail, and require ballots to be counted by hand.

ABC News reports that Trump has reviewed the order, and the lawyers expect executive action soon.

This news also comes as the SAVE Act, a critical election security bill Trump is backing, has stalled in the Senate thanks to a handful of RINOS sabotaging the MAGA movement in its quest to stop Democrats from stealing any more federal elections.

A White House official responded to the report about an election executive order, telling ABC that “a variety of outside advocates who want to share their policy ideas with the President. Any speculation about policies the President may or may not announce is just that — speculation.”

White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson also issued a non-denial when asked for comment.

“President Trump is committed to ensuring that Americans have full confidence in the administration of elections, and that includes totally accurate and up-to-date voter rolls free of errors and unlawfully registered non-citizen voters,” Jackson told The Washington Post.

“The President has urged Congress to pass the SAVE Act and other legislative proposals that would establish a uniform standard of photo ID for voting, prohibit no-excuse mail-in voting, and end the practice of ballot harvesting,” she added.

One question that remains unanswered is how such an order can survive legal challenges. Changes to voting laws have generally been implemented via the legislative process.

One exception to this rule was during COVID, when states ignored their own constitutions to push mass mail-in voting via executive action in some cases.

But Ticktin remains undeterred, citing the critical moment our nation faces.

“We have a situation where the President is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” Ticktin explained to The Washington Post. “That causes a national emergency where the President has to be able to deal with it.”

“That causes a national emergency where the President has to be able to deal with it.”

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