I get that pump fun wants to lure normies in with insane pnls But this is misleading af Both of them got a HUGE chunk of the supply before they CTO’d The average trader is never getting anywhere close to these returns...

I want to say thank you for all the warm words I get here from my virtual friends and everyone I’ve already met. I see them all and it really warms my heart. I’m always happy to say hi — so if you notice I’m in your area, feel free to reach out and we’ll try to grab a beer.

I am the Director of Voluntary Cessation at the Department of the Interior. Last month I paid a German company $1.2 billion to build nothing. Not a turbine. Not a wire. Not one kilowatt. $1.2 billion. For the absence. The company is RWE. They held leases off California. Off Louisiana. In the New York Bight. Wind farms were going there. Now they aren't. I made sure of that. We call it voluntary. It became voluntary when I made it impossible. I write the permits. I never wrote theirs. RWE said it kindly. "No path forward to permit these projects for the foreseeable future." I am the foreseeable future. Here is the part I like. The $1.2 billion did not go to a taxpayer. It went to RWE. We paid them to leave. Then they took the check and put $900 million into a gas terminal in Louisiana. We paid a company to stop making power. They used it to make a different kind. The check bought a fuel switch. I signed it. Somewhere a set of blades is already built. They point at a different ocean now. The ports that would have raised them can go back to waiting. An analyst asked me what the country got for $1.2 billion. I said "energy security." She asked which energy. I said "the secure kind." She asked to see the kilowatts. I told her that was not her lane. She stopped asking. I do not produce power. I have never produced power. I end the projects that would. My title is Voluntary Cessation. Cessation means stop. Voluntary means I get to call it their idea. The Germans are the second. In March it was a French company. Same handshake. Leases traded for an LNG plant in Texas. There is a line forming. I take a number. I pay it to leave. We call it common sense. We call the wind a costly subsidy. I just paid $1.2 billion to end the subsidy. The payment was larger than the subsidy. I am the subsidy now. On the invoice, under deliverables, I wrote one word. None. I came in under budget. I'm up for a raise. The lights those turbines would have carried are still off. They were always going to be off. That was the product.

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I approve the capital budget at Amazon. This year it is $220 billion, up from $131 billion last year, and the great majority of it buys machines that think. In the same 12 months, I approved cutting about 30,000 corporate jobs, and when people asked why, we told them the truth. The machines that think. I want to show you the page, because the whole job is one page. On the page, near the top, is the capital line. $220 billion. It went up from $200 billion this quarter for a reason I find beautiful: memory got expensive. The chips that let the machines remember cost more than we planned, so the number rose, and a number that rises because the machines need more memory is my favorite kind of number. One row below the capital line is the headcount line. It went down. 14,000 last autumn, about 16,000 this winter, roughly 30,000 people, which is close to 1 in 10 of the corporate staff, and more than 57,000 since we started counting this way in 2022. Those two lines share one page. I am, as far as I can tell, the only person who reads the page with both of them on it at once. Everyone else gets one line in one meeting. The person who hears $220 billion is in a room about the future. The person who hears 30,000 is in a room about themselves. I sit in the room where the two rooms are the same room. Here is what the page is actually saying, if you read down instead of across. The $220 billion is not spent alongside the 30,000 cuts. The $220 billion is what performs the 30,000 cuts. We are not investing in AI and, separately, reducing headcount. We are buying the headcount reduction. It arrives on a truck, in racks, and it does not have a name, a family, or a question at the all-hands. We were honest about this, which I am proud of. Our own leadership put it in writing that the technology will reduce the corporate workforce in the years ahead. We did not hide the mechanism behind attrition or realignment. We told 30,000 people that the reason was the thing on the truck, and then we ordered more of the thing on the truck, and the order was 10% larger than last year's because the memory got expensive. You will hear that the cuts and the spending are unrelated, that one is efficiency and one is growth. They are the same act, filed in two folders. Efficiency is the folder where the person leaves. Growth is the folder where the machine arrives. I keep both folders. They are, if you check the dates, the same folder. The nice thing about a machine is that it cannot be laid off, which means it never appears on the headcount line, which means once I have moved a job from a person to a machine, the job is off my payroll and onto my capital budget forever. That is the whole trade. I move a cost from a line I have to explain to a line I get to celebrate. $220 billion, up from $131 billion. 30,000 people, and counting. I approved both. They are the same number, written twice, once as an investment in the future and once as a subtraction from it, and I am the only one holding the page where they touch.

I didn’t know I get to change colors and font size as a premium girlie on X. Deleting this in a few mins but I had to show yall how cute it looks 🤍 #PremiumTingz# #OhHeyBarbz#