Leah Feiger

I'd love to hear you weigh in, not just on meta and Microsoft, but generally what you're seeing up and down the board.

I guess from my end, it almost it just sort of feels like we're also holding our breath.

We're not going to really see what this looks like until there's, you know, immense studies about just software engineers just can't get a job anymore.

Like that's that's just not what they should be studying in school.

And that hasn't exactly happened yet.

Am I wrong?

I'm very excited for our conversation in approximately three months from now where all of this is different, the same.

What do they want their kids to do?

Oh, and you know, there's this great Vintner program in Berkeley.

Get into some winemaking.

Okay, I want to shift gears into...

A really, really good piece from Wired reporter David Gilbert about the Department of Justice.

We've been working on this one for a pretty long time.

And in the past year, the DOJ's voting section, which, as the name suggests, is the group that works to protect the right of Americans to vote, has been changing beyond recognition.

I don't just mean entirely different missions or what have you, which is all true.

But more than that, its staff has been virtually gutted.

There were around 30 attorneys in the voting section on the day of Donald Trump's second inauguration.

Three months later, all but two were gone.

The departing lawyers have since been replaced by new hires with little federal court experience who've all spent years working against the very department they have now joined.

These attorneys have appeared more than willing to comply with Trump's anti-voting directives, and many of them have actually worked with Trump previously, defending him and his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.