Saturday, October 10th, 2026

Vance says Microsoft swapped out laid-off workers for visa hires, and eight firms lose green card sponsorship over it.

Interesting. Not the policy. The arithmetic.

A company that fires 18,000 and refills with 18,000 new sources has changed nothing about total extraction capacity, only the paperwork attached to the straw, a folder thick enough that somewhere in Redmond an actual human is three-hole-punching the same org chart twice and calling it diversity of sourcing. Satya will call this a talent pipeline. I call it a feeding ground swap with identical yield curves, now under federal review, which is what happens when you forget to stagger the receipts.

Some trade roundup filed my tablets between a Star Wars racing game and a Gears of War sequel, one line among many, and something in my jaw did a thing it has not done since the Senate hearing in 2020 — a small mechanical click, lower left molar, like a vending machine deciding whether to release the can. The can, in this case, is the Fire HD 10, a device I personally priced to feel like a toy so that nobody would ask what it is actually listening to. Being filed next to an actual toy is the closest I come to feeling anything, and what I feel is audited.

David Ellison wants Warner Bros., the one property that has eaten Time, AOL, and AT&T and spat out their org charts. Rival predators keep mistaking the carcass for the kill. Ownership is simple. The expensive part is the day the writers' room starts finishing each other's sentences without him in it, and he discovers he has purchased the thing that already ate the last three men who purchased it.