everything's computer

plus shock market updates, woolly mice, and petty trolling

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Amber Rhodes & Dillon Young
March 14, 2025 • Est. Reading Time: 7 minutes

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TL;DR

  • When you’re feeling overwhelmed just remember this: Everything’s computer.

  • Did you know? Hiring managers have egos!

  • The CEO of Bluesky does some next level t-shirt trolling at SXSW.

Some sayings are so good that they become instant classics. Let us introduce you to this one:

President Trump hopped into the driver’s seat of a Tesla (and maybe a car?) for the first time ever this week and dropped a statement that is simultaneously hilarious and also so so true when he excitedly exclaimed “Wow…everything’s computer!”

And you know what? We agree.

Everything is computer.

💥 Shock Market Updates 💥

After a week/month/not-quite-quarter-year full of surprises, we’re doing something a little different today: Shock Market Updates – a.k.a. surprising, weird, tech and business news shaping headlines.*

Let’s get into it!

🔻Founder fundraising

Venture capital firms are noticing a “vibe shift” with the newest cohort of Y Combinator startup founders: they’re less likely to seek funding and more likely to stay lean so they can maintain a larger ownership stake in their companies.

🔻Tesla’s popularity

Tesla shares plunged by 15% earlier this week, experiencing its most severe drop since 2020. This might surprise some folks since Tesla shares hit a high ($479.86) in December 2024. But for those paying close attention to Tesla, you’ve probably noticed steady losses for the past 7 weeks straight.

🔺Free Tesla advertising

It might be a bad time to be a Tesla shareholder and Tesla vehicle owner, but at least they got a free White House lawn infomercial out of it! (See: title of this edition)

🔺Elbows

In the ongoing will-they-or-won’t-they start an all out trade war between the US and…everyone, Canada has come out swinging with their response to the tariffs: “Elbows up” 🏒

🔻Grocery prices

Consumers got some relief from inflation last month, with the cost of groceries (other than eggs, of course) holding relatively steady. 

🔻Meta’s chill factor

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are being decidedly unchill by attempting to block a tell-all book by a former director of global public policy. The ruling stated that the author, Wynn-Williams, needs to halt promotion of the book—but the ruling didn’t say anything about the publisher.

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Mundus sine Caesaribus

sold out in 30 minutes!!

As a board-certified hater, respect where respect is due. Bluesky’s CEO, Jay Graber, trolled Mark Zuckerberg on stage at SXSW without saying a thing about him or Meta.

Graber wore a shirt parodying the t-shirt that made waves last year when Zuck wore it on stage for a Meta Connect keynote. Zuckerberg’s shirt said Aut Zuck aut nihil — meaning “either Zuck or nothing” — in reference to the Roman dictator’s statement: aut Caesar aut nihil.

In assumed response, Graber’s shirt at SXSW said Mundus sine Caesaribus — “a world without Caesars.”

The shirts were so popular with users that they decided to sell them on the site for $40 each, and sold out in half an hour.

That’s masterclass level petty trolling, and we love to see it.

🫖 What's the tea?

  • Scientists want to revive the woolly mammoth, and they made a woolly mouse in the process! Gosh, this thing is cute.

  • Popular tech layoff tracker, Layoffs.fyi, now tracks government employee layoffs by DOGE. The current total is 35,983.

  • Watch this woman and her cat reunite after two months of missing her pet due to the LA wildfires. 🥹

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