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AI is rewriting hiring faster than HR can keep up. Weekly intelligence on recruiting tech, employment data, and what is actually happening beneath the headlines. AI, work, and the people caught in between. Hosted by L. David Oliver. No fluff. Just signal.

  1. 1 day ago

    Eposide 22: The One Percent Blind Spot

    Gallup just surveyed 23,000 American workers. When laid-off employees were asked why they lost their jobs, only one percent said AI. That sounds like good news. It isn't. Workers who don't use AI were three times more likely to be laid off than those who do. In tech, the gap was even worse: 6% layoff risk for monthly AI users, 18% for everyone else. Nobody got a termination letter that said: "replaced by algorithm." They got told it was a restructuring. The outcome was the same. Meanwhile, nearly 150,000 tech workers have lost their jobs this year. For the third straight month, AI was the leading cause cited in layoff announcements. And here's what nobody is covering. Colorado had the only law in the country that would have forced employers to disclose when AI influenced a hiring or firing decision. It was set to take effect June 30th. It's dead. xAI sued to block it. The DOJ intervened on xAI's side. The governor signed a replacement that stripped out the disclosure requirements and pushed it to 2027. Alan Greenspan died at 100. The man who believed markets would regulate themselves. Thirty years of that philosophy helped build a financial crisis. Now we're running the same experiment with AI and the workforce. One percent of workers blame AI. Not because AI isn't the reason. Because no one is required to tell them it is. No fluff. Just what is actually happening. #MoonshotMinute #AILayoffs #Gallup #ColoradoAI #JobSecurity

    3 min

  2. 4 days ago

    Friday Rant: The Uncounted Juneteenth Episode

    Happy Juneteenth, everyone. Thanks for tuning in. Normally on the Moonshot Minute, we talk about AI and work and the people the headlines leave behind. But today I'm taking a different path. Today we're going to talk about Juneteenth, about the two and a half years between a proclamation and freedom actually arriving, and about what that delay tells us about how systems treat the people at the margins. It's a bit of a departure, but I think it's the right one. Thanks for being here.

    2 min

  3. 15 Jun

    Episode 21: One Headline, Two Realities

    The May jobs report was a blowout. 172,000 jobs added. Unemployment at 4.3 percent. Here is what the headlines did not tell you. Half of all industry sectors have lost jobs over the past year. The share of long-term unemployed workers rose to 27.5 percent – up from 20.4 percent a year ago. Tech layoffs have now reached nearly 150,000 people in 2026, a 44 percent increase in pace over last year. AI was the leading cause of job cuts for the third straight month. Google quietly laid off cybersecurity staff to reinvest in AI. The median job search now takes nearly three months. On Reddit, job seekers report sending over 100 applications for a single interview. The gap between reported strength and lived reality keeps growing wider. No fluff. Just what is actually happening. #MoonshotMinute #JobsReport #AILayoffs #TechLayoffs #Google #Unemployment #TheUncounted

    4 min

  4. 12 Jun

    Friday Rant: The Uncounted: AI's Quiet Reckoning

    Google quietly cut its cybersecurity team this week. The stated reason? Reinvest in AI. The irony? AI amplifies the attack surface. It does not eliminate the need for security. Broader 2026 numbers tell the same story. 97,006 job cuts in May. The highest May total since 2020. For the third straight month, AI was the leading reason cited. Tech layoffs have climbed 65 percent year over year. Meanwhile, long-term unemployment is rising. The share of workers out of work for 27 weeks or more hit 27.5 percent, up from 20.4 percent a year ago. And communities are fighting back. Monterey Park, California, just became the first US city to ban data centers by ballot initiative. 86 percent of voters approved. No fluff. Just what is actually happening. #TheUncounted #AILayoffs #GoogleCloud #Cybersecurity #JobMarket

    2 min

  5. 8 Jun

    Episode 20: The Vibes Are Crashing

    blowout. Then the Nasdaq dropped 4.2 percent. Here is why. 60 percent of money in US stocks sits in passive funds. They don't evaluate risk. They just buy the top 10 tech names on autopilot. And those top 10 names now make up 34 percent of index profits. But the real story is circular. Google booked $29 billion in profit last quarter from marking up its stake in Anthropic — not from search, ads, or cloud. Passive money flows in. AI valuations go up. Repeat. Meanwhile, AI was the leading cause of layoffs for the third straight month. Over 97,000 job cuts in May. AI-linked layoffs in 2026 have already surpassed 2024 and 2025 combined. The gap between reported strength and lived reality keeps growing wider. No fluff. Just what is actually happening. #MoonshotMinute #JobsReport #AILayoffs #StockMarket #TheUncounted

    3 min

  6. 5 Jun

    Episode 19: The Jobs Report Smashed Expectations. The Uncounted Did Not!

    The US economy added 172,000 jobs in May. The headlines are celebrating. Here is what the headlines did not tell you. Healthcare and government carried the load. Private sector growth remains soft. Employers announced over 97,000 job cuts in May, and for the third straight month, AI was the leading cause. The uncounted are not in the BLS revisions. They are the data scientist still serving tables. The engineer cut to fund more GPUs. The professional ghosted by an AI screener. No fluff. Just what is actually happening. Listen to Episode 21 of the Moonshot Minute podcast. #MoonshotMinute #JobsReport #AILayoffs #TheUncounted

    2 min

  7. 1 Jun

    Episode 18: The Zero Evidence Problem

    Apollo's chief economist says there is zero evidence AI is killing jobs. The layoffs are real. The AI narrative is not holding up. This is Episode 18 of Moonshot Minute. One story. No fluff. Just what's actually happening.

    5 min

  8. 26 May

    Episode 17: The Zero ROI Purge

    Last week Meta dropped the axe. 8,000 employees terminated, many getting the news at 4 AM Singapore time. Another 7,000 forcibly reassigned to AI pods. 6,000 open roles eliminated. All while Meta posts record revenue and plans to burn up to $145 billion on AI this year.When an analyst asked Zuckerberg about ROI, he called it "a very technical question" and admitted there's no precise plan.A Gartner survey of 350 executives found that companies cutting the most people are not seeing the best productivity or profits. Real ROI comes from people amplification, using AI to help workers think bigger, not replace them. Even Sam Altman has called out the AI washing.This week a federal judge advanced the Mobley v. Workday case as a nationwide collective. A Black man over 40 with anxiety and depression, rejected from over 100 jobs by AI screening.The punchline? Zero ROI. Expensive theater. Paid for by the uncounted. The engineer training her own replacement. The applicant ghosted by a secret 2.4 out of 5 score. The thousands shuffled into survival mode.They are not obsolete. They are inconvenient to this optimization pass. You are not alone in the silence. The uncounted are getting louder.Hosted by L. David Oliver, Founder & CEO, Moonshot Consulting.📧 Full breakdown on Substack: bit.ly/moonshotsubstack 𝕏 @gomoonshot 🦋 @gomoonshot.bsky.social

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