Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Musk says they don't want an injury or accident in the "robotaxi" expansion, and says there hasn't been one so far... his wording is ambiguous, but there have been 14 documented crashes in Austin so far, including some with injuries, so he's just kinda saying stuff here

Tesla cars are "very good value for money," Musk says, which is his way of admitting that their pricing power is collapsing

Why it was so important to keep Ultra secret for so long after WW2: the Soviets used their own version of the Enigma machine.

Every worst case scenario seems to just keep on happening.

Did the WHSmith Carpet account make it over from Twitter? There’s the stench of death about the business. Feels like late stage Woolworths.

Leavitt makes a case that Iran's use of "speedy gunboats" is actually evidence of how much Trump "completely obliterated" their navy 🤔

Six months to clear the Strait ahahahahahaha he's so fucked aaaaaahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa Oh also do any travel on ya'll's schedules like right the fuck now

iOS 26.4.2 Patches Flaw That Let FBI Extract Deleted Signal Messages

A Thunderbird in the hand is worth 2 Outlooks in the bush -- or in spaaaaace -- as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/f... Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice <- by me on @theregister.com

Artist Je Shen. His works are characterized by a "sedimentation" of color; he does not apply it uniformly, but rather gradually deposits it with thousands of small touches, creating vibrant surfaces that call for pointillism.

i had to triple check that this wasn't from a parody account

Brother laser printers. Awesome things.

Sorry but this is absolutely mad. Huge failing of all Chancellors for a decade and a half to allow this to happen. www.ft.com/content/c10e... Cut hours and avoid promotions: how the £100,000 tax trap is shaping work

Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill finished a 15-foot bronze statue of Donald Trump. But a fight over payment is getting international attention. Read more: bit.ly/4cGZhOM

The USS George H W Bush carrier strike group will arrive in the Middle East within 3-4 days, presumably ready for Trump’s deadline for Iran. Interested to see if he’s prepared to deplete the entire stock of munitions and leave the US defenceless. Of course, Iran knows this.

Grim but useful read. Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster economist.com/finance-and-...

First they came for evolution Then they came for climate science Then they came for epidemiology Then they came for, like, really really basic math

Twitter uses algorithms that ensure that 90% of the most visible accounts will be on the far right politically. Here's why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

The temptation among moderate Dems will be to leave Trump alone after the midterms. Their reasoning will be that he'll a lame duck and can do no more harm. That misreads him and the politics. 1) he'll act desperately and destructively and 2) people want to see him and the rest sent to the wall.

usual kind of bluesky irony where the person who gets yelled at/about for 'not doing anything important' is actually load bearing in some way people have totally missed

This will limit the ability of moustache-twirling guys with volcano lairs from contributing to British democracy.

"The resulting service, Starlink, underwent layoffs as SpaceX invested in research and development. But the bet paid off: Starlink now has 10 million subscribers and generated $8 billion in sales in 2024, according to documents obtained by The Times." if the bet "paid off" where are the profits??

“Elon is always directionally correct,” said Peter Diamandis, a SpaceX investor and the founder of the XPrize Foundation, a nonprofit that supports technological development. “His time frames may be off, but he’ll eventually get there.” no he isn't, that's not true

LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours

I'm starting to question the health benefits of a diet limited to beef tallow, "ferments," and road-kill.

ADOBE: welcome to photoshop. what would you like to do. here is an AI tool ME: i would like to draw a rectangle. i am selecting the rectangle tool ADOBE: did you say AI? ME: rectangle please ADOBE: sorry but i can only do that in an insane way now. here is a new layer and a vector for some reason

it's so crazy that we funneled billions in environmental subsidies to Tesla, only for it to become one of the most rampantly polluting companies in business today

There are going to be quite a lot of upgrades to OSes and browsers and decent apps over the next few months as the models find a bunch of long-running bugs but I both know know why we have to upgrade everything every month and also hate the disruption of it

To me it seems obvious there’s no future for ai-generated news as a business. If you build a system for automatically writing up all the high school sports games, what gives you confidence that feature doesn’t get built directly into Google or Facebook a year later?

“I want to be blunt. This is a dark pattern. It is also, in my professional opinion, a direct breach of Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC (the ePrivacy Directive) [3] as well as a multitude of computer access and misuse laws (usually criminal law)…” YIKES

*Lionel Hutz business card voice* 'No, pressure existed!'

Pro-Trumpkin village?

“Claude Desktop reached into Brave, a browser from a completely separate vendor, and registered a back door for a browser extension I do not have.”

Very much not a definitive list

Musk is nowhere in this

“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.” ― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

I'm not sure my French is good enough to understand the full subtleties of Libé's review of the Michael Jackson biopic

👂🏻 POD TIME 👂🏻 Me & our man in Lausanne, @robarmstrong.bsky.social, hanging out with the masters of the commodities universe, on the shit show in the middle east The commods gilet guys are *coining it* but still not up for Rob's jokes 🤣 Plus! Evil supervillains open.spotify.com/episode/1vDH...

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

“Reform plagued by vetting issues” Candidates found to have “grotesque” views. Come on. It’s not the vetting, is it. It’s the party. Whatever they do, they’ll always attract the racists, homophobes, misogynists and haters. Because that’s Farage. That’s Reform. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

please, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei... my people yearn for the ability to post images on niche microblogging websites

I love that every 72 hours or so Donald Trump tries to just quit the war in Iran

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating. One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.

most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators

You'll only drive it underground.

Breaking News: President Trump is said to be in talks to send Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.