arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.”

not to give them any ideas, but I'd be more likely to (accidentally) click a twitter link if they looked as indecipherable as mastodon links

One way to know that most people don't value missing a flight at the last minute at merely the price of the ticket is how they react when a flight is oversold and the airline tries to pay people for their seat at the gate. . The late to the airport discourse is off the rails.

Yeah Carville is scary, thanks google

There are a lot of smart objections going around and Palantir has been evil for ages, but also these tech bros, smdh: 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

I can't wait for chekhov's gun to go off in a www.youtube.com/@USCSB video arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/r...

Guys don't listen to these jerks, it's fine to take pictures of plants

remember the carefree days of yore, when the byeatholon champ's ex girlfriend didn't want to hear about it

I'd prefer to abolish ICE and make airlines pay for their own security. But given federal budgets, seems less dangerous to have these guys in airports around rich people. At least they're off the streets and away from normal people.

age 3 or younger! be transgressive and edgy with your unsafe food choices, whatever, but don't poison children with raw milk arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Democrats were mean to Bondi and now /s

I see people worried about having to maintain slop code but isn't it even scarier to imagine being told to maintain slop prompts?

all those influencers wouldn't be in Dubai if we'd stuck with Minitel

if anybody wants to feel worse about nuclear proliferation not tied to last night, arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

In honor of Twin Peaks, I'll release this to the Internet today: I want a #Swarovski Log

the venn diagram of people who 1 - think the desire to prosecute Epstein's associates is a moral panic, and 2 - think it'd be bad if billionaires stopped billiionairing if we raised taxes is a circle

international tourism is mostly (subsidized co2 emitting) consumption and displaying status for rich tourists, not concern for helping or understanding people near the destination see the coverage of Puerto Vallarta

is anybody brave enough to let their agentic AI make sports bets for them

it's the super bowl so remember to vocally make fun of people who do sports betting whenever those commercials come on

It's important for sports to teach people, especially children, teamwork, dedication, all that jazz. But is curling maybe the GOAT sport for preventing any participant or observer from conflating athletics with toxic masculinity?

poor guy spent four years in prison because an unregulated financial institution didn't secure a hundred billion dollars of customer assets, now he's begging for work and the execs responsible for that and other crimes are probably all super rich arstechnica.com/security/202...

A lot of Schumer supporters here insist that he has his finger on the pulse and knows how to speak effectively to the idiots of America, in a condescending tone to perceived idiots on this site who don't get it. As an idiot, that seems too clever by half. Maybe say what's most important instead idk

Gmail is putting this and a summary above emails when I open them. No google, you first

I prefer "peaty"

Exactly. It's not to show the ICE officer was in danger—the video he took himself shows he obviously isn't—but to show their supporters that the victim deserved to be murdered. And to show their opponents they can and will murder them in cold blood and with impunity.

gmail app is offering to "summarize this email" for an email that fits into two bsky posts. I would like a notification if a recipient ever does this, so I can avoid ever speaking to them again.

tired: fireworks wired: drone shows inspired: drones with air to ground anti-firework strike capability

"Russian oligarchs developed a taste for medieval battle in the 1990s and began to burn cash on major brawls with hundreds of people." They're just like Mr Beast (derogatory) www.esquire.com/sports/a6474...

The talk of datacenters in space is even dumber than I had thought. Imagine replacing one datacenter with a swarm of 18,000 satellites the size of the International Space Station (ISS) and flying in formation with high speed data links! 1/3

Check out this rock tuya youtu.be/_6TRkIWP9UI

I don't understand why the robots stopped and that's bad, but surely the more concerning failure is a large dense section of an American city losing power

"Good" ????? nyeditorialboard.substack.com/p/john-catsi...

(talking with the fellow nerds about low home energy efficiency) @wtyppod.bsky.social should do an episode about how America needs to activate windows

NYT headline after the AI bubble implodes: "the real chatbots were the diner patrons telling us gibberish about politics all along"

are schools teaching kids how to bet in PE class, yet?

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

these crypto bros should pay taxes to pay for regulators to protect them arstechnica.com/information-...

a 50+ year old electric ~vehicle that has no tablet, no plastic, almost no electronics, some wood, hopefully no asbestos, a manual transmission (speed control is even weirder than that), the original tires, and is still running. Wild youtu.be/bdtxmd8ze7E

Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy? 1/8 www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

Thomas Chatbot Williams

pestilence www.thecut.com/article/draf...

imagine going to work today and telling your esteemed colleagues that you want chuck schumer to be in charge

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Latest philosophy tube says carbon footprint is irrelevant because climate is a systemic problem, and also that each additional baby in a rich country means increased carbon emissions, and ignores both to get to [main topics]. These are commonly paired positions, but they are contradictory! 1/3

congratulations to everyone who gets to fly to a Thanksgiving dinner thanks to Schumer caving, you'll get to talk to Republican relatives about how evil Democratic politicians are

dudes rock youtu.be/cjZvFY6__qw

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

Pathetic. Shut down air travel until they fund HSR.

Geologist dismantles dating methods? The earth is the new manosphere.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."