Meta losing in court *and* OpenAI shutting down Sora??? But it's not even my birthday… 🥹

This says a lot about why Disney was pushing for a deal. They've hated their animators in every generation and incarnation of the company.

doing a deep dive into openclaw's security model, and it pretty much resembles putting C4 with a brain on the command line and saying have a nice day. prompt Approval fatigue is the new threat vector.

Putting out my periodic call: if you have a book coming out about finance, econ, politics, media or tech, send me a galley. DM me and I’ll give you my email for your PR people. We do author interviews for Slate Money’s Money Talks series and I’m always thinking about columns on these topics

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But big business got what they paid for, right? A gold-plated president with “business experience”? It’s a shame so much of his experience has been bankrupting them.

This was one of my 2026 predictions. The Sora launch was a disaster from start to finish, and OpenAI is smart to wind it down

I'm honing my critique of the US Senate for a piece for @liberalcurrents.com & the point this illustrates is that the Senate has managed to preserve its own collegial, compromise-oriented institutional culture in a sea of partisan animosity at the cost of making the whole political system incoherent

It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.

"The new technology, which can automate “low-value” tasks for faculty such as rubric generation, content alignment and discussion reviews, “frees educators to focus more on mentoring, feedback and meaningful learning experiences,” This labeling of "high" and "low" is entirely disingenuous

Mullin has a hard time wording words.

Man people say weird crap about AI and class, I don't even understand the underlying claims sometime. It will help working class people become writers? Working class people write.

Report on Jackskid, one of the four IoT DDoS botnet taken down by the FBI last week: github.com/deepfield/pu... This is what China's CERT was calling RCtea last month: www.cert.org.cn/publish/main...

I’m at ICE HQ

Wow. Looks like Trump just lost Amazon Web Services its contract with Finland for cloud-based management of election information. No price given. But would be interesting to know how soon European digital sovereignty might start to mean something to US hyperscalers' bottom lines.

hope you don’t need anything that comes in [checks notes] plastic packaging

Every one of these stories reads like those articles from 1947 about how "scientists say that 95% of homes will be run on their own personal nuclear reactor" or whatever.

Well, well, well. Look who’s mail in voting. So, it’s good enough for you, but not millions of others? 🤔

So this appears to be a real FAFO situation here with this happening as a result of a Senate measure prohibiting special treatment for lawmakers. Which the Senate GOP proposed/passed to punish Dems for withholding DHS funding (which incl. TSA). I guess all the Republicans plan on flying private?

2026 so far. And it’s not even April yet.

If only there were some system available that provides some kind of procedure for getting around a recalcitrant president. Oh well...

Extortion

toad AND the wet sprocket? in this economy?

back in my day the economy was strong enough to afford two durans

*clears throat* EXCUSE ME, WHAT?????? I NEED MORE INFORMATION!!! MINUTE TO MINUTE UPDATES!!! PHOTOS!!! VIDEOS!!!! EYE WITNESS TESTIMONIALS!!!!! “We wanted to inform everyone that a wild turkey has made its way onto the 4th floor as of yesterday.” WHAT!??????????!!!!

Fetterman is so much worse than dead weight.

Whoever said “When it comes time to hang the last capitalist, they’ll sell you the rope” never considered that rope would be so expensive.

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

Yikes. Well, he’s telegraphing the outcome like a warning siren.

DHS shutdown causing travel delays? Worry not: Some of America's least-trainable gym felons are stationed over by the Gordon Biersch looking at Kalshi on their phones

Going to need a welfare check on Superhuman’s lawyers

Who could have guessed that these people were willing to trash thousands of ballots? 🧐🤔

yeah so I don’t think the choice we’re being offered is “pay the police to play Candy Crush or pay them to lock up your neighbors” it’s that this even *being a job* is a choice and we can unmake it at any time

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS PITTER PATTER. LET’S GET AT ‘ER

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A judge has allowed the DOGE deposition videos back online. After originally ruling plaintiffs had to "claw back" the videos and them being removed from YouTube, the judge has now said the videos fall "squarely within that core public interest." Now back on YouTube www.404media.co/judge-allows...

A crime against nature, the Earth, and humanity in the age of climate crisis. Disgusting.

Mmm… you just have to love good old presidential extortion.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

There is no reason to force clerks to wait until Election Day to count absentee/mail-in ballots received days in advance. The sole reason is to intentionally delay counting in big cities & create late "waves" of ballots that the GOP can then cite as evidence of fraud. myvote.wi.gov/en-us/How-Yo...

abughazaleh told voters she was 26, but only days after the election, revealed she would be 27 - what does this mean for the progressive left?

Imagine if Trump had a conscience, how incompetent he’d feel about the situation with TSA.

“I feel pretty. Oh so pretty…” 🎶

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)

They've got ICE agents milling around the airports, doing nothing to actually alleviate the lines. It won't be long before some angry traveler says something to one of these trigger-happy goons and all hell breaks out.

HOWLING

This…. Doesn’t feel random

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…