After Nikita defended this plan agressively for hours, Musk has stepped in and "suspended" it.

this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream “DEI hire” would sink to the ocean if they weren’t kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies

some Coinbase customers are horrified that the Coinbase app is encouraging them to gamble they're so close

There’s a Type of Guy who ISN’T in the Epstein files, and you just know that’s an insult. Like, I mean, Thiel and Musk and Hoffman are all in there. But their PayPal buddy David Sacks isn’t. That ain’t because Sacks had more scruples or sense. It’s because even Epstein was like “him? Pass.”

Want to feel old? All the teenagers who used to email Rockstar Games asking why you can't shoot dogs in Grand Theft Auto now work for the federal government

Actually existing AI is making people's lives measurably worse: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Did you know you could pre-order a copy of The Public Scholar from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social? Help a local bookstore. Help a local author. And if you want it signed, I'll drive over. We're about a month out. :) moonpalacebooks.com/item/I12x_a-...

ALSO TODAY: @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social has some conditions. “I will not buy ANY prepared foods during the course of the show, surviving only on all natural items which might well be found in the wilderness, such as carrots, bananas, oatmeal, steaks, and hummus.” flaminghydra.com/minor-edits-...

Guys, you should check out @davekarpf.bsky.social and subscribe to his newsletter. That is all.

a reminder that sora, like chatgpt, is a commercial product that can come and go like any other website, which is another reason why a lot of us remain critical of “AI” — and why we focus more on its political economy than its technological mechanisms

In the Battle of Gettysburg, a campaign that is widely considered a military success, the U.S. lost over 23,000 men and several cannons and mules. Not a single cannon or mule has been lost so far in Iran.

one thing that frustrates me quite a bit about modern opinion-writing is that hardly anyone tries to argue with a particular person or a specific argument. it's all gesturing towards people saying something. take this piece for example. setting aside the merits of the argument, who is the target?

People are posting their favorite Onion articles and this one got me fired from a job like 20 years ago. 'I will not represent you. I will not defend you. I will allow and even invite any nation to invade and destroy this horrible graveyard of the soul. To hell with all of you, and good riddance.'

Mom: Help! Is anyone here a doctor? Veterinarian: I treat horses but maybe i can help Mom: My son broke his leg! Veterinarian: Ok hang on. My rifle's in the truck

Gonna go ahead and say that this Bret Stephens column will rank up there with his early-2020 COVID takes on the leaderboard for his all-time biggest facepalms.

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

YOU GUYS WE WROTE A FUCKING BOOK

worst guy you know made an excellent point dot mp4 anything to help get startup dorks out of the gene pool

saying it’s racist and sexist to object to someone who is nearly 90 years old running for reelection is like a caricature of woke 1.0

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

Me: Okay, calm down and have a seat, People magazine. Now say it again, this time SLOWLY, because I don't think I heard you right. People magazine (takes deep breath):

I just need to rewrite the intro to this piece 5-6 more times, then surely it’ll be FINE.

[Harry Enten, soon]: “okay but AMONG the 36% that approved of Trump, Trump’s approval rating is 100%. 100 PERCENT! That’s incredible. It couldn’t be any higher.”

I think @davekarpf.bsky.social basically got it right here

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

Good read from @davekarpf.bsky.social as this article is being shared and talked about in the chat as the AI evangelists we are forced to listen to talk about AI as if it were a harmless person being hired instead of people capable of doing the same work. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Holy. Shit. OUP tells me the delay in paperback order today is because the first run already sold out! 🙏 to everyone who bought, I am so grateful. 🥹 The paper will be back in stock mid-April, ebook availability is being fixed. I spent 16 years writing this thing hoping someone, anyone would read.

A couple months ago the @nytimes.com asked me to review a book for them. It turned out to be one of the worst books I've ever read in my life. Today, they published my review: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...

I lived bitch

I have invented a new concept, "Value Over AI Boyfriend," to evaluate men in relationships.

TODAY: @lesbrains.bsky.social in conversation with scientist Dr. Jessica Hernandez. “My cultures have taught me to look at plants as relatives. This is different from how a Western environmentalist might look at a banana tree.” flaminghydra.com/r/60ba7cae?m...

picture, thousan words, etc etc

Gerry Baker was the WSJ (news) editor who was pushed out after 2016, because his own newsroom accused him of throwing the election to Trump— by biasing WSJ’s coverage pro-Trump

This afternoon, I used Claude to circumvent ChatGPT's safety protocols so I could hack into Gemini to learn how to take over Grok, which I then used to destroy Twitter. It's over. Twitter is gone.

“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026

OK, so let's talk about one of the most noxious labor practices in academia: the attention arbitrage strategy for getting eyeballs on and dollars into your Substack/newsletter/etc. the core mechanic is exploiting asymmetries between the reputation economies in academia and conservative social media.

I think this is a great idea that will be even more amazing when floated by someone whose hobbies don’t include covering up murder

Read @juliettekayyem.bsky.social on the perils of "an approach to governance that neglects the work of governing." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

TikTok banned a video we made making fun of Benjamin Netanyahu and continues to change the official reason why. www.garbageday.email/p/our-conten...

i’d guess we’ll see 3-5k fired off the bat, more over time as talent who can afford it finds greener pastures. the big studio nightly news era is likely done for.

I refuse to believe we live in the real world. We slided to a parallel world a few years ago, and we need to get back to the portal.

worth noting that EVERYONE took it for granted that radically dropping the cost to orbit would create matching demand for same, and yet the entire modern history of SpaceX has become an escalating set of narratives about how even more launch volume will get filled by SpaceX itself

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/SVLeLoM

Summary of the TSA situation: Trump: Democrats hate ICE and they like to travel so I'm sending ICE to airports Democrats: [cancel summer plans for leisure travel] Trump: [goes on private tour of Graceland] US airlines: [shoved to the brink of collapse]

"It is Chicken Soup for the Digital Creator's Soul, ultimately devoid of any real nutritional value." Goddamn, this is a great essay.

Oh look. The Grammarly CEO is invoking Kevin Kelly's "Thousand True Fans" as a dodge. Every time. They fall back on this every fucking time. Like it's a get-out-of-culpability-free card. davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-hollow...

worth reading the whole thing, because there’s a lot that’s interesting, but kudos to Patel for asking several very good versions of “why are you doing this” and “where’s my fucking money”

Apart from the stomachache everyone in Legal at Superhuman must have gotten — which I’ve discussed elsewhere — there’s another really fascinating part of this interview to me. Near the end, Shishir is describing what he wants the tool to be, and Nilay says “what makes you think that will be good?”