Peter Thiel, everybody

timely

holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly

More than any other public voice, Doctorow's AI take comes closest to articulating how I feel about the whole thing. Is it a bubble? Yes. Does that mean it's worthless? No. Do I worry about copyright? Mostly no, though I worry a lot about labor & monopolies, not to mention bias & defaults.

Hi everybody, I organized the #Artemis2 photos for you. Index pages containing all ~10,000 images in chronological order with time stamps and focal lengths, color coded by which of three cameras was used to shoot them. countlessworlds.com/data/artemis/

Amazing. At age 20, Lionel Messi did a UNICEF Barcelona photo shoot for a calendar, of him giving a baby a bath. That baby was Lamine Yamal. It’s his first World Cup, and Messi’s last. They’ll play against each other. What a crazy story.

This is my first father's day without dad. Thinking back to a year ago, my heart goes out to all the folks handling things involving their parent(s).

The thing is you gotta be obsessed with the Nazi regime to even reach for a Bonhoeffer reference here and you gotta be an incredibly twisted soul to think Bonhoeffer’s nonviolent heroism is the tragedy we can’t repeat in that story.

Thanks, Vogue, for profiling Cheeks and Jessica!

Is there a prediction market for whether we'll have an actual smiting tonight?

"Niantic grew out of Keyhole, a geographic data firm that took funding in 2003 from In-Q-Tel, the venture arm financed by the CIA. . . . Keyhole CEO John Hanke went on to lead the team behind Google Maps, Google Earth, and Street View."

“the Greatest Rally, EVER” Better than the Nuremberg Rallies?

Great explainer from @crampell.bsky.social on why we’ll all be invested in Musk open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I feel like we’re in for many years of “haha, they were spending taxpayer money on bug condoms—DOGE to the rescue!” turning out to be something important Elon’s Tween Team didn’t understand.

We're all fsckd

OK, sure. Use your platforms to cover █████'s bruises, his concert lineup, and the playmobile on the whitehouse lawn.

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

**The Trump administration is sending ships to rip 900 ocean sensors out of the Atlantic and Pacific — and Congress already told them twice they couldn't do it.** They're doing it anyway. Hurricane season started today.

In the absence of real data, the truth is only what you say it is.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

That's pretty unambiguous.

holy shit nobody has ever answered a question worse

LoL I just looked up "Brain Salad Surgery" on google, and it suggested that I ask the AI "What replaced Lobotomies?".

Pet Peeve of these times. Solicitations for campaign contributions which spend 80% of their words talking about what he thugs are doing, and 0% about what they plan to do about it.

"Crucially, jurisdiction does not change until a plane lands at its destination, meaning if an attorney knows what plane her client is on and can prove she filed before it landed, ICE has to fly them back the district, keeping them closer to their family, their legal team, and fairer judges."

The shriveled toad who thinks he's in charge will NEVER know this experience of joy.

It's been a rough few weeks for all my trans homies out there, so I just want to say you are loved for who you are and fuck whatever those assholes want you to be. I hope the hate in their hearts eats them alive. But you, you deserve love.

Pete Hegseth’s brother, Philip Hegseth, is a podcast producer for ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ [aka “a16z”] & recently joined the DHS as a liaison to the “Dept of War”. (ICYMI, A16z was co-founded by Peter Thiel ally Marc Andreessen.) 1/

Interesting how fascist republicans falsely claimed all Jan 6 terrorists were paid actors, undercover FBI agents and Antifa to pretend it wasn’t MAGA voters but now they’re okay with paying them nearly $2B in stolen taxpayer dollars. Funny how that works.

Exactly right. This isn't a challenge artists have to respond to, it's an ugly expression of bigotry from a billionaire. This is his problem, not theirs. Leave them out of it.

"James M. Morris, attorney for the plaintiffs, said Kentucky cannot underfund its public HBCU for decades and then use the resulting financial problems to dismantle the institution."

This is important and one to keep an eye on.

" . . . Republicans and Democrats alike have been slow to act. Under President Joe Biden, the Environmental Protection Agency in 2024 established the first PFAS drinking water protections. The Trump administration has announced plans to roll back some and delay enforcement of others."

It's on-brand that Kash Patel's "branded" Bourbon is made by a union-busting company.

This is really fucking bad

Airline ticket prices are surging. A major culprit? Rising jet fuel costs due to Trump's Iran war. But there's also the underlying concentration in the industry. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Less competition makes it easier for the biggest players to price-gouge.

"Puerto Rico, along with just a couple of U.S. states, allows inmates to vote." Those states are Maine and Vermont.

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

One thing that is crystal clear to me is that we lack true intergenerational relationships in this country. The 80s and 90s were an absolute SHITSHOW on multiple levels and particularly so depending on your social location.

"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Feels like a good week to reemphasize this from @sifill.bsky.social. To her point, some suggested readings: bookshop.org/lists/books-...

So, Now we know the genesis of the Trump/Hegseth execution of the war on Iran!

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

Exhibit 1M of when we tell you about people in the TESCREAL bundle and you attack us, one by one they've been shown to be worse than whatever we said. “According to my understanding, the girls you were involved with were old enough to know what they were doing, www.codastory.com/authoritaria...

"If you ever uploaded a voice sample to Mercor, or to any of the other AI training brokers that operated through 2025, treat your voice the way you would treat a leaked password. You cannot rotate it, but you can change what it unlocks. Here is the short list."

How did I do with this bit of my estate sale haul today?

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.