How in the world do I keep working today after reading this? www.expressnews.com/news/texas/a...

I double-checked it myself. It's an actual post.

I have regression tested (made sure new stuff didn't break the old stuff) the same software god knows how many times over the years. Why? Because figuring everything is fine is how things break. In other words, don't👏trust👏AI.

Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters delivered a blunt message on the future of the bank’s workforce, warning that a push into artificial intelligence will eliminate thousands of roles as the lender replaces “lower-value human capital” with technology bloom.bg/4wCnbEb 📷️: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

“I’m baffled,” said Eric Diton, president [...] at The Wealth Alliance. “In the 40-plus years of my time on Wall Street, this is an unusual amount of trading by any standards.” “We’d need to see the actual trades to try and understand why anyone would want to do that much trading." *gift link*

California startup Atoco gave Bloomberg an exclusive demo of the commercial prototype of its atmospheric water harvester, tech that won its founder a 2025 Nobel. The machine adsorbs H2O molecules from air to produce water and can run just on sunlight. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Marines with medical conditions requiring shaving exemptions will be evaluated for possible separation if they cannot meet grooming standards within 12 months. Learn more: www.stripes.com/branches/mar... #Flashes

"For some speculators, bets on Trump-linked crypto ventures have ended in steep losses. Prices of WLFI and the Trump memecoins — not to mention shares of Trump Media or American Bitcoin Corp. — have all fallen sharply over the past year." *gift link*

I spend YEARS brainstorming and MONTHS outlining and that IS the work. Zero tolerance for this shit.

First thought: I can only imagine having visited so many places that I need the heavens to tell me where to go next. Second: Wonder what Gen X thinks of this? *gift link*

Philadelphia is America's Greatest City

As the world’s wealthy gathered in displays of money and influence this week, an underlying tension simmered: the anti-rich sentiment sweeping the country and the billionaires trying to fight against it

JUST IN: The Justice Department is taking an apparently new tack to overcome woes in attracting qualified lawyers: Offering $25,000 signing bonuses. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

Bloomberg News has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for “trAPPed,” a graphic novel depicting the trials of a woman in India held under “digital arrest” as part of a widespread and ruinous scam

Biased AI platforms are hard to catch, partly because they've been trained to have a friendly face. That digital smile, however, disguises the prejudice behind it

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Ice cream scoop SCOOP > Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams has hire the former head of Ben & Jerry’s, David Stever, to be its new CEO. Ben & Jerry’s said Stever was fired by parent company Unilever over tensions about left-leaning social activism. By Kristina Peterson > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An important law that authorizes government surveillance is up for renewal, but @Congress needs to close some loopholes first

Connie Ballmer, a one-time NPR foundation trustee and the wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, is donating $80 million in a record gift from a living donor, the news organization said Thursday in a statement

Detective Comics by Grant, Breyfogle & Mitchell and Batman written by several people but all with art by Aparo & DeCarlo. Such different looks, but both classic.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Immediately following the order, the university said it plans to file an appeal due to "privacy and First amendment concerns." 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4m46VXq

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

What I learned reading the 1866 Congressional debates about the citizenship clause. From last year, but I just made a gift link because (1) it's topical and (2) gotta use all those gift links by the end of the month. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Nice headline. www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

A subscriber considers cancelling after increase in clickbait headlines.

So it's not just me thinking this. (Gift link.)

It’s a long interview but read the whole thing because you gotta see this whole conversation where Patel is like people fucking hate AI because it only takes and provides nothing useful and Grammarly is like that’s your opinion.

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

Officials link the reduction in violent crime to eliminating the local police department.

Breaking: Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform for a lower price than his original $44 billion bid, a jury concluded

Holy shit, someone found MST3K KTMA episode 3, Star Force II, at a garage sale. Lost media since 1988. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Z4...

WXPN host Kathy O'Connell is retiring after nearly 40 years on Philly airwaves. Her show 'Kids Corner' is also ending

Allow me to convey my hateness for this likeness shit. You wanna see the dead actor? Go watch all the movies they acted in when they were alive. You want new movies? Give new actors paid acting jobs to make new movies. Stop this shit.

Around this house, Adam Scott is referred to as "my guy," I love haunted hotel stories, and Oddity was a very creepy movie. I'm really looking forward to going out to see Hokum.

Accept me or else… #irish #ireland #irishamerican

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

Very kind of Yellow Cab to not look back in anger.

Last night, I had the fact that 2026 is the US's 250th anniversary mansplained to me. Not anything about it, just that it is. Guess I seemed like I forgot. 🤦‍♂️

Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer said he has not been contacted directly by anyone from the Pentagon about the changes, despite reaching out to them. Read more:

The war is pushing Iran’s water systems to the brink of collapse

NEW: Grammarly got hit with a class-action lawsuit this afternoon over its AI "expert review" feature that uses real experts' likenesses without their consent. @juliaangwin.com is the only named plaintiff. @milesklee.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/gramma...

The US has burned through over 1,000 Patriot interceptors ($4 million each) to stop an onslaught of Iranian drones ($20k to $50k each). Using my last gift link from Bloomberg, which is doing some of the best reporting anywhere on the war. 🎁 🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

How long can the Iran War last before it triggers an oil crisis? @javierblas.bsky.social explains 🎥 Watch the full livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/spEVJKj...

President Trump’s eldest sons are investing in a new drone company, expanding their defense portfolio at a moment when the Pentagon is ramping up its own spending on unmanned aircraft systems.

Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire. John D. Rockefeller’s rise shows how wealth at that scale reshapes markets and politics.

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! The FBI just turned over nearly 100 pages of emails to me that provides additional context and color related to the FBI's resistance to searching Trump's Mar-a-Lago for classified & other docs he took after he left office in 2021 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...