The president cannot handle the “Trump Surrenders” and “Iran Wins” headlines. His ego is fragile right now, even for him. And there’s no way to avoid headlines like that, no matter how much he lies. The truth is too big and too blatant. So yeah, I seconded the prediction that it isn’t happening now.

It sucks that we can't believe anything the federal government says. It's depressing and dangerous.

It's really wild. They just parrot whatever dribbles out of his head

Trump makes big threats he transparently fears to carry out Trump lies that there’s major progress in peace talks, lies that Iran is making concessions, media reports it as fact Iran reiterates its position, contradicting Trump’s lie Trump makes big threats… How many times do we have to do this?

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Mr. Trump’s Presidency will be all but over — except for impeachment 3.0 — if the GOP loses control of Congress .. “.. Does he want his remaining legacy to be a ballroom, an Arc de Trump, and payoffs for his friends ..?” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

Important, on AI profitability: "Musk and his Silicon Valley buddies don’t appear to be doing so well today. Chinese AI makers are beating them in sales in the rest of the world and seem to be gaining ground ... The US stuff sells for five to ten times as much as what the Chinese producers charge."

Wall Street says that a company that loses billions is worth trillions, because it is run by a guy who lies all the time about everything (Elon Musk) cepr.net/publications...

One in four cars sold in 2025 was electric. The International Energy Agency (IEA) just published its latest annual Global EV Outlook. It provides estimates for electric vehicle sales in 2025. One in four (25%) cars sold in 2025 were electric, more than double the share from just four years earlier

The Republicans are the primary reason this con man is still in office. (cartoon from the archives)

SpaceX rocket bursts into flames during Indian Ocean landing – video

If the White House thinks war on Cuba will make their Iran war problems go away, they are sorely mistaken.

Quantifying the explosion of fake AI citations in the research literature--146,932 BS cites in papers from 2025 alone. Depressingly but unsurprisingly, social-science work had the most fake citations. Write-up of these results in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

How are you bringing in the weekend? The president of the United States is posting about building a messianic golden defensive force field around the White House and annexing Greenland

CBS News Radio ends today. It’s a major loss for the US

Trump self-deals, lies and seems to fall asleep in meetings. The media treats it all as ‘priced in’ | Margaret Sullivan

Coming up on June, and still no oil or fertilizer going through the Strait of Hormuz, despite that the upcoming near-catastrophic impact of that not being featured in the press or fully factored in by Wall Street. From IMF/Oxford Portwatch: portwatch.imf.org/pages/cc317b...

the iran war may be putting the u.s. in a readiness hole for any conflict with china www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Any time anyone ever tells you that the biggest companies in the world wouldn’t waste hundreds of billions of dollars on AI, show them this. This is the core profit center of one of the largest tech companies in the world, and it’s run like a sloppy pre seed startup in the web3 era

‘While some cling to the promise of an AI “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied.’ fortune.com/2026/05/22/m...

Really think we could stand to drop the utterly credulous headline style of "Billionaire says doorway to Narnia will be open by 2027"

I think we've crossed an important threshold. Trumpism as a political project is facing new levels of peril: *Fox poll shows Trump coalition imploding *GOPers abandoning him on ballroom *Slush fund in deep trouble *War and economy bleeding him out New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2108...

What an incredible burn/indictment

surveys conducted during the biden administration showed that americans thought *unemployment was at record highs* during the biden administration though. straight up misinformed

The Late Show aired its final episode on Thursday, bringing an end to Stephen Colbert’s decade-long run as host and the show’s 32-year run as CBS’s premier late-night talk show.

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

News: OpenAI had a negative 122% operating margin in Q1 2026, and ChatGPT growth has stalled. Based on its current trajectory, OpenAI is on course to lose over $36 billion in 2026. www.wheresyoured.at/news-openai-...

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

/7 This encapsulates how Trumpism and Trumpist prosecutors have destroyed, probably for a generation at least, the reputation of DoJ and federal prosecutors.

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

Jesus christ! OpenAI had a negative 122% operating margin for Q1 2026 and growth in ChatGPT has stalled. Very nice Mr. Altman! Well done sir! www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

I figured there would be shady conduct with the Broadview Six grand jury, but it's unreal. Vouching is bad enough, but dismissing grand jurors who disagreed with them, hiding a no true bill, and hiding pages of the transcript from the judge? That should be disbarment. That's WAY beyond sanctionable.

This is extremely lawless and corrupt by the Trump DOJ. So, par for the course. The presumption of regularity is a joke now, and federal prosecutors won’t recover the esteem they had from federal judges for a generation. (Which, actually, is fine.)

"The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech. France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickly following suit."www.wired.com/story/the-eu... #digitalsovereignty

Still cant believe that Trump fucked up so hard that he single handledly brought this into existence

Sources: Starbucks shut down an AI program for automating inventory counts, nine months after deploying it, after it frequently miscounted and mislabeled items (Waylon Cunningham/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

a company claiming to be worth $1.75 trillion reporting a $4.9 billion net loss on $18.67 billion in consolidated revenue for 2025, all run by a white supremacist fake engineer with a head full of cottage fucking cheese I'm sure it will go fine

Trump's now campaigning against the Republican Party by making his egoism and corruption the centerpiece of his misrule. GOP politicians, who have spent a decade aiding and abetting their decaying Leader, deserve to - and must - reap what they have sown. The future of the nation depends on it.

I guess this was too subtle for some folks. I was pointing out that the story is that Elon Musk's company has massive losses, but somehow its stock is expected have a multi-trillion valuation. Call me old-fashioned, but I thought companies were supposed to make profits.

Oh look! The xenophobic and inhumane policy of forced deportations has had the opposite of its intended effect on U.S. employment. Who could have possibly guessed this (besides every economist and historian)‽ “American-born workers lost more jobs than immigrants as a result of the deportations.”

Walmart warns of petrol rationing as Iran war hits customers’ wallets ft.trib.al/CCKe6Zz

In honor of Stephen Colbert’s final show, my cartoon when first hearing his show had been cancelled: open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Literally what I would like to know. How can I move my 403b out of this stuff

You think inflation is bad right now?

So how will SpaceX make money? Enterprise application of Grok. 80% of their TAM. Do you know any business using Grok? Of course not. Nobody does. This $6.355B loss in 2025 is understated; the $1.7B GPU depreciation wasn't AI R&D, it was a cost of AI revenue. The real AI loss in 2025 was $8.028B. /16

Elon claims SpaceX is mainly going to make money--more than twenty trillion dollars per year--selling AI stuff. press X to doubt bsky.app/profile/maxk...

The president who incited an insurrection is using taxpayer $ to compensate the insurrectionists, while this man, who illegally dismantled the government & killed hundreds of thousands is becoming a trillionaire off of his government contracts. A total failure of our polity & our Constitution.

Nice way of saying we failed in saving money, but we did fuck up your government

His stock is a sucker's bet. His AI is a joke; his satellites have competition on the horizon; rockets are government largesse; he's a terrible manager. Musk’s SpaceX discloses massive losses ahead of expected record-breaking IPO www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...