I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure this subhead doesn't come true

Come for the "low overhead." Stay for the need to professionalize to compete by spending money on overhead. www.adweek.com/media/stream...

It's great that this game is coming out just a few weeks after the response to DLSS5 was generally "what if photorealism isn't the end-all goal?"

Extracting ransom payments is actually the one genuine use case crypto has consistently had for a decade or so

The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

A few weeks ago we talked to @strngwys.bsky.social about what to look for in a used EV The most important thing I learned during this conversation: Recent studies show that EV batteries degrade much slower than we expected!

Crescent...Earth

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

Podcasts have become Hollywood’s safest press stop. How stars decide who to talk to, how edits work, and the celeb podcast pecking order revealed. lamaterial.com/p/the-unwrit...

Two ideas we need to bring back: public works and being a public servant Who owns the roads? We do! Who owns public schools? We do! Who's supposed to oversee timely upgrades to both? Our elected officials! You stop wondering where your taxes are going when you see those dollars at work

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

Cancel my afternoon, something important just came up

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holy smokes

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Pretty sure this is what happens when the President’s frame of reference for special ops is Rambo and everyone else around him is stuck on self-aggrandizing stories they heard on Shawn Ryan’s podcast

blocking any and all AI April fools shit

For context: the funding clawback Congress approved remains in effect. This suit was pursuant to the President’s initial executive order, one of many he issued later ruled illegal. Funding crisis for public media, sadly, remains.

News you can use!

American foreign policy very quickly went from “we don’t need anyone,” to “where is everyone”

I agree with this is broad strokes, but I think the reason the concepts “podcast” and “celebrity chat show” merged is because execs wanted an always-on show that had a built in audience Celebs became standard because YouTubers and other web-native creators didn’t need help doing very mid talk shows

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

I’m on that shit that made Aldrin buzzed

Section 230 came out of a supreme court ruling that a bookseller can't be expected to read and approve of the content of every book in his store. Now apply that to posts on social media, Zuck can't read and approve of every post on Facebook because the idea of the site wouldn't work anymore

Wow, I wonder if anything happened in court this week

And now a live look at what's been happening with Meta in the courts this week

Thinking about setting up a NAS, too bad it's the worst time in years to do it

Most of the quotes of this post are sitting in the schadenfreude of "a person who sucks is failing" when that's only like half the story I think the full picture is more like "a person who sucks was set up to fail so CBS news as a whole can be thrown in the trash more easily later"

Shot

lol

the types of podcasts: a guide

I have a friend, another producer, who made a Spotify corporate comms podcast for them (the logic: we're an audio company, our comms should have audio too) My friend said Spotify had NO IDEA what it was doing in terms of podcasts. One ideas to goose engagement involved quizzes after episodes

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

NEW: I went to the Polymarket "Situation Room" bar and it was a disaster. The host—Polymarket's head of growth—previously worked for MrBeast and that playbook was on full display even if the actual displays... didn't work. www.wired.com/story/polyma...

2 years ago people were speculating how expensive World Cup tickets could get Now we need to start considering the possibility of 2-for-1 deals to fill seats abandoned by most of the world's soccer fans

I'm really looking forward to listening to this

Now the entire country can experience what NYC has known for a long time: cops told told to look busy when they're really playing candy crush for several hours

This week on the @engadget.com Podcast, @anshelsag.bsky.social joined us to talk about NVIDIA's controversial DLSS 5 announcement. www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/en... We discussed where NVIDIA went wrong, as well as his first-hand impressions.

Wow I wonder why people don’t want to come to the US????

Huge oof

hotdogman meme

Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole

i am, effective immediately, opting out of the american century of humiliation. it will not apply to me. thank you!

Coming soon: A Little Play

Now for some good news: Afroman won the defamation suit brought against him by a bunch of Ohio cops. His attorney called one sheriff's ex-wife as a witness. She said everyone involved knew it was a joke, even as they filed the suit.

Kyla Scanlon x Public Radio is amazing

oh god, is Polymarket actually opening a bar in D.C. specifically for 'monitoring the situation'? Feels like OTB for the worst dork you've ever met

Bro it can’t even handle suburban gated communities?

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz