even the contractarians should be blushing by now

Make this firing famous. They wanted to shut Scott Pelley up, just like Stephen Colbert. Make both their voices even louder. #StreisandEffect

[Me to Wall Street]: “Toe-pick” … “Toe-pick” … “Toe-pick” …

NEW: After Dan Berulis filed a whistleblower complaint against DOGE, Elon Musk boosted a post calling it false. Then Berulis' brake lines were cut. Now he's filed a defamation suit against Musk, which was unsealed this week. @telliotter.bsky.social has the scoop:

Aza Raskin invented the 'infinite scroll' used on Instagram (and has regrets about it). [ He also happens to be the son of Jef Raskin, the "human-computer interface expert who conceived and began leading the Macintosh project at Apple in the late 1970s." (source: Wikipedia) ]

Bref, perhaps we won't *actually* need quite so many 🦤centers.

Google’s $80bn equity raise adds to that giant AI sucking sound ft.trib.al/38xUS6o | opinion

The New York Post has “Zo” Derangement Syndrome.

The Streisand Effect meets NYC Mayor’s Charm Offensive The smiling sight of one’s mayor dressed in a suit and riding a bike is quite charming actually (just ask Paris, which has a charming bike-riding progressive mayor of its own.)

Nouvelle Vague ("The New Wave")

Haven't read the Complaint, but it seems the plaintiff here, Florida, filed a claim under the laws governing: Product Liability. An obvious legal ground for filing such claims, one would think.

Narrative skills. You should get some, Silicon Valley. There's a scene in one of the Steve Jobs movies, a back-and-forth exchange b/w the two Steves (Jobs & Wozniak): WOZ: A computer is not a painting. JOBS: Fvck you. WOZ: A computer is not a painting. JOBS: Fvck you. And so on. Think about it.

Tony Gilroy’s Peabody Award acceptance speech pulled no punches #Andor

🌳 🍎 🙄

Florida has become the first state to file a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT could harm users.

There’s a good marketing pitch in this for Europe, something that centers what Europe might offer: a sense of sanity and predictability in a crazy scary anxiety-maxxxing world. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

We do not help men when we emotionally stunt them

“PC vs Mac, the sequel” 🤖 🥊🍎

And SoftBank in France. Hmm.

[That photo + Tech-Tourism pitch] “China: 80% of Tomorrowland™️ for 50% of the price.”

EU looks more attractive in Trump’s ‘crazy world’, says Norway ft.trib.al/CvCHund

(stage whisper) You all, they are, like, desperately auditioning *new frontmen* for the AI band, because the current ones screwed up bad, bad, bad and now there are so. many. public relations problems.

Copy that re: Linktree. You have until July 5—the day after America's 250th birthday—to remove your IP.

“Your generation’s upcoming battle won’t be humans against AI… It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky.“ futurism.com/artificial-i...

The end of cheap ft.trib.al/f6j08FW

🚨🔥 For Your Consideration: "It would be a mistake to understand these weird worldviews as an ultimately harmless take by techies who grew up on a diet of dystopian science fiction. 1/5

I’ve never seen a Yahoo Finance headline that speaks this plainly.

A spirit animal for just about everyone in 2026.

Reading is fundamental. A "core skill," if you will. Finance media says.

When the French call out your lack of taste 🤺🩸

Trend alert: countries are competing for global capital by pitching themselves as future hubs for AI innovation. (See also, ‘Choose France’)

Some interesting shifts happening here, maybe. Or the beginnings of a good story. The Japanese tycoon and the French president... The change in SoftBank investments which have until now concentrated in the US, and Japan & Asia...

chef’s kiss, no notes

sometimes, scrolling through the comments section of a bluesky post feels a bit like being in a writers room full of smart and funny people.

“Masayoshi Son places France at the centre of his global AI ambitions.” (Hmm, didn’t see that coming. Are ‘they’ setting their sights and competing with Mistral?)

Fascinating. What a creative way to cash in. It’s like Disneyland but for tech enthusiasts, lol.

Genius. Guerrilla social-media marketing at its finest, ladies & gentlemen. [Click through for photo.]

lol (and that 🎼, haha — 👨‍🍳💋)

It's 'back to the future' in the tech industry. (Think: The Browser Wars, Take 3.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser...

Re: "move fast & break things" Reminds me of "we can fix it in Post." Yes, a number of production mistakes can be fixed later in Post—but not always. Some mistakes are fatal. Or require costly reshoots. And the inability to distinguish b/w mistakes that can/can't be fixed leads straight to doom.

Like watching a time-lapse of Bob Ross at work—if Bob were a contemporary artist making art in the city.

The boys are fighting again...

🇰🇷 vs 🇺🇸

"You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it." Steve Jobs @ WWDC 1997. Listen and learn. #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqP...

Here's a question/idea re #LocalAI: If an AI app/feature currently requires too much compute to run locally on a phone, couldn't you build an AI assistant that runs on a desktop at home—with which you can communicate while out and about? Couldn't it just, like, call or msg you?? See "Her" (2013).

guys I just tried googling this to find the exact Andor quote and jesus fucking christ guys what the fuck is happening here

“Feed me memes and tinfoil and old-timey film strips. Give me your boredom, your sadness, your anxiety. I will eat it all.” —HungryGhost 🍎📺 Margo's Got Money Troubles 3.5 stars from RogerEbert.com www.rogerebert.com/reviews/marg...

If one must AI, local is the way to go.

Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink