Oh no he’s a pumpkin

BREAKING: CBS News fires ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Scott Pelley after he clashed with the show's new executive producer in a heated meeting.

Flesh colored yoda. Just something to consider. Yoda but he’s not green. Imagine it. Picture it.

Happy California Election Day to all who celebrate

What does it say that people are selling crypto to buy AI stocks? www.coindesk.com/markets/2026...

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

New name for norovirus just dropped www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

"Piper Sandler isn't buying the talk that an Iran deal is nearing, telling clients that the Strait of Hormuz will largely stay closed and oil will hit new highs." www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/p...

Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...

[Narrative violation]

WE WON: Our Conde Nast members who were illegally fired and disciplined after taking part in a “march on the boss” in November have been reinstated as part of a more than $400,000 settlement. More details here nyguild.org/post/conde-w...

Brooklyn coop drama! Maybe Bluesky has the juice after all

An interesting question: Who among us would volunteer to go to Mars knowing that their life was in the hands of Elon Musk?

America is missing an Andy Rooney figure and it shows

Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students? www.theringer.com/2026/05/22/n...

I keep seeing digital ads for political candidates in Los Angeles, even though I live in San Francisco. Who has data on how common this is? This happens across devices on the same home WiFi....

Sulzberger reprehended publications he said have settled “winnable cases” with the president www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/nyt-first-amendment-press-freedom-00934208

Weird times

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

Really interesting to see this op-ed calling for the French gov to invest in alternative platforms to ones like X. Just another way in which EU countries, but particularly France, are starting to talk with increasing seriousness about moving away from US tech products www.wired.com/story/the-eu...

Meanwhile … www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

When your rocket company also makes non-consensual bikini pics

... We didn't start the fire / It was always burning ...

SpaceX confirms plans for an IPO that could make Elon Musk a trillionaire www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

cool cool

Senate advances resolution to end Iran war as GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy flips to support it www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

"This won't be Bay of Pigs 2.0," the person said. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This tech exec sued Tesla over its Full Self-Driving promises — and won www.businessinsider.com/tech-exec-su... (He works at Oracle, drives a Model 3 and won a $10K default judgment.)

If you served as a juror in the Elon Musk v. Sam Altman trial and you’d like to tell your story, I’m all ears. Email me at [email protected] or text me on Signal at davidingram.77 or DM me here. It was a historic trial, and I’d like to hear what you thought!

Uh *checks notes* China does in fact have quite the hold on Apple and the NBA. Infamously.

‘Billionaires versus billionaires’: Inside the bizarre scenes of the OpenAI trial www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Elon Musk sometimes gets mad when he sees a Black actor on screen ... A continuing series

Please do make time to read about the fancy butt cushions preferred by tech billionaires

No one talks about Chicago's wild rabbits

Elon Musk's attorney was apologetic to the jury Thursday after Musk flew to China with Trump, despite an order that he wasn't excused. “He’s sorry that he could not be here, but I think you saw from his testimony that this is something that he’s passionate about" www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Musk’s attorney apologizes for his absence at trial during closing arguments www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Happy Bike to Wherever Day!

NEW: A judge told Musk he was not excused from trial. He went to China with Trump anyway. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

I guess Bluesky is the non-evil Twitter but what is the non-evil Facebook. I just want to see my friends posting one-panel newspaper cartoons and then reply “oh my goodness!”

A third billionaire testifies in OpenAI trial: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

I’m not sure the tech industry has woken up to the fact that AI chatbot outputs do not (yet) enjoy the protections of Section 230.

I’m not sure the tech industry has woken up to the fact that AI chatbot outputs do not (yet) enjoy the protections of Section 230.

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It’s great that there are now three Twitters where everyone complains about people on the other two Twitters

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Me: oh, fun new trend [15 seconds later] Me: oh, we wrote about this in 2016 www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

BREAKING: The alleged Jeffrey Epstein suicide note has posted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Welp