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Will the term "Ayatollahbooth" catch on?

Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"

Woe unto those who broke BlueSky today.

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

brought to you by the CEO of eMed ... Linda Yaccarino.

allbirdsgpt: you're abshoelutely correct

SCOOP at @nbcnews.com: Back in January, Apple privately threatened to remove the Grok app from the App Store.

"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence software, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people without their consent, despite his company’s pledge months ago to halt abusive deepfakes after a public backlash and government investigations." @davidingram.bsky.social keeping tabs:

Scoop from @davidingram.bsky.social -- Apple threatened to remove Grok from the App Store over sexualized deepfakes before xAI restricted some of its features In a letter viewed by NBC News, Apple said it found both X and Grok in violation of its guidelines www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

SCOOP at @nbcnews.com: Back in January, Apple privately threatened to remove the Grok app from the App Store.

We dove into Grok's continued creation of deepfakes, and found that some users have found new methods to bypass Grok's guardrails, allowing them to generate sexual AI images of celebrities and real people. from @davidingram.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

NEW: Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

The art of the stalemate?

the extent to which so many men are sex pests is just baffling and depressing you can just Not Do That there is shit that's hard for me! remembering to take in the trash cans is hard! checking the calendar is hard! starting a design doc is hard! not being a sex pest: not that hard

So there's a new store in San Francisco where the boss is an AI chatbot. I went today. www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat...

So there's a new store in San Francisco where the boss is an AI chatbot. I went today. www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat...

you cannot tell me that “Eric Adams granted Albanian citizenship” is real. me and several hundred internet-poisoned people have been saying things like as a joke for 4+ years. you might as well tell me a man named dril bought $3,600 in candles.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Why is this statement happening today?

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The price of oil rebounds, as doubts began to set in about the state of the Iran ceasefire announced just two days earlier by President Trump.

We're in solidarity with @propublicaguild.org workers in their fight!

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Welp

Oil subreddit is a wild ride

We’re rich 💵💵💵

This is a far simpler answer than people would like to believe. Trump issues the order via the National Military Command Center to the commander of Strategic Command, and then STRATCOM carries it out directly. There is no second vote, no veto, no check-and-balance.

If software is a thing you build, then vibe coding changes everything. Anyone can build. We have democratized building. Congratulations to building. But software is mostly a thing people use, and getting people to use things is not a building problem. www.joanwestenberg.com/the-hacker-...

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent. apnews.com/article/news...

big divergence recently between Tesla's share price and the broader stock market

NEW from me and @ryanjreilly.com: U.S. marshals waived training rules for Musk's armed DOGE security, emails show www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Remember tariff refunds? www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2... “Experts also warn consumers probably won’t see a dime.”

"Journalists should be on Twitter." Twitter to journalism: "Drop dead."

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

JFK is an Easter movie

West Coast catching up on the news overnight…

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NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

I can’t believe this is real

"He even made an A.I. clone of his voice to help manage his personal life, using it to call and schedule appointments so he would have more time to work." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/t...

Manosphere update

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

[Sharing a gift link because people outside the U.S. should have access to this.] U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’ By Eric Schmitt and Luis Ferré-Sadurní

Boots on the ground ... in Ecuador www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

The U.S. military is using a low-cost drone "reverse-engineered [from] Iranian technology" www.wsj.com/politics/nat... “the Toyota Corolla of drones”

"At several points during ⁠the ​speech, Iranian Americans in the audience chanted 'long live the king.'" www.reuters.com/business/med... (This was the same day as the #NoKings rallies)

South Dakotans react www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...