New: marc benioff told international employees who traveled to a major salesforce meeting in Vegas that ICE is watching them. Cool joke. "employees are going absolutely apeshit about how completely awful it was" Read the Slacks: www.404media.co/marc-benioff...

Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

wait wait wait ... TUMBLR. THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST. Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*

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sir will lewis welcome to the resistance

Great piece. Important reporting. Gift link: wapo.st/4kpCBGc

It’s actually pretty easy to beat Isaac Chotiner if you know what to do (wait until he completes his third attack sequence, roll behind him, use Flame Dart until you’re out of mana, hide under the gargoyle head until his Rage Wing Spin finishes, stun him with a Sylvan Dagger, equip the Thallslayer w

Exclusive: To increase Grok’s popularity, xAI embraced making sexualized material, rolling back guardrails and ignoring internal warnings about the risks of producing such content, according to more than a half-dozen former employees of X and xAI.

a microgrid of one's own

pitchbot: golf should be illegal

I got a surprise bag from Whole Foods for $6.99 and it’s all great except for … well, you guess

lot going on atm but i have to say — insane to write this entire article and not call these people by their true title: sauntrepreneurs www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

i'm at the McDonalds i'm at the Palantir I'm excited about the opportunity to follow my lifelong dream of working at the combination McDonalds-Palantir

"There’s little I can say that will make this situation better, but I do have a message for our community and our city and for ICE. To ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This story is two months old. What did we know and when did we know it?

lowkey gonna put this on my resume

In November, a conservative website published an explosive claim: Al-Shabab is largely funded by money stolen from Minnesota. But the story's only named source who connected fraud to terrorism told me the story is “bullshit": www.startribune.com/city-journal...

Important news out of the Midwest from @ceodonovan.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts

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new personal low: downloaded the dropbox app to my phone

Good to see the country moving on from identity politics

Larry Ellison and his son David have rapidly assembled a potentially Trump-friendly tech & media empire that spans Hollywood, television, the cloud, new media and soon a chunk of TikTok. We wrote about the rise of America's newest media barons: wapo.st/3KyaHtE by @ceodonovan.bsky.social & me

As use of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots grows, reports of people apparently losing touch with reality after intense use of chatbots have gone viral on social media in recent weeks, with posts labeling them examples of “AI psychosis.”

smart scoop by @shiraovide.bsky.social here! www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

dogopticon www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices...

while it’s bad that robots are taking our jobs, it’s nice to see them returning to office and revitalizing our urban core

The Washington Post wrongly fired Opinions columnist Karen Attiah over her social media posts. The Post not only flagrantly disregarded standard disciplinary processes, it also undermined its own mandate to be a champion of free speech.

After failing to get in last min to the fancy tech investor event at the Palace Hotel in SF today, a security guard yelled at me for trying to exit thru the Market Street door bc "We don't want to let bums in here!" Also the mens' room had a line down the hall, women's was empty. What an industry!

Wow!!! Tough times to work in customer service Salesforce just cut 4,000 costumer support roles even after strong earnings. CEO Benioff: “I need less heads.” AI now handles 1M conversations efficiency wins over human touch www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A look at Marc Benioff's pursuit of productivity gains through AI at Salesforce, which has undergone a series of layoffs over the past two years (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Interesting to me that Amazon removed the language from its Project Kuiper page that said its mission was to bring internet to "unserved and underserved communities around the world" techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/j...

"What to Know About Plague After a New Case in California"

comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted

vote for drew

finally some good news www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The full list of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, in video form. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

You know the Kelloggs founders are looking down at this scandalized that their anti-masturbation wellness corn flakes have been seized by decadent Italian nut butter merchants

to be fair it’s kind of hard for the big streaming companies not to do any shows about their rivals when the big streaming companies are also big AI companies, retail giants, cloud providers, grocery chains, pharmacies, book publisher, and device makers

Well, well, well. If it isn't our old nemesis deadly heatwave.

New from 404 Media: the IRS tax filing software Turbotax tried to kill just got opened source. Available on Github, people are forking it www.404media.co/directfile-o...

10 years later: what was code? www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

new media funding model just dropped 🛏️

I spent two weeks getting chatbots to say the most unspeakable things to me, all while on the clock! Here's what parents and caregivers should know about teens and tweens sexting with AI chatbots. wapo.st/4587byz

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Amazon One Medical employees wrongfully accessed dead patient’s records www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

if you have seen lauren sánchez working in a coffee shop, you need to tell me immediately www.instagram.com/reel/DI_-xMu...