"Even among the nation’s best-paid corporate chiefs, Elon Musk stands alone. His compensation last year was a mind-boggling $132.3 billion."

I don’t know what to say. This is just insane:

SpaceX skeptics have added reason for concern after Musk comments diverge from IPO filing

The world is producing more wealth than ever, but it's not going to workers -- it's going to companies and their shareholders. The drivers are outsourcing, corporate concentration, automation, and laws hostile to collective bargaining. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Hope you like AI! It's coming to Amazon's search bar via Alexa: www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/a...

Killing it guys! (you’re literally killing it, it’s almost dead)

BREAKING: Fidelity won't let customers donate to the SPLC anymore via their charitable gift/donor-advised funds, citing Trump admin indictment of SPLC. No response yet from Schwab, Vanguard... but soon. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/b...

Breaking News: Gov. Janet Mills of Maine vetoed legislation that would have blocked new data centers in the state until November 2027. It would have been the first state moratorium on data centers as the A.I. industry booms.

Amazon expected to be nearly halfway to its goal of adding 25,000 new jobs in Northern Virginia by 2038. It has created a little more than 7,000. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

NEW: Apple fixed the bug that law enforcement, like the FBI, were taking advantage of to extract chat messages that had been deleted or disappeared automatically. Until now the iPhone stored deleted or disappered messages in a database, allowing authorities to access them with forensic tools.

trying to post through it rn

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

Lebanon says at least 54 health workers are among more than 1,400 people killed by Israel during the current invasion. Human rights groups say first responders are being targeted — something Israel denies. n.pr/3PSCXKb

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

New: OpenAI is revamping its approach to e-commerce. The AI startup is moving away from the Instant Checkout feature it announced in Sept., and it's now working with retailers to create dedicated apps within ChatGPT. More here w/ @anniepalmer.bsky.social: www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/o...

"Musk took to X, which is now owned by SpaceX..." 🥴 www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/e...

Says a lot about him that he's still on twitter :/

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr slammed Amazon for opposing SpaceX proposal to launch 1 million satellites into orbit... www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/f...

The Iran-linked hackers who hit a Fortune 500 company today say it was retaliation for the U.S. missile attack on an Iranian school that killed at least 175 people.

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

“Axon was sued by shareholders last month after rejecting a transparency proposal asking the policing technology firm to disclose its political spending strategy and make transparent all direct and indirect political contributions.”

Anthropic is suing the Trump administration for blacklisting and labeling it a supply chain risk, calling the actions "unprecedented and unlawful." "Anthropic’s reputation and core First Amendment freedoms are under attack," the company said. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/a...

The wildest frat party on campus? Prediction markets. Kalshi and Polymarket are pouring money into deals with social-media influencers and college students.

Sisyphus is on duty

if you don’t know a lot of women you may not be aware… www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/g...

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

U.S.-Israeli strikes have damaged multiple Iranian hospitals and schools.

It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei

Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina is up on stage as the last event of the day. He cites being anti crypto, anti prediction markets and anti gambling as why Democrats are losing young men. Messina is on the board of Blockchain .com and lobbied for the American Gaming Association

My goodness.

Getting mass fired in all lower case x.com/jack/status/...

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

NEW: Kalshi announces details into two insider trading investigations. WIRED confirms that one suspended account belongs to California congressional candidate Kyle Langford: www.wired.com/story/kalshi...

The head of Amazon's AGI Lab, David Luan, is leaving the company, he announced in a LinkedIn post. Luan joined Amazon through an acqui-hire of his AI agent startup Adept less than two years ago. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/h...

An eye-opening story from @ering.bsky.social and Karen Weise on how Jeffrey Epstein worked his way into the inner sanctum of Microsoft's C-suite www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...

It's worth reading Rahman's account of what happened to her, it's not that long. "...the glass of the passenger side window flew across my face. I yelled "I'm disabled!" at the hands grabbing me. An agent said, "TOO LATE."" www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

This is a huge deal, and the number of people I see pooh-poohing this as just a loss to a supposedly elite group sucks. A) most of the jobs that disappeared were the working-class ones; B) bye bye not just to local coverage but to arts, sports, everything that’s not tech/biz/politics/opinion/advice

fell for it again award

It's Friday night baby

How RVs became Silicon Valley's housing safety net, by @katerogerscnbc.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/h...

Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot ft.trib.al/irDnF78

Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up

The feds do not share how many agents are still in Minnesota or how many arrests are taking place, but anecdotal accounts show their activities moving from the Twin Cities (where they encountered strong opposition) to suburbs, exurbs & small towns. (3) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

SCOOP: Ring’s controversial, AI-powered “Search Party” feature isn’t intended to be limited only to dogs, the company’s founder, Jamie Siminoff, told Ring employees in an internal email obtained by 404 Media.

Prediction market traders are “seeking alpha” by buying TV antennas for a millisecond of speed, timing the Super Bowl national anthem rehearsal in person and uncovering not-yet-public press releases hiding in the HTML of websites. Anything for an edge! www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...

Back when many of the tech industry's leading cos didn't disclose much about the makeup of their workforces, Jesse Jackson was a regular presence in Seattle, pushing Amazon and Microsoft to share and do more. eg: www.seattletimes.com/business/jes... www.seattletimes.com/business/sha...

Waymo is paying gig workers from DoorDash, Honk to close its robotaxi doors. cnb.cx/4kzLAEM

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...