This reminds me of someone

Tesla’s Q1 earnings: - weaker than headline given one-off benefits - sub-4% OPM ex-FX - Free cash flow flattered by underspending - Outlook contained no numbers - Surprise! Capex budget up again @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump won't have much patience with displays like this

"As everybody knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person."

Superb NYT correction

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Can Apple’s new CEO deliver the next big product — even though the company hasn’t invested in AI as much as its competitors? @davelee.me explains what’s at stake 🎥

The Cook Report — the outgoing CEO’s record by the numbers www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump on Anthropic

Today’s 10 years since Prince passed, and I just wanted to tell one of many personal stories, about why I have this wonderful photo by Afshin Shahidi (a friend, who was also Prince’s personal photographer for years) hanging in our home. It tells a very special story…

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

Before joining Apple in 2001, Ternus worked at a company designing virtual reality headsets. Which I think confirms Apple is going to pivot to the metaverse

Tim Cook stepping aside as Apple CEO, replaced by John Ternus. Cook will become executive chairman.

NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

yeah this won't work

The more serious take on this is that prediction markets are going to fuel a wave of these kind of start-ups. Total trash that will claim to be doing the work of journalism (while simultaneously relying on the "old" media for literally every insight they have)

"The CNN model has to wait for something to happen IRL. But something is always happening on X. And of course, X is — and has always been, the real world. Or at the very least, it’s the place where the people who run the real world make sense of what’s happening." www.a16z.news/p/monitoring...

Casually compiling a list of where you can find the "old" web in 2026. Thinking sites like @b3ta.com, @kottke.org that maintain those old values of quality and community. What else?

I used Amazon's new AI bot for recommending books based on my reading habits. One of the recommendations appears to be a shoe.

Social media is such an oxymoron. All of these are content feeds. There’s no “community” on any Meta product at this point.

horrified by that mass shooting story? Forbes would love you to predict what comes next

This seems fair - and significant - FB isn't 'social' anymore

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

This is basically spot on, and it's pretty incomprehensible as a move unless you somehow think you can get some of it back to where it was, because it's like prioritising being MTV over being the phone network.

Meta is set to overtake Google on digital ad revenue -- largely thanks to smart AI content recommendations. But my @opinion.bloomberg.com column today argues this the last hurrah of Meta's Web 2.0 legacy business -- not a sign of strength for the AI era.

On the flipside, AI slop vox pops are about as insightful as actual vox pops

What species is Erling Haaland exactly?

Truly impressive work on the CVS “World Cup” display

Good morning Irish ☘️ diaspora and genealogy nerds: newly digitized 1926 Irish Free State census records just dropped! nationalarchives.ie

It’s quite clear that the World Cup is an inconvenience to America. To every other country in the world it’s an honour. The “greatest city on earth” needing suspend commuter rail to accommodate a football match is an embarrasment. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Killer poster

Two execs out at OpenAI techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/k...

Vibe coded an app called "Life's Too Short". Surfaces new podcast episodes based on keyword, issues relevancy score (e.g. episode about OpenAI gets a 5/10. Episode about OpenAI incl an interview with an executive gets 8/10. With Sam Altman, 10/10). Couldn't think of any other way.

Parents with two good jobs does not equate to the "Manhattan elite." What on EARTH is this.

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

Choosing to believe Reed Hastings resigned over this stupid idea techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/n...

If you worked at SpaceX, currently work there, or know anyone who worked/work there, can you please let me know if you were encouraged to buy a Cybertruck?

"No cops on the beat"

Still yet to hear a good reason why Apple and Google aren't solving this. www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...

Dario Amodei has lunch with the FT www.ft.com/content/9e0e...

How can NPR be ethical in its disclosures if such a large donor is anonymous?

"Yawn." -Linda when Elon kills thousands with his DOGE cuts "I looked, and behold a pale horse! And the name that sat on him was Death" -Linda when billionaires pay a slightly higher tax rate

“In a world gone sane…”

Mamdani needs to have this team make movie poster-style subway ads with these quotes

Awesome! Why have Sinners when you can have 50 crap films made with AI instead?

Every time I find real bacon in New York I feel like I've discovered a Faberge egg

I deleted the TikTok app and I’m already getting emails trying to get me hooked back in. This is the kind of addictive-by-design low-hanging fruit that should be eradicated.

Are companies less afraid of social media, these days? Feels like the days of better customer service because airlines etc were terrified of looking crap on Twitter are long behind us. Social media seems largely on companies' terms, now.

Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/