best Philip Glass opera, tho

"AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such [...] To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI [...] would introduce disastrous incentives for corporate misbehavior." 🎯 www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

Last night, 800 people came to Echo Park Lake to see the Argentina vs. Algeria game as part of 100 watch parties being staged in city parks. Today, LA's City Council is voting to doom the city's parks department

Spot on op-ed from Payton Rockwood asking California state leaders to give urban rail transit the #SB79 treatment - i.e. preempting local veto over rail lines: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor....

seeing alternating posts about the Obama Center and motocross stunts on the White House lawn makes my brain feel like it's being hurled between timelines. (we're in the bad one)

love these regular “oopsy-daisy we leaked all your info” payments 🙄

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news

Widow’s Bay has one of the best end-credit needle-drops I think I’ve ever heard

I think the game industry is gonna split, where we'll brand industrial games as AI-filled junk food (and enjoy junk food on its own merits) vs. indie will emphasize some sort of "natural" "organic" "handmade" "100% human" labeling (with all the pros and cons)

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

they've gotta make Spec Ops: The Line 2 just so they can set it here www.fastcompany.com/91548713/the...

enjoying the nithya raman vertical drama ads so much

I was waiting with baited breath for @matt-levine.bsky.social’s take on the SpaceX IPO and he did not disappoint

devastated that I only just learned about this and missed the only performance www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

Man, there are some crazy “labor vs. capital” charts, lately. @ianbremmer.com

when I found out LA was the only major city not to have a Capital Infrastructure Program, I felt simultaneously insane and that it explained SO much

I’m in the same boat 😪 www.theverge.com/tech/924488/...

// the urbanism of star wars phantom menace //

Kathleen Kennedy did a pretty good job, and her biggest mistake was giving the Disney-era Star Wars directors *too much* creative freedom

what are we even doing here

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children

JFK did not kill himself. He was murdered. The truth is coming for us all. theonion.info

omg

obviously I will be watching this on principle

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Exactly one year ago today:

never forget

Last month in The Onion:

this is deeply sad news for me, the one terminal millennial who still loves and buys Allbird shoes :( www.theverge.com/news/912484/...

wrote about why fantasy is everywhere these days medium.com/@watsonwelch...

Things are so bad in LA right now that frustrated screenwriters are writing the LAX Automated People Mover grand jury report

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

losing my mind upon learning that the “It’s Enrique Palazzo” guy from The Naked Gun is Francis Buxton from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

It can happen, but it requires leadership. Where are our leaders?

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“Shrouds have no pockets” 🔥

I get why everyone is dunking on him, but also I think he’s just blind to the political values implicit in his own writing; e.g. “science is good, actually”, “strangers can overcome differences and are stronger together”, “normal people can rise to extraordinary challenges”, etc.

i love reading crypto reporting

Literally the reason I switched from Google Maps to Apple Maps 😑

My man clearly had to fight with Cigna over an MRI

I feel personally attacked