"In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police."

This is an interesting look at the public grocery store idea, but the problems it brings up — food deserts, regions dominated by a single provider — do not really exist in New York prospect.org/economy/2025...

Everybody and their mother is talking about AI, but how much of what people are saying is true? @russellbrandom.bsky.social joins @djrothkopf.bsky.social to cut through the misinformation to explain why so many people are getting AI so wrong.  podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... youtu.be/xIp6TgYM9zw

Get the gang together — I’m planning a heist

Today in @techcrunch, I talked with Google’s PM for developer tools Ryan Salva — and learned a ton about how AI-assisted coding works in practice techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/h...

smh... do better, Gwar nypost.com/2025/09/21/u...

When Mitski said, “I will go jogging routinely,” I felt that

"It is important to keep in mind that fear is a weapon." www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

It seems like the California DFPI is using an AI-generated image as part of its crypto scam warning. Note the illegible writing on the ATM and surrounding packages.

It is genuinely disheartening to see how much the online left has stayed focused on centrist media, as opposed to the actual conditions of the world.

Wow, unfollowing now -- I was a big fan of "capitalism" as an indie game genre; I didn't realize it was also a global force structuring all human interaction.

This morning in @techcrunch.com, I look at a surprising scenario for how major labs like OpenAI and Anthropic could fail even as the overall AI industry succeeds. It’s a very popular idea in the industry right now, although people are wary of laying it out in public. 🧵

A lot of posting is driven by a sense of political urgency that's completely divorced from any meaningful system for obtaining and using political power, maybe not even remembering that such a system could exist.

same tbh

I have never felt more luddite than when my email client told me not to use an adverb

Writing out a topical joke tweet on paper, folding it up and burying it in a mud hole like Tony Leung at the end of In The Mood for Love

RSL has built a robust, scalable system for licensing AI training data. Now, the question is whether the industry will use it. techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/r...

A pretty good poem about targeted advertising

Murder at Burning Man!?! techcrunch.com/2025/08/31/m...

Nanobanana, unpeeled techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/g...

A really thoughtful piece from @rebeccabellan.bsky.social n about the specific design choices fueling the AI delusion problem techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/h...

If Gavin Newsom uses this as his campaign theme, he will win all 50 states youtu.be/zdPCt5ZEf40?...

One of the things you learned at 18F and USDS is that government isn’t like a business: it has to serve everybody and not just specific market segments that are the most convenient.

Terrible news for my haters: Today is my first day as AI editor at @techcrunch.com! Say hello at [email protected] or on Signal at 412-401-5489.

“Horror is a worthless genre, even more than superhero movies” is just a wild opinion for a professional film critic to have in 2025.

Is Osgood Perkins camp?

I've been reading Wodehouse and there's a character who reads about chicken farming in a magazine and becomes convinced it's a ticket to endless wealth: "You buy one chicken, and that chicken lays ten eggs and then you have ten chickens, and each of those chickens lay ten eggs..."

Donald Trump’s immediate family is making a dizzying sum of money that would be unimaginable without his Presidencies, including profits from overseas deals and at least five different crypto ventures. nyer.cm/zB0NNxq

Weapons feels more tuned in to the current moment than any other recent art. Spiraling madness, things lost that can never be recovered, etc. Just a very good movie.

Crazy to think that so many women do this every morning (having applied the gnome mask the previous night) but that’s just the beauty standard that exists in our society www.tiktok.com/t/ZTHsXCKVVS...

Johnny Damon is transforming into Yogi Berra

Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening to right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.

Everyone loves to complain about the media (me too!), but I think the core problem has less to do with specific institutions and biases and more to do with the expectation that media will create a canonical representation of reality.

Just unprecedented levels of midlife crisis energy www.theverge.com/news/718795/...

Folks, you don't need to put "feetlover" in your Wikifeet username. You're already a registered Wikifeet user; it's implied.

Roasted in the boys group chat for confusing Pinot Gris with Pinot Grigio

A real rollercoaster of a court filing from today's @courtwatch.bsky.social storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

It's me, I'm the one being persecuted for telling bad jokes on BlueSky

🎸🎸 [pause] 🎸🎸 [pause] 🎵 Grok is this truuue? 🎵

Zach Khan, a high school journalist, has a new investigation he's hoping you'll all read.

Manifesting a Yahweh ben Yahweh biopic starring Keith David en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh_...

Another unrealistic body image for crabs

It took me a minute to realize he meant Less Lethal Munitions, not Large Language Models

I ran down Anthropic’s rate limiting issues techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/a...

This is the kind of centrist messaging that Democrats need to win elections

I wrote about why AI tools are moving to the command line techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/a...

The first grocery store display to make me feel like I'm going to be shipped off to a camp

Most Americans are not aware of how Brazil dealt with Bolsonaro after Brazil's own January 6th riot, and it is a really instructive contrast to how the US handled it.