Yep. And I'm still drinking water ... the old-fashioned way.

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

Ecuadorian fishers describe being attacked last month in a double drone strike and then detained at gunpoint by soldiers on a US-flagged patrol vessel. No evidence of drug-trafficking has been found.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Websites break California privacy law at ‘industrial scale,’ survey finds Researchers found “industrial-scale non-compliance” among tech companies with a California law mandating online privacy controls.

So sue them at "industrial scale" —

calmatters.org/economy/tech...

Very proud to publish this story.

AI swarms could hijack democracy without anyone noticing AI-powered personas are becoming so realistic that they can infiltrate online communities and subtly steer public opinion. Unlike traditional bots, they adapt, coordinate, and refine their messaging a...

Bsky knows that AI swarms are already on the loose.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

You good with this, America?

"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."

www.forbes.com/sites/annato...

Black-and-white image of a woman on a hillside with the slogan "This is WAR. Act like it."

Bsky is today's Paul Revere: "The fascists are coming! The fascists are coming!"

And like the British, the fascists are already here. Posted many times before —

I, too, dictate my posts: "Posts, do as I say, post-haste!"

So ... Bsky's dictation issue is a version of speaking with forked tongue ... 🤡

Strait of Hormuz: the "adult" version of "Red Light Green Light."

Domo arigato.

Sad news out of Russia.

FAA Lifts Blanket Aerial Ban It Placed to Protect ICE Activity From Aerial Scrutiny The FAA has lifted its blanket and unconstitutional "invisible, moving" ban on drone flights near DHS convoys and vehicles.

Look up: eyes in the sky on ICE once again —

petapixel.com/2026/04/17/f...

The Supreme Court hands a win to oil and gas companies fighting environmental lawsuits in Louisiana The Supreme Court is handing a win to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana.

More crimes against humanity and the earth, this time c/o SCOTUS.

apnews.com/article/supr...

Witness breathtaking drone footage capturing the fiery heart of a volcanic eruption. A new era of vulcanology is here, revealing nature's power like never before.

And from The Financial Times (again, paywall):

“Senior international financial officials have warned the latest AI models from U.S. tech companies could threaten the world banking system by exposing weaknesses in lenders’ cyber defense.”

America wakes up to AI’s dangerous power After Mythos, a laissez-faire approach is no longer politically tenable or strategically wise

"... The reason is that the models’ dizzying progress also poses a threat to America’s own national security, unnerving members of the Trump administration previously more inclined to worry about overregulation.”

(Sorry, paywall ...)

www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

The Economist: “America’s free-wheeling treatment of AI looks as if it is coming to an end. ..."

Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.

Why weren't they charged with manslaughter?

"The Texas Medical Board has disciplined three doctors ProPublica previously investigated whose patients died after receiving delayed or inappropriate pregnancy care under the state’s strict abortion ban."

www.propublica.org/article/tmb-...

ICE went on a hiring spree. Sterling credentials were not required, AP investigation finds Some new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers started working before passing background checks and had problems in their past.

Guessing everyone except ICE and the Trumpstein regime knows this, but just in case not.

apnews.com/article/ice-...

Once again, OK is not ok.

Cherokee chief won’t be allowed to speak on Oklahoma House floor again, chamber leader says • Oklahoma Voice The head of the Cherokee Nation will not be invited back to speak on the House floor after he took a “political position” defending Medicaid expansion, the House speaker said Thursday.

I'm sorry, the State House isn't the correct forum to discuss a POLITICAL ISSUE???

Fuck these people. Proud of my chief for advocating for expanded healthcare coverage for Oklahomans.
oklahomavoice.com/2026/04/16/c...

Palantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil Americans Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.

truthout.org/articles/pal...

A new movie is coming out

Newly unsealed records reveal Amazon’s price-fixing tactics, California attorney general claims Exclusive: A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giant’s anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing

Price fixing by Amazon? Well, knock me over with a feather.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents Prime Delivery drones are spewing out packages full of breakable objects onto the concrete from 10 feet in the air.

Amazon drones: Bombs away!

futurism.com/robots-and-m...

You'll have to keep adding:

Every president and Congress since 1948.

"All because NewsGuard expressed opinions about the reliability of news sources, and some of those opinions hurt the feelings of conservative media outlets — most notably Newsmax."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsGuard

Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About We’ve been covering the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against NewsGuard for a while now. It started with the House Oversight Committee’s absurd investigation of the c…

"The United States government has successfully prevented a private journalism organization from doing business with the entire major advertising industry. ..."

www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/o...

Add to your list:

Itamar Ben-Gvir — minister of national security
Yariv Levin — deputy pm; minister of justice; minister of the interior; minister of religious affairs
Orit Strook — minister of settlements and national missions

Stephen Colbert imitating Maria Bartiromo's response when Trump told her in April 2026 that gasoline prices might be higher at the midterms.