Anthropic gets $5B investment from Amazon, will use it to buy Amazon chips Anthropic secures 5 gigawatts of Amazon’s custom silicon as Claude demand soars.

Round and round she goes...
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/a...

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).

Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.

And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.

Remember this.

Satellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows.

Satellite images show data centers not getting built so much...
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/c...

Followed, also:

LBOs are the greatest invention ever!

The CTO’s Incoming Storms Let me name the six conversations I’m watching land on CTOs right now, and the stance I’d want you holding in each one.

Woof, as an aspiring #CTO there is a LOT to digest here:
ctosub.com/p/the-ctos-i...

Company-wide email goes out last night shutting off Codex access immediately because mysteriously ran out of credits and we are investigating. This is going great...

@edzitron.com

The Pontiff of Pain! Your Pope Dredd

Fuck.
Et tu, Guy?

Custom 2021 Ford Bronco With Matching Trailer Heading To Auction This custom 2021 Ford Bronco with a matching trailer is heading to auction as the perfect off-road camping rig, and it's a pretty cool looking combination, too.

Hey Ford Authority _what was the reserve price?_
fordauthority.com/2026/02/cust...

From the ScottGalloway community on Reddit: Ronan Farrow’s investigation into Sam Altman— one would think this is going to be a discussion on Pivot this week. Posted by JDB-667 - 452 votes and 18 comments

@edzitron.com is this legit?
www.reddit.com/r/ScottGallo...

My basic bitch tub of Folgers coffee is $20 now. How is there not an absolute tsunami of populist anger?

Now I'm sitting here trying to make PowerPoints while also wondering if we'll start a nuclear Armageddon.
We are a deeply broken people.

In 2014 I was sitting in my cubicle farm when concussive noises outside startled the office. The police had just shot someone in Red Arrow park.
We watched the cops swarm, the attempts at emergency care, a mentally ill man died. The deadlines were calling, we went back to work.

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

I struggle with this as well. A lot. I fly to India a time or two every year, and I leave my wife a "just in case" letter in an envelope. What a time to be alive.

The Prose Edda and Poetic Edda are not equal in value YouTube video by Jackson Crawford

Always been a fan of Dr. Jackson Craword, old Norse specialist. His No Kings pin just makes me happy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oD3...

Why Doesn’t Anybody Realize We’re Going Back to the Moon? On the ground at the Trump era’s most important space launch

Why? Same as my April fool's comment yesterday: we are drowning in corruption and anger.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

I miss the "Gollum J Trump" account from twitter

Pete Hegseth's broker attempted to make defense investments before Iran war: Financial Times Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell dismissed the report in a post on X, calling it "entirely false and fabricated."

Hitler Youth troop leader and Skateboarding Prodigy Pete Hegseth wanted to get in on his share of the grift and couldn't even get that right.
www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=82...

I am encountering a shockingly low # of April fool's jokes online today, which I take as proof of the utter exhaustion and brokenness of our current era.

According to WaPo, retirees receive 6x the federal dollars as young people. The wealthiest generation in history continues to steal from the most anxious/depressed.

Our “Democracy” is old people voting themselves more money.

Pete, don't you have some skateboarding to do?
www.bing.com/videos/river...

"I am a piece of shit, and so can you!"
- Pete "Kegstand" Hegseth

There are legitimately hard constitutional questions and these ain't it.

"Placing bleeding shoplifters in Great White Shark killzone to face toughest 8th amendment challenge yet".

"Some scholars say 3rd amendment means you don't have to make breakfast for ICE agents passed out on your porch last night."

We should stop pretending that the plain text of the constitution is some kind of dream-interpretation voodoo-rubric with phrases like "Experts say". What a load of both-sidesing shit.

It’s genuinely a challenge for legal journalists to cover the birthright citizenship case, because one side’s argument is “the Fourteenth’s Amendment intent and text and a century of uninterrupted Supreme Court precedent all support birthright citizenship,” and the other side’s argument is “nuh-UH”

This is your brain on Trump. Any questions?