Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn't Exist “To be clear, we were never approached … nor were we in any discussions regarding a partnership or tour access,” a spokesperson for the artist tells WIRED.

Imagine lying about partnering with BRUNO MARS my god. Amazing scoop.

This is cool: REGENT Craft gave us access to their B-roll footage from their recent testing of their Squire Seaglider drone, along with permission to recut it and add a soundtrack. Thanks, @boldspace.bsky.social, for helping to make this happen. | 🛩️ 📹 ⚔️ 📰 🥇 | 🔗 www.regentcraft.com/news/regent-...

Italian UNIFIL soldiers rebuilt the statue of Jesus Christ that was smashed by Israeli soldiers in the town of Debel, in southern Lebanon.

Yesterday, the Israeli army sent a statue to the village to replace the one that was smashed, but it was rejected by the residents.

My hand on the lever of the whole-home-disconnect circuit which is outside on the back of the house next to the electric meter.

Graphs showing the total energy used, solar power production, battery charging and discharging, and battery state of charge over the last 6 days from an off-grid test.

This #EarthDay I'm running an off-grid test of my solar and battery. Disconnected last Thursday and now approaching 6 days on 100% solar power. This learning will help inform policy updates at OPPD going forward.

I hope everyone is enjoying a beautiful spring day!

#CleanEnergy #LocalPower

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Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"

City firms bank on ‘savvy’ advertising campaign to push Brits towards investing The campaign, fronted by a CGI squirrel, is part of government initiative to boost financial risk taking, amid fears UK growth is being stymied * Nils Pratley: the ‘Savvy Squirrel looks a hit too tame’ City firms are pinning their hopes on a government-endorsed advertising blitz fronted by a finance “savvy” CGI squirrel to encourage cautious British savers to shift out of cash and start investing. The long-awaited retail investment campaign, which will cost up to £50m, is part of the chancellor Rachel Reeves’ nationwide push to encourage more financial risk taking, amid fears risk-averse consumers are losing out and ultimately stymying UK growth. Continue reading...

City firms bank on ‘savvy’ advertising campaign to push Brits towards investing

A screen shot of a skeet from Merriam-Webster that reads - ‘SWIMS’ upside down is still ‘SWIMS’. With a reply that reads - if you love geometric fonts where this would be true so much then why don't you use them in your body copy? no? not readable? go FUCK yourself; dictionary. they should call you hypocrictionary

I’m sorry, but bluesky is THRIVING…

Irregular reminder: Doomerism is functionally identical to Denialism

Cynicism & despair aren’t a tribute to rationality; they’re failure of imagination & resilience. Making things less bad is more important than achieving perfection. Any start is better than none.

Hope & Joy are essential activism

I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages!

If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is

Holy shit. The FBI raided this woman's house with a helicopter based on the word of a "gait analysis" quack they found on X.

People who ask why politicians can't just "talk like a normal person the way Mamdani does" remind me of the guys who claim they "prefer women without makeup" based on Instagram photos of models wearing hundreds of dollars of natural-look makeup applied by a professional.

The Lesson Every Democrat Should Learn From Peter Magyar's Victory In Hungary The cost of living crisis needs a villain.

Mamdani drew up the blueprint. Magyar proved it can work on a national scale. Now, Ossoff is showing candidates for Congress how to translate it into a blue wave this November.

Trump ballroom deal shields donor identities, limits conflict safeguards, contract shows Newly released documents show the Trump administration set up a legal framework allowing hundreds of millions of ​dollars in anonymous private donations to fund a planned White House ballroom, while l...

Newly released documents show the Trump administration set up a legal framework allowing hundreds of millions of dollars in anonymous private donations to fund a planned White House ballroom, while limiting the scope of federal conflict-of-interest ‌reviews tied to the project reut.rs/3OERZCT

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF.

Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it.

The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.

Mini penne With a photo of a mall miniature penne pasta

*Sean Connery voice

broadchurch characters wearing wigs

broadchurch characters wearing wigs

broadchurch characters wearing wigs

broadchurch characters wearing wigs

The thing about UK-based crime dramas is that when all the exceptional dialogue and very serious acting eventually gets to a trial, everyone looks like this 😅

The fucking people who spent three years telling us Biden was reckless fool because every Humvee begrudgingly sent to Ukraine could force Putin to nuke the world are now like, "WE THOUGHT THEY HAD NUKES, SO WE BOMBED THEIR LEADERS A BIT IN THE HOPES THEY'D BE CHILL."

The funniest thing about this insane statement is that he thinks this being true would be an argument FOR what happened next.

My dudes, you failed to eliminate their ballistic missile capability and then both you and Iron Dome failed a bunch of intercepts!

Can you imagine if they'd had nukes...

🚨 NEW: The BBC and ITV have ordered Labour to tone down its party political broadcast after deeming it too offensive

The ad contained remarks from Reform UK figures including a former council leader who called London a "third world s---hole" run by a "narcissistic Pakistani"

HAHAHA! That response killed me. And it's so damn true.

Animal Farm's creative bankruptcy is summed in a single song All you need to know about Andy Serkis' absurd adaptation of Animal Farm is that it starts with a barnyard rap.

Animal Farm made me want to take myself to the glue factory.

I couldn't bear writing about the whole movie, so please enjoy me writing about the opening credits, which are set to an original barnyard-themed rap: www.avclub.com/animal-farm-...

that’s like a weeks worth of potato for free!

Palantir Has a Human Rights Policy. Its ICE Work Tells a Different For years, EFF has pushed technology companies to make real human rights commitments—and to live up to them. In response to growing evidence that Palantir’s tools help power abusive immigration

EFF analysis of Palantir’s responses to our questions concludes that a good-faith application of Palantir’s own human rights commitments should lead it to end its contract with ICE. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

ok banter timeline that's enough out of you for today

Laura Loomer on losing her defamation case: it wasn’t a joke and eve if it was a joke it was defamation

That’s what happens when Sean Davis teaches you defamation law

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—

AOC: Wah wah wah.

We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.

What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

This is Fitz and June. Fitz just got here and thinks this place is pretty great. June was here first and thinks it's time to return Fitz. 13/10 for both (TT: muester)

Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

lmao I knew the quiet users bit was broken as a result of the below, but snapping "latest from mutuals" in half too is just some galaxy brain action