"The board member was not the only person who, unprompted, used the word “sociopathic.” Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It’s an hour or so drive or train from LA to Rancho Cucamonga where the Brightline route will start
So more like 3.5hrs all-in
Still cool tho
“.. The Iranian officials made clear to the mediators they don't want to be caught in a Gaza or Lebanon situation where there is a ceasefire on paper, but that the U.S. and Israel can attack again whenever they want to.”
@axios.com
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who could have seen this coming?
Wait a minute. Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams promised me that New York would descend into anarchy the second Mamdani was sworn in as mayor.
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After Trump took office last year, the US Holocaust Museum quietly removed educational material about American racism from its website and canceled a workshop on the "fragility of democracy," @iriesentner.bsky.social reports. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Suno will happily generate AI covers of Beyoncé and the Dead Kennedys (and anything else) with just a little effort. Music industry just isn’t ready for this. Big dive from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social Gift link! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!"
NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
The death toll from the USAID cuts is already in the hundreds of thousands
Musk, Trump, and the Supreme Court have already killed over half a million children
You may not know this but the Washington Post Editorial Board surely does
Normal govt posting!
i think there is an aspect of this which is true but honestly i think the *real* reason car dealers hate EVs is more boring: they all mainline fox news and talk radio and facebook all day and sincerely believe false negative things about EVs that oil companies have propogated through those channels.
The Jetsons poster
The Flintstones poster
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! poster
The Yogi Bear Show poster
Kids growing up watch YouTubers instead of the art that was classic animated comedies … disaster
Bring back the classics
Ah, the good old days. TiVo forever.
One reason why Vienna has such excellent housing policies is that the wealthy benefit from them as well. (You aren't forced to move out when you start earning more money.)
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"The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...
Netflix should license the Hanna-Barbera library and run a FAST channel for kids, as a public service
This is sobering. It makes me want to curtail my own bad habit of letting the scolds, cranks and people who live for the pleasure of screaming at their mostly-allies define my experience here as much as they do. And we need more people posting about fun cultural stuff in the spirit of conversation.>
Whom to believe? 🤡
@nytimes.com
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Trump and Hegseth halted funding for research to get blood to wounded U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors:
"When someone is wounded and survival depends on the availability of blood, this software would have made that survival more likely. Now it will not."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...
yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard?
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We have only scratched the surface here, honestly, but the domestic cuts -- energy assistance, minority business development, research, green energy, NASA, more -- are significant and yet still do not come close to covering the massive proposed boost to the military www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
Even as Artemis II races toward the moon, Trump proposes deep cuts in NASA, slashing 23% from this year, mainly eliminating science programs. Last year Congress reversed similar cuts. spacenews.com/white-house-...
Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI Bari Weiss's makeover of CBS News has nothing to do with ratings or profit. It would be nice but it's largely incidental to why she was brought in by the Ellisons Aidan McLaughlin @aidnmclaughlin • 19h What's so confounding about the attempt to meddle with/ potentially gut 60 Minutes is it's arguably the one thing that's working. 10-12 million people tune into every episode. It's the most watched primetime broadcast in America. Why destroy that audience?
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Earth as seen from the Orion capsule. It is divided sharply in half, with a line running diagonally from the 11 o'clock to the 4 o'clock. The lower left half is a bright pale blue. Its surface is covered with swirly, puffy white clouds, with texture indicating different thicknesses. The upper right half is dark, with no illumination from the Sun. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman
Earth as seen from the Orion capsule. It is divided sharply in half, with a line running diagonally from the 11 o'clock to the 4 o'clock. The lower left half is a bright pale blue. Its surface is covered with swirly, puffy white clouds, with texture indicating different thicknesses. The upper right half is dark, with no illumination from the Sun. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
One-third of Earth peeking through the window of the Orion capsule. The planet is a dreamy pale blue, swirling with white clouds and reflected sunlight. Although Earth only fills a fraction of the image it is the brightest object in the image by far. The capsule window is surrounded by a thick frame held in place with bolts, reminiscent of a heavy duty airplane window. It is dark in the capsule, but the outlines of straps and various components of the capsule are visible. Brighter white components are visible in the upper right corner. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman
A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
the images of earth from artemis ii are absolutely gorgeous
Elon Musk is making the big banks who want work on SpaceX's IPO subscribe to Grok. Some of those banks will now pay tens of millions in dollars annually for the chatbot.
Business!
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“.. It would be the first time since the beginning of the war that a U.S. jet was downed by enemy fire ..”
@axios.com
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The Fox/Blame Biden statute of limitations has officially expired. 💀
CNN: Sources are telling us that recent U.S. Intelligence assessments found roughly half of Iran's missile launchers are still intact and that thousands of one way attack drones are still in Iran's arsenal tonight. That's despite daily U.S. And Israeli airstrikes.
