CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.

Story via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

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Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it's dropped off Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.

Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office. n.pr/47ll5Nc

Is this affected at all by _buy now pay later_ type offers or are those reported as on time

A Twitter thread

The RensCo County Exec ending a string of tweets with: "Thanks Captain Obvious!"

Stefanik calling the local reporter for the North County (her district) in Albany a 'stenographer'

The Albany correspondent for the North Country papers actually did the legwork on this. And gets berated by the Rensselaer County exec and personally attacked by Stefanik?

Like, what is this even?
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This DOJ official's post, reposted by another DOJ official, is one of the alleged violations.

The judge ordered the government to provide a sworn declaration about how the alleged violations occurred and "what steps are being taken" so that no future violations occur.

BREAKING

A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial.

Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Pastor’s prediction has some convinced the rapture is this week South African pastor Joshua Mhlakela said Jesus Christ told him he would return to Earth on Sept. 23-24, 2025 — and many appear to have taken the prediction to heart.

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Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material.

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Lol someone somewhere said that today was the day… and it caught on

Although it seems like just any other day

 I am still here. Anybody else raptured?

a brass bell shaped fire cover with a handle worked with pretty flowers

TIL that a curfew is also a literal object! the word has its roots in the French couvrefeu - "cover fire" - and was used to denote a bell rung to warn people to cover their fires overnight to prevent the outbreak of flames between wooden houses. a curfew was a bell-shaped cover for embers!

Also, you should definitely keep buying the Wall Street Journal

Americans face biggest increase in health insurance costs in 15 years Rising premiums add to pressure on households already feeling the pinch from the high price of goods

Americans face biggest increase in health insurance costs in 15 years on.ft.com/4g9VdaS

Why billions of folks can't easily get a drink or flush a toilet A report from the World Health Organization says 1 in 4 people lack access to safe water to drink. Even more don't have water for sanitation. We asked someone who grew up that way to share childhood memories.

A report from the World Health Organization says 1 in 4 people lack access to safe water to drink. Even more don't have water for sanitation. We asked someone who grew up that way to share childhood memories.

Also applies to cooking

He wasn’t making a joke… yeesh

Had to do a double take with “Tesla” “Trump” “Musk” and “exploded” in the same sentence

States, Cities Face Funding Collapse Threat With Trump Cuts Officials are confronting deep uncertainty about funding for programs that undergird their economies — just as Trump’s trade war has raised fears of a recession.

DOGE and Trump cuts are going to cause crises at the state and local level. I am a former state budget reporter, and I’ve been waiting for this to be recognized as a major issue. Bloomberg has more here: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Did ... did D. John Sauer just reference Watergate in arguing to the Supreme Court that DOGE should have access to Social Security data? #SCOTUS

Some of the blame for such obsequiousness lies with basic traits of LLM-based chatbots, which predict probable responses to prompts and which can therefore seem quite persuadable; it's relatively easy to convince even guardrail chatbots to play along with completely improbable and even dangerous scenarios. Training data certainly plays a part, particularly when it comes to the awkward use of colloquialisms and slang. But the prospect that chatbot sycophancy is a consistent, creeping problem suggests a more familiar possibility: Chatbots, like plenty of other things on the internet, are pandering to user preferences, explicit and revealed, to increase engagement. Users provide feedback on which answers they like, and companies like OpenAI have lots of data about which types of responses their users prefer. As former Github engineer Sean Goedecke argues, "The whole process of turning an AI base model into a model you can chat to ... is a process of making the model want to please the user." Where Temu has fake sales countdowns and pseudo games, and LinkedIn makes it nearly impossible to log out, chatbots convince you to stick around by assuring you that you're actually very smart, interesting, and, gosh, maybe even attractive.

This isn't lost on the people running these companies, who not-unseriously invoke the movie Her with regularity and who see in their companies' usage data polarized but enticing futures for their businesses. On one side, Al companies are finding work-minded clients who see their products as ways to develop software more quickly, analyze data in new ways, and draft and edit documents; on the other, they re working out how to get other users extremely hooked on interacting with chatbots for personal and entertainment purposes, or at least into open-ended, self-sustaining, hard-to-break habits, which is the stuff of internet empire. This might explain why OpenAI, in an official "We fell short and are working on getting it right" post on Tuesday, is treating Glazegate like an emergency. As OpenAI tells it, the problem was that ChatGPT became "overly supportive but disingenuous," which is an odd and revealingly specific strain of chatbot personification but also fairly honest: Its performance became unconvincing, audience immersion was broken, and the illusion lost its magic. Going forward, we can expect a return to subtler forms of flattery. TikTok took over the internet by showing people what they wanted to see better than anything before it. Why couldn't chatbots succeed by telling people what they want to hear, just how they want to hear it?

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Chris Krebs kicked out of Global Entry. So now your travel plans are subject to disruption based on your politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

It’s cake.

Green shoots or getting bargain rents in a troubled real estate market? I wonder if the bank is paying 30% more total rent for the 30% more space.

‘An amateur person’: GOP Rep. Bacon says Hegseth should go The Nebraska lawmaker is the first House Republican to recommend the president fire the secretary of Defense.

Republican Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon, saying he would fire Hegseth if he were president, sounds like he is speaking directly to Trump:

“I like him on Fox. But does he have the experience to lead one of the largest organizations in the world? That’s a concern.”

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I get that it’s become a signal to explain certain classes of tariffs but… call them something else.

Why are newspapers still using the term “reciprocal tariffs”? Even in quotes

I’m imagining all the various times today you’ve been saying this

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

Yeah, I definitely wonder about the woman in the WaPo’s media diet. There’s no way she reads a newspaper.

#BREAKING: Chief Justice Roberts issues temporary, "administrative" stay of the government's midnight deadline to turn spending taps back on in foreign aid funding case.

This is *not* a sign that the Court is going to rule for Trump on the merits; it's buying a short amount of time to sort it out.