The struggle to get to the top of the AI usage leaderboard at a tokenmaxxing company.

Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead Regarding Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz’s epic profile of Sam Altman in The New Yorker.

One thing to know about my late friend Aaron Swartz is, like Joni Mitchell, he never lied. So it's notable that, as @gruber.foo notes, Aaron described Sam Altman as a sociopath. daringfireball.net/2026/04/when...

America, you really don't need the Epstein files. You already know the truth. 😕

Over 8 billion reasons to ditch fossil fuels in one photo.

W/alt

Cherry Blossoms 🌸 Sakura Season in Japan 🇯🇵

Always thought it was sad that Ayn Rand—one of the most successful authors of children's fantasy books of all time—had little enough saved in the bank in her old age that she had to rely on public assistance until her death, but I'm glad it was there for her.

Celebrating 15 years of Incidental Comics! Here’s a page from 2016 that appears in my book THE SHAPE OF IDEAS.

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc.

But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

The Irish Taoiseach Michael Martin look on as an orange rapist spews his usual verbal slurry in the Oval Office

NEW: Trump live fact-checked by Irish PM
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TRUMP: “STARMER IS NO CHURCHILL”
MARTIN: “MANY IRISH PEOPLE HATE CHURCHILL”

TRUMP: “BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO EUROPE”
MARTIN: “EUROPE IS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE”

TRUMP: “EUROPE DOESNT LOOK LIKE EUROPE ANY MORE”
MARTIN: “IMMIGRATION IS A GOOD THING”

Video I obtained through a public records request on behalf of MN50501 shows Liam and his dad boarding a Delta Air Lines flight at MSP.

Delta was silent when workers were being snatched up by ICE at MSP, but was a vocal supporter of the Big Beautiful Bill, which increased ICE’s funding.

Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.

Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

Here’s the reason the United States bombed the Children’s school in Iran.

And yes, it’s Trumps fault.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Well 1/ applies! For Iran…

This is what ecocide looks like.

Giant stack of pink boxes. Waiting to be picked up.

Here’s a fun story. Erika and I are on our way out to grab lunch when there’s a knock on the door. I go to answer and there's the mailman and he's holding a copy of my book. Which is odd. Why is the mailman holding a copy of my book? He hands it to me. I open it up and it’s signed. "To Jared."

This is what happens when you have a military lead by the kind of people who think wars are fought like Call of Duty games.

Welcome to the future

My new video with Mayor Mamdani just dropped 📼

Our partnership has shown that politics doesn’t have to be sour or ego-driven. It can be a team sport in pursuit of values and our hopes. ⬇️

As we say in Spanish, "He who steals from a thief is forgiven for a hundred years."

Democracy is dying in America.

ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous.

We need real leaders - not career politicians.

Jacaranda trees in bloom lining Fairfax in South Hollywood, CA I consider this a very mediocre picture but I’m posting it today in contrast to yesterday’s amazing pic as a test. I paired yesterday’s with Malcolm X and those pics never do numbers. Methinks the folks on this platform need a lot more Malcolm in their lives. Ninnys.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. - Alice Walker

Pic of the day
#photography

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Maybe you live in an immoral country if its priority is killing people abroad instead of keeping people at home alive.

Ramp data shows companies are replacing freelancers with AI Firm-level spending on freelance marketplaces and AI model providers from 2021 to 2025 shows those that spent the most on freelancers shifted to AI the fastest.

Ramp’s data science team has published research showing businesses are replacing freelancers with AI. Two key findings

1. Spend on services like Upwork & Fiverr has dropped -80% replaced by spend on ChatGPT/Claude.

2. AI is much cheaper. Each $1 of freelance spend is replaced by $0.03 of AI spend