Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.
Karen Bass is proposing a $124 million increase to the LAPD's operational budget. This would bring their total budget to north of $3.6 billion
The AI era is dying.
HOME RUN Michael Arroyo (3)
off Trey McLoughlin (4-seam)
CC 1-ARK 3 (B6, 3-2, 1 out)
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announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
*one more note: You know what’s great about running the same fundraiser with the same people for 19 years? Your buddies who could throw in five bucks in 2008 can do a little more now. Watching the average donation creep up has been really cool. Best time to plant a tree is yesterday etc
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
Since 2015, Mike Clevinger is one of two players MLB probed under its domestic violence policy but didn't suspend. His ex-fiancée says MLB enabled the former star to keep harassing her, including this call where she says he threatened her.
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With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
The Mariners pen, yikes.
0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners
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We as a society, needed this.
UPDATE: The LAPD officer at the center of this story -- Vincent Deglinnocenti -- is no longer an LAPD officer. Last month he surrendered his license to be a cop in CA. This comes a year after my reporting pushed the LAPD to investigate Deglinnocenti for pulling a gun on a teen. @lataco.bsky.social
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Why was I invited to Beast Studios?
youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4
Some people have misunderstood this.
We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible.
This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.
Pretty terrible reporting. Letting this guy say his opinion with almost no actual data to corroborate and then ending with someone saying other costs are the real issue. Great way to push a narrative though!
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Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC will lay off 50 employees at its Orlando studio between April 17, 2026, and July 17, 2026.
As a reminder, for all sales of Deja Vu PD and Shadowgate PD on @play.date, Zojoi kindly donate their 20% royalties from net sales to building wells in Malawi Africa, providing clean water to those that do not have access.
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#indiegamedeveloper
Kara Swisher is deeply evil and untrustworthy.
Young pope Leo, undated but he appears to be in his teens or early 20’s
young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name
I wrote about how the playbook of astroturfed, online smear campaigns against celebrity women is inspiring attacks on birth control:
THE HAGUE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO APPROPRIATED NBA JAM FOR A GAMBLING AD
Angeline Era's is today's Steam daily deal!! i put it on sale at the deepest discount yet.. 25% off (under $19!). a game full of strange places, combat and Bumpslashing awaits!
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MOTION AD HOC COMMITTEE ON THE 2028 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES RULES, ELECTIONS, INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATION3 The City of Los Angeles is currently negotiating an Enhanced City Resources Master Agreement (ECRMA) with the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028 (LA28). While the ECRMA was anticipated to be finalized in October 2025, several critical issues remain unresolved, including the establishment of an LA28 Legacy Fund and the definition and allocation of any potential surplus funds. The City is seeking clear and enforceable language within the ECRMA that would prohibit LA28 from utilizing surplus funds to establish a Legacy Fund unless and until there is full alignment regarding the scope of enhanced City services required for the Games, the total associated costs, and the guaranteed reimbursement of those costs to the City. Preliminary estimates indicate that security costs alone may exceed $1 billion, exclusive of additional expenses resulting from extraordinary circumstances such as weather-related events, emergencies, or other unforeseen impacts. Notably, LA28 has presented a $7.15 billion budget that does not include security costs, raising significant concerns regarding how "surplus funds" will be defined and whether the City will be fully reimbursed for essential services, including public safety. This lack of clarity exposes the City to substantial financial risk and undermines the long-standing "zero-cost" principle under which the Games were approved. Given the magnitude and evolving nature of these negotiations, it is imperative that the City Council pursue all available measures to safeguard the City's fiscal stability and ensure the uninterrupted delivery of core services to residents before, during, and after the Games. I THEREFORE MOVE that the City Council instruct the Chief Legislative Analyst, in coordination with the City Administrative Officer and the City Attorney, to prepare language for establishing a n…
Here's the motion from Monica Rodriguez calling for "a new section within the City Charter through the ongoing Charter reform process that codifies a 'Zero-Cost Principle for the LA28 Games.'"
A charter amendment would be more similar to the financial safeguards that were in place for 1984
I am in this post and I hate it :(
