Tech Allbirds announces stunning pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175% Published Wed, Apr 15 20269:25 AM EDTUpdated 1 Min Ago thumbnail Lola Murti @in/lolamurti/ @lolavkm Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email Allbirds made a surprising announcement Wednesday that it is pivoting to artificial intelligence. Shares of the company were up as much as 200% pre-market.

Everything is fucking dumb all the time now

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Inkwell tavern.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

I’ll read this again more closely but would love to get a smarter person’s take on this.

WGA folks, check your email for details about the 2026 MBA.

I don’t know about these changes to WGA healthcare & eligibility. Thresholds & out of pocket expenses going up when most of us are struggling to find any work? I know healthcare costs are insane & we’re in a hole but yeesh.

Confirmed, there is a tentative WGA agreement.

Just so everyone knows — WGA has told Captains that what is being reported in the media regarding negotiations with the AMPTP is being reported without authorization and may not be completely accurate. A deal is not yet finalized. They will let everyone know when it is.

They emailed captains to say: wait for the official word. That was about it.

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.

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.

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

Idaho governor signs law making transgender bathroom use a felony Gov. Brad Little signed the measure on Transgender Day of Visibility as advocates rallied outside the statehouse.

And in horrifying news, Idaho's governor has signed the felony bathroom ban, with 5 year penalties for second offense bathroom usage, into law.

This is the most significant criminalization of trans people to date.

On trans day of visibility no less.

It will require a new "Do not travel" warning.

This #ArcRaiders update is absolutely brutal.

This…doesn’t make me feel safe.

U.S. panel votes to exempt Gulf of Mexico drilling from Endangered Species Act The group formally known as the Endangered Species Committee voted to revoke protections for the endangered Rice’s whales and sea turtles.

Breaking news: A committee led by the interior secretary voted to exempt oil and gas companies from complying with the Endangered Species Act when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which could threaten species facing extinction.

Fun and underrated part of the job: talking to experts. Just spent an hour on Zoom with a Harvard geneticist and it was invigorating. So smart, so welcoming, so passionate. People love sharing what they do with us writers and we have the privilege of sharing that passion with a massive audience.

My Only Prayer We sat shiva when my mom died.

I don't know how to speak about being Jewish right now. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/my-only-pr...

Yeah a shockingly flat experience all around for a Bethesda game. Graphics ain’t gonna save them.

BREAKING: A Delaware judge has ruled that Krafton must *reinstate* Ted Gill, the fired CEO of Subnautica 2 maker Unknown Worlds.

In the ruling, the judge accuses Krafton's CEO of using ChatGPT to come up with a strategy to get out of paying Unknown Worlds a $250 million bonus. Story coming shortly

The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them.

Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?

Writing two features to avoid breaking one pilot. Working smarter AND harder!

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

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It’s too easy to go to war

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it

we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

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All I want to do is play video games but instead I have to care about writing my way into another job and if democracy will survive another week or two.

Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

Breaking: MAGA activists say they are coordinating with the White House to get Trump to declare a national emergency that would give him executive power over voting.

They believe this would allow him to shut down democracy ahead of the midterms.