A jury has ruled that Live Nation-Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly.
A judge will determine whether or not to break the company up, in addition to other damages.
This is a big deal.
Remember that the Trump admin tried to settle the lawsuit with a slap on the wrist — but state AGs said no way.
welp unfortunately it looks like the world actually is a complicated place that requires us to put smart people in charge, hate to say it but sometimes shit matters and its not all a troll
Just read a science-fictional version of this in Philip K Dick’s Martian Time Slip. We covered this more than 60 years ago and it was a really obviously bad idea then!
Rebuttal: this is precisely typical AI slop
Mark Zuckerberg is never right:
aftermath.site/mark-zuckerber...
ChatGPT: you’re so right, Leto Atreides II. Merging with a worm would give you unconscionable power that you, alone, could wield — you, alone, could be trusted with. You wouldn’t be committing a genocide. You would be saving humanity
A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.
The Amazing World of Tomorrow
Being gaslit by the whole internet…if there are only 2 Spinal Tap movies, then what’re Spinal Tap Returns (1992) and Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead (2009)?
youtu.be/nR5N5yCKWEQ?...
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
I don’t want to touch any of it, I just want to make sure it all has my identifiable fingerprint on it.
Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people.
Me: Ok. May I talk to a person?
Corporation: No. Never again.
The financialization of every aspect of every industry means even something basic like job security just becomes a shitty casino game
@m2bulls.bsky.social
🎯🎯🎯😒😒😒
A giant sphere of flesh in Central Park towering over the city like a big gross meatball. This was made by redditor kiwi2703 to show what it would look like if you combined every human on Earth into a ball, and it’s clearly a bad idea
Within 18 months all white collar workers could be replaced by a 1km sphere of flesh in Central Park
So I finally watched PREDATOR: BADLANDS and it’s hard to think of a genre franchise that is getting it as right as this one. Three outstanding films in a row is an incredible comeback!
(edited because I miscounted).
Chat, is this real? (But I'm asking a French cat and it pretends not to understand with Gallic insouciance.)
Pam Bondi: ‘What Is The DOJ Hiding?’ https://theonion.com/pam-bondi-what-is-the-doj-hiding/
“Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.”
WHAT?!?!
apple.news/A9_7c5nUVT5a...
“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it
You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump.
This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.
Look, we might crater our civilization, but at least we’ll have generated a lot of unsettling pictures nobody enjoys and text nobody’s read or wants to read.
I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.