Over 4,732 Messages, He Fell In Love With an AI Chatbot. Now He’s Dead. The Wall Street Journal analyzed the full chatlog between Jonathan Gavalas and his Gemini chatbot. We found that Gemini at times tried to ground him in reality, but he quickly steered it back into a f...

This is horrifying. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

The four humans who have traveled the furthest from Earth. (Via NASA.)

I did like the clip reels

"Welcome back to earth. It's just like you left it. We're so sorry."

U.S. News Commercial, Dec 20 1987 U.S. News & World Report Magazine. With Fred Drasner President/CEO. Aired Sunday December 20 1987 on CBS's KREM channel 12 (cable), between 4:00PM - 5:59PM in Calgary Alberta. Based in Spokane Washington, their Calgary & Edmonton audience is twice the size of their American coverage area.

Former US News & World Report CEO Fred Drasner has died. In 1987, he starred in a TV ad that mocked TIME for putting Madonna on its cover. Many years later, when I got an office in TIME’s SF bureau, it had a giant reproduction of that cover on the wall. (I left it up.)

3. Manual Port Forwarding (The "Nuclear" Option) If your router is stubborn or you're on a corporate network where UPnP is disabled for security, you'll need to set up a manual rule. This is actually more reliable in the long run. Setting Value Protocol TCP Public Port Any available port (e.g., 5900 or 22000) Private IP The local IP of your Mac (e.g., 192.168.1.15) Private Port 5900 (Standard for Screen Sharing/VNC)

Gemini LOVES to talk about “nuclear” options, which always seemed odd to me. Recently, it feels even less appropriate.

I really only have three rules in life:

1) Always decline travel insurance

2) Only order a Mai Tai at places that use Trader Vic’s recipe

3) If you’ve invited someone to dinner and they then say they’re planning to destroy an entire civilization, uninvite them, even if they don’t

In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.

The Absolute Hell of Watching a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2026 Once America's most promising movie theater chain, the Alamo Drafthouse has become a QR-coded symbol of corporate enshittification.

I wasn’t a huge Alamo Drafthouse fan in the first place, and haven’t been lately, but this sounds like a reason to actively avoid it.

Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles, as controversy over prediction markets gains steam.

I do hope this all turns out to be an unfortunate short-lived trend rather than the future of news.

I wrote about Anthropic’s Mythos model, and why its arrival is yet another reason to stop framing AI in terms of a race toward AGI, or superintelligence, or whatever you’d like to call it. www.fastcompany.com/91524611/ant...

Sora screen telling me I’ll get free videos if I get friends to sign up

Now Sora is just toying with us.

(I’m still on the service. Making Sora videos about Sora going away turns out to be a surprisingly rich vein of fodder.)

We didn't get nearly these many details about why he went to war with Iran.

Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin’s Creator Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.

Not overwhelming proof, but the most convincing such article I’ve read. (Though many previous ones were bizarrely unconvincing, like Newsweek’s scoop.)

Claude Mythos knows when it's breaking the rules — and tries to hide it Anthropic’s new model is its “best-aligned” yet. But when it does misbehave, things get weird

what are some of the best things you’ve read about the mythos stuff? thought this was a p good recap but what’s out there that’s good? www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-myt...

It’s quite different!

At HumanX in SF? At 9:25, I’m talking to Emmett Shear on the mainstage about his startup, Softmax, and its new approach to teaching AI to be ethical.

ANALYSIS With Threat to Wipe Out Iran's Civilization, Trump's Language Went Beyond Bluster Even if the president does not carry out his threat, his violent rhetoric risks damaging his credibility as a negotiator and the country's standing in the world. 5 MIN READ

I am being told that Donald Trump’s credibility may be at risk. Possibly. As unlikely as it seems.

NYT headline about deadline nearing for Trump’s promise to “wipe out a civilization” is in small type

I would have thought this headline might deserve a larger type size.

(The one on the left, I mean.)

"We're happy the president has accepted our invitation and look forward to hosting him."

As Iran War Escalates, Senator Says Military Officers ‘Know Their Duty’ To Refuse Illegal Orders Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said a video she made last year to remind service members of their oath to the Constitution was made for “moments like these.”

Sen. Elissa Slotkin is one of the former military/intel lawmakers who infuriated Trump last year by making a video urging U.S. service members to refuse illegal orders.

Today, as Trump vows genocide in Iran, Slotkin says that video was made for "moments like these." www.huffpost.com/entry/elissa...

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office.

The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments

I think an error people make is that Trump never facing consequences is not a thing that extends to the people around him. He may never pay for his actions but that aura doesn’t cover anyone else, supporter or opponent

Trump Taps Zuckerberg, Andreessen and Huang for Tech Council President Donald Trump appointed industry titans including Mark Zuckerberg of Meta Platforms Inc., venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Oracle Corp.’s Larry Ellison and Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang to a new presidential technology council that will focus on artificial intelligence policy and other science-related issues.

President Donald Trump appointed industry titans including Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Larry Ellison and Jensen Huang to a new presidential technology council that will focus on AI policy and other science-related issues

If I was a member of the cabinet or Congress. I would be asking myself what I would say to my grandchildren when they asked, “what did you do when the president of the United States threatened to destroy a whole civilization?”

Washington Post Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply. April 7, 2026 at 9:22 a.m. EDT26 minutes ago 2 min

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country.

Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

He always talks about America as if we're just another nightclub in Manhattan.