What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

I’m guessing Noah Hawley won’t be making any shows for Amazon Prime for the foreseeable future www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I do not like airports. But I do not like getting to airports less than 2 hours before my flight.

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There are plenty of things to worry about when it comes to remote, and particularly increasingly autonymous, weapons. But there is nothing intrinsically better about having people kill other people up close. Arguably a lot worse.

The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.

I was on a flight for the entirety of the game, which in hindsight was probably a good thing.

Brutal.

Tucker Carlson to launch publishing imprint with books by Russell Brand and Milo Yiannopoulos Former Fox News host says publishing house Skyhorse ‘looking for books that nobody else will publish’

What an impressively curséd headline

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

Reminder: The Trump regime cancelled nearly $500 million in federal contracts for mRNA vaccine development last year.

I think this makes it 4 clear, antisemitic attacks in the past 6 months - and 2 in the week.

We have a big problem.

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.”

Also: it misquotes the Pope.

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Lots of people going "loads of people actually really liked the internet and used it". Well, given LLMs are probably the most rapidly adopted consumer tech ever that doesn't really help their argument....

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has apparently been detained in Kuwait after posting a video of a US Air Force fighter jet crash. His friends and allies went public about his case today, hoping publicity will help win his release. www.cnn.com/2026/04/14/w...

I mean, the argument is partly that they will do tasks in a world built for humans, and tasks that involve interacting with humans. Obviously non humanoid formats make sense in loads of other places, but we already use lots of those with dumber software.

Axel Springer Receives UK Government Approval for Acquisition of Telegraph Media Group

Axel Springer says it's received approval from DCMS to proceed with its acquisition of The Telegraph.

The deal "remains subject to outstanding regulatory approvals in Ireland and Austria, with completion expected within calendar Q2 2026"

Inside a pro-Conservative influence operation on Community Notes Inside a pro-Conservative group effort to influence X's Community Notes

NEW on @indicator.media:

I found a group of X accounts that worked together to remove Community Notes from British Conservative Party accounts during the 2024 UK general election.

The Sun’s accounts are out and I haven’t seen anyone report on them so…
*Pre-tax loss of £31m
*Revenue down from £296m to £273m (Sub now in the same ballpark as the Guardian)
*Phone hacking costs (now into its third decade) of £36.6m
*Big fall in audience but still claim to be UK’s number one brand

I can't believe I actually have to say this, but apparently I do: someone who is buying compromised Bluesky accounts from an account reseller marketplace is directly funding identity theft, fraud, and international crime. #BadActorBingo resurrection for an explainer of why:

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

I mean, i think lots of people designing it think it will replace people, as other jobs have been replaced by other forms of tech. Question is what happens to the people whose jobs are displaced (I am not optimistic that Karp's vision for this is a good one.)

Yes, this is one of the key problems it looks like it may cause! I was just pointing out that it's not true that tech execs say it will only happen to other industries.

From literally January

I mean, tech CEOs regularly do say this about tech jobs.

Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real Robert did some reporting of his own.

Another reason investigative reporting isn’t easy. Here’s evidence of why the author of this, @robert-faturechi.bsky.social, remains one of the best.
www.propublica.org/article/impe...

CNN sent out the following statement on this: “The statement in question was obtained by CNN from Iranian officials and reported on multiple Iranian state media outlets. We received the statement from specific official Iranian spokespeople who are known to us.”

The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI

Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers —…

Just insane levels of evil here.

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