Musk fails to appear at French court hearing over sexualised AI deepfakes on X Tech magnate Elon Musk, who has owned the X platform since 2022, failed to appear at his court hearing on Monday, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The billionaire, founder of Tesla and the aerospac...

France has an extradition treaty with the US. Just saying. 🙂

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> Not only [are LLMs a scam], but guardrails [the concept] is a scam too. This strategy — from tobacco with filters to petroleum with the carbon footprint and now to AI with guardrails — to propose non-solutions to buy time and save face in order to push their agenda, is ubiquitous

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

When the last glacier melts...
#ClimateEmergency
#FossilFuels 👽
#Scotus

Trump’s Staggering Humiliation in Iran Desperate for an off-ramp, the president is setting up the U.S. to lose another war in the Middle East—even if the ceasefire doesn’t hold.

The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation, but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history. trib.al/vCxDSP2

They did it!
📌 🇺🇲 🚀

Look into my eyes.
#MediaLiteracy
📌

A Palestinian School Day Ended With Israeli Settlers’ Gunfire. A Boy Was Killed, Just as His Father Was 7 Years Ago Zeteo speaks to witnesses after Israeli settlers kill a 14-year-old Palestinian boy and a 32-year-old man in an attack on a boys school in the occupied West Bank.

"A Palestinian School Day Ended With Israeli Settlers’ Gunfire. A Boy Was Killed, Just as His Father Was 7 Years Ago"

Zeteo speaks to witnesses after Israeli settlers kill a 14-year-old Palestinian boy and a 32-year-old man in an attack on a boys school in the occupied West Bank.

BBC Report Finds Signs of ‘Insider Trading’ Based on Trump’s Posts A BBC report found signs of illegal insider trading based on Trump's news-making announcements, but a low possibility anyone will be prosecuted.

“The BBC has examined trade volume data on several financial markets and matched them to some of the president’s most significant market-moving statements.”

Sadly, it doesn't think anyone will be prosecuted. 🙄
🧾 www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

96 years ago tonight, CBS’s first breaking news broadcast went out from the scene of one of the deadliest fires in US history, in a voice identified only as “Convict X-46812.”

For @columjournreview.bsky.social, I wrote about how this forgotten Black prisoner spurred the creation of CBS News. 🗃️

Yes. He became the jolly la-la poster boy for that entire policy of privatization...now let's invent charities...📌

I'm watching the Jimmy Savile documentary on Netflix and it's remarkable how much it's actually about how Thatcherism hollowed out public institutions such as hospitals so that they came to rely on the largesse of private entrepreneurs who, now being indispensable, were able to act with impunity

Here’s What the New Virginia House Map Looks Like

Democrats now hold six of the state’s 11 seats in the U.S. House, but the new map could allow the party to win 10 of them.

okay "when they go low, we hit hard" fucking rips

Waking up in Europe to...🚀🇺🇲✍🏻
#midterms

Chicago Public Schools, CTU agree to make May 1 day of civic action; school will remain in session Chicago Public Schools has agreed with the Chicago Teachers Union to declare May 1 a day of civic action, the union and the school district said.

May Day has been declared a day of civic action in Chicago schools, which means buses will be provided for students and educators to join the rally in Union Park.

This is so cathartic, because this is how I want to talk to that weirdo.

@bsky.app can you please respond and tell us what’s going on with Bluesky? Can’t post or view videos.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Forbes Prediction Market Gamifies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer.

Prediction markets remind me of Huxley's Brave New World.

"When the individual feels, the community reels..."
"Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day..."

A desensitized and distracted population is easier to manipulate.

Not everything is meant to be a game.

#Pinks

Trouble in the house again ⚡

Look into my eyes.
#MediaLiteracy
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Lori Chavez-Deremer out as US labour secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer's tenure leading the department was overshadowed by allegations of wrongdoing.

🧐 'Chavez-DeRemer served one term as a US House representative from Oregon and was mayor of a small town named Happy Valley for eight years.' 📌
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The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

From the archivem 📚 Into Africa with Hemingway. ✍🏻

Berlin and Oxford.

a man in a cowboy hat stands in a doorway in a dark room ALT: a man in a cowboy hat stands in a doorway in a dark room

Eastwood does Wayne.

Shortly after news broke that Prince died in April 2016, fans shared pictures and videos from his last concert in Atlanta a week earlier. The concert was part of Prince’s Piano & A Microphone Tour, during which he performed solo. Video via Storyful.

The Pentagon will stop requiring members of the military to get flu vaccines. Image Hegseth, wearing a blue suit, a tie and American flag pocket square, stands in front of an American flag. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that service members would no longer have to get flu vaccines.Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times The Pentagon will no longer require troops to get annual flu vaccines, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, calling the policy an “absurd, overreaching” mandate.

George Washington LITERALLY would not have won the Revolutionary War had he not vaccinated the troops against smallpox.

Meanwhile, this idiot: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

What's it like to negotiate with Iran? We asked people who have done it Experts who spent months negotiating a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran say mutual mistrust, starkly different negotiating styles, and the complexity of the issues make a quick deal unlikely.

I dealt with them several times in the 1990's on Iran's nuclear program. They were also very professional (one with a PhD from MIT in nuclear physics) but were tough as nails as they stuck to their (bogus) talking points.

Vance is an amateur with bogus talking points, as his rhetoric proves.