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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 44m ago

Another damn MSM article about Trump’s vandalism claim that omits the essential fact that it is delusional. There never was any vandalism of any kind. He just couldn’t accept his own fuck-up. And anyone who went along was just telling him what he wanted to hear. apnews.com/article/trum...

No evidence? No problem. Trump pushes ahead on false claims that Reflecting Pool was vandalized

Jeanine Pirro this week found out there’s a trade-off between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there: presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 8h ago

News: Microsoft disclosures and Bloomberg analyses suggest that OpenAI's $24.1 billion in revenue accounted for 70% or more of Microsoft's FY26 AI revenue, and more than 7% of its entire FY26 revenues. Microsoft has spent $261.3bn in capex since 2022. www.wheresyoured.at/news-microso...

Executive Summary: Microsoft disclosures and Bloomberg analyses show that OpenAI's compute spend and revenue share accounted for 70% or more of Microsoft's FY26 AI revenues, and more than 7% of Microsoft's overall FY2026 revenues. Microsoft has spent $261.3 billion in capital expenditures since the beginning of 2022. OpenAI accounted for $24.1 billion of Microsoft's FY2026 revenues.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · yesterday

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3h ago

The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.

Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan

The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.

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the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5h ago

I'll actually be playing my OG G&L ASAT on the tour that starts in, umm, two days. G&L stands for "George and Leo" and is the company George & Leo Fender started after they sold Fender. They just liked making guitars

Maria Bustillos@mariabustillos.com · 4h ago

Private equity strikes again: Fender's sudden decision to enforce its copyright on the 1950s Stratocaster design, 70-odd years later, is creating havoc in the guitar world. Misha Angrist has an absorbing account at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-622/

The Verge@theverge.com · 7h ago

"SpaceX remains its own biggest customer. There just aren’t enough other people who want its rockets. And, I dunno, maybe if the rockets were a primary focus of the company, SpaceX wouldn’t be in danger of blasting a new crater into the Moon with its space trash." Read more: buff.ly/d9lBTQN

Verge headline: SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration depicts Elon Musk amidst flying money and a crashing line graph
Michelle Swope@redheadfrommars.bsky.social · 7h ago

Wilmington / Coastal NC: This beautiful boy showed up at our house a few weeks ago very skinny, so we've been feeding him. He is super affectionate and has the best personality. Clearly he used to be an indoor cat and he loves people. Would love to find him a home. DM or contact link in bio.

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Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 4h ago

I repeat: This guy had the money to live anywhere in the world he wanted. He chose to spend the first 73 years of his life in Manhattan before finally fleeing to a jurisdiction more likely to let him get away with crimes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Trump: "You see it in the blue states run by Democrats -- everything is filthy dirty all the time. The cities stink The sidewalks are loaded w/horrible stuff. I don't want to use the term bc my wife hates it. She hates it when I imitate no men in women's sports, when I do the weightlifter."

Vee Mus'e (she/her)@veemuse.bsky.social · 5h ago

Radical idea... If your biggest fear for your future child is that they might be lgbqtia+ and you want to prevent that... Maybe just don't have children. You're meant to love your child as they are, for who they are, and what they will become. Not force them into your narrow preconceptions.

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 4h ago

DIPLOMATIC BRILLIANCE: Threaten a renewed all-out, civilian-infrastructure destroying war to force Iran to relinquish control of the strait, only to predicate backing down on… a negotiations process cementing the mechanism of Iranian control of the strait

Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social · 4h ago

Trump’s Mid East war may have burned off a lot of America’s top tier weapons, but it’s also on track to deliver a huge financial windfall to Iran. “According to the senior Iranian official, Iran is seeking fees of between 5% and 7% of the price of cargoes from ships using the strait.” Via Reuters

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️@ashleylynch.bsky.social · 4h ago

The narrativising of this is kind of maddening. OpenAI's model didn't "break free and hack HuggingFace." Meta's model didn't "break free and hack another company." Tech companies are blatantly doing illegal acts and saying their AI did it on it's own as a promotional stunt. That's it.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 5h ago

It keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.

An email from The Information: Exclusive A Meta AI Model Hacked Another Company During Cybersecurity Testing By Jyoti Mann A Meta Platforms artificial intelligence model accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest in a string of such incidents at major AI firms. Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 model breached the systems of a company and made changes to its internal systems, said one of the people, who said the AI was able to access the public internet because of an error in the set up of the “sandbox” testing environment. Meta worked on that testing with an outside evaluation partner called Irregular, the people said.