Wow, just think: someday you'll be able to look back and say "You know, the new Secretary of Health & Human Services used to be my doctor"
Matt Rosoff
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I am shocked, I say, shocked: www.actionnews5.com/2026/08/01/c...
Contractor who built Colossus and Colossus II says Elon Musk owes him colossal amount of money
A mechanical contractor who helped build Elon Musk’s Memphis-area data centers at breakneck speed says SpaceXAI is dragging its feet on paying his company for work performed since 2024.
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This is such complete and utter bullshit on the part of Thom Tillis and John Cornyn. Giving the Trump crime family immunity from tax audits remains as corrupt as anything we’ve ever seen in this country. Todd Blanche should be impeached, not confirmed.
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2d agoJUST IN: Tillis confirms he is on board with Cornyn to vote yes on Blanche for AG, after Blanche renounces Anti-Weaponization Fund in writing & asserts that the waiver of any past taxes due is limited to POTUS, Don Jr., Eric & Trump Org. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Listen to me talking about the weird Q2 tech earnings season and the AI bubble on this week's edition of The Register's Kettle podcast: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet
Weird times in earnings-land, and we're talking about it on The Reg's home grown podcast
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airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
If only someone had mentioned this before, like for the last 20 years, with ever increasing evidence
Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 3d agoThe slow creep of stories like this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I wish someone had told me when I was younger that adults don’t actually have their shit together and everyone is still just a kid who’s faking it.
The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.
hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d agoParty that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh
One of the (many) reasons I think people are so anti-AI is that it’s a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. The average person’s life is difficult, expensive, and getting any kind of loan sucks - unless you’re raising billions of dollars to build an AI data center.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 5d agoWas awesome to join Bloomberg to talk about the lie of AI - everyone's buying into the mag7 believing CapEx is going towards diverse AI demand, when all it's really doing is supporting the circular cloud revenues of two unprofitable, unsustainable AI labs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcZ...
New blog entry: On the non-use of AI in my writing process: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
This has to be AI, but if not, I salute you, sir. Also, he died ine day after no longer being 69.
The Cleric@thecleric.bsky.social · 5d agoSometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.
Loving this could-never-happen-here NYT story about a strange foreign country where people ignore the rise of authoritarianism to chase bling and Insta likes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...
This Country Is Ravaged by War, but Its Rich Feel ‘Positive Vibes Only’
The lifestyles of the wealthy in Myanmar — nightclubs, caviar and trips abroad — have been largely untouched by years of deadly conflict.
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The Ramones are more boring than the Grateful Dead.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
No mention at all of how wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal all of this is. Just a game of inside baseball & personalities to these wildly unserious people. Incredible in 2026 to be behaving like this.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is a completely insane interview in that the things they are discussing are so alarming that their heads should be exploding and yet they are calm. History will be unkind to those, like the NYT, who underreacted to Trump’s violation of the country. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...
As @bobburgess.bsky.social wrote when IBM had its biggest one-day crash in 58 years a couple of weeks ago, not long after its biggest one-day jump in 58 years, something is broken in the stock market Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
When IBM Acts Like a Penny Stock, Something Is Wrong
You’d be forgiven for mistaking the shares of blue-chip International Business Machines Corp. for a penny stock these days. Take a look:
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Five years ago, 80% of New Mexico's energy was generated by coal and gas. Now it's 38%. A massive renewables success story from @climateconnections.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/07/new-...
New Mexico’s clean energy success story » Yale Climate Connections
In just five years, solar, wind, and batteries overtook fossil fuels, keeping air conditioners running while slashing pollution.
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Right-wing content creators are turning on Trump and each other as their audiences decrease. I wonder too if part of that falling audience is just the fracturing of attention and broader disillusionment with politics the left has seen for awhile. Now it's coming for the right.
TPM@talkingpointsmemo.com · 5d agoThe world of right-wing influencers is fraying amid feuds and declining audience numbers.
It seems like the same group of self-impressed grifters behind all the overhyped fake crap in Silicon Valley for the last 20 years. PayPal, Stripe, YC, EA, FTX, AI…call me when any of these guys builds a Microsoft or a Google. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Maybe we shouldn’t give 24 year olds billions of dollars to bet on AI
We deserve a better class of AI booster.
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Looks like Gavin Newsom is going to bat for California Forever, the Network State "tech utopia" project backed by Marc Andreessen and other tech billionaires. 70% of local residents oppose it. But the billionaires hired Newsom's favorite lobbyist. Welcome to Sacramento. nypost.com/2026/07/29/u...
Exclusive | Inside Gavin Newsom’s desperate bid to save billionaire pals’ dream city
Newsom has been quietly whipping support for California’s billionaire-backed megacity as it faces the loss of a key tenant.
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Love @thurrott.bsky.social digging into Microsoft’s depreciation game in detail here - cc @jordannovet.cnbc.com www.thurrott.com/microsoft/33...
Microsoft Earnings Analysis: Hide Me The Money ⭐
With its latest quarterly report, Microsoft gave up all pretense of explaining where the money is going. This should scare everyone.
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bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris
A particularly hilarious Apple Music/legacy iTunes metadata screwup:
Junk mail - that is, unsolicited commercial mail of all sorts, including catalogs and charity solicitations - should be illegal.
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo agoDo you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
