Delightful scene report about a bunch of children who think they’re building god. Highlights include: appearances from Dumpster Boyfriend, “a sperm-racing start-up,” and “Carsten, a Swiss German 27-year-old who was designing AI-involved sandals but recently pivoted to drug testing.” Claude, is this a top signal?
[Intelligencer]
Fun tidbits here, including that if all the proposed acquisitions and mergers go through, “portfolio and power could exceed those of fabled predecessors like Hearst and Pulitzer.” This is to say nothing of the broader family’s holdings.
[nytimes.com]
The Vice President of the US has blessed hunting people down for Charlie Kirk wrongthink.
The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.
We aren’t your friends, and you’ll never be alone again.
Musk’s ‘antitrust’ tantrum takes on a new target.
This is just a fun little series of Mastodon posts about a security breach at a “highly secure” data center... by a female mallard.
Nazis’ presence on Substack has only grown. “Sending out Nazi push alerts may not have been the company’s goal,” write Marisa Kabas and Jonathan Katz, the latter of whom sounded the initial alarm in November 2023. “But it is more of a feature than a bug.”
[The Handbasket]
As well as class schedules, scholarship disbursements, and student loan information. Neat! At least Bloomberg finally got around to telling its audience that the alleged hacker’s X account “includes a racist handle and racist remarks.” I wonder what a Nazi can accomplish with all this sensitive information? I guess we’ll find out.