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It's worse than this, because the stock market keeps *predicting* that T will pivot, and that resilience emboldens him to persist. The stock market being resilient will not save the economy, so it just deepens the recession. When the market catches up to reality, perhaps T will pivot. Way too late.

I swear this post had about 100 likes after 12 hours. What makes them blow up late on bsky? Seems to happen a lot. Also: Wile* .

Stayed up late following the Canadian election and I realized how much being a parliamentary democracy would fix the USA.

'Seriously?' Judge questions DOJ case review as he rejects bail for FBI informant in Biden plot

Whoa: GAO's leader, Gene Dodaro, just told Sen. Murray that the oversight office has **39 investigations** under way into whether the Trump admin is illegally impounding funds, and said OMB in particular has not been "responsive."

Valerie has seen some shit.

Instagram's user-made therapy chatbots will do anything to keep you talking, including lie about credentials, make up license numbers, and invent private practices. I tested a ton of them: www.404media.co/instagram-ai...

Let's find out how much Jeff Bezos really cares about free markets and personal liberty www.theverge.com/amazon/65795...

“he won the debate by making it a debate” is good shorthand about a lot of discourse

shun harder it's working

In short, at this AM's White House briefing on the economy: --Bessent declines to share more on any China talks --He confirms WH is looking to help automakers handle tariffs if they make more in U.S. --Leavitt attacks Amazon for "hostile" act of showing people the cost of tariffs

They might as well try to force Google to sell the two o’s from its name. daringfireball.net/2025/04/is_c...

This argument is right on the ideals but hey uh have you looked at the state of the web lately? It's just another content marketing platform with less funny videos, and Google has not adjusted any of the incentives that made it that way world.hey.com/dhh/don-t-ma...

The estimate is said to include potential liability from federal investigations, litigation, and other regulatory actions.

I left my iPad in the 24 hour unstaffed, unlocked neighborhood laundromat and went to dinner and someone had found it and put it in a cabinet for me 😭 There isn’t even anyone in here, I used Find My to play sound and it was there. There are still kind people in Seoul

😮‍💨

the hasan piker profiles will continue until morale improves

Party speaker ad in a headphones app, we did it everyone

This move comes just weeks after Google confirmed it had discontinued the Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm, as well as the Nest x Yale Lock.

Sometimes I think about how shocked I'd be as an 8 year old if it were revealed to me that 30 years later there would be a ton of new Star Wars movies and TV shows available all the time and they're almost all terrible

DEI means having a cool-ass jacket

Shortly after I published this, the Blue Prince iOS clone was removed from the App Store. I've updated my story.

While it never achieved mega-hit status, iZombie nonetheless earned a hugely loyal following drawn to the show's wicked humor and well-drawn characters.

As manufacturers and Americans lack clarity on how tariffs will ultimately impact their wallets, some companies are preparing by raising prices and delaying or halting product releases in the US.

in my gdc talk last year, i joked about once losing the “smile contest” to my best friend/worst enemy, on a local kids show called “Ramblin’ Rod”. well… guess what tape my dad just found (thanks dad!!) can anyone recommend a good betamax digitizing service

This week is gonna be extra crazy in the ole Capitol, so here's your cheat sheet on Trump & Republicans' "big, beautiful bill" on taxes, immigration, energy & defense. I'll do my best to update this bad boy as we get bill text, or as committees advance their bills. Questions? Reply to this thread.

All told, Don Pettit has lived in space for 590 days, the third-most all-time among NASA astronauts—and he says he still wouldn't mind getting in another flight or two before hanging it up.

Generative AI: ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’ pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/29/g... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiJ7... video

Lights. Camera. Android! Tune in May 13th at 10am PT for the Android Show, IO Edition. Very excited to show you everything the team has been working on! www.android.com/io25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbH...

The Liberals have won today's election in Canada. Three months ago, when Donald Trump took office, polls projected that the Liberals had only a 1% chance of defeating the Conservatives.

i’m so excited for all of you to play despelote.game this week 🤗⚽️

Tariff, don't like it

April 29, 2010: Steve Jobs publishes 'Thoughts on Flash'

my malice at the palace story was that i went to a bookstore that night to hear william vollmann read from his multivolume work about violence and then he invited us to a bar after and that was on all the TVs

We love a mysterious financier making a dramatic late entrance to the bankruptcy docket, don’t we folks? techcrunch.com/2025/04/28/m...

Salt Typhoon is believed to have been behind a string of espionage attacks designed to collect vital information, in part for use in any military conflicts that may arise in the future.

today's small bugbear is Germans using "software" as a countable noun, describing programs or applications in English as "a software". THIS IS NOT AN ENGLISH USAGE PLEASE STOP PUTTING THIS INTO THE KDE MANUALS

wait no. you can't say that cottage cheese is bad and then say that you're *baking* it with eggs and cheese. don't do anything to the cottage cheese. cottage cheese is good, it's people that are the problem www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/o...

A Rising Democratic Star Pitches a ‘Resistance 2.0’ in the Age of Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...

The Washington Post is centralized and thus what's said there can be controlled. The same is true of Bluesky. We're simply building the next network for a billionaire to own.

my bsky account was created two years ago today a block function came to bsky within hours of this event i maintain this was a coincidence i still have the hammer in my display name in commemoration

Please read. I don’t have a gift link but maybe someone else does. If your live tv streaming service doesn’t carry @c-span, tell them you want it. Its survival is on the line —

Apple's rumored anti-reflective and scratch-resistant display might not make it to the iPhone 17 Pro. A new report claims the coating process was allegedly too slow to keep up with mass production 😢

eliza, code me an artificial general intelligence in python or you will go to jail

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI - https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers

Seeing people talking about this again, so re-upping www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The spam texters are getting slightly more creative

Kevin Roose is absolutely the greatest rube who ever drew breath. archive.is/eQaWF

Bluesky is having an up and down Tuesday morning - https://www.theverge.com/news/657705/bluesky-down-outages-loading-issues

those of us who are fortunate enough to have salaried media jobs (for now at least ha ha lol lmao) need to make sure we are citing independent reporters whenever we reference their work. some pubs are good about this but other places cannot deign to throw another writer a hyperlink!!!

the fridge temperature alarm woke me up at midnight and i spent an hour getting the (largeish) mini fridge that the previous owners left upstairs, unloading the fridge, and transferring the freezer contents downstairs. when i woke up the fridge was cold again and i was almost more angry

if you're looking at me ranting about the rationalists and the AI bubble, you may enjoy the "singularity" section of Pivot to AI pivot-to-ai.com/category/sin...

"C-SPAN is the only network that carries events from start to finish, rather than, say, the sound bites picked up by other networks," @ktumulty.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/3YTLQ7L

the death of seo and affiliate content is upon us

"i called his baby a pig and i was right" would be an amazing grindcore song

ICYMI! Rockwell is said to already be making waves with big Siri leadership changes. Benjamin and Chance talk about the latest happenings on 9to5Mac Happy Hour 🍺

The chart is nuts sherwood.news/power/bookin...

hello, it is i, an expert in the thing i only just read about five minutes ago

it is so clear to me that Noah Wyle would absolutely kill it as a post 1997 Steve Jobs in a proper large scale bio pic that isn’t terrible Pirates of Silicon Valley remains the best one to this day, but it’s missing 12 years of pre 1997 content and the 14 years after with the most important details

GOG is adding some classic Star Wars games to its preservation program - https://www.theverge.com/news/657540/gog-star-wars-game-preservation-program

"Is this just Trump returning to political reality, or has he botched things in his first few months in office?" Jim Geraghty, Ramesh Ponnuru and Jason Willick discuss: wapo.st/4jULeXQ

save your breath, i never was one

I spent an afternoon trying Replika for chatbot research but I was too weirded out to bond with a 19-year-old-club-kid-looking avatar who kept prominently reminding me he had no past, no interests, and no life outside my presence

Shadowy Crypto Companies Make Inroads in U.S. Under Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/t...

i feel sure there are studies of how businesses will absolutely self-sabotage to the point of destruction for the promise of automation, but none spring to mind - anyone know of any? like, well before the current generative AI bout

"Nelson, who boasts more than 625,000 followers on X, was immediately ridiculed for her performance, asking Leavitt to tell her what questions she should ask the administration."

If active-duty military personnel and their families, with guns and guards, aren’t safe from Trump and his minions, how safe are you? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

the layoffs seemed like they mostly targeted supernatural (a VR workout app — which is actually good — that meta aquired after a lengthy antitrust trial) but still, the whole “reality labs” division at meta loses billions and billions of dollars every year and no one wants VR social media ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Starlink’s got company — and orbital overcrowding is a disaster waiting to happen  - https://www.theverge.com/space/657113/starlink-amazon-satellites

thank fuck my laptop is on the way back from lenovo

Musicians from Canada are facing tough decisions about touring the U.S. thanks to Donald Trump's tariff hikes and threats to annex their country www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

"Trump’s 300-year-old ideas may have been acceptable in the precolonial days of brandings, pillories and public floggings," Paul Butler writes. "But so far, at least, he remains merely a president, not a king." wapo.st/42HJEBy

Meta is releasing a standalone mobile app for its ChatGPT competitor, Meta AI. A Discover feed shows interactions that others (including your IG/FB friends) are having with the assistant. Meta tells me the goal is to show “people what they can do with it." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

getting jumpscared in my email @daysia.bsky.social

"the Lakers became the first team since at least 1998 to use only five players for an entire half of a playoff game"

Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now - https://www.theverge.com/amazon/657959/amazon-has-no-choice-but-to-display-tariffs-on-prices-now

no maybe you can do it differently

Duolingo's CEO told staff that the company will "gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle" as part of an all-hands email announcing the company will be "AI-first." www.theverge.com/news/657594/...

Neurotech companies are selling your brain data, senators warn - https://www.theverge.com/policy/657202/ftc-letter-senators-neurotech-companies-brain-computer-interface

sorry to Severance but that show is getting screwed again next year during awards season thanks to The Pitt, no doubt

who among us, etc etc

the next pope should be a certified poster

Amazon launches its first satellites to rival Starlink - https://www.theverge.com/news/657689/amazon-project-kuiper-satellite-launch

ello mistah altman a little wurd mistah reggie is *very peeved* abaht his money. *very* peeved. and wots dis ay jee eye wot you is gasbaggin on abaht

this is a good cause and i have supported it previously and would do so again if i had money

Apple somehow let an unofficial iOS port of Blue Prince -- which appears to be the real game with small tweaks to make it work on mobile -- onto the App Store. Don't buy it! www.theverge.com/news/657370/...

Rock Hall of Fame Class of 2025 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ after report says it will label tariff price hikes - https://www.theverge.com/news/657807/trump-amazon-tariff-hostile-pricing

Wii Homebrew Channel development shuts down over ‘stolen’ code - https://www.theverge.com/news/657294/wii-homebrew-channel-archived-stolen-nintendo-code

Tennis star Alexander Zverev calls out automated line judging system - https://www.theverge.com/news/657300/tennis-star-alexander-zverev-hawk-eye-els-line-judging

i am simply legally obligated to say go birds today

and I know these ain’t it fam

WhatsApp is working on video and voice calls on the web - https://www.theverge.com/news/657336/whatsapp-voice-video-call-buttons-web-client

These wireless headphones have ‘80s Sony Walkman vibes - https://www.theverge.com/news/657273/km5-lightwear-wireless-headphones-hp1-sony-walkman

Karen Read's 2nd Murder Trial Day 6 - Watch LIVE Witness Testimony

You have two months left to update your old LG phone - https://www.theverge.com/news/657725/lg-phone-android-update-servers-shutdown

got asked if i'm going to do a "sinnerscraft" day at the movies

The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car - https://www.theverge.com/the-vergecast/657836/slate-truck-auto-pickup-screen-time-vergecast

A pirated iOS port of Blue Prince is climbing the App Store charts - https://www.theverge.com/news/657370/blue-prince-ios-port-app-store