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04.03.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 476 πŸ” 121 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 42
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

05.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 6925 πŸ” 1982 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 61

May they rest in peace. And may we all be (a) grateful for their service and sacrifice and (b) pissed that they were put in danger in the first place.

04.03.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wilyer Abreu took a 3-2 pitch that was called a strike three. He challenged and dropped his bat at the plate, jogging to first even before the call was overturned. Is that the equivalent of bat-flipping a challenge?

01.03.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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What's it like being your nation's only Olympian? Multiple jobs, passport issues and vodka

The Olympics may be over but I enjoyed this piece: www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...

01.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Seems not great, and did not expect a GSA/FedRAMP name check here...

01.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

www.wired.com/story/openai...

I know the economic theory behind prediction markets actually encourages insiders to trade, to distill accurate information, but what are we doing here?

01.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What Republicans don’t understand is that this guy’s story is the most American possible story. A Vietnamese refugee integrating with Cajun culture, which in turn is the product of 1700s Canadian refugees? This is what makes America great. Diversity is our strength. (Plus, that food looks amazing.)

27.02.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Wesley Hunt of Texas Is Working in Plain Sight With Outside Groups

Our campaign finance laws are so broken. Both parties playing these games: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

01.03.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Trump

The lives of courageous American heroes) may be lost. That often happens in war

Lord Farqaad 

Some of you may die. But it's a sacrifice lam willing to make.

Trump The lives of courageous American heroes) may be lost. That often happens in war Lord Farqaad Some of you may die. But it's a sacrifice lam willing to make.

01.03.2026 09:02 πŸ‘ 1141 πŸ” 368 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 11
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28.02.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 8515 πŸ” 2263 πŸ’¬ 462 πŸ“Œ 122

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

28.02.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 6179 πŸ” 852 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 25

what the fuck friday night

28.02.2026 07:20 πŸ‘ 563 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

The U.S. and Israel started bombing Iran over an hour ago and it looks like the Washington Post still hasn’t published anything on it, which seems very weird.

Maybe they just fired way too many people to have a nights and weekends crew ready for this.

28.02.2026 07:19 πŸ‘ 713 πŸ” 150 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 5

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

27.02.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 9888 πŸ” 2803 πŸ’¬ 203 πŸ“Œ 129

Now is the time for solidarity from all the other AI labs… OpenAI, Google, Metaβ€”looking at you.

(Not holding my breath for xAI)

28.02.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good time to remember that Marc Andreessen claimed that he and the other tech broligarchs were forced to support Trump because of the Biden administration's arbitrary regulation and strong-arming of AI firms.

28.02.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 263 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 11

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

27.02.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 6001 πŸ” 1774 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 91

The remarkable thing here is how many Silicon Valley types lurched right because of the Biden admin’s β€œmeddling” in tech

28.02.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I honestly think people are underestimating how big of a deal this is, even if the supply chain risk designation is overturned in court.

28.02.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dean’s clarity of argument in this moment has been very admirable.

28.02.2026 01:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

27.02.2026 23:03 πŸ‘ 2295 πŸ” 572 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 19

From @jerusalem.bsky.social on the other site, re inherent incoherentness and extremely short-sighted:

β€œSorry so the line is that Anthropic is a supply chain risk AND ALSO they are required to continue servicing the Pentagon for the next six months??”

27.02.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We are going to pop the AI bubble ourselves with the supply chain risk designation, it looks like. Great job all around.

27.02.2026 22:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You really need to hear the audio in this article, it's unbelievable

27.02.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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Inside the cutthroat competition for the best baguette in Paris The Grand Prix de la Baguette de Tradition FranΓ§aise, Paris’s most revered bread competition, saw dozens of bakers competing for the title of best baguette.

www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/...

27.02.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

26.02.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 3270 πŸ” 1093 πŸ’¬ 117 πŸ“Œ 138
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Anthropic rejects Pentagon terms for lethal use of its chatbot Claude Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said the company could not permit its technology to be applied to domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.

Breaking news: Anthropic said that it will not concede to the Pentagon’s terms for full access to its AI tool Claude, saying it cannot loosen its restrictions against use in fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance.

27.02.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 897 πŸ” 222 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 40

Very well deserved.

27.02.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Baseball is the best

25.02.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0