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2025: Tech companies are spending so much on capex!
2026: They’re gonna double it

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Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine Hundreds of protesters gathered in Milan to demand that the ICE agents sent to support security operations at the Winter Olympics leave the country; and Italy’s foreign minister claimed that the incom...

"Melania: Devourer of Men, a parodic erotic thriller depicting the First Lady as a monster, became the number one bestseller in the Conspiracy Thrillers category on Amazon."

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches X office, Musk summoned French police raided the offices of Elon Musk's social media network X and prosecutors ordered the tech billionaire to face questions in April related to a widening investigation into the platform, th...

French cybercrime unit has summoned Musk to discuss fraudulent data extraction and algorithm abuse on 4/20. Good luck! www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Shedding light on Iran’s longest internet blackout A staggering death toll.

I interviewed an expert on what's happening with connectivity in Iran:

The longest blackout in Iran's history. Thousands dead. Documentation of war crimes dependent on Starlink. A regime that uses AI's ubiquity to undermine the credibility of evidence. www.theverge.com/policy/87184...

Ammon Bundy Is All Alone The anti-government militia leader can’t make sense of his allies’ support for ICE violence.

Fascinating

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

got a contact high from reading this elon spacex/xai merger press release: “SpaceX and xAI's mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!” www.spacex.com/updates#xai-...

Cars accounted 73% of Tesla’s revenue last year but hey whatever

for those keeping track, we're at "Long Island fireman polarized against Trump" levels of thermostatic popular opinion

In case you’re wondering what’s happening on the other site, Elon is saying that Kamala — not him! — will suffer from Epstein list

Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men Elon Musk insists xAI’s chatbot doesn’t break the law, but it’s still churning out nearly naked, sexualized images of men.

very woke: X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, but tests show Grok still undresses men www.theverge.com/report/87206...

In the last 48 hours, Musk's reactions to the Epstein release show exactly why he bought Twitter.

He's used the platform to call coverage of his emails with Epstein as "lies," elevated his fans who have defended him, and gotten positive reinforcement from his AI chatbot.

multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

The $75-million, Amazon-funded Melania Trump doc is tanking at the box office, but a 2018 parody thriller, "Melania: Devourer of Men", that depicts the First Lady as a monster is rocketing up Amazon’s charts. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

@mjgault.bsky.social story on 404media.co (or below)

BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56

I love when the weather reflects the political environment

think this might be an all-time record for Apple saying "all-time" record

AI bubble fodder: Apple had record iPhone sales and its AI...doesn’t work

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Imagine having more money than god but being mad at Peppa Pig?

This guy took 58 Austin Robotaxis in a week to get 1 driverless (and that only happened after press that he couldn't get any). It also has a chase car

Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX in merger talks with xAI ahead of planned IPO, source says The merger would bring Musk’s rockets, Starlink satellites, the X social media platform and ​Grok AI chatbot together and could boost his efforts to launch data centers into orbit, according to a pers...

One way to avoid criticism that you’re running too many companies: Merge them all. www.reuters.com/world/musks-...

Meta and Tesla are funding the future with their core businesses — but only one of them is still growing The two tech giants, on back-to-back earnings calls, made it sound like they’re selling the same AI-powered future. But the picture of the underlying...

Tesla and Meta are betting a lot of money on a future that does not yet exist — but there’s one key difference and it has to do with the present. sherwood.news/tech/meta-an...

We’re giving S3XY back

Why Tesla is getting rid of the Model S and X in one table:
(US EV sales data from Cox Automotive)

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Question: When will FSD be fully unsupervised?
Elon Musk: It is fully unsupervised.

No more SEXY! Musk says Tesla winding down Model S and X programs next quarter, converting to Optimus factories

The Height of Close-Combat Weaponry Is on This Woman’s Doorstep

a useful article from an NYT war correspondent analyzing the gear of the kitted out persecutors of Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u... 🎁

Exclusive: San Francisco Police Department investigating Zoox collision with a parked car | TechCrunch The investigation is looking into a January 17 crash where a Zoox robotaxi hit the driver's side door of a parked car, which Zoox said was "suddenly opened."

SCOOP: SFPD is investigating a January 17 crash involving a Zoox Robotaxi that hit the opened door of a parked car.

Also new in here: a Zoox employee was riding in the robotaxi during the crash. (They were unharmed.)

techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/s...