Thinky Parts (human algorithm)

Whoops.

What’s the deal? Fireworks or something?

What’s going on with the haze in there?

AMERICAN SCHISM TONIGHT QUEEN???

Hardcore!

Fast forward to today and the bargain no longer holds. Platforms do whatever the president of the United States tells them to do, and very little else. Shame, that once-great regulator of social norms and executive behavior, has all but disappeared from public life. In its place is denial, defiance, and the noxious vice signaling of the investor class. I'm still reckoning with what it means to do journalism in a world where the truth can barely hold anyone's attention — much less hold a platform accountable, in any real sense of that word. I'm rethinking how to cover tech policy at a time when it is being made by whim. I'm noticing the degree to which platforms wish to be judged only by their stated intentions, and almost never on the outcomes of anyone who uses them.

I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...

NEW: As President Trump increases pressure on Colorado Governor Polis to free Tina Peters, a close ally of Peters is calling for Gov Polis and Attorney General Weiser to be executed.

MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann called for the execution of several Colorado Democrats by name.

More cities need to step up and act like Minneapolis

“Rankings like this don’t happen by chance. They’re the result of deliberate planning, strong policy, and a city that’s determined to keep pedaling forward.”

Tucker Carlson Is Joining the Gold Rush — The Wall Street Journal The former Fox News host has launched a precious-metals company

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Good day.

Fair.

Tesla sued for allegedly infringing robotics patents Tesla was sued on Monday by a Virginia company that accused Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker of knowingly infringing five patents related to robotics systems for self-driving vehicles.

Tesla sued for allegedly infringing robotics patents reut.rs/49EPzMP

Ugh.

Pro-MAGA X accounts operating secretly from abroad spread 31 significant false claims about U.S. politics, ranging from supposed corruption by Democrats to a phony Ukrainian assassination plot, a NewsGuard review has found.

The Bestselling Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade — Autoblog Germany’s stringent TÜV inspections reveal a car with the worst defect rate in a long, long time.

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Red eyes, full hearts, can't lose

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

#sciencematters

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

FITCH: PEOPLE WITH LOW CREDIT SCORES ARE FALLING BEHIND ON THEIR CAR EMI PAYMENTS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE 6.65% OF SUBPRIME AUTO LOANS ARE OVER 60 DAYS LATE, THE HIGHEST LEVEL EVER RECORDED

I’d recommend announcing you’ve had a secret nuclear program for years and you’re not going out without taking china with you.

Makes ya wonder what they’d do now.

My most toxic lefty belief is that we should nationalize HC which benefits my most conservative belief that SMBs are essential to the American economy - decouple HC from jobs and we lower barriers to starting and working for small businesses… plus healthier population, better productivity.

Amazing stuff.

Kyiv is under missile attack.
It’s very loud.
Nothing new, really.
Just thought the world should know.

Integrity has defined my brother’s service to our nation, as a combat veteran, astronaut, and US Senator. Any effort to undermine that is an abuse of power.

The amount that these wannabe oligarchs are missing what is boiling is kinda of amazing.

I’m down to pitchfork them.

A story in 3 acts:

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.