Trump rolled YouTube into paying $22 million for his ballroom “This is a political payoff, pure and simple.”

Here’s @tinanguyen.bsky.social detailing the results of the incredible settlement YouTube paid to Trump for no reason except cowardice www.theverge.com/policy/79135...

Someone tell Pam Bondi Apple needs to finally figure this out, it’s the only way it happens

Big tech CEOs have spent more than a decade puffing their chests and saying that they are more like heads of state running global companies with bigger revenues than many countries

… but now they’re all folding to actual government pressure faster than any tinpot dictator has ever folded

(Pace salsa voice) NEW YORK CITY!

Painting of Lenny

I’m doing a fundraiser over the next 10 days to help the SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition, a nonprofit based in LA, save its mobile shower program.

More info below but—if you donate enough, I’ll send you a video message or a custom painting like this one.

Please share!

gofund.me/f7cc66ff

@drshushan.bsky.social: “You open up the conversation with the word ‘genocide’… and it’s over.”

@zaha-hassan.bsky.social: “Labeling something correctly is very important.”

Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.

All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.

But CEO Jay Graber says she’s not just building the next Twitter. Bluesky is for everyone—and it could revolutionize how people communicate online.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Chess, not checkers. Or eating the pieces in the orange overlord’s case.

You still don't get it huh?

"I Cry Over Gaza Images": Gary Lineker Talks to Mehdi about Israel, Refugees, and Messi “I can't be silent about what's happening,” Gary Lineker.

Was sports broadcaster Gary Lineker pushed out from the BBC over his instagram post or because he’s been outspoken about the genocide in Gaza?

Watch his interview with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

“It's not antisemitic to say that what Israel is doing is wrong.”

zeteo.com/p/i-cry-over...

The other parallel is Alexa Plus, which I joked earlier has launched to some people, but no one knows who they are. Google has some agentic ideas. There’s computer use from Anthropic, OpenAI. None of it’s worked yet. Have you seen anything that says this is definitely going to work? I get the... No. So yeah, to answer your question very specifically, outside of software engineering and outside of demos, I haven’t concretely seen the thing that works, and I’ll just sort of ground it even more. So if I look at my everyday life, and I’m sort of looking at how I use these things, outside of software development, there’s just not an awful lot that I’m choosing, that Kevin Scott is choosing, to go delegate a bunch of stuff to this agent to do on my behalf. But I can kind of smell it with MCP, and I do think it actually has to be open. I think it’s kind of hard to do this in a vertically integrated way.

No one’s built an agent that works yet, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott tells me. But things like MCP are maybe the beginnings of how they’ll get built - if anyone can figure out the business models www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

Holy Toledo

Would you wear a smart ring that proves you’re not a cheater? First comes love, then comes biometric tracking.

Today in vaporware for psychopaths, here's an emotional surveillance wearable for "keeping tabs on heart beats, body heat, and interactions around your partner. When something’s up, you’ll know." @vicmsong.bsky.social asks who asked for this.

A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store The judge called Apple’s insubordination a “gross miscalculation.“

Holy shit and also: I told you this was going to come down to buttons ans links www.theverge.com/news/659246/...

Omarion Hampton is a monster. and there wasn't an interior OL you were gonna draft here unless you wanted to reach on Donovan Jackson a bit. built like a brick shithouse and breaks a bunch of tackles. Good Pick.

Omarion Hampton to the Chargers is a holy shit

Spread the word and vote for the best tech podcast on this planet to win a #Webby award: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

btw, weekend homework done @reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz 🤓

a fundamentally unserious piece of shit

A beautiful peace of writing.

Yes indeed

someone needs to make a good bluesky app for android because the official one sucks

A totally fair take! I probably should have waited considering I just got monster hunter wilds but oh well. I rarely buy games like this but the theme just does so much for me and HOLY CRAP the visuals!

We’re going to end up going to war in Iraq again somehow

Mahmoud Khalil helped lead a program in Lebanon to teach refugee kids displaced from war in Syria. Volunteers with the program made a video in support of him.

“He just had such a calming presence about him and he had this way of making you feel like everything was going to be okay.”

*it is

I'm gonna wait for it to go on sale. Hope it was worth the 20 year wait

I've waited 20 years for an Assassin's Creed to take place in Japan. I don't really care what reviews or anyone else says at this point, I'm going to revel in it.

Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.

School shootings and measles www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/h...

Thinking of reworking this to get the collective action problem argument out of the election framing but we didn’t miss with this headline www.theverge.com/24282022/kam...