Jeff Weiner

(So Thanos and Captain Marvel wouldn’t have had reason to encounter or be aware of him.)

[adjusts glasses] Fantastic Four is set in a different universe than the mainline MCU.

Mark Zuckerberg is Out of Ideas | TechPolicy.Press Dave Karpf reflects on Zuckerberg's mini-manifesto on “Personal Superintelligence" and what it says about the vision for the company.

Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg posted a new online mini-manifesto, titled “Personal Superintelligence,” setting the direction for Meta’s AI program. The one strong prediction we can make right now is that the future of AI will be a gigantic mess, with huge social costs, writes Dave Karpf.

Stop Pretending Chatbots Have Feelings: Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem When AI causes harm, headlines blame the bot instead of the billion-dollar companies that built them. This anthropomorphic coverage is tech journalism at its worst.

Today's newsletter: The Wall Street Journal says ChatGPT had a "stunning moment of self reflection." NBC says Grok "issued an apology." This lazy language isn't just bad writing — it's helping tech companies dodge responsibility for real harm. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...

*to me

Rise of Skywalker, popular in the replies, feels like cheating to be since it was crafted less as a movie than an apology to people who deliberately misunderstood The Last Jedi.

Felt like I was watching a two-hour-long SNL sketch making fun of the superhero/antihero movie era.

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists.
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

Fourth of July cookout: Food prices increase because of Trump tariffs, report finds Tariffs and trade tensions are pushing up the cost of summer cookouts, according to a congressional report.

Ground beef and ice cream hit their highest prices on record since the 1980s. Miller Lite and Coors Light six-packs are up more than 13%. Cookout essentials like aluminum foil, grill tools, and sunscreen saw hikes between 6% and 18%.

www.axios.com/2025/07/03/j...

My 10 best movies of the century so far: Inside Man, It Follows, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Uncut Gems, The Social Network, Zone of Interest, Grand Budapest Hotel, Parasite, Children of Men, Mad Max: Fury Road.

In no particular order.

GOP spending bill slashes social safety net, cuts taxes for higher earners Experts say the cuts could unleash a tidal wave of pain.

"Big, beautiful bill" pushes millions away from social safety net. www.axios.com/2025/07/01/b...

On how A.I. can transform media consumption: Reading the A.I. summary — I think it can be useful. I think it has a powerfully inoculating effect. Like, I think long-form, lots-of-episodes TV is a waste of time. But it’s very tempting, right? You watch an episode and you’re like, “Oh, geez, I really want to know what happens here.” And so I discovered a couple of years ago, obviously, that the solution is you immediately go to Wikipedia and read the entire summary of the season, and then you’re cured of the desire to watch any more episodes. So there is a therapeutic benefit to A.I. summaries.

Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...

Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content

🤯 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Months after detaining 47 people accused of being Tren de Aragua in Austin, authorities offer no evidence of gang ties People at the raided house say they rented it for a birthday party and deny any connection to the gang. One man says law enforcement accused him of being in Tren de Aragua because of his tattoo.

New: Two months ago, a cadre of Texas and federal authorities crashed what they later described as a Tren de Aragua gathering in Hays County and detained 47 people, including kids.

Since, the authorities involved in the raid have not said much.
🧵
www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/t...

As subtweets of me go, “neurotic millennial news obsessive Star Trek Deep Space 9 fans” is like when the Jem’Hadar fighters blew up the Galaxy-class USS Odyssey in S2E26.

I legit didn’t want the movie to leave the sub. Let Tom Cruise go do whatever he’s doing, godspeed, I’m gonna stay here with Tramell.

The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...

Here is what we confirmed: After Musk’s rise to power in the U.S. government, the State Department has repeatedly coaxed, lobbied and browbeat this tiny West African country into giving business to Musk’s satellite company Starlink.

$400 million Air Force One gift would smash presidential records U.S. presidents have been presented with gifts ranging from books to diamonds, and even animals.

Visual journalist @erindataviz.bsky.social shows just how much a $400m Qatari jet stacks up against other gifts received by modern presidents.

See the thread to see the #dataviz unfold 👇

The Grok "white genocide" thing today is another example of "AI" in practice just being a way to place a facade of "intelligence" and rationality over something you thought/wanted to do already. Basically just functioning as an extremely expensive software mirror.

Excellent NYT graphic.

In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China:
-- doubled;
-- went up ≈ 2.5X from there;
-- roughly doubled again;
-- went up ≈ 40% from there;
-- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February.

www.nytimes.com/article/trum...

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.

Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."

Shari Redstone kept tabs on ’60 Minutes’ segments on Trump Tensions between CBS and parent company Paramount culminated in the resignation of a longtime producer this week.

New: Paramount owner Shari Redstone in recent days sought to know about upcoming 60 Minutes stories involving Trump. It was part of an increase in scrutiny of 60 Minutes that resulted in producer Bill Owens' departure from the network www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

The screenshots floating around showing Google misunderstanding the prompt “is [actor] in heat” are great, but what’s wild is that even when it knows you mean the movie it still serves up a pile of errors. Currently? Mel Gibson? The “film” The White Lotus?

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs The administration is pushing agencies to turn over information on where people work, study and live. The data is normally protected from dissemination.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is pushing agencies to turn over information on where people work, study and live.

The data is normally protected from dissemination.

NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance.

By @lisalsong.bsky.social

Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced Milwaukee cop's report Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on the Brady list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated.

Report: Most migrants sent to mega-prison have no apparent criminal record The lack of evidence of a criminal record is consistent with other immigrant removals under the Trump administration.

Three-fourths of the Venezuelan migrants flown from Texas to a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador three weeks ago had no apparent criminal record, a CBS News 60 Minutes report out Sunday found www.axios.com/2025/04/07/r...

A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again.

Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again — leaving thousands of jobs and the shift to clean energy in doubt.