Area Man

Elon Musk says X plans to introduce ads in Grok's responses | TechCrunch The move would help power X's struggling ads business following the departure of former CEO Linda Yaccarino.

Imagine trying to explain to your 2020 self that, in 2025, you would be seeing “MechaHitler sponsored by Pepsi” on Twitter, except it’s now called X

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Holy shit this is incredible

Welcome to a fresh new hell, where even the Google Drive app is sending us clickbait notifications

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.

can elon musk stop doing weird ai sex stuff for 5 minutes

Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility Officials say there are no leaks and hazardous nests are from legacy contamination.

The MCU is so back

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Steve Jobs tried to make the reason for Apple’s success as explicitly clear as he could and the second he died Andreesen was like “fuck books”

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

Is literally anyone shocked by this?

What did you end up deciding?

And yet…

This is the most useful definition of authoritarianism I’ve seen yet

Substack is back in the news again for the wrong reason: this time, the platform sent a push notification to a neo-Nazi newsletter featuring a swastika logo. Here's Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best on Decoder two years ago struggling to answer a question about moderating hate speech.

Whatever they end up building, it’s gonna be terrible for humanity

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I solved the Wednesday 7/30/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 14:44!

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The New York Times Crossword — The New York Times Keep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine.

I solved the Tuesday 7/29/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 8:19!

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The New York Times Crossword — The New York Times Keep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine.

I solved the Monday 7/28/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 7:50!

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The New York Times Crossword — The New York Times Keep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine.

I solved the Sunday 7/27/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 41:59!

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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

The utter lack of self-awareness is truly breathtaking

First Look: macOS Tahoe Public Beta – Six Colors For many years, Apple’s annual operating-system cycle seemed to be all about the iPhone, with the occasional bone thrown to the Mac or iPad. But Apple’s latest operating-system releases…

Man, Alan Dye’s really gotta go:

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This reminds me of the time the BBC had Rage Against the Machine perform live on air and asked them not to curse

At the same time, it’s still driving me insane that this is the thing that is finally making these people sour on him

i'm stealing this from a tweet i saw but the Epstein stuff sticking so well makes sense if you model Trump's invincibility as a sort of insanity-powered force field

everything he does is so batshit crazy that normal attacks bounce off but the Epstein story is schizophrenic enough to match polarity

Because of course they did

Apple launches $19.99 monthly AppleCare One subscription with coverage for three devices | TechCrunch Until now, people have had to enroll their Apple devices into separate AppleCare+ plans if they wanted additional coverage for their products beyond the standard warranty.

Can’t innovate anymore, my ass

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This seems like the inevitable result of a redesign that had no functional purpose

Apple almost open-sourced its AI models, here’s why it didn’t: report - 9to5Mac A new report outlines the internal AI drama Apple has experienced recently, including the decision not to open-source its AI models.

Isn’t it just because they’re bad and nobody wants them?

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There just isn’t a lot of political science research that’s like “what happens when the king is also on Facebook all day”

This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them