@sentdefender Is this a meeting about liver disease? Why is there a dude with ascites behind him?
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Speaking earlier in the Oval Office, President Trump called the ballroom being constructed to replace the White House East Wing a “gift,” while adding that it will have bulletproof glass and walls, along with a “drone port” which Trump says was supposed to be Top Secret.
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Ben went to a mental institution outside Boston
Ben Dreyfuss@bendreyfuss
Josh has a theory that Tom Kean Jr’s disappearance could be because he’s in a mental institution, which gave me the opportunity to do my favorite thing: humblebrag about how I went to the best mental institution @joshbarro/note/p-198495300?r=2hm88&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@joshbarro/not…
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@MikeIsaac Meta on meta, the SpaceX IPO is forecasting $1.25 billion dollars of revenue A MONTH from Anthropic and Anthropic can terminate with 90 days notice. This is absolutely bonkers.
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the meta-story of today (lowercase M) is how all three big AI companies rushed to whip their shit out for IPO land all within the span of a few hours
the bakeoff btwn SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic public offerings this fall is going to take years off my life
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@MikeIsaac Did he send it from his giant yacht with it's emotional support yacht? Work/life balance is important when making these tough decisions like laying a bunch of people off in a declining economy.
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Zuckerberg just sent out a company wide email addressing the layoffs, which i've obtained from a few sources
in it he expresses his "gratitude" and that it's "sad" to say goodbye to folks
but that now is the most "dynamic" he's seen teh industry and that "success isnt a given"
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@TimJGraham Is it that you can't afford Wegovy or is it that you are too afraid of needles?
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The Illinois state legislature told Kinzinger to eat balls and redistricted him out.
Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦@AdamKinzinger
Massie, and Cassidy, will now enter the land of freedom to do what you want. It’s a wonderful land of milk and honey. And telling Trump to eat balls is the best part of it
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@PhilipTKingston Also, as a person that buys apples sometimes it should seem fairly obvious to anyone why schools buy Red Delicious apples.
They are both cheap and last a long time, two things that are absolutely not true about my preferred apple, the Honeycrisp.
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Biggest time waste on the caucus
Matt Bruenig@MattBruenig
You google it and you go straight to the USDA bulk procurement list and see 6 different apple types on it, including honeycrisp. MGP bit is weird because she's on the hunt for crazy government stuff, which there is plenty of, but she seems to land on nonsense?
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@ZacksJerryRig Really insulting to all of us who work in public service for a fraction of the salary of a member of congress who is supposed to primarily serve the interest all of their constituents. Ask him about how all of us are supposed to be sacrificing to pay for Trump’s war and ballroom.
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@PhilipTKingston All of Avride's cars have safety drivers so it's really impressive that their technology managed to both not eliminate the driver but also make it less safe.
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Not ready for prime time
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@jbarro I've been told drug prices went down 600%, yet this chart says 0.5%, weird.
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@USDOL @RapidResponse47 @POTUS I thought Trump said drug prices went down 600% but this chart says 0.5%, was Trump lying to us?
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@newanimeavi @zacharywefel ChatGPT says data centers use a total of ~5% of electricity in the US, and this could grow to ~10% by 2030. That does not seem that gargantuan to me.
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It's wild that we are having an environmental panic about data centers — a carbon-free industrial facility that during ordinary operation consumes no natural resources besides electricity and water and emits no waste products besides heat.
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@MikeIsaac When the Tesla board has done nothing but show complete and utter fealty to Musk, often to an embarrassingly level considering that they are supposed to at least show a fig leaf to independent governance of a public company, I don't see how a board seat would be appealing.
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The Tesla offer is interesting. Musk's offer of a board seat, Altman said, was something he felt was to assuage concerns that Altman would have no direction over the development of A.I. if it were folded into Tesla.
But Altman also said it appeared to be a nascent threat. If Altman had not accepted the idea, according to him, Musk hinted that he may have done work developing A.I. on his own at Tesla regardless.
This sort of talk is fairly commonplace these days on the battlefield that is Silicon Valley. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's C.E.O., has in the past made overtures to companies he's interested in acquiring, though he is often more explicit about his intentions: If you don't take the deal, we'll come for you.
tony soprano vibes
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Sam Altman takes the stand in Musk v OpenAI. follow along here on our bLoG
nytimes.com/live/2026/05/1…
rat king 🐀@MikeIsaac
good morning from oakland where it is foggy and cool. day twelve of covering musk v openai (feat. microsoft) in the coffee line now, follow along today for live coverage
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@smod4real @tonyannett I've been in many, it's such a scrub level car that there is a big chance that you get picked up in one by Uber.
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If I had a choice between Tesla and BYD on an open market, I would choose BYD.
First off, it’s a better car.
Second, while I’m not a fan of the Chinese political system, I’m even less a fan of the South African white nationalist.
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@smod4real @tonyannett I’ve never been a Tesla that didn’t rattle like a can full of rusty nails.
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@tonyannett Separate the politics from the owner and founder. No one refuses to buy an F-150 because Henry Ford was an antisemite.
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@HeerJeet It's not illiteracy, it's a deliberate attempt to see how far they can push their flock to rejecting their supposed religion and replace it with themselves. It's the same with every cult and "religious" sexual predator and scam artist.
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People are worried about the Biblical illiteracy of college kids, which I'll grant is a problem. But not as big a problem as the Biblical illiteracy of evangelical pastors.
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
NEW: MAGA evangelical leaders gather in Mar-a-Lago to bless and dedicate a gold statue dedicate to Donald Trump.
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Katy Perry will perform at SoFi Stadium before first World Cup game in U.S. apnews.com/article/world-…
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@PhilipTKingston @frankiemuniz MIA is a crime against humanity.
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@frankiemuniz My man, you've flown through Heathrow and CDG. What are you talking about? That's the best large airport on earth
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Bulldoze the Dallas Fort Worth airport and start over.
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@rjrcapital @jbarro What? My husband and myself are very financially secure despite having two of the most boring careers on earth and an investment strategy not having any clue what is going on with our 401(k)s.
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People knock the gays for promiscuity but at least it requires interacting with other humans in person
Peter Twinklage@PeterTwinklage
spectacularly depressing. to crib (and butcher) language from @DKThomp , Americans are all now monks in a casino. Putnam’s warning of the death of third spaces was never addressed. young people feel adrift, isolated, and desperate in a rapidly changing economy. and so they gamble
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@fakedansavage Wasn’t the fun of YMCA always that straight people didn’t understand the gay subtext? And even after they thought that they did, not really?
We will survive, with better anthems.
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Is the lead singer of the Village People going to follow through on his threat to sue anyone who describes YMCA as a gay anthem? Is everyone allowed to call it a gay anthem now? Or just this faggot?
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "The first lady hates when I dance to what is sometimes referred to as the gay national anthem. We love that song."
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Spirit Airlines, an impish upstart that shook the industry with its irreverent ads and deep discount fares, announced Saturday that it has gone out of business after 34 years. apnews.com/article/spirit…
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