Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks the Tesla protests are being covertly funded by George Soros, Reid Hoffman, and Tesla competitors using shady proxy orgs they can't fathom that the backlash to this burning clownshow could be at all genuine https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreid47szcj6oz7nye4gzn7tkqbpxwuzxa5s6ot6c5euxnfrij2nkolm
Tow Center for Digital Journalism study found that "AI" chatbots provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries, with Musk's Grok 3 responding to 94 percent of the queries incorrectly. "Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts." [AI Search Has A Citation Probl...](
Columbia Journalism Review
AI Search Has a Citation Problem
We compared eight AI search engines. They’re all bad at citing news.
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hey what if we turned the government into a pump and dump scheme run by dodgy money-laundering oligarchs [Donald Trump Names XRP, SOL, A...](
Donald Trump Names XRP, SOL, ADA, BTC and ETH as Part of U.S. Crypto Reserve
The U.S. president provided the first details about what a crypto reserve may look like.
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I'm gonna become one of these engagement chasers that steals stuff I saw elsewhere and writes BREAKING in front of everything to pretend I'm a journalist don't judge me it's for my retirement savings https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreid7obkqvxobmonckarw6n64wsa4eflp6esapixrydv4qfpb7dlsiu
not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for) https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreibm7ujjhuzgweymtlvhf6xbats5ojxzyi2yt35w43efx3eacykv34
starlink will struggle to meet capacity demands without annoying cost and usability sacrifices for users, it directly harms both astronomical research and the ozone layer, and the ceo is a drug-addled fascist with a head full of racist conspiracies but yes eric, very exciting [Starlink profit growing rapidl...](
Ars Technica
Starlink profit growing rapidly as it faces a moment of promise and peril
He wants to take food off the table of peopleβ€”hard-working people."
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"eliminating civil rights reforms" is much better phrasing than "removing DEI" "DEI" was hijacked from academia and half-assed corporate inclusivity efforts to frame civil rights reforms as elitist and wasteful. adopting their framing and rhetoric helps pretend bigotry is efficient. [Trump to sign executive order ...](
the Guardian
Trump to sign executive order removing DEI from military, says Pete Hegseth
Orders will also reinstate troops kicked out for refusing Covid vaccines during pandemic, says defense secretary
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I 100% promise you that within two weeks DeepSeek is going to be the most nefarious threat america has ever faced they'll forget tiktok hysteria was ever even a thing (or that they spent three years freaking out only to pass a meta-written law that's now being ignored) [U.S. Navy bans use of DeepSeek...](
CNBC
U.S. Navy bans use of DeepSeek due to 'security and ethical concerns'
The U.S. Navy issued a warning to its members to avoid using DeepSeek "in any capacity," due to "potential security and ethical concerns."
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fuck completely off [Police union that endorsed Tru...](https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/police-union-trump-jan-6-pardons )
I really really enjoyed watching somebody force the sociopath to sit there and listen to somebody telling him to simply be kind such a terrible fucking person and such a befuddled, ignorant, and broadly propagandized electorate RE:
Bluesky Social
Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social)
Trump exploded in fury at Bishop Marian Budde on Truth Social a little after midnight, calling her a "hater." As we argue on today's pod, there is...