Republicans pass bill to reduce Buttigieg’s salary to $1. The only cabinet secretary targeted. I wonder why? Maybe the bill’s sponsor Marjorie Taylor Greene will tell us. thehill.com/policy/transpo…

Elon Musk’s extremely public descent into endorsing things like the great replacement theory makes me wonder how many other billionaires hold the similar views but are smart enough, have enough self-control, or simply don’t have the megaphone he does to reveal it all.

The parallels to Henry Ford go beyond both men being openly antisemitic billionaire auto manufacturers. In addition, both men bought media outlets to broadcast that antisemitism. In 1918 Henry Ford bought a newspaper to do help broadcast his views.

I don’t know if ppl are aware in general of the tiered ad model Musk put in place last time brands noticed their ads were showing up next to extreme hate speech. The fact he thought IBM or Apple would want relaxed standards is bonkers, and the settings don’t even work!

The view off my back porch this morning in San Francisco. Sometimes it’s okay to live here.

We are rushing headlong into an AI crisis and it’s not the ridiculous ‘rogue AGI’ theory Silicon Valley VCs claim to worry about. Instead, the robots are doing exactly what we tell them to. With terrifying precision.

Nov 2022: Musk blames transgender ppl for advertisers fleeing. techcrunch.com/2022/11/04/mus… Sept 2023: Musk blames Jewish ppl for advertisers fleeing. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/05… Nov 23: Musk blames advertisers for advertisers fleeing. Advises them to stay away. cnbc.com/amp/2023/11/29…

Musk, having challenged advertisers to a fight, lying bleeding and bruised in the school yard: And stay away!

@mutalenkonde Jessica Lessin The Information Jeff Doctor Animikii Israel is now using AI to *automate* the “generation” of targets This #ArtificialIntelligence has created a "mass assassination factory,” per a former intelligence officer And to add insult, it’s called “Habsora,” or “The Gospel” 972mag.com/mass-assassina… +972 Magazine Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם

You’ll never guess which social media site is currently experiencing a raft of porn bots making the site difficult and annoying to navigate. That’s right: Threads. My tiny acct has gained at least 100 porn bot followers in the past week alone. Great job, Zuck!

I used to drink a lot at Xmas because I thought it made things better. It actually made them so much worse. Not everyone needs sobriety, but I can personally attest I’m so much happier and healthier now. If booze just makes you miserable, please at least consider getting help.

If you’re curious about some of the X clones, or if you checked them out and didn’t like, give them a(nother) look. Both BSky and Threads have gotten much better recently. Both have gained more diverse users, and Threads figured out ppl don’t want to hear about brands.

The amount of mental gymnastics required to invalidate the voices of 90,000 transgender Americans (4-5% of the trans population) of whom only 3% say they are unhappy with their transition would be laughable if they weren’t being performed by a man with such an enormous megaphone.