Elon Musk’s use of the drug ketamine will be off limits to attorneys for OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman during an upcoming jury trial over claims that the generative AI company defrauded Musk by abandoning its nonprofit roots
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Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
Cohen has been on oxympic apparently
I’m sorry, the suffering is infinite and things are genuinely fucking dire, but it is truly hilarious that the nazis ran into the middle east while screaming “logistics and diplomacy are fake and gay” and now they’re trying to ask everyone else to fix the strait of hormuz because tfw no more THAADs
Trump II -- even relative to Trump I -- is the first such regime that has been stupid enough to actually make policy primarily according to these principles, above all because Trump finally has the freedom to govern as the replacement-level American Rube he himself is. (2/2)
Beautiful essay from @samhenri.gold about the joy of hacking, disguised as a review of the MacBook Neo.
samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...
Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.
Trump Defends Wearing Fruit Hat, Samba Dancing During Dignified Transfer
Trump Defends Wearing Fruit Hat, Samba Dancing During Dignified Transfer https://theonion.com/trump-defends-wearing-fruit-hat-samba-dancing-during-dignified-transfer/
Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
“We want to lower the economic and social value of knowing and understanding things because people who know and understand things disagree with us politically” is honestly like just MICROMETERS away from getting it
By way of background, the last time the FEC looked at this issue they decided to exclude paid influencers from disclosure rules otherwise applying to paid online advertising.
www.wiley.law/alert-FEC-Ad...
Unearthed video of Texas 23rd congressional candidate Brandon Herrera wearing a Confederate flag and recruiting for the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
This is who Trump endorsed to replace Tony Gonzales.
The U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn said he moved to dismiss criminal charges against a former Fox executive convicted of trying to pay bribes in exchange for lucrative broadcasting rights to soccer tournaments, because it wasn't worth devoting resources to the case.
Never send a White Zinfandel to do a Cabernet’s job.
Great Obit from Star & Stripes on the ODU Lt Col killed yesterday. Former enlisted, Apache pilot, ODU grad (!) now giving back as ROTC commander at his alma mater.
A wire story from VA Pilot, which Stripes will no longer be able to do under the rules announced today.
www.stripes.com/veterans/202...
EXCLUSIVE: Military leaders warned Hegseth not to gut the offices that limit risk to civilians. He ignored them.
The decision faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed hundreds of children.
Remember, folks, Karp here wants you to believe we have hit zeitgeist of surveillance and intelligence yet can't solve the Epstein files or track flights. It allegedly knows all terrorist cells but misidentifies Americans constantly.
Palantir didn't win a meritocracy, it nepotismed junkware.
whole lotta guys out there who decided to spend the last two years becoming Business Himmler also adopted the trademark "Nazi Foresight"
![Olympus Spa, et al. v. Armstrong, et al., No. 23-4031
McKEOWN, Senior Circuit Judge, joined by MURGUIA, Chief Judge,
HAWKINS, S.R. THOMAS, GRABER, FLETCHER, PAEZ, BERZON,
CLIFTON, BYBEE, and HURWITZ, Senior Circuit Judges, WARDLAW,
GOULD, RAWLINSON, M. SMITH, CHRISTEN, NGUYEN, FRIEDLAND,
MILLER, KOH, SUNG, SANCHEZ, H.A. THOMAS, MENDOZA, DESAI,
JOHNSTONE, and DE ALBA, Circuit Judges, respecting the denial of rehearing
en banc:
The American legal system has long been regarded as a place to resolve
disputes in a dignified and civil manner or, as Justice O’Connor put it, to “disagree
without being disagreeable.”1 It is not a place for vulgar barroom talk. Nor is it a
place to suggest that fellow judges have “collectively lost their minds,” or that they
are “woke judges[]” “complicit” in a scheme to harm ordinary Americans. That
language makes us sound like juveniles, not judges, and it undermines public trust
in the courts. The lead dissent’s use of such coarse language and invective may
make for publicity or entertainment value, but it has no place in a judicial opinion.
The lead dissent ignores ordinary principles of dignity and civility and demeans
this court. Neither the parties nor the panel dissent found it necessary to invoke
such crude and vitriolic language. Decorum and collegiality demand more.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xfuubhrks6x4tzuhcqohqmzs/bafkreia4hybe7cowebbbf4ybk3d6op7bha2h7vmjghgww6jvsivwqclpwe)
Olympus Spa, et al. v. Armstrong, et al., No. 23-4031 McKEOWN, Senior Circuit Judge, joined by MURGUIA, Chief Judge, HAWKINS, S.R. THOMAS, GRABER, FLETCHER, PAEZ, BERZON, CLIFTON, BYBEE, and HURWITZ, Senior Circuit Judges, WARDLAW, GOULD, RAWLINSON, M. SMITH, CHRISTEN, NGUYEN, FRIEDLAND, MILLER, KOH, SUNG, SANCHEZ, H.A. THOMAS, MENDOZA, DESAI, JOHNSTONE, and DE ALBA, Circuit Judges, respecting the denial of rehearing en banc: The American legal system has long been regarded as a place to resolve disputes in a dignified and civil manner or, as Justice O’Connor put it, to “disagree without being disagreeable.”1 It is not a place for vulgar barroom talk. Nor is it a place to suggest that fellow judges have “collectively lost their minds,” or that they are “woke judges[]” “complicit” in a scheme to harm ordinary Americans. That language makes us sound like juveniles, not judges, and it undermines public trust in the courts. The lead dissent’s use of such coarse language and invective may make for publicity or entertainment value, but it has no place in a judicial opinion. The lead dissent ignores ordinary principles of dignity and civility and demeans this court. Neither the parties nor the panel dissent found it necessary to invoke such crude and vitriolic language. Decorum and collegiality demand more.
1 Olympus Spa, et al. v. Armstrong, et al., No. 23-4031 VANDYKE, Circuit Judge, dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc: This is a case about swinging dicks. The Christian owners of Olympus Spa— a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa—understandably don’t want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don’t want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit. You may think that swinging dicks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. You’re not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa— some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing. Sometimes, it feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds. Woke regulators and complicit judges seem entirely willing, even eager, to ignore the consequences that their Frankenstein social experiments impose on real women and young girls. Yet if harmful and unfortunate consequences were all this case was about, we’d have to shrug and say: “That’s what comes with living in a democracy.” Unless the Constitution is implicated, we get what we voted for “good and hard.”
Twenty-seven judges of the Ninth Circuit, including several Republican appointees, would like Lawrence Van Dyke to knock it off.
the US operation in Iran
This is bonkers.
“According to the school district, her daughter’s new student enrollment form was denied due to ‘license plate recognition software showing only Chicago addresses overnight’ in July and August.”
This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.
Sweeping guilty verdicts in the federal Prairieland antifa cases. These cases were an effort by the Trump admin to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists and further, prosecute dissent. This Texas trial was a test of his power. He won. This laid out the case and stakes: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...
“A law passed in November 2011 mandates that all of Fukushima’s radioactive soil, roughly 15 million cubic meters, will be removed from the prefecture by 2045. With no place having volunteered to take any of the soil, the government has decided to spread it across Japan.”
