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• Post #3936471

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116947117983074897 The manosphere is among the most disgusting things to emerge from far-right politics. “The new charges facing Andrew Tate include seven counts of rape, three of sex trafficking, three counts of assault, and ‘19 charges relating to sexual images of children and extreme ‘pornography,’’”

• Post #1966126

  Trump with some kind words about Tim Cook, which are both complimentary of Cook’s ability to navigate the Trump administration on behalf of Apple and probably a disservice to his reputation as a human being among brand loyalists. https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/37953

• Post #1514115

  I updated my Nitter connector for Tapestry with some improvements: * FIX: When a tweet contains only text, the Twitter Card image of the text is no longer embedded in the post. * IMPROVED: Video embedded are displayed more consistently. * NEW: Reposts and replies are marked as such. * NEW: Reposts show the original author’s avatar. V1.1.1 https://github.com/bretcarmichael/tapestry-connectors/tree/main

• Post #1335723

  As promised, two Tapestry connectors! 1. Follow X accounts in your Tapestry feed. Made possible by Nitter; private and no login required. 2. Follow Trump’s Truth Social account in your Tapestry feed. Made possible by Trump’s Truth. https://github.com/bretcarmichael/tapestry-connectors

• Post #1325648

  When all is said and done, the world may owe Trump a debt of thanks for forcing the world to accelerate its transition to green energy. 😂 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/iran-war-global-energy-shift-00877861

• Post #1304583

  Pretty excited. I used Claude to build a Tapestry connector that lets me follow Twitter accounts. I supply a Nitter RSS URL, and Tapestry shows the account’s posts. It also rewrites the post URL, so it opens on Twitter. I’ll share it and make it available for download.

• Post #1127353

  Trump posted a picture of himself appearing Christ-like and blessing a guy that looks like Jeffrey Epstein.

• Post #985231

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/116364021106956955 Tapestry is one of the single greatest apps that’s ever been made, and everyone should install it yesterday.

• Post #725185

  The government has its sticky fingers in more media. Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Brothers could be a poison pill, though. To satisfy Trump, it will minimally need to go the way of CBS, a FOX Lite. To satisfy MAGA, it will need to go extra hard, full FOX. Either way, it means turning over its audience after a merger financed by an ungodly amount of debt. To pay back that debt, Paramount needs to add customers and raise prices. 1/🧵

• Post #725184

  RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116143526456819838 If there’s a time to do this, it’s right now. Truth Social loses money. Its “value” is tied entirely to Trump’s presence on the platform the reputation that paying him off earns favor. After Trump leaves office, the platform is dead.

• Post #725183

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116148716994792049 Hegseth’s threatening message to Anthropic that the US might quasi-federalize proves the EU’s point. US tech has long enjoyed the advantage of scale, making competition difficult. One way to disrupt that dominance is to start treating it as a national security threat, forcing the next-best alternative to be the best. Not good for US tech in the long run.

• Post #725182

  No. Just no.

• Post #725181

  Today I learned Meta’s Oversight Board is still a thing. https://www.theverge.com/tech/891933/meta-oversight-board-ai-labels-deepfake-c2pa-facebook-instagram

• Post #725180

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116212039751696511 It’s a bad look for Grammarly that it took this long. Imagine the firestorm that would happen if an unlicensed AI Taylor Swift started giving people guitar lessons and helping them with their songwriting. Grammarly bet on a power dynamic without bothering with the obvious optics of what they were doing.

• Post #725179

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116215475475719369 Surprise. He’s going to lie his way through it, just like the Trumpstein files.

• Post #725178

  In making a deal with Musk for Tesla to supply energy, the UK has taken on a national security risk. It seems pretty irresponsible to put critical infrastructure in the hands of a foreign agent who interferes with your self-governance and elections. https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-tesla-joins-uk-energy-crisis/

• Post #725177

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116216099515753767 Lots of companies are over-indexing on AI to justify their valuations at the expense of the human capital that earns those valuations. If AI investments continue to underperform, they’ll have set a bunch of money on fire to create the appearance of being onto something.

• Post #725176

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116245345602055775 As the rest of the world advances, the U.S. recoils at the horror of future electrified transportation and pulls Western automakers with it. The long-term benefit accrues to China.

• Post #725175

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/116261248676752613 Europe’s changing relationship with the U.S. will have long-term consequences for U.S. tech companies as Europe slowly extricates what it now views as a security risk from its tech stack. Much like China, it will trend to home-grown or open solutions.

• Post #725174

  RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116263141616591990 Sure, but all the societal problems we’re having are a product of adults using social media. We don’t talk about that because we resist self-reflection, and social platforms drive a large part of today’s economy. We could eliminate content algorithms, though.