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2025-04-16 23:56:00

📹 Poker Face S2 /// Trailer

New trailer for Poker Face season two looks incredible. Absolutely can’t wait, although I’m going to have to pay for Peacock again, I guess… anyways, new season premiers on May 8th.

2025-04-16 23:49:00

📻 Crucial Tracks music journal

New web app from friend of the Variable, Jason Dettbarn of Crucial Tracks. For a few years now, Jason has done a song-a-day playlist on Apple Music—this app lets you do just that as a nifty music journal. He threw v1 together in a week, but it’s already super slick and works great with new features planned soon to allow you to add songs to your Apple Music playlist or share directly to socials. You can see my public profile here.

2025-04-16 14:38:00

🛌 Why Hitler Slept Through D-Day /// Westenberg

Because by that point, Hitler wasn’t running a government. He was running a cult of sycophants and suck ups, hanging on his every whim and tantrum, too scared to face the man and too weak to stand up to him. His staff were no longer commanders. They were cowards who had learned that the most dangerous thing you could do in the Third Reich was tell the truth.

Can’t put my finger on it, but this sounds quite familiar.

2025-04-16 14:37:00

🤖 OpenAI is building a social network /// The Verge

While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed.

Oh goody! An AI social app, where AI bots post AI slop, to be consumed by other AI bots, to train the AI models. Peak creativity if you ask me. Can’t wait to see all the art” these wonderful artists” make for us all.

2025-04-16 14:24:00

🗞️ Trump Cuts Permanent Press Pool Spot for All Wire Services After Court Orders AP Access Restored /// The Wrap

Wire service publications like the AP, Reuters and Bloomberg, provide news to smaller newspapers, radio, and television stations across the nation. Their efficiency allows a wider audience to be aware of the conversations taking place in the Oval Office and for consumers to hear directly from the president.

We are 100% in a constitutional crisis as this administration disobeys this court order along with the supreme courts 9-0 decision.

2025-04-16 14:23:00

🐺 Does Colossal Biosciences’ dire wolf creation justify its $10B+ valuation? /// TechCrunch

Given the common startup tendency to overstate capabilities, it wasn’t easy to take Lamm’s claims at face value, particularly since Colossal’s ambitious de-extinction projects for the woolly mammoth and Tasmanian tiger were not slated for completion until 2028.

Spoiler alert: no. While there may be some interesting conservation applications here, I feel like the money and science could be put to much better use elsewhere.