Saturday, May 24, 2025

Today's news and jokes

Every now and again I reflect on our Charlotte's Web GBA game we produced at Backbone. It was an action platform game that had Wilbur leaping around on platforms. We referred to it internally as "Pig of Persia," in honor of Prince of Persia, the game we absurdly based it on.

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— Mike Mika (@mikejmika.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM






200 people spent millions on Trump’s memecoin and were rewarded with this dinner www.wired.com/story/a-heli...

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— Matthew Champion (@matthewchampion.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM


("Ex-NBA player ... met with boos from hecklers at Trump's crypto dinner")







if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

— Dell Cameron (@dell.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM








We've notified Paramount that @freedom.press intends to bring a shareholder derivative lawsuit if it settles with Trump over his ridiculous and unconstitutional lawsuit against CBS News —>>

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— Trevor Timm (@trevortimm.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM








In a major blow to Paul Weiss law firm, their 4 top partners are leaving in the wake of its decision to cut a deal with Trump. They will form their own law firm.πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b...

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— Mia Farrow (@miafarrow.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM








("Turkey is home to a large Uyghur diaspora that fled")







Ex-McKinsey Senior Partner who headed the firm's work with opioid maker Purdue Pharma sentenced to 6 months in prison after pleading guilty to destroying records. By me. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/b...

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— Mike Forsythe 傅才德 (@pekingmikenyt.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM








("As pet ownership increases, so has the willingness of owners to spend on pet care. That has made investments in veterinarian medicine very popular among corporations and private-equity firms, according to a report by The Atlantic. Corporate-owned clinics see pet care as a viable revenue source, causing prices for visits to increase")







Congratulations @katiehonan.bsky.social on writing the best piece of predictive science fiction of all time

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— Bela Lugoatse (@theilluminati.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM










welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops (this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)

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— Molly White (@molly.wiki) May 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM


("Anthropic notes that Claude Opus 4 tries to blackmail engineers 84% of the time when the replacement AI model has similar values. When the replacement AI system does not share Claude Opus 4’s values, Anthropic says the model tries to blackmail the engineers more frequently. Notably, Anthropic says Claude Opus 4 displayed this behavior at higher rates than previous models")



(Not fact-checking this--anyone interested in reading these books must be a fundamentally different customer than the person reading something of higher quality) (Also, I get why people would want an AI to summarize tech/business podcasts--they're often absurdly long discussions with dull "important" people with a heavy sprinkling of crank obsessions)















Top Gun "immersive experience" with "jet simulators and piano singalongs" coming to Las Vegas in 2028 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/top-gun-las-vegas-experience-strat-hotel-paramount-1236228141/

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— Kathryn Yu (back No Proscenium on Patreon!) (@kathrynyu.com) May 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM








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