Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Today's news and jokes

Reminder that the last business decision Bob Iger made at Disney was to "invest" $1 billion into OpenAI in exchange for letting Sora have access to its intellectual property for Sora videos, a decision that made almost no business sense at the time and looks even more confusing today.

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— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies.com) March 24, 2026 at 1:28 PM


Tim Sweeney lucked into a generational hit in Fortnite and he spent all that money trying to beat Valve at their own game and failing, and then trying to beat Apple in court and failing

— Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social) March 24, 2026 at 9:10 AM

Because we have to judge people’s actions based on outcomes and the outcome of Epic v Apple is that it was a quixotic waste of money that didn’t actually improve anything for mobile developers but did contribute to Epic having laid off 1800 people in three years.

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— Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social) March 24, 2026 at 9:51 AM
(Check out 11 years at Fortnite in pins)

The Fortnite skin of your indie game character will cost more than the indie game itself. Note: Not a joke kotaku.com/fortnite-add...

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— Happy 👖 Mister 👖 Bigpants (@misterbigpants.bsky.social) March 23, 2026 at 4:34 PM






Kharg Island after close of the stockmarkets on Friday, anyone?

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— Elise Thomas (@elisethomas.bsky.social) March 24, 2026 at 5:25 PM
















Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers.

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— The New Yorker (@newyorker.com) March 24, 2026 at 11:00 AM


picture, thousan words, etc etc

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— Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) (@thetattooedprof.bsky.social) March 23, 2026 at 12:59 PM


Delta Air Lines is suspending its special flight assistance service for members of Congress amid airport chaos, according to the AJC thehill.com/policy/trans...

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— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) March 24, 2026 at 7:48 AM








Funding for populist-right ‘media-political complex’ exceeded £170m in five years, research finds www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) March 22, 2026 at 11:39 PM


An already massive gap between Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee finances widened in February, according to new reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

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— CNN (@cnn.com) March 23, 2026 at 6:02 PM
(Presumably you can place a bet on the result: "The Supreme Court is weighing a move to raise caps on how much money political parties may spend in coordination with candidates, which would enable the RNC to leverage its massive cash stockpile to more directly aid Republicans on the ballot. A decision is expected before the end of June")



Out of curiosity, I checked out the California Post homepage (which is really just a subsection on a redirect to the NY Post homepage, but anyway). Seems like this is gonna be a volume game against Newsom

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— Jake Lahut (@jakelahut.bsky.social) March 24, 2026 at 8:19 PM
















(Also, I got a lot of undisclosed ads on Twitter in the last week--I saw them in my following feed, and when I blocked the accounts, it suggested I pay for an ad-free experience)















@thepologuy4 The power a professional polo player can generate through the forehand swing. #thepologuy #horses #foryou #equestrian #broisralphlauren ♬ original sound - The Polo Guy








@basicallyalaina lil bro just stared at us the whole time #shiba #shibacafe #dog #japan ♬ gymnopédie no.1 - Edits








@alexis_d_jones My baby Aero went to the groomer today. #fyp #dog #dogsoftiktok #shihtzusoftiktok #shihtzu ♬ original sound - Slamuri








@cortnyhughes Love this fierce wild girl. God has big plans for this one. #momlife #godisgood ♬ The Tide Is High - Radio Mix - Atomic Kitten




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