Mastodawn

Mike Elgan 8h ago

HEADLINE: "Trump touted Palantir on Truth Social after buying the company’s stock, records show."

ALT HEADLINE: "The American president practices scalping, a form of illegal fraud and a moral betrayal of his office"

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/trump-palantir-stock-truth-social.html

Mike Elgan 9h ago

Where I’m at: drinking spectacular organic orange wine in Venice! *Really orange!*

Mike Elgan 13h ago

Word of the moment: “robophobic”
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/airline-bans-humanoid-robots

Robophobic Airline Bans Humanoid Robots From Flights After Disruption

Southwest Airlines may have become the first airline to ban humanoid robots after two robot flights raised safety concerns.

Futurism

Mike Elgan 15h ago

Claim of the moment: “We've made the world too complicated.”
https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/

We've made the world too complicated

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/WildJungle%2842249210%29.jpeg We've made the world too complicated. I'm writing this with technology I...

User8

Mike Elgan 15h ago

This company name sounds like they make AI-enhanced brassieres.
https://thenextweb.com/news/cerebras-ipo-spacex-openai-anthropic-listings

Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are next.

Cerebras Systems closed its first day on the Nasdaq at $311.07, up 68% from its $185 IPO price, giving the wafer-scale chip company a market capitalisation of approximately $95 billion. The offering raised $5.55 billion, making it the largest US tech IPO since Snowflake’s $3.8 billion debut in 2020. CEO Andrew Feldman rang the bell […]

The Next Web

Mike Elgan 1d ago

Phrase of the moment: "AI face"
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-generated-images-chatgpt-reshape-plastic-surgery-beauty-expectations-2026-5

AI face is taking over — and driving plastic surgeons crazy

Patients are turning to ChatGPT for beauty standards. The results aren't physically possible.

Business Insider

Mike Elgan 1d ago

Dumb Twitter poll of the moment:

Mike Elgan 1d ago

The rise of "rich-guy-has-an-opinion" journalism:
https://stringinamaze.net/p/rich-guy-quote-journalism

Rich Guy Quote Journalism

How the media turns rich guys' opinions into news

String in a Maze

Mike Elgan 1d ago

Fact of the moment: "AI-generated content vastly underperforms human-written articles when it comes to search and discovery"
https://www.inc.com/chloe-aiello/ai-generated-writing-was-taking-over-the-internet-but-then-something-unexpected-happened/91345705

AI-Generated Writing Was Taking Over the Internet. But Then Something Unexpected Happened

It turns out that AI-generated writing has a fatal flaw.

Inc

Mike Elgan 1d ago

Ratio of the moment: 50:50
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/15/human-vs-ai-written-articles

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