Have to try to start playing tetris to pack my car with all the stuff we acquired in the last few months of travel (and decide if it's worth mailing anything to ourselves instead). And make decisions about weather and the long drive to Sask.
Given everything else that's happening, everyone needs a few more absurdly gorgeous night sky photos I took 2 weeks ago in the Tekapo Dark Sky Reserve, in the best night skies I've ever seen in my life (despite all the satellites. Sigh.)
Eric Trump & Donald Trump Jr. are set to "benefit from a conflict started by their father."
The two have joined Powerus, a drone manufacturing company trying to sell drones to Gulf countries amid Iranian attacks.
"These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want. This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war".
Sources: Elon requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/spacex-ipo-grok-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.ePKB.NW_fIK_Vki_z&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/260403/p11#a260403p11
Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior "in ways that matter," such as driving it to act unethically (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/ai-fakes-emotion-but-the-consequences-are-real
http://www.techmeme.com/260402/p41#a260402p41
“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
The abrupt closure of a tuition-free private school founded by Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife, will dump extra students into a local school district, increasing expected enrollment by 20 percent.
Now there’s a $70 million bond measure up for votes to help deal with the influx. The text of the measure says the closure created “an immediate crisis” for the school district.
Zuckerberg-funded school to close, creating ‘crisis’ for Bay Area district
Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally leaking Claude Code source code, issuing copyright takedown requests to remove 8,000+ copies (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-races-to-contain-leak-of-code-behind-claude-ai-agent-4bc5acc7
http://www.techmeme.com/260401/p17#a260401p17
The jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some platform design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-trials-230-content-design/
http://www.techmeme.com/260401/p8#a260401p8
Mark Zuckerberg: constitutionally bitchmade.
Twenty-four days after lying his face off to Joe Rogan and whining about government censorship, Zuckerberg “proactively reached out to a senior government official to let him know Meta was already taking action to remove content on behalf of that official’s government operation — including truthful information like the names of public servants working for the federal government.“ Siri, play my leitmotif.
Perplexity faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it shared users' personal data with Meta and Google even in Incognito mode, violating CA privacy laws (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/perplexity-ai-machine-accused-of-sharing-data-with-meta-google
http://www.techmeme.com/260331/p71#a260331p71
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