According to a Politico report, Europe is “nowhere close to banning TikTok,” saying the regulatory “toolbox” doesn’t contain what’s needed for a U.S.-style divest-or-ban bill (the bloc “doesn’t have a formal say over national security concerns,” and member states are sharply divided on the issue). For those keeping score at home, we’re at: draconian regulations on U.S. speech platforms, scam fines on U.S. companies, new anti-AI regulation targeting U.S. tech — because God knows the Italians aren’t building it — and… hooray for the communist spy app? What a strange continent, which operates not in the interest of its people, or its allies, but aggressively in the interest of a hostile foreign power. Anyway, let’s go ahead and stop spending all our money on Europe’s borders. I’d like to learn a little more about that free healthcare they’re always throwing in our faces.

Speaking at the Milken Global Conference in LA on Monday, Elon made waves after casually admitting SpaceX and Starlink use virtually no AI, stating “I’m not against using it. Just, we haven’t seen a use for it.” Frankly, at a time when the average founder is desperately trying to ride the AI hype cycle at all costs, jamming “machine learning” into every other sentence at their SaaS company, Elon’s honesty is refreshing. Having used AI to great effect in some of his other projects (see new Grok article headlines on X), he’s practical about where and when artificial intelligence can actually be implemented, and doesn’t feel the need to hide his work behind buzzwords. Rather, Elon is able to make reasoned calculations about what AI can realistically replace right now (mediocre journalists) and what it can’t (the world’s best rocket scientists).

Monday morning at 3 a.m., about 12 hours before the Met Gala would begin, Condé Nast struck an agreement with its employees union (social media managers, TikTok creators, etc.), which had been complaining members were entitled to “hybrid work protections,” etc., for the better part of a year, and threatening to disrupt the gala if an agreement wasn’t reached. Given the gala’s history of giving our most narcissistic celebs a platform for virtue signaling about the current thing (always left-leaning, deranged) — e.g. Cara Delevingne’s “Peg The Patriarchy” outfit, AOC’s “Tax the Rich” dress — it’s shocking Condé Nast, publisher of kiddie commie rag Teen Vogue and “technology is bad” WIRED, passed on the opportunity to highlight the plight of workers’ rights. It’s almost as if everyone involved, from the celebs who didn’t boycott the event in solidarity to the executives at the bargaining table, abandon their principles when their money, power, and fame are threatened. 🤷‍♂️

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