Yesterday, Axios reported Kamala Harris was never Biden’s “border czar,” which provoked a scorching community note: they themselves reported precisely the opposite just a few years ago. In fact, the very journalist responsible for yesterday’s revision is the same person who previously reported Biden placed Kamala in charge of the border. After a few hours of mocking, Axios succumbed to public outrage and announced a correction — not acknowledging Kamala’s role in the migrant crisis, but apologizing for their previously “incorrect” reporting indicating she had ever had this responsibility. History reshaped, recast, erased, whatever it takes to hold power. Now that Kamala is running for president (don’t ask how), it was inevitable the press would pivot to publicity for Team Coconut. But with gaslighting so extreme, and months to go before the election, it looks like our entire world’s about to be rewritten. Screenshot everything, and try to remember who you are.

An uncontained bird flu outbreak in Colorado is quietly spreading to humans and infecting farm workers, per new reporting in NPR and The Atlantic. Scientists worry mutations to the virus, which has decimated poultry farms and infected over 100 million birds since 2021, could turbocharge its ability to replicate in human cells. A frightening thought, but not so scary as the fact that our capacity to care about another pandemic has eroded to the point we probably wouldn’t take one seriously even were it many times more lethal than Covid. Unfortunately, anyone who lived through 2020-22 is, essentially, inoculated against giving a fuck about virology for the rest of their life. Sorry, bird flu. Try again in a generation or two. Americans will literally die before they grab another mask.

Yesterday, The Verge published a hit piece on a16z’s Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz after they announced they’re backing Trump. No need to check it out, I got the TL;DR right here: Marc and Ben are bad for voting for “their interests” rather than in solidarity with people who want their interests liquidated. Now, I’m not here to argue the merits of that logic, I’m actually just confused. After Trump’s election, whole books were written that tried to explain it away as a matter of Republicans voting against their own interests. I mean, this specific strand of the cope cycle lasted for years (Google it, it’s there, plain as day). My question for the Verge: is it good or bad to vote for your own interests? I’m getting mixed signals, maybe make up your mind? (Actually, who am I kidding, I’m the only one paying attention to you guys anymore — probably not worth the effort).

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this week, we’re joined once again by comfortably smug who gives us a live report from the republican national convention. plus: we talk the trump assassination attempt, jd vance being selected as vp, elon’s donations to trump, and more.

dan hendrycks, an executive at a firm that co-sponsored scott wiener's ai bill, co-founded an ai safety compliance company that launched on tuesday

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