Meta’s Threads is launching a new custom feed, in apparent competition with Bluesky for users fleeing X, which would allow mentally exhausted poasters (me) some control over the algorithm that delivers their daily “content” (polarizing shitposts and mind-numbing slop). This is unambiguously great news. Our algorithms are designed to capture our attention, not to make us happy or healthy or in any way better. In our interview with Jack Dorsey, he made the case for an algorithm store, and I’m still praying Elon takes him up on the suggestion. I don’t want a mirror image of my worst impulses, I want to tell my feed what I’d like to be, and then become it. Yes, that means fewer hours sucked into hell each day. But for a little bit of extra money? I’d pay for peace of mind, and God knows the world would be a better place.

This week, the EU — steadfastly committed to beating off tech companies and AI developers (with a regulatory stick, come on now) — finally notched a win: European iPhone users can now download the first iOS-native hardcore-porn-aggregator app, “Hot Tub,” launched via an alternative app store made possible by the recent Digital Markets Act. While these apps are not “official,” Apple still has to notarize them for “baseline platform integrity” (i.e. they won’t brick your phone), something that the company stresses is not an “approval.” European gooners, rejoice! Yes, your region of the world is lagging behind both China and the rest of the West in most dimensions, but eradicating those few moments of browser-opening limpness is probably just as good. Who needs artificial superintelligence, anyway? You’ve got those unremovable bottle caps that push your nose up and make you look like a silly little piggy. Keep going, Europe, you’re doing great.

The DOJ is charging a Chinese ex-Google software engineer with seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of “theft of trade secrets” for allegedly stealing Google’s AI chip tech. Linwei “Leon” Ding has pleaded not guilty, but after returning to China he founded an AI startup and applied to a Shanghai-based “talent program” that pays people who “bring technical know-how back to China after doing research and development overseas,” which is a very cute euphemism for a CCP-sponsored spy n’ steal op. This obviously happens throughout Silicon Valley — we’re in an existential AI race with a foreign superpower, after all. And, despite what concerned HR departments think, it’s not racist to say this. Banning Chinese nationals from tech companies? Probably unfeasible and unhelpful. But, gentlemen: next time that way-too-hot chick flirts with you at an SF house party, please at least consider that she really might not be that into you.

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we put a freaking ‘moon should be a state ad’ in times square. no, this is not an early april fools joke. read more on solana’s experience visiting the masterpiece / why we decided to adorn the nyc skyline with our (now-famous) pw slogan. thank you for making this possible!!!

solana messed around and wrote another all-time pw classic, this time about the ongoing war between elected power and our federal bureaucracy. two things this war has exposed that we all can agree on? the deep state is real, and it really does run our country

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