This week, three anonymous General Services Administration (GSA) agents described their chilling, “career-ending” interviews with DOGE in POLITICO. The “anxiety provoking” interrogations begin with a “calendar invite from a gmail account” (alpha). Invites are sent “frequently with almost no notice and often scheduled over existing client meetings” (alpha af). A middle manager worries they might’ve gotten themselves fired by hyping their soft “moving complex projects through government bureaucracy” skills (oof), while another argues GSA is “saving people’s lives” because it maintains vital services like Login dot gov. Godspeed, freedom warriors. As the future of your legendary institution hangs in the balance, let us all reflect fondly on your contributions — like that time you triggered a national scandal by spending $823K on a “Training Conference” at the M Resort in Las Vegas. RIP GSA. See you at the ominous Google Meet in 30.

Reddit shares took a hit yesterday after fourth-quarter user growth on the platform fell short of Wall Street expectations — the latest sign that the now-public company is struggling to keep up with the big dogs like Meta. For their part, Reddit attributed the downturn to a change in Google’s algorithm, which allegedly tanked traffic to their site. “Google algorithm changes — they happen,” CEO Steve Huffman said in an interview. Ah, yes they do, Steve. But do you know what else sometimes happens? Sometimes your platform gets taken over by neckbeard speech police who throttle anything they don’t like and ban links to other platforms over hand gestures, creating an echo chamber of soyjak Funko Pop collectors, a genre of information people no longer find compelling. Sure, Google sucks. But, unfortunately, you now have a fiduciary duty to ask yourself: do they really suck as hard as you?

SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas will vote May 3rd to incorporate as a city, giving it the power to create its own police force and government. The site at Texas’ southern tip (on the banks of the Gulf of America) is the heart of SpaceX’s Starship program, building and launching the largest rockets mankind has ever created (before catching them like flies between giant metal chopsticks). What is there to say other than… this absolutely rules? If the vote passes, it’ll be the first American city built around a spaceport. It’s got Manhattan Project vibes and a SpaceX-themed Tiki bar casually located steps from a rocket launcher. 500 people already live there in a mix of SpaceX-owned homes and Airstream trailers, and hundreds of employees are waiting to move in, turning what was once a desolate patch of Texas into a cyberpunk utopia. America, meet your new favorite city.

Just last quarter, SpaceX’s estimated valuation on Augment rose 80.5%, Anthropic climbed 65.9%, and Perplexity increased 147%*—movements that played out behind closed doors, out of reach for most investors. Until now.

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