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Favicon Irish Kid English Accent? - Jarlath Regan Standup Comedy - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Irish Kid English Accent? - Jarlath Regan Standup Comedy
YouTube
Raising an Irish kid in England isn't easy. Jarlath Regan explains the accent issue he faced. Remeber these are jokes. Not actual documentary evidence. Taken...

Irish Kid English Accent? - Jarlath Regan Standup Comedy - YouTube

| | Elon Musk on X: "@lexfridman Sam Harris hates free speech" / X
Apr 8, 2025 |

| | Fridman Defends Interviews, Harris Critiques Platforming / X
Apr 8, 2025 |

| | Musk-Navarro Clash Highlights Tariff Debate / X
Apr 8, 2025 |

| | Cory Dobbin on X: "🤯 I made this full commercial using only AI. No film crew. Just 4 pictures, 4o, Kling, and a little editing. Here’s how I pulled it off—and how you can too 👇 Bonus: Comment 'Prompt' and I'll DM you my private CustomGPT I used to produce the source images. https://t.co/zDwPhvvMbs" / X
Apr 8, 2025 |

| | Cory Dobbin on X: "Was just playing around with this insane, free new tool and... 🤯 This thing is crazy It converts your doodles into images using the material you want... IN REAL TIME. Comment 'DOODLE' and I'll send you the link (must be following) Here's how it works 👇 https://t.co/E0x84IIdYv" / X
Apr 8, 2025 |

| | Google AI Developers on X: "Some fun simulations created with Gemini 2.5 Pro 🧵↓" / X
Apr 8, 2025 |

| Favicon | Coal Miners at the White House: Trump’s Tariffs Help Our Industry and Will Bring Jobs to America - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Coal Miners at the White House: Trump’s Tariffs Help Our Industry and Will Bring Jobs to America
YouTube
President Trump signed major energy executive orders today—surrounded by REAL AMERICANS.The fake news media's latest orchestrated attack—this time over tarif... |

Coal Miners at the White House: Trump’s Tariffs Help Our Industry and Will Bring Jobs to America - YouTube

| | Elon Musk on X: "https://t.co/17A9JHT7yy" / X
Apr 8, 2025 |

| | Long context support in LLM 0.24 using fragments and template plugins
Apr 8, 2025
Long context support in LLM 0.24 using fragments and template plugins
Simon Willison’s Weblog
LLM 0.24 is now available with new features to help take advantage of the increasingly long input context supported by modern LLMs. (LLM is my command-line tool and Python library … |

Long context support in LLM 0.24 using fragments and template plugins

| | A Win-Win Exit Strategy for Trump on Tariffs - WSJ
Apr 8, 2025 |

| Favicon | Trump, allies send mixed signals on tariffs
Apr 8, 2025
Are Trump’s tariffs a negotiating tool? Depends on whom you ask
The Hill
Businesses, consumers and foreign leaders are trying to assess just how set in stone President Trump’s tariffs are, as the administration and its allies send mixed signals about whether the measure…

Businesses, consumers and foreign leaders are trying to assess just how set in stone President Trump’s tariffs are, as the administration and its allies send mixed signals about whether the measures are being used for leverage. Some Trump allies touted the tariffs — which have led to a massive stock market selloff and heightened fears of a recession — as the latest move from a master dealmaker. The tariffs, they argue, will force other countries to change their practices in search of leniency from the U.S. The president himself told reporters the tariffs “give us great power to negotiate,” and he said Friday he’d had a “productive” conversation with the leader of Vietnam about tariff rates. “I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with @realDonaldTrump,” Eric Trump, the president’s son, posted on the social platform X. “The first to negotiate will win - the last will absolutely lose.” At the same time, President Trump on Friday declared in a Truth Social post that his policies "will never change." Meanwhile, multiple top administration officials were adamant that the tariffs were not meant as a negotiating tool, but as a way to rebalance global trade and revitalize American manufacturing. “I don't think there's any chance they're going to — that President Trump's going to back off his tariffs. This is the reordering of global trade, right? That's what's going to happen,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday on CNN.  Peter Navarro, a vocal trade hawk, said around the rollout of the tariffs that it was “not a negotiation” but a “national emergency” related to trade deficits. The mixed messaging is a reflection of how some in the administration are true believers in tariffs as an economic tool, but also how Trump sees nearly everything as being up for negotiation under the right circumstances. “I think for Trump it is [a negotiation],” said one source close to the White House. “I think for Navarro, it’s a hard ideological reshuffling. He has a vision. And I think Trump is practical. The reality is you’re not going to significantly reshore all these jobs, manufacturing, reshuffle the economy in two, four, six years.” “Trump wants to send a shock wave and bring people to the table,” the source added. Trump on Wednesday announced a baseline 10 percent tariff on all imports. In addition, countries that were determined to be the "worst offenders" in terms of trade deficits were hit with a higher tariff rate, with China, the European Union, Japan, Cambodia, India, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam among those facing the highest rates. During remarks announcing the tariffs, Trump directly addressed the foreign leaders who he predicted would be reaching out to seek exemptions and signaled they could take significant steps to appease him. “I say, terminate your own tariffs, drop your barriers, don’t manipulate your currencies … and start buying tens of billions of dollars of American goods,” Trump said. But Trump and other White House officials have simultaneously suggested the tariffs are less about other countries' trade practices and more about increasing the domestic manufacturing base. “Yes, it will create jobs. Yes, it will increase revenues,” said deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. “But most importantly, it will restore our national security so that we will not be dependent on anyone else to survive and thrive as a nation.” Markets responded to Trump’s tariff announcement with their worst day of losses since 2020 on Thursday. World leaders also reacted swiftly. China on Friday announced it would slap its own 34 percent tariff on U.S. goods. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the European Union was prepared to respond with countermeasures, while French President Emmanuel Macron called on European companies to pause investments in the U.S. Trump imposed tariffs on certain goods and countries during his first term, but the ones announced this week were far more sweeping, applying to imports from more than 100 countries. He also imposed auto tariffs this week and teased additional measures on semiconductors and pharmaceuticals. Countries are already seeing that it may be difficult to avoid tariffs from the United States altogether under Trump, even if they take steps to extend an olive branch. Israel announced Tuesday it had canceled all the customs duties levied on U.S. products. But that gesture was not enough to stop the Trump administration from imposing a 17 percent “reciprocal” tariff on its ally. Canada and Mexico were hit last month with 25 percent tariffs on many goods, which the president said was because of a lack of action on stopping fentanyl from coming into the U.S.  But while those two top U.S. trading partners could negotiate an arrangement or show progress on fentanyl issues to get those tariffs lifted, White House officials said that 25 percent tariff would be replaced by 10 percent baseline rate. It’s also unclear what leverage some tiny or very poor nations would have to negotiate with the United States. Trump imposed a 10 percent tariff on the territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which is populated by many penguins and does no trade with the U.S. He also imposed a 29 percent tariff on Norfolk Island, which has a population of fewer than 3,000 people. Economists have noted that certain items imported from other countries cannot be easily manufactured in the United States, or that it would take years for major companies to essentially shift their supply chains and production bases into the U.S. to avoid tariffs. “Trade agreements are all about establishing trust, because the exporter and the importer don’t know each other. They need predictability, and they need to know they can rely on each other to do what they say they’re going to do,” said Susan Aaronson, director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub at George Washington University. “They think disruption is good in some way, but disruption is really bad for trust. And I think of trade agreements as a way to provide that trust because they make trade predictable,” Aaronson added. “The United States doesn’t benefit when it becomes an unreliable partner.” Alex Gangitano contributed
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Trump, allies send mixed signals on tariffs

| | The Hill on X: "Are Trump’s tariffs a negotiating tool? Depends on whom you ask https://t.co/YzeuK07YpL" / X
Apr 8, 2025 |

| Favicon | Your Android phone just got a major Gemini upgrade for free - Samsung models included | ZDNET
Apr 8, 2025
Your Android phone just got a major Gemini upgrade for free - Samsung models included
ZDNET
More people can now have a conversation with Gemini about what's on their screen, including if they have the camera viewfinder on. |

Your Android phone just got a major Gemini upgrade for free - Samsung models included | ZDNET

| Favicon | Musk berates Trump trade guru Navarro as a 'moron' amid tariff turmoil - POLITICO
Apr 8, 2025
Musk berates Trump trade guru Navarro as a 'moron' amid tariff turmoil
POLITICO
The spat is an unusual public fight from top White House advisers. |

Musk berates Trump trade guru Navarro as a 'moron' amid tariff turmoil - POLITICO

| Favicon | Deep Cogito emerges from stealth with hybrid AI 'reasoning' models | TechCrunch
Apr 8, 2025
Deep Cogito emerges from stealth with hybrid AI 'reasoning' models | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
A new company, Deep Cogito, has emerged from stealth with a family of openly available AI models that can be switched between "reasoning" and non-reasoning modes. |

Deep Cogito emerges from stealth with hybrid AI 'reasoning' models | TechCrunch

| | These Tiny Magnetic Bacteria Act Like a Single Body – And Could Explain the Origins of Complex Life
Apr 8, 2025
These Tiny Magnetic Bacteria Act Like a Single Body – And Could Explain the Origins of Complex Life
SciTechDaily
Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one another, with each cell playing a specialized role. Unlike other microbes, they divide as an entir |

These Tiny Magnetic Bacteria Act Like a Single Body – And Could Explain the Origins of Complex Life

| Favicon | Microsoft's New Quantum Chip, Explained - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Microsoft's New Quantum Chip, Explained
YouTube
Microsoft’s new quantum chip could be a huge deal but there’s a big debate about it! Here’s why...The reason we want quantum computers is they could do new t... |

Microsoft's New Quantum Chip, Explained - YouTube

| Favicon | How To Remove Contacts On X Twitter On PC - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
How To Remove Contacts On X Twitter On PC
YouTube
Learn how to efficiently remove contacts on Twitter using your PC with these simple steps:1. Click on the more menu.2. Go to Settings and privacy.3. Click Pr... |

How To Remove Contacts On X Twitter On PC - YouTube

| | ELON CLIPS on X: "Walter Isaacson: Those who don't want Elon Musk to control so many industries should learn to get stuff done too. “Why is Elon successful at some of these things, like getting 5,000 satellites up? He said we used to be a nation of really great risk-takers. Even the people who https://t.co/GaoNyoN3A4" / X
Apr 8, 2025 |

| | Logan Kilpatrick on X: "Deep Research in the Gemini App is now powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, and our early tests show users prefer this 2:1 vs “other products” ;) https://t.co/O3Nv1uXPnK" / X
Apr 8, 2025 |

| Favicon | Why can you see the moon during the day? - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Why can you see the moon during the day?
YouTube |

Why can you see the moon during the day? - YouTube

| Favicon | An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force | Hacker News
Apr 8, 2025
An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force | Hacker News |

An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force | Hacker News

| Favicon | Google Research introduces new geospatial AI foundation models
Apr 8, 2025
We’re introducing a new way to analyze geospatial data.
Google
Imagine being able to get complex insights about our planet — like the impacts of hurricanes or best locations for city infrastructure — simply by asking Gemini. Geospat… |

Google Research introduces new geospatial AI foundation models

| Favicon | Canada Should LEARN From Trump's Critiques - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Canada Should LEARN From Trump's Critiques
YouTube
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Canada Should LEARN From Trump's Critiques - YouTube

| Favicon | highlight.js/SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES.md at main ¡ highlightjs/highlight.js
Apr 8, 2025
highlight.js/SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES.md at main ¡ highlightjs/highlight.js
GitHub
JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies. - highlightjs/highlight.js |

highlight.js/SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES.md at main ¡ highlightjs/highlight.js

| Favicon | Libertarian Argues Welfare Has DESTROYED American Society - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Libertarian Argues Welfare Has DESTROYED American Society
YouTube
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Libertarian Argues Welfare Has DESTROYED American Society - YouTube

| Favicon | President Donald J. Trump Plants a New MAGAnolia Sapling 🇺🇸 - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
President Donald J. Trump Plants a New MAGAnolia Sapling 🇺🇸
YouTube
President Donald J. Trump planted a new MAGAnolia sapling at the White House — a direct descendant of the historic "Jackson Magnolia." 🌳🇺🇸 |

President Donald J. Trump Plants a New MAGAnolia Sapling 🇺🇸 - YouTube

| | 04-06-2025-Make ⚙️🍲🌻 - Groetry
Apr 8, 2025 |

| Favicon | ChatGPT's glitches and 'melting GPUs' made me switch to Gemini — these 5 prompts won me over | Tom's Guide
Apr 8, 2025
Why I ditched ChatGPT for Gemini — and the 5 prompts that sealed the deal
Tom's Guide
I needed something more reliable |

ChatGPT's glitches and 'melting GPUs' made me switch to Gemini — these 5 prompts won me over | Tom's Guide

| Favicon | De-extinction company announces that the dire wolf is back - Ars Technica
Apr 8, 2025
De-extinction company announces that the dire wolf is back
Ars Technica
What they delivered is a gray wolf genome carrying a handful of genetic edits. |

De-extinction company announces that the dire wolf is back - Ars Technica

| Favicon | Gen-Z Is LOSING THEIR MINDS Over New Minecraft Movie - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Gen-Z Is LOSING THEIR MINDS Over New Minecraft Movie
YouTube
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Gen-Z Is LOSING THEIR MINDS Over New Minecraft Movie - YouTube

| Favicon | Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Quanta Magazine
Apr 8, 2025
Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine
Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times. |

Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Quanta Magazine

| Favicon | Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Hacker News
Apr 8, 2025
Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Hacker News |

Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Hacker News

| | Breakthrough Prize Winner Gerard ’t Hooft Says Quantum Mechanics Is ‘Nonsense’ | Scientific American
Apr 8, 2025
Quantum Physics Is ‘Nonsense,’ Says Breakthrough Prize Winner Gerard ’t Hooft
Scientific American
After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his legacy and the future of physics |

Breakthrough Prize Winner Gerard ’t Hooft Says Quantum Mechanics Is ‘Nonsense’ | Scientific American

| Favicon | Market RECOVERING, Democrats Furious Trump DIDN'T LOSE As 70 Nations BEG For Trade Deals - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Market RECOVERING, Democrats Furious Trump DIDN'T LOSE As 70 Nations BEG For Trade Deals
YouTube
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Market RECOVERING, Democrats Furious Trump DIDN'T LOSE As 70 Nations BEG For Trade Deals - YouTube

| Favicon | The Congressional Club Museum & Foundation 112th First Lady’s Luncheon, April 2, 2025 - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
The Congressional Club Museum & Foundation 112th First Lady’s Luncheon, April 2, 2025
YouTube
"Empathy fosters friendships between neighbors, turns strangers into allies, and transforms challenges into collective triumphs." –First Lady Melania Trump |

The Congressional Club Museum & Foundation 112th First Lady’s Luncheon, April 2, 2025 - YouTube

| Favicon | WAR WITH IRAN Feared, Strange CIA Flight over Bagram Amid Reports US Taking Base, Nuclear Talks Soon - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
WAR WITH IRAN Feared, Strange CIA Flight over Bagram Amid Reports US Taking Base, Nuclear Talks Soon
YouTube
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WAR WITH IRAN Feared, Strange CIA Flight over Bagram Amid Reports US Taking Base, Nuclear Talks Soon - YouTube

| Favicon | Trump ROASTS Senators While Hosting The LA Dodgers - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Trump ROASTS Senators While Hosting The LA Dodgers
YouTube
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Trump ROASTS Senators While Hosting The LA Dodgers - YouTube

| Favicon | Trump THREATENS 50% Tariff Increase After Market CHAOS, Tells China BACK OFF | Timcast IRL - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Trump THREATENS 50% Tariff Increase After Market CHAOS, Tells China BACK OFF | Timcast IRL
YouTube
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Trump THREATENS 50% Tariff Increase After Market CHAOS, Tells China BACK OFF | Timcast IRL - YouTube

| Favicon | Why America Is TAKING ON The Entire World - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Why America Is TAKING ON The Entire World
YouTube
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Why America Is TAKING ON The Entire World - YouTube

| Favicon | Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Apr. 8, 2025 - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Apr. 8, 2025
YouTube
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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Apr. 8, 2025 - YouTube

| Favicon | Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke | WIRED
Apr 8, 2025
Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke
WIRED
Bluesky has been a safe haven for users fleeing X and Threads. But while there’s less hate, there’s also fewer lolz.

But on Bluesky she said that she was doing all three, simultaneously. Brown’s husband visited a Walgreens while he was on a business trip in Ohio in February. He told her the prices were cheaper than in California, where they live. The price disparity led her to post that she was screaming, crying, and throwing up. Several Bluesky users responded to tell her she was exaggerating, and that nobody could possibly care that much. They were right. She didn’t. She was referencing one of the internet’s common sayings, one used so often that it’s the name of a Spotify compilation. What Brown experienced is familiar to any former Twitter/X user gathering their bearings on the young and decidedly more earnest social network Bluesky: a distinct humor-detection issue. Some users are unable to decipher jokes, or they are deliberately trying to miss the point to make a different one. Many Bluesky users migrated over from X, where the top DOGE who did Nazi-like salutes on television is live-tweeting the destruction of American infrastructure. That’s a different and much more serious problem. Still, the seeming obliviousness-slash-self-seriousness of many Bluesky users is grating when you’re not used to it. “They're speaking a completely different language than me,” Brown says. “We're both speaking English, but I'm speaking internet.” Brown, a former social media manager for Wendy’s, joined Bluesky in 2023. Her X account was banned after she impersonated Elon Musk for almost two hours on November 4, 2022. The “incident,” as she calls it, happened shortly after X announced paid verification. Brown changed her profile picture to one of a balding entrepreneur and edited her display name to “Elon Musk (real).” She convincingly emulated his voice, posting musings like “my wife left me lol” and “my penis is NOT weird.” She didn’t know whether she’d be banned for her behavior on X, but she was OK with the possibility. “It's like, Elon's already the main character on this platform every day, and now he owns it. Do I really want to be here anymore?” she says. While you can still find plenty of this kind of humor on Bluesky, there are a surprising number of people genuinely confused by it. There are several factors to blame here. First is the clash between former users of X and Facebook. Anyone who logged their time on the Everything App is familiar with the language of Twitter: posts steeped in irony, in-group references, platform-specific history. When they left X, they brought all that wisecracking, insidery drollery with them. They even brought their pig-shitting-on-its-own-testicles JPEGs. Meanwhile, former power users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are accustomed to their own barometers of funny. While Twitter felt like an intentional way to primarily interact with mostly strangers, and a familiar face might cause the user a moment of horror, Facebook was the opposite—at least initially, before it became Click FarmVille for engagement bait and advertisements for oddly specific custom novelty tees. Bluesky also got a big boost in users from mainstream television: MSNBC ran multiple segments about the social network, including bumps on Morning Joe, The Weekend, All In With Chris Hayes, and The Rachel Maddow Show. Regular MSNBC viewers who took the plunge might not be as familiar with the tenor and style of online conversation on the smart-ass social web. The lack of humor detection is made worse by tech: algorithmically curated content, à la Bluesky’s Discover feed, surfaces random posts to random people. A Maddow referral on Bluesky might see an ex-Twitter user’s vivid description of what they’d do to the Hamburglar if they saw him in person and react with genuine horror and confusion. It’s also PEBKAC issue—problem exists between keyboard and chair. You cannot force a person to understand a joke. The only action more futile is to get mad about it. If these disparate groups have anything in common, it’s disgust with gigantic tech companies led by unpalatable CEOs, paired with a yearning to post in the lingua franca of their previously beloved platforms. Everyone’s brains are broken in different ways. I empathize with those who don’t get the joke. But I empathize more with the people trying to make them. “Since Trump’s run for the presidency, there has been a rapidly accelerating not-getting-jokes on the internet,” Gondelman says. By Gondelman’s recollection, Bluesky hit a point where it was populated enough with active users to be both fun and useful at some point within the past six months. “But that also means it hit the tipping point where it’s populated enough to be annoying,” he says, laughing. Mattie Lubchansky, an Ignatz Award–winning cartoonist, author, and illustrator, describes herself as “a primarily joke-posting kind of person.” The humor-detection issue of Bluesky is part of a broader phenomenon she has observed, which she calls “riff collapse.” The day after the 2025 Oscars, Lubchansky posted: “i haven't seen any of the oscar movies this year, nor have i seen any movie ever made. i'm afraid that the people trapped inside the screen will be angry at me for not helping them escape; and once they are out i will be punished. anyway, here's how the awards validated an opinion i already had.” The replies that followed were earnest opinions and arguments about Oscar-nominated films. Some people asked for movie recommendations. Some unironically recommended she check out The Purple Rose of Cairo. Only a handful of people seem to have understood that she was joking. Lubchansky says she sees this type of “riff collapse” happen daily, and she thinks it’s because of the influx of new users from Meta and X. In the early-to-mid-1990s, people often first accessed the internet when they arrived at college. Around September of every year, a bunch of new users would log on to their university’s network and start poking around the forums and discussion groups. “The internet old timers would be very frustrated, because the new people didn’t know the social norms,” says technologist, writer, and former WIRED contributor Anil Dash. “Exactly the phenomenon we’re seeing right now.” September, for the most online netizens, was a dreaded time of the year. AOL opened the floodgates, allowing anyone to access the internet at any time. AOL’s bloom coincided with the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which deregulated the telco industry and brought internet connectivity to homes and institutions across the US. This period was called the Eternal September, with “wave after wave of newbies getting online,” Dash says. The pattern has repeated itself with LiveJournal and even Twitter. Actor and investor Ashton Kutcher appeared on CNN in 2009 and challenged the network to see whose account could hit 1 million Twitter followers first. (Kutcher won.) The stunt led to a rush of users flooding the microblogging platform. “Read the whole post before you respond. Take a moment to respond. And if you're going to respond with a joke, and we're not friends already, go look and see if somebody's made it already,” Lubchansky says. “Because there's a really good chance they have.” Meanwhile, Brown considers the block function on Bluesky to be a favor to its recipient. “If someone comes into my comments and they just really, really don't understand, usually I just block them so we don't run into each other again,” she says. “No hard feelings.” It’s a different approach than the norm on X, where quote-tweets viciously insulting the original post are part of the platform’s noxious fabric. “I'm not trying to repeat the part of Twitter where the internet makes me mad every day,” Brown says. Satirical site The Onion has the fifth largest Bluesky account, with over 1.2 million followers. Onion CEO Ben Collins doesn’t mind people replying to jokes in earnest. On the contrary, he says it’s “the funniest part of the internet.” “It means more people are seeing your jokes,” he says. “If everyone is immediately breaking out into uproarious applause at your joke, your audience is too small.” As someone who regularly used and posted on Twitter for years, I share the frustration when one of my jokey posts is misread or taken as fact. But it also strikes me as unfair to shame someone because they haven’t been slamming their head on the same wall of the internet that I have. Not everyone crawled here from the radioactive sewer of X dot com. As we all get settled along with our new neighbors, it might be helpful to remember that. If not, at least Bluesky has very robust blocking features.
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Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke | WIRED

| Favicon | Trump THREATENS 50% Tariff Increase After Market CHAOS, Tells China BACK OFF | Timcast IRL - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Trump THREATENS 50% Tariff Increase After Market CHAOS, Tells China BACK OFF | Timcast IRL
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Trump THREATENS 50% Tariff Increase After Market CHAOS, Tells China BACK OFF | Timcast IRL - YouTube

| Favicon | Rumble, Rebel News SUING Canadian Politician For CONSPIRING To VIOLATE Free Speech Rights - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Rumble, Rebel News SUING Canadian Politician For CONSPIRING To VIOLATE Free Speech Rights
YouTube
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Rumble, Rebel News SUING Canadian Politician For CONSPIRING To VIOLATE Free Speech Rights - YouTube

| Favicon | Trump Wins at Supreme Court, Tariffs Market Madness, Truth About RFK and Measles: AM Update 4/8 - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Trump Wins at Supreme Court, Tariffs Market Madness, Truth About RFK and Measles: AM Update 4/8
YouTube
President Trump gets good news at the Supreme Court over deportations. Dozens of countries line up to renegotiate trade deals with the US as President Trump'... |

Trump Wins at Supreme Court, Tariffs Market Madness, Truth About RFK and Measles: AM Update 4/8 - YouTube

| Favicon | Coffee With Scott Adams 4/8/25 - YouTube
Apr 8, 2025
Episode 2803 CWSA 04/08/25
YouTube
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Coffee With Scott Adams 4/8/25 - YouTube

| Favicon | Introducing AutoRAG: fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Cloudflare
Apr 7, 2025
Introducing AutoRAG: fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Cloudflare
The Cloudflare Blog
AutoRAG is here: fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines powered by Cloudflare's global network and powerful developer ecosystem. Simplify how you build and scale RAG pipelines to power your context-aware AI chatbots and search applications. |

Introducing AutoRAG: fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Cloudflare

| Favicon | Victor Davis Hanson: Critics Slam Trump’s Economic Plan—but Offer No Alternative - YouTube
Apr 7, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: Critics Slam Trump’s Economic Plan—but Offer No Alternative
YouTube
The Left has no plan for the economy—but they complain like they do.On this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson highlights the silence... |

Victor Davis Hanson: Critics Slam Trump’s Economic Plan—but Offer No Alternative - YouTube

| Favicon | Exclusive, Disturbing, Writings From Nashville Shooter, and American Held in Russia, with VDH & More - YouTube
Apr 7, 2025
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