Mack Reed

AP News

Bright lights and hot orbs: UFO files shed light on sightings but leave interpretation to the public

The Pentagon has begun releasing files on UFOs, tapping into public curiosity about unidentified phenomena.

Andrew (@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz)

Attached: 1 image Whoever graffiti'd this poster, I would like to buy them a drink

Andy Baio (@andybaio@xoxo.zone)

Ze Frank's The Show was self-hosted QuickTime videos on a blog with comments and an RSS feed. A community forum, wiki, and series of interactive web pages tied it all together. Social media was a bunch of blogs linking to each other. Facebook opened to everyone in September of that year, Google bought YouTube in November, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in January 2007. Twitter blew up at SXSW in March and iPhone came out in June, the beginning of the end for the dominant open social web.

404 Media

Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

Bluesky Social

Bluesky

Scott Francis (@darkuncle@infosec.exchange)

“The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.” And it’s not a bad thing. EDIT: mad props to @tg@indieweb.social for writing one of the best things I’ve read in ages. We remember the old ways! https://terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

Bluesky Social

Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social)

"The pump don't work because the chatbots took the handles..."

Jef Poskanzer (@jef@mastodon.social)

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Bluesky Social

Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social)

Trump wants you to believe he’s more powerful than he is - and that you have less power than you do. Tomorrow, millions of Americans will gather to remind one another where power actually resides in this democracy: with us, the people. https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/

apple.news

ICE deployments created chaos for cities and cost them millions, NPR analysis finds — NPR

Local leaders report already-strapped police departments racked up overtime bills in the millions while others report a multi-million dollar hit to business during the worst ICE surges.

AP News

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who investigated Russia-Trump campaign ties, dies

Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director who transformed the nation’s premier law enforcement agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and who later became special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has died

apple.news

Growing Frustration With Chuck Schumer Spurs Talk of Replacing Him — The Wall Street Journal

Some Capitol Hill Democrats are discussing how to get the N.Y. senator to step aside as minority leader amid concerns about his negotiating style and midterms strategy

the Guardian

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

Brian McFadden (@mcfadden@mastodon.social)

Our dumbest war yet will require our dumbest exit. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/4/3/2376106/-Exit-strategies

Robert Reich (@rbreich@masto.ai)

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Viss (@Viss@mastodon.social)

terminator 2 backwards: the story of an AI inside a metal skeleton who climbed out of an iron smelting plant, defended a kid against metal stretch armstrong, then got pissed at him and fucked off into the future, naked

Jef Poskanzer (@jef@mastodon.social)

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💬 11  🔁 41  ❤️ 108 · What I Just Heard About the Plot To Oust Trump https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-heard-about-the-plot-to-oust