There has been speculation that he’s going to retire after the Supreme Court’s current term so Trump can appoint a replacement before midterms. One supposed sign is that Alito has a memoire coming out just after the Court’s next term begins, and the justices usually do their book releases between terms so they can promote them without court getting in the way.

The site’s British, maybe this is the King’s English?

Republicans might be vampires with how little reflection they’ve got.

In February 2024, Disney invested $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, as part of a multi-year project to build a new games and entertainment universe.

An outright acquisition of Epic would be a second attempt at the same ambition, only this time with a company Disney has already paid $1.5 billion to understand.

The article’s headline is wrong or misleading. Disney isn’t looking at buying Epic for $1.5b, that’s what they’ve already invested in Epic. There is no mention of a proposed acquisition price in the article.

The term virtue signaling refers to an annoying moral peacocking that has less to do with politics than with self-gratification. It’s the dinner guest who feels compelled to comment on the climate impact of every course. It’s the guy who annoys his colleagues during meetings with constant bits of civic guidance.

But Donald Trump and his administration have embraced the Mirror Universe version of virtue signaling. They’ve pioneered the practice of “vice signaling,” or saying insulting or odious things both as attention-seeking behavior and as a way of showcasing their supposedly transgressive political views. They aim to demonstrate strength by being willing to appall other people, much as schoolyard bullies insult their classmates to gain the approval of other bullies. It’s the same peacocking, but with uglier feathers.

I did not expect Star Trek’s Mirror Universe to come up in an Atlantic article about politics.

I think a better example of generative AI is Geordi trying to prompt the holodeck into making a new Sherlock Holmes story in “Elementary, Dear Data”. And he powered up Moriarty by messing up a prompt.

Here’s a CBC article with context

The premier made the comments a day after federal Defence Minister David McGuinty said Canada is considering sending vessels and cyber expertise to help secure the Strait of Hormuz if a ceasefire is reached.

Kinew said Canada has prided itself in promoting human rights across the world and that taking steps to end the war would be acting according to those values.

There’s more than one oil price:

Oil prices also rose sharply, with U.S. crude topping $100 a barrel and global Brent crude at approximately $114 at around 4 p.m. ET.

Brent crude went above $100 early, but US crude just got there.

Whatever they may have gotten passed in the Senate, calling it a win before it’s made it through the House is premature.

Apparently it was just Gmail:

Reuters was ​not able to ⁠independently authenticate the Patel emails, but the personal Gmail address that Handala claims to have broken into ​matches the address linked to Patel in previous ​data breaches ⁠preserved by the dark web intelligence firm District 4 Labs. Alphabet-owned Google, which runs Gmail, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It was with prejudice:

Boyle wrote in her order ⁠that “the ​very nature of the alleged conspiracy ​does not state an antitrust claim, and the court therefore has no qualm dismissing ​with prejudice.”

I’ve claims they use eMMC, which is flash memory. Closer to SD card grade than SSD, but SD card prices are up too.

An opmist would say that it is $70 game and they are adding a $10 discount for buying it digitally. A pessimist would say that it is a $60 game and there is a $10 fee for the plastic cartridge.

With the price of flash memory going up, they’re definitely charging a fee for the cartridge.

Why would they sabotage viewership for season 2 instead of canceling it outright? Or at a minimum just dump the rest of it now?

They can’t dump season 2 right now because it only finished filming a month ago and there’s a lot to be done after that.

The authors of the article don’t seem to be the media though:

Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation.

SCOTUS already opened the door for postal fuckery last month: Supreme Court rules the Postal Service can’t be sued, even when mail is intentionally not delivered

Just try to get through the whole pilot. The first stretch isn’t representative of the show.

100 AI-written emails per day

I suppose something like cancer would have a long recovery without technically being an “injury”.

There are at least 2 dead people on the plane. I think I’d wait for another flight…