2026-02-27
Every use case for AI I see is predicated on the user being a complete and utter fool. — “What if I can't write an email?” — “What if I can't order food delivery?” — “What if I can't draw?” — “What if I can't read a real estate ad?” — “What if I can't manage my employees?” …
The Verge
Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness”
2026-02-26
Every use case for AI I see is predicated on the user being a complete and utter fool. — “What if I can't write an email?” — “What if I can't order food delivery?” — “What if I can't draw?” — “What if I can't read a real estate ad?” — “What if I can't manage my employees?” …
The Verge
Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness”
AI chatbot ‘Patty’ is going to live inside employees' headsets. … Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees.
2026-01-12
Billionaires are spending more money to NOT pay taxes than the taxes they'd pay. Seems ludicrous but this has never been about money, this is about POWER. They refuse to be held accountable in any way and the very notion of a public good is alien to them. We need politicians who'll say ENOUGH 😡
New York Times
Sources and filings: Peter Thiel donated $3M to a group to beat California's wealth tax proposal, the first of several expected tech leader donations in 2026
More large donations from wealthy Silicon Valley figures are expected as they try to marshal opposition to a proposed ballot measure …
2025-10-04
“Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our — products. ~ Tim Cook, Oct. 1, 2015 — What a difference a decade makes 🫤
Daring Fireball
Apple's removal of ICEBlock raises questions about the limits of what the company will resist under the Trump administration's increasingly outrageous demands
Ashley Oliver, reporting for Fox Business: … Fox, in its opening paragraph, describes Bondi as having “asked” …
“Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our — products. ~ Tim Cook, Oct. 1, 2015 — What a difference a decade makes 🫤
Fox Business
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app
Here's What We Know ABC Columbia : Apple removes ICE tracking apps Joe Sommerlad / The Independent : Apple pulls ICE tracking apps after pressure from the White House thesun.my : A...
2025-10-03
“Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our — products. ~ Tim Cook, Oct. 1, 2015 — What a difference a decade makes 🫤
Fox Business
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app
Bondi confirmed the department reached out to Apple on Thursday to demand it remove ICEBlock