Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Qevin's Revenge: He's Primarying His Enemies

From primary challenges to getting blackballed from House Republicans caucuses, the eight Republicans who ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are feeling the blowback. His allies—and he has many of them—are making sure of that.

The Republican Main Street Caucus and Republican Governance Group have quietly booted Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, whose attention-getting stunts seem to be wearing thin with her colleagues. “She really wants to be a caucus of one. So we obliged her,” one House Republican told CNN

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Tuesday, 13 February 2024

Flipboard just brought over 1,000 of its social magazines to Mastodon and the fediverse

The fediverse just got a little bigger today as Flipboard has now launched over 1,000 of its social magazines across the decentralized social web, allowing its curators and publishers to reach new audiences. The news follows the magazine app’s December announcement that it would begin to integrate directly with the fediverse, or the decentralized social […]

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Fox News Panel Really Mad At Taylor Swift For Drinking A Beer

The Republican obsession with singing superstar Taylor Swift continues. It's not too surprising since controlling women is like a pastime for conservatives. A Fox News panel has had it with the "insufferable" couple. Travis Kelce isn't making many friends in the right-wing media, and I'm sure he doesn't care after his team was victorious on Super Bowl night. And hey, that was a great game, but conservatives are pretty quiet online lately about the Chiefs' big win.

Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe was mad at Swift for (checks notes) drinking beer.

"I find Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce insufferable, from the beer chugging thing from Taylor Swift — cool, everyone can do it, it's not that hard, Taylor, we've all done it, from chugging a beer — to Travis Kelce knocking his coach over with his chest in his violent bit of rage," she said. "Taylor, you should break up with him; he's got issues. I find the two of them insufferable. I wish they weren't a part of the whole thing, and then I could have enjoyed the Super Bowl more."

Co-host Harris Faulkner was equally outraged over Swift having the audacity to drink a beer.

"But you're right, I'm not going to argue with you, when she was chugging beer, and you've got kids in the room, and she's slamming it down, I did question, you know, what do we really know about this 34-year-old woman, and does she realize how young her audience is?" Faulkner asked. "Or does it not matter?"

Narrator: It doesn't matter what you think of her, you weirdo.

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Monday, 12 February 2024

US Patent Office: AI is all well and good, but only humans can patent things

The question of where AI sits in the legal personhood stack isn’t as simple as it may seem (i.e. “nowhere”) — but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today declared that, as with other intellectual property, only a person can receive its official protections. The news arrived via “guidance,” which is to say official policy […]

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If you’re going to market, your GTM slide needs to be awesome

Only 7% of founders have a pitch deck with a reasonably good go-to-market (GTM) narrative. Given that a lot of founders are raising money to acquire new customers, allow me to put words to what that means: It’s an absolute embarrassment. The vast majority of slide decks barely qualify to be called even a coherent […]

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Early Stage 2024 Audience Choice voting ends Feb 15

Get ready for an exciting lineup at TechCrunch Early Stage — happening on April 25 in the lively city of Boston, Massachusetts. We’ve gone through a bunch of applications from experienced founders and experts in the startup world, all hoping to shine in our Audience Choice segment. Don’t miss out: Grab your tickets at a […]

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Rep. Crockett Explains Who’s Really Not Fit For Presidency

Crockett got to what is really at the heart of the 2024 presidential election: sanity. While Biden has always been a gaffe machine, sexual predator and Hitler channeler Trump is playing footsie with Russia to the point of saying he’d abandon NATO and possibly encourage Russia to attack a NATO country.

In other words, there shouldn’t even be any question as to which man is qualified to be president.

CROCKETT: Listen, this is absolutely ridiculous that we're even talking about the candidacy of a Donald Trump, someone who we know was always playing around with Russia, someone who encouraged the interference with our domestic elections in the first place. And the fact that he has not learned his lesson from losing his election, from his very ridiculous and dangerous rhetoric, tells us everything that we need to know.

I truly don't understand how and why anyone can see that this guy is a viable candidate. We are talking about someone that literally may start World War Three. It is just that deep. So, for everyone that thinks that they are now an expert in foreign policy, I need you to look up what happens when we don't do what we're supposed to do for our NATO countries. If you're going to be a foreign policy expert. Don't just be an expert in the Middle East. Become an expert in all of foreign policy and understand how dangerous this guy is.

Hear, hear.

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