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https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-2024-election-spending-millions

Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election, year-end FEC filings show
Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the 2024 election, new federal filings show, boosting President Donald Trump and Republicans in a staggering effort that has helped to secure unprecedented access for the world’s richest person in the new administration.

The new emojis are out - at least the ones Apple includes in the next iOS update:
Distorted Face, Fight Cloud, Hairy Creature, Ballet Dancer, Orca, Landslide, Trombone, Treasure Chest
Another emoji originally was on the list for Unicode 17, then postponed to 18, and in October 25, it was removed from the draft. Probably because a certain company in the consortium took offense to it.
U 1FADD

Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fox…

Kalshi Forecasts Coming to Fox News as Prediction Market Strikes Deal With Cable News Leader
The prediction market already has deals with CNN and CNBC.

Some high-profile publications have migrated from Substack to rivals like Ghost and Beehiiv citing Substack's high fees and increased focus on social features (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax
Substack writers are getting tired of the platform’s pricing model and limited customization features, bringing them to rivals like Beehiiv and Ghost.

In early April I'm flying to Florida to play a show with Steve Augeri, 60m of Journey material.
So, just spent the afternoon watching old live videos, and fuck they were awesome and Neal Schon was a total badass.

This kernel vulnerability looks interesting to look at.
crypto: caam - fix overflow on long hmac keys
VLAI Severity -> High (confidence: 0.9638)
https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/CVE-2026-43330

I know the people who need to be told this aren’t following me, or for that matter, they’re not even on Mastodon or Bluesky:
If the President of the United States were to give me a blanket pardon, nothing about that would keep someone from rocking the fuck out of me in an alleyway.

Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fox…

Kalshi Forecasts Coming to Fox News as Prediction Market Strikes Deal With Cable News Leader
The prediction market already has deals with CNN and CNBC.

Internal doc: the State Department moved its internal chatbot from Claude Sonnet 4.5 to GPT-4.1, following Trump's directive to cancel Anthropic contracts (Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/acquisition/2026/03/state-offlo…

State offloads Claude as underpinning model in flagship StateChat
The agency moved its chatbot to operate on OpenAI’s GPT 4.1, internal document shows.

Filing: ABC accuses the FCC of violating the First Amendment, after the FCC made extensive document requests and probed whether The View broke equal time rules (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/business/media/abc-fcc-first-amendment-t…

ABC Accuses Government of Violating First Amendment
The network’s argument, made to the F.C.C., is the most aggressive posture taken yet by a television network toward the Trump administration.