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  • From the Apple press release:

    Cook will continue in his role as CEO through the summer as he works closely with Ternus on a smooth transition. As executive chairman, Cook will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world.

    I guess Tim isn’t ready to give up handling the bribes just yet.

  • Why not both? He’s a coward and a hypocrite. Everything about the man is fake, a gold-painted edifice to hide the rot beneath. I remember him from the 80s as a joke, a real-life satire of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”, as he sleazed his way around Atlantic City. He was rather constantly in the news because he was always bankrupting another casino or marrying or divorcing another trophy wife. It felt like he was a twisted reflection of the Reagan-era obsession with entrepreneurship and success. If it weren’t for The Apprentice, that’s how everyone would remember him. Instead, his infamy got rehabilitated as the big boss who says “you’re fired!”, but it’s all an act. He was playing a scripted reality-TV tough guy.

    But in real life? He’s the world’s smallest man. Cowardice might be his defining character trait. He’s afraid to confront anyone unless it’s behind a shield of depersonalization. He fired multiple people in his first term via tweet. Hell, look at the way he insulted Mayor Mamdani online, and how he fawned over him in person. He lashes out at anyone who challenges him on anything, demeaning and dehumanizing them, because he is terrified of looking weak. That’s his entire personality.

  • Peppy. James is doing that barrel roll thing he loves.

  • By the end of this thing I fully expect Trump to hand-deliver them the plans for the bomb and claim that it’s a win because he didn’t allow them to develop it themselves.

  • “The US will never allow the Great State of Iran to develop Nuclear, so now that we, along with all our allies, have destroyed their Electrical Plants and Bridges to Make Iran Great Again, our Chief Negotiator (and my favorite Son-In-Law) Jasred Kishnerr has agreed to give them Half of our Nuclear Arsenal, so they never have to develop the Nuclear themselves. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!”

    -Trump, probably

  • From the Wikipedia article on the JCPOA:

    Iran and the P5+1 countries engaged in negotiations for the following 20 months and, in April 2015, agreed on a framework, which later led to JCPOA,

    JD flew 20 hours to do one negotiation and gave up. Art of the deal baby!

    We are sofa king screwed.

  • "Well yes, we've already had one constitutional crisis today, but what about second constitutional crisis?" -The DOJ, probably

    It sure would be nice if these assholes could take ONE FUCKING DAY off from actively shielding child rapists, subverting the rule of law, destroying faith in government, or undermining the people's interests. I know the firehose of bullshit is the whole point, but god damn.

  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world

    Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us.

    www.queermajority.com /essays-all/lesbians-like-me-joined-forces-with-conservatives
  • Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we!

  • UwU

    Jump
  • On Monday, Trump expanded a threat he had made if Iran refuses to open the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping passage, writing on social media the U.S. would not only destroy Iranian electric plants and oil wells but also "possibly all desalinization plants!"

    It’s journalistic malpractice not to note that such actions constitute war crimes: the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure is considered a war crime not only under the Geneva Conventions but also the US’s Uniform Code of Military Justice.

    Ship all the Trump-worshipping sycophants in this administration off to the Hague. Expel any member of Congress that voted to allow this illegal war to continue. Then ship them off to the Hague as well.

  • They say only to speak good of the dead. Chuck Norris is dead. Good.

  • Fantastic news! Let’s hope they manage to fulfill those orders before Taiwan runs out of energy reserves, because according to the Taipei Times, they currently only have enough to last until uhh…the end of the month.

    Overall, energy supply for this month is secure, and the government is continuing efforts to ensure sufficient supply for next month

    Again, just phenomenal.

  • Good. Don’t vote. If you were so stupid/racist/sexist/oblivious to history as to vote for Trump in 2024 you should not be voting at all.

    Trump and the Republicans (who only exist as his personal ball-washers to sanewash and rubberstamp everything he does; they are indistinguishable at this point) documented all the policies they were going to pursue in the Project 2025 policy document, which was readily available to read before the election. You were warned about this loudly and repeatedly.

    Trump’s behavior is also a known quantity. I suspect you did not magically appear on Earth to vote for him in 2024 having never experienced the reality of his first term, so you also should have had the benefit of knowing what he is like.

    You therefore knew (or should have known) what he was like and what he wanted to do. If you knew, congratulations on getting exactly what you voted for. If not, you’re a low-information voter. You shouldn’t be voting at all because you are, at best, blindly picking a choice that everyone else has to live with too. So stay home. Don’t vote. Then at least nobody else has to suffer with the consequences of your ignorance.

  • We’re going back to drawing on maps with sharpies.

  • Kids these days. Can’t even read Gothic script.

  • Oregon, do the right thing. Blow up that whale.

  • I think you're 100% right, and boy, this piece made me big mad. Yet another outlet breathlessly publishing fucking nonsense for a ghoul, who by uncritically publishing said ghoul’s dire warning of the imminent birth of a superintelligent malign(?) entity, serves as his unpaid marketing firm. Axios should be embarrassed. If anyone who wasn’t the head of an LLM company spouted this drivel, they’d be locked away in a padded room and Axios would rightly be called out for exacerbating the mental health crisis of a paranoid schizophrenic.

    The whole essay reads like, "Here at Anthropic, we're doing our best to create the Torment Nexus, but if anybody else were to successfully create the Torment Nexus, that would represent an existential risk for humanity. We're doing our best to create it first, so please give us more money. To save humanity. From the Torment Nexus that we created." It would be utter lunacy if he actually believed it.

  • Yep, the Republican party has known since at least the Obama years that they can do whatever they want and the Democrats will (at most) complain how hypocritical they’re being. This is the logical next step.

    “Trump” trying to cancel the election is the Republican party trying to cancel the elections. He is just the frontman for a power apparatus that has been working toward this very moment for 50 years. After all, only a handful of principled Republican legislators (lol. lmao.) would be needed to stop everything he’s doing. But we don’t see that. Why not? They are so close to never having to worry about reelection again—they’re certainly not going to stop now.