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Using my profile picture to remind myself and my social network of the need to fight everyday. Also, we need gun control legislation.

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

man, who should we believe: someone who's virtually never gotten along with her colleagues in a true newsroom and was previously accused of being a terrible manager at their previous stop, or the multi-Emmy-Peabody-Polk award winner beloved by his co-workers?

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CBS is a clown show.

[The Verge @verge]

Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I’ve had yet https://t.co/SbA7LxdfDx

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Jeff Bezos: "We have way too much corporate welfare, way too much corporate subsidies. There's way too much influence in politics from business, in some cases, wealthy people who really focus on that, unions."

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@JeffBezos @blueorigin Glad everyone is safe. Scary. Trust you and leadership will make the right calls from here. Wishing you and the effort the best.

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@MichaelMHanna His star faded quick.

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Hi @om longtime reader! Curious why you’re not using the open source Gemma models in creating your bot trained on all of your past work?

[Brian Morrissey @bmorrissey]

These guys are themselves the biggest impediment to AI adoption. They can try to blame mainstream media or Karen Hao or the woke pope or boomer bureaucrats, but they’re doing a great job on their own to make this stuff as popular as a rash.

[Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine @TheRealJChubby]

It's insane how openly corrupt this administration is. Just so in your face with it all the time. Great reporting here.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Zero out taxes for the bottom half of earners. A nurse in Queens shouldn’t be sending money to Washington. Washington should be sending her an apology.

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Google Spark is going to be how normie consumers do agentic AI.

[The Verge @verge]

Google I/O 2026: How to watch and what to expect https://t.co/VVWdqX9HHH

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Go Google!

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@hamburger @fromedome This would not refer to Amazon, which has built AI search into the product? Seems like this would mainly apply to Google and OAI?

[Dan Primack @danprimack]

3/ If this came down to stature of limitations, why did the judge allow case to proceed? Feels like a waste of everyone's time and money.

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The judicial system requires a tremendous amount of resources. Procedural questions like jurisdiction, statute of limitations, etc are objective and should be determined more expeditiously than a 3 week trial where the jury does not rule on the merits.

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@Lucas_Shaw Great article! Will check out Keep the Meter Running.

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@DanWolken Thanks for sharing. Would have never guessed this of an Olympic sport in the SEC.

[Brian Hall @IsForAt]

Really good - and balanced - piece by @johnhcook RE the medium and longer-term worries about Seattle's position in the tech ecosystem. @geekwire is a blessing for this city. https://t.co/lZPwAEewZP

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

Update: This is a bug. It will be fixed in the next release, aiming for right after Google IO.

More info if you're interested:

We ship this "helper app" (GeminiAppLauncher) to enable hotkeys so you can activate Gemini without the full app having to run all the time in the background.

This helper app was never intended to ignore your explicit OS setting change. That is the bug that's being fixed.

In the meantime, you can override this by turning off the "Open at Login" setting in the Gemini app settings - see the screenshot.

One note: if you do this, it will turn off the background process that detects hotkeys, so global keyboard shortcuts won't work.

Hope this helps, and sorry again for the frustration. A lot of us on the team, including me, love to read your stuff, and I hope you try Gemini again on your Mac.