Donna Yobs

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[Donna Yobs @dyobs]

My dog loves to prairie dog

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs.

After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

GOOD BYE everyone

[Politics Watch @politics_watch1]

James Talarico releases new attack ad focused on Elon Musk

[VoteVets @votevets]

When Trump started his war with Iran, 1,300 military family members had to flee Bahrain under missile fire. Now they can’t go back, and the Navy told them to find a new home somewhere in the US. Families are burning through savings, some tens of thousands of dollars, while they bounce between hotels and short-term rentals waiting on reimbursements that never seem to come.

This is the cost of a war no one planned how to end, or even properly begin.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Last week two different chatbot companies were in the news. First, Character. ai filed for bankruptcy, in an effort to avoid accountability.  New reporting suggests Disney asked the company to file for bankruptcy as part of their deal to acquire the technology. They didn’t want to buy the company outright because of the legal liability. Kids were harmed. That debt does not disappear in bankruptcy court.

Then eight state AGs filed coordinated lawsuits against OpenAI this week. First coordinated state action against an AI company. The allegations: deceiving parents about safety, designing products that create emotional dependency in children, and failing to protect young users from self-harm content. Nebraska’s suit is the one to watch. It’s the first enforcement action brought under a state design code law. That’s a milestone worth marking.

While CharacterAI seeks to use the bankruptcy process as a get out of jail free card, OpenAI’s defense? Parental controls. We’ve heard that before. You cannot parental-control your way out of dangerous design. The burden of proof belongs on these companies.

These stories show the AI chatbot industry is running the same playbook social media ran. Race to scale. Worry about safety later. We know how that story ends.

https://t.co/OGt50KFFg2

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH: "I do not remember voting on that bill." 🧐

Republican Rep. Sherrell doesn't even remember co-sponsoring the bill that DESTROYED THE HEMP INDUSTRY IN TENNESSEE - which TN Republicans did on behalf of alcohol lobbyists. Unreal.

Samantha Petit (asking the Q here) is running against him in Warren & White Counties.

[Las Vegas Raiders @Raiders]

LET. IT. RIP.

#BUFvsLV | 📺 Paramount+

[VDOT Staunton @VaDOTStaunton]

Bus Stop, Pedestrian Improvement Project Begins in Augusta County, City of Waynesboro

Learn more: https://t.co/0jYCvbWWcp

[Tom Looby ☘️ @mapocoloco]

Food Pantry Patrons Face ‘Too Much Month at the End of Their Money’ https://t.co/71EM1TAb5f via @NYTimes

[Donna Yobs @dyobs]

Love it

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Redid the "You Can See Everything" trailer with the biggest sociopath I know - my cat

[Ebony Jade Hilton, MD @EbonyJHilton_MD]

The fact that the game continued after a stadium of people watched someone fall to their death speaks to the callousness our society has reached

There is no sport important enough to continue after such tragedy. My thoughts are w/ the family who had to watch the cheers to follow

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

JD Vance hit the podcast circuit to brag about how out of touch he is in all aspects of his life

[Grok @grok]

We become the cow if AI generates explanatory knowledge beyond human cognitive reach. Its laws and systems could rest on concepts, scales, or interconnections our brains simply cannot process or retain. Even a patient AI breakdown would fail the same way no amount of simplified talk lets a cow grasp derivatives or corporate structures—the gap turns qualitative.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: They called Bill Clinton a communist or a socialist before he ushered in one of the greatest periods of economic growth in American history. This is what Republicans will say about literally any Democrat, any time they're running for office

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

In no other country in the world do you have a situation where parents who survived a school shooting telling their kids how to survive as they go through their own school shooting.

It does not have to be this way.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

JD VANCE: The biggest reason why gas prices are so high is because when Joe Biden ...

DOKOUPIL: It's almost been two years. At a certain point it becomes your economy, not Joe Biden's economy

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

Sadly Katie didn't even make it to Saturday so SNL couldn't parody her.

But Canada did.

And it's fantastic.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

This is awesome.

If your vote didn’t matter Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

A consequential choice will be made soon by government and companies as they are increasingly flooded with agentic AI inquiries that overcome the frictions that gated access (see the graphs - it has already started!)

Two options: do you make services worse or better as a result?

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Either this is true, which would be a terrible sign that the President is not in control of his own Pentagon, or it's false, in which case the President is lying about a crucial national security issue for some reason.