My current working theory is that most of that sort actually do believe in that sort of thing, and just haven't really examined why they're pretty okay with what the government in practice so long as it doesn't affect their business

Yes, this post was inspired by me thinking about Durov

I say this completely unironically: learn about spiking trees rn

Trump lashes out at Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones in a long Truth Social post:

They have one thing in common — low IQs.

They’re stupid people… everyone knows it.

Look, I don't normally believe that reposting Trump tweets is a good use of my (or anyone's) time, but sweet mother of all crashouts lmao

"All you had to do was pay us enough to live"

The White House warned staff not to place well-timed bets on prediction or futures markets after suspicious trades occurred just before Trump paused Iran strikes.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-warns-staff-not-to-place-bets-on-prediction-markets-amid-iran-war-3780668f

Mfw they more or less admit that many staffers are doing insider trading (and there will be 0 consequences for this)

Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Article, Comments

Look, say what you will about the place of violence in politics, the backlash against the ultra-wealthy grows larger and more vocal every day

Very much a you-reap-what-you-sow situation

Violence is the natural consequence of illiberalism and authoritarianism. I think the mistake that the illiberal forces make is believing that they'll always be the directors of violence, not the recipients.

France plans to replace some Microsoft Windows systems in government with Linux to reduce reliance on U.S. tech and gain more control over its data.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/

Topical, I switched to Linux yesterday

MXLinux if you're curious about the distro

Ayo, if any of my subs are Virginia gang: There's a hold up between the state House and Senate where the House doesn't want to end data center tax exemptions and the Senate does. Call your VA House Representative and tell them to support ending the data center tax exemption.