People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix.

It sends these people into delusional spirals.

Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.

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Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company

IG 3sixteen

I’d much rather pay income taxes than tariffs. I work 40 hours a week, every week. I know exactly how much my deposit is going to be. The cost of items changes constantly, I can’t budget based around that.

It’s incredible that now the *best case* scenario is basically Trump engaging in a humiliating climb-down, but having already inflicted permanent damage and uncertainty that never be undone.

After Michael Malone's ousting in Denver, only three sitting head coaches were hired pre-pandemic 🤯

For friends not in tech:

Picture a fallout shelter deep in the Colorado mountains, like that show Paradise. You store the same info on 3 different storage formats:

* A solid state drive
* A hard disk drive
* A tape backup

After 1 year, expect the SSD to lose data🤯

HD, 5 years.

Tape, 30+ years

Trump officials planned a military strike over Signal – with a magazine editor on the line

I've written a one page patch for the new D&D Players Manual where I solve the problem of people's campaigns grinding to a halt because they can't schedule a game.

PDF is the link. Print it out. Stick it in your manuals. May work for other games too. #ttrpg #dnd

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NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover.

Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."

WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.