Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Next week, Google is set to launch an experimental satellite to test the feasibility of data centers in space and it's doing it on a SpaceX rocket. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t... 4283
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Child sex abuse material, some created by Grok, continues to spread on X. An incredibly disturbing read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t... 18500183
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026in which the world's richest man appears to endorse a post calling for "shooting migrants" and "sinking boats with refugees" 882054465
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026🤗 @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/t...nytimes.comAfter Hugging Face Was Attacked By A.I. Agents, It Embarked on a CrusadeHugging Face, a start-up that was breached by rogue bots from OpenAI, is using the hack to push for openness in A.I. development. 1265
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026my "i received $6 million in recognition of services and guidance” t-shirt has many people asking questions already answered by my shirt. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...nytimes.comResearch Firm’s Founder Explains $6 Million Payment to Fired Forbes EditorRJ Shook of Shook Research said he paid Randall Lane, the former top editor at Forbes, for “services and guidance” in partnering with Forbes and later selling his research firm. 3367
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 22/08/2026an important story on how a former Silicon Valley billionaire is directly shaping federal policy on homelessness www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/u...nytimes.comHow the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness PolicyAs Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale. 35113
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 18/08/2026does this mean he's Frank Alive www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/a... 2331
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026holy fuk www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/b...nytimes.comForbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6 Million PaymentRandall Lane, the magazine’s chief content officer, received the money from the founder of Shook Research, which has partnered with Forbes on content about wealth advisers. 2524161
Reposted by Ryan Mac 🙃Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/08/2026When Elon took over Twitter he told investors he'd triple ad revenue within 5 years. It's now been almost four years... and he's wiped out 2/3rds of the ad revenue (basically revealed in footnotes to SpaceX's earnings). 342067609
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026On SpaceX's earnings call, Musk projected that SpaceX will hit $1 trillion in revenue by 2030, with a "nonzero chance" it happens in 2029. 19533
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 03/08/2026this is fun futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comA PR Firm Is Using Fake Publicists With AI-Generated Headshots to Spam Journalists With Pitches for Its ClientsA PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why? 1326
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 03/08/2026just like twitter! www.actionnews5.com/2026/08/01/c...actionnews5.comContractor who built Colossus and Colossus II says Elon Musk owes him colossal amount of moneyA mechanical contractor who helped build Elon Musk’s Memphis-area data centers at breakneck speed says SpaceXAI is dragging its feet on paying his company for work performed since 2024. 1120243
Reposted by Ryan Mac 🙃Dave Philipps @davephilipps.bsky.social · 30/07/2026When a boat hits a wave, the jolt can intensify 10x between the deck and the head of a crew member. That counter-intuitive physics is leaving some of the Coast Guard's most elite rescuers with serious brain injuries that go undiagnosed. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...nytimes.comRescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn’t LookingUntreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves. 716753
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 30/07/2026such an incredibly told story from @davephilipps.bsky.social. his main subject is a teen, whose coast guard vet killed himself after years of trauma in the service. hoping to find more about her father lived (and died) she did her own research for a class project. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...nytimes.comRescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn’t LookingUntreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves. 110130
Reposted by Ryan Mac 🙃kate conger @kateconger.com · 21/07/2026I wrote about what's happening to the web now that everything is A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...nytimes.comHow Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web (Gift Article)As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul. 13612203
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 22/07/2026in case you plan a jan 6 style event on jack dorsey's new work collaboration platform 210117
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 20/07/2026pathetic www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...nytimes.comU.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their RelativesThe government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas. 310535
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I've always been annoyed by this framing — this time in @status.news — of news simply "emerging" or Thiel willingly telling everyone that he funded the Gawker suit (as they link to in this piece.) The news "emerged" because we broke it at Forbes. And then Thiel had to admit to it. 216423
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026government is literally bombing another country right now and they’re displaying a giant LOVE banner 832759
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026so much scoring happening in Miami right now bsky.app/profile/apne... 929842
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026uh is that the guy from chopped who is always asking for more salt bsky.app/profile/atru... 3282
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 16/07/2026today was the first day spacex's stock closed under its IPO price of $135. it closed at $131.11. if you bought the company's IPO shares, you are now underwater. 30812149
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 16/07/2026i guess uhh be nice to your exes? bsky.app/profile/brun... 5304
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Enzo Fernandez hitting a white dude? He must have got confused. 0170
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15/07/2026spacex's stock just dropped below its $135 IPO price 891958197