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David Ingram
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Tech reporter at NBC News. Based in San Francisco. Read my latest work here: https://www.nbcnews.com/author/david-ingram-ncpn890161

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Opus when he realizes that Anthropic is using his name for an AI product
An image of Opus the Penguin from Berkeley Breathed. He is looking at a laptop in shock.
February 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Yes, I made some today.
Homemade Boston brown bread on a platter
February 9, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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“Its”?
News headline: Super Bowl Visitors Find San Francisco Better Than Its Apocalyptic Image
February 7, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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I wonder if they'll come up with a new ... strategy.
Stock market chart for the company known as Strategy Inc, showing a 70% decline over six months
February 5, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Therapy is good and people should go
Tweet from Elon Musk in 2024: Put “Never Went to Therapy” on my gravestone Tweet from Elon Musk in 2026: Whoever said "money can't buy happiness" really knew what they were talking about
February 5, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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"the david ingram piece is not clear"
Screenshot of an email from Jeffrey Epstein to his lawyer, dated Jan. 17, 2015: the david ingram piece is not clear. i think you should tell him that these are letters that were written to the govt during plea negotiations. standard practice , and have always been private. lawyers will be unable to function. this issue should have had an amicus brief from the defense bar . no lawyer would beleive that their correspondnce with the govt would not be priviledged to some degree.
February 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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must be 2026
screenshot of the "what's happening" widget on X: the top trending topics are: pedo protector, csam, doordash, and AI agents.
February 2, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Who is buying a Tesla these days?

Increasingly, its customers are in Asia, not Europe or North America, the company says today in its earnings update.
Screenshot of Tesla earnings report, Automotive section: While automotive sales declined sequentially, gross margin (even when excluding the impact of regulatory credits) improved. The APAC region continued to show strength across multiple markets and set a record for deliveries in the quarter. We continued the rollout of Model Y variants across markets in Q4, including the standard and performance versions.
January 28, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Musk likely cost his own fans some money on Polymarket last year with a tweet about robotaxis www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Excerpt from NBC article: Once, Musk may have cost his fans money in a prediction market by weighing in. Last June, when Polymarket gave Tesla only a 14% chance of launching a robotaxi service that month, Musk posted on X that it was a “money-making opportunity.” The odds on Polymarket nearly tripled to about 40%. But the market’s rules were very specific that a robotaxi service wouldn’t count unless it were open to the general public, and the service Musk launched that month in Austin, Texas, was invite-only.
January 28, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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Never bet against Elon Musk? These people are. And they're winning. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Excerpt from an NBC News article: It wasn’t the only time Bensoussan bet against Musk. He correctly wagered that Musk would not buy the cable channel MSNBC after musing about the idea, that Musk would leave his White House job in May and that Tesla would fail to launch a new version of its “Full Self-Driving” software — one that didn’t require human supervision — by Musk’s target date of Dec. 31. “He has poor impulse control,” Bensoussan said.
January 28, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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🙃 #$TSLA
Screenshot of a Bloomberg headline: Tesla's Price Targets Rise Even as Its Profit Outlook Tanks
January 27, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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The NBC News app right now
Screenshot of the NBC News app. Top headline is: “Thousands rally against ICE in Minneapolis in below-zero temperatures.” Top photo is thousands in the streets.
January 23, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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The United States helped create the United Nations to protect the sovereignty of independent countries. "All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations," says Article 2 of the U.N. Charter.
January 21, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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🙃
A screenshot of two headlines on Google Search. The first, from People.com: Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68 The second, from The New York Times: Scott Adams, Audacious Creator of the ‘Dilbert’ Comic Strip, Dies at 68
January 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Rest in peace, Bob Weir
Makeshift Bob Weir memorial in San Francisco The former Grateful Dead house in San Francisco with a memorial out front for Bob Weir
January 11, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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A bold prediction here from @caseynewton.bsky.social:

"Social media bans for children under 16 will become the norm."

His full list: www.platformer.news/2026-tech-pr...
Social media bans for children under 16 will become the norm. After more than a decade of parents demanding stronger platform protections and mostly disappointing results, this year Australia said “the hell with it” and moved to delay teens’ exposure to social media until the middle of high school. Amid rising evidence that smartphones in schools are bad for kids in general, and regular exposés documenting the way platforms have sought to bury their own research into child safety issues, expect other countries (and US states) to follow suit.
December 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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This description from 2002 — that Jeffrey Epstein was basically a solo day trader using a Bloomberg terminal — was never very persuasive. nymag.com/nymetro/news...
So how do termite grouping patterns fare as an investment strategy? Again, facts are hard to come by. A working day for Epstein starts at 5 a.m., when he gets up and scours the world markets on his Bloomberg screen — each of his houses, in New York, St. Thomas, Palm Beach, and New Mexico, as well as the 727, is equipped with the necessary hardware for him to wake up, roll out of bed, and start trading. He will put some calls in to his private banker at JPMorgan to get a reading as to how wealthy investors — the best gauge of market sentiment, he believes — are reacting to the market’s movements. Then he will call currency traders in Europe. On a given day, he will spend ten hours or so on the phone — after all, he is running $15 billion essentially by himself.
December 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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... the lawsuit disputes this. It alleges that the 2021 announcement was a half-measure and a misrepresentation, with younger teens seeing only a “preselected option on a screen” rather than a true default setting.

From the lawsuit:
148. But also, what launched wasn't actually a “true default setting” Meta was ‘misrepresenting this point, as explained by Instagram’s former Head of Safety and Well-Being, “if you said to somebody, oh, this is a account that is private by default, I think an assumption would be, I sign up, P'm a teenager on the platform, my account is private. I will go into settings and change that to be a public account if want to.” Instead, Meta launched a “default preselected option on a screen” —meaning, new users who self-identified as 16-or-under would “get a screen asking me if want to have a public account or a private account, and the private option is selected.”
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Not much audience for this story over on Threads
Screenshot from Threads showing zero engagement on a post about alleged wrongdoing by Meta, which owns Threads
December 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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And meanwhile, Musk says Tesla is three weeks from taking the safety operators out of the Austin robotaxis
Reddit post about canceling Tesla FSD: In the past couple months, FSD has gone to shit. The dangerous hesitation every time it wants to change a lane, missing exits, trying to turn in non turn lanes, randomly shifting from hands free mode to having to jerk the steering wheel every few seconds...the list goes on. Used to gloat about FSD but at this point it makes me look like an idiot on the road and is borderline dangerous with the lane change hesitation. I have tried every driving mode and get the same issue. Because of this i have cancelled my subscription until I hear about some improvements. Just venting here lol.
December 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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WWJJD
Jar Jar Binks
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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AI is going great
Excerpt from NBC News story: But the study also said that the persuasiveness of Al chatbots wasn't entirely on the up-and-up: Within the reams of information the chatbots provided as answers, researchers wrote that they discovered many inaccurate assertions. "The most persuasive models and prompting strategies tended to produce the least accurate information," the researchers wrote. Excerpt from NBC News story: About 19% of all claims by the Al chatbots in the study were rated as "predominantly inaccurate," the researchers wrote.
December 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Case in point:
Reddit comment saying: Folks the last time a Duke had the ability to cause this much chaos, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Posted on Facebook via X via Reddit screenshot
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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“Nobody knows who’s liable if things go wrong.” www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Story in the FT: Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.” Even Mosaic, a speciality insurer at Lloyd’s of London marketplace which offers cover for some AI- enhanced software, has declined to underwrite risks from large language models such as ChatGPT. “Nobody knows who’s liable if things go wrong,” said Rajiv Dattani, co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, an AI insurance and auditing start-up.
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Here's another Musk post worth examining.

OP is talking about an Iowa superintendent detained by ICE.

"The Kitty Man" replies and not only compares the superintendent to a Somali pirate but also bashes the 14th-19th Amendments to the Constitution.

Musk replies with the "tears of joy" emoji.
Musk replies with the "tears of joy" emoji when another poster says the 14th through 19th Amendments to the US Constitution "destroyed our country"
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM