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Paris 2024 #OpeningCeremony mood 😎 🎥: Paris 2024

X activates a default setting that gives it permission to train Grok AI on user's posts; the setting can be turned off on the web but not in the mobile app (K.O 🇰🇪 / Windows Central) windowscentral.com/software-apps/… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240726/p10#a24…

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Was it the Last Supper? “That wasn’t my inspiration”, replies Thomas Jolly, artistic director of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. The scene portrayed Dionysus, god of wine and festivities, at “a big pagan festival linked to the gods of Olympus”

Some are angry about the "anti-Christian depiction of the last supper" at the Olympic Opening ceremony. (Elon Musk and Donald J. Trump among others) A Dutch art historian explains it's not the last supper but a Dutch painting of the Olympic gods. And I explain what I loved. 🧵

I think the opening ceremony was beautiful, cultured, and a celebration of freedom. It was not a bland US Coca Cola commercial but something more artful and playful. For me it's a reason to love the French even more.

If you want to understand why the markets are collapsing, watch this video on the Yen Carry Trade.

Upgrading Starlink Gen 2 Actuated to a more powerful and wider field-of-view (100* vs 110*) Gen 3. Step No. 1 requires a mount change. Live updates in 🧵 below.

The traditional dress is worn by most people- it’s required in government jobs, schools and other places It has a huge pocket - we kept noticing that our guide would bring stuff out and we had no idea where it was being stored

🧵Big Tesla Cybercab photo dump thread 🪡 PLUS more details from Lars and Franz von Holzhausen: - There are no plans to make a Cybercab with a steering wheel and pedals (demand for the Robotsxi version will essentially be unlimited).

Very proud of and grateful for the team's hard work leading to our 10/10 event last week.  So excited to give many people a live feel of our progress with Optimus and its expected future capabilities! We had about 20 active bots at all times -  walking through a packed crowd,

until the day i die i will never understand how this wasn’t the end of it

Trump appears to be unraveling live on stage “When I say insane asylums, and then I say, Doctor Hannibal Lecter, does anybody know? They go crazy. They say, oh, he brings up these names out of— Well, that's genius. Right. Doctor Hannibal Lecter. There's nobody worse than him.

This sort of thing does not improve with time. You may not agree with any candidate 100%, but when lives are on the line, Kamala Harris and her team will bring focus and discipline to the Situation Room, and not... this.

this youtuber with 9m subs saw his wife struggle to find a quality wheelchair — $5k price tags, long waits, made in china so he built his own factory in the USA now, he sells these $1,000 custom wheelchairs, shipped in weeks we need more creator-led businesses like this.

In Bend, Oregon, googly eyes were affixed to public art sculptures around the city, to the delight of many residents. Local officials were less amused. nyti.ms/4fzS6Y9

1. Donald Trump promised that, as president, he would drastically lower Americans' energy bills. But hundreds of Alabama residents are receiving a $100 surcharge on their energy bills as a direct result of Trump's actions in the White House.

The US GSA eliminates 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their tech, including the IRS' Direct File, impacting about 90 employees (@almsnatalie / Nextgov/FCW) nextgov.com/people/2025/03… techmeme.com/250301/p18#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵