WHOSE STUFF IS IT, ANYWAY? John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement. “The settlement also includes an agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery for 10 years. That part is crucial, as farmers previously resorted to hacking their own equipment’s software just to get it up and running again. John Deere signed a memorandum of understanding in 2023 that partially addressed those concerns, providing third parties with the technology to diagnose and repair, as long as its intellectual property was safeguarded. Monday’s settlement seems to represent a much stronger (and legally binding) step forward.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
April 9, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: READ THE ROOM — 20 GOP Morons Sign Onto Bipartisan Amnesty Bill. “The first big hint that this bill is bad news is the fact that the official name of it is the ‘DIGNIDAD’ act. Opting for the Spanish version of ‘dignity’ is pretty much just a big middle finger to anyone who is truly concerned about border security.”
WELL, GOOD:
DeCarlos Brown is in federal custody on a federal indictment. The state proceedings, including any competency finding in those proceedings, are completely separate. https://t.co/yomEpaUPn4
— U.S. Attorney WDNC (@USAO_WDNC) April 8, 2026
HEY, BIG SPENDER: Intel Lands Musk’s $25 Billion Terafab: A Billion-Dollar Foundry Win in the Making?
Intel’s role centers on what it does best: design, fabrication, and packaging at scale. The company’s post explicitly ties its contribution to accelerating Terafab’s 1 TW per year target using its “ultra-high-performance chips.” In plain English, this isn’t Tesla or SpaceX building a rival fab from scratch. It’s an Intel Foundry expansion in Austin with Musk’s companies as anchor customers. That means Intel just landed a marquee, high-volume partner for its 18A and future nodes — exactly the kind of external validation the foundry has chased for years.
Let’s put the numbers in context. Intel’s full-year 2025 foundry revenue reached $17.8 billion, up 3% year-over-year. Q4 alone delivered $4.5 billion, also up 4%. Yet external customer revenue for the full year totaled just $307 million, including $222 million in Q4. The majority of the foundry’s business was internal production for Intel’s own CPUs. The unit still posted a $10.3 billion operating loss for 2025, driven by 18A ramp costs.
Terafab changes the math. A project of this scale could push external revenue into the billions annually once wafers start flowing.
We already know where SpaceX will get the cash: Musk’s SpaceX courts retail investors as it aims for record-breaking stock market flotation.
A BERLIN WALL MADE OUT OF RED TAPE:
A good barometer of “is my state well run” is definitely “are we considering taxing people for leaving” https://t.co/SZB15mz3o8
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) April 9, 2026
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Endgame, Iran… or the Start of Something Worse?
The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information, is believed by experts to have been obtained from the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in Tianjin – a centralized hub that provides infrastructure services for more than 6,000 clients across China, including advanced science and defense agencies.
Cyber experts who have spoken to the alleged hacker and reviewed samples of the stolen data they posted online say they appeared to gain entry to the massive computer with comparative ease and were able to siphon out huge amounts of data over the course of multiple months without being detected.
An account calling itself FlamingChina posted a sample of the alleged dataset on an anonymous Telegram channel on February 6, claiming it contained “research across various fields including aerospace engineering, military research, bioinformatics, fusion simulation and more.”
The group alleges the information is linked to “top organizations” including the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, and the National University of Defense Technology.
Elon, want to write these guys a check?
NOT BAD FOR THE GUY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DISMISSED AS “CHICKENS***”:
Netanyahu's legacy will be navigating Israel out of the incoherence of the Oslo Accords, across a dozen years of hostile American administrations, and into the most sophisticated air war in the history of humanity to eliminate the existential threat posed to the Jewish State by… https://t.co/4YBqhzszAv
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) April 8, 2026
ROBERT SPENCER: Mamdani’s New York: ‘All I Know Is I Want to Start Terror, Bro.’ “Nobody got too excited about it, but there was an Islamic State (ISIS) attempted bombing in New York City a few weeks ago, and new details are emerging about exactly what happened. Now dashcam footage capturing a conversation between the two would-be jihad murderers has just emerged, and it further sets the record straight about one of the most wildly misreported events of our propaganda-laden age.”
April 8, 2026
STAND BY:
Channel 14 reports there could be a collapse of the ceasefire tonight on Iran’s part.
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 8, 2026
THIS KIND OF DEATH WISH IS HOW YOU GET “DEATH WISH”:
Only societies with a death wish deem being insane as an excuse to murder people without real repercussions. https://t.co/l5HxpB9fEM
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 8, 2026
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Can Judd Apatow ‘Comeback’ from Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Judd Apatow made better comedies than just about everyone for a good, long while.
Here’s just a sampling of films and TV shows he either wrote, directed or produced over the past 20-plus years.
“Anchorman”
“The 40-Year-Old Virgin”
“Knocked Up”
“Freaks & Geeks”
“Crashing”
“Bridesmaids”
“This Is 40”
“Step Brothers”
“Get Him to the Greek”Now, that’s a legacy. And, for the past few years, said legacy has been stuck in neutral. His 2022 Netflix original, “The Bubble,” got hammered by critics. His attempt to make Pete Davidson a movie star, “The King of Staten Island,” got stung by COVID-19 and a lack of big laughs.
His last mainstream comedy hit? The 2013 Amy Schumer vehicle “Trainwreck.”
I bet you can guess what happened next.
MELANIA WINS: Melania vs. the Mean Girls.
NOVEMBER PREVIEW: The Republicans Announce Their 2026 Senate Targets. “The MSM has been endlessly hyping Democrat chances to win control of the Senate. But the central problem for them is that only two Republican seats – Maine and North Carolina – are in competitive states. The other 20 GOP seats are in states where the Republicans have a big edge, with Donald Trump winning them by double digits. That almost never happens in Senate elections, let alone twice. In the 2025 Virginia elections, the Democrats won a landslide, but they still didn’t carry a single district where Trump won with that margin.”
WHOSE STUFF IS IT, ANYWAY?
This is A NIGHTMARE. Amazon is bricking old Kindles, including my beloved Kindle 5 (with the side buttons). I hate the touch screen versions, I've tried them and I'm always accidentally flipping pages. pic.twitter.com/gJgUay16Z9
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) April 8, 2026
I miss the buttons, too — they were just the thing for reading lying on your side.
STILL PLENTY OF BIG BADDA-BOOMS: Rabbi Michael Barclay’s Iran War Update for April 8.
THE WORK IS THERE FOR ANYONE WILLING TO TAKE IT:
Take a look at this bill to introduce a new visa category, called H2C, that will bring in 500,000 construction workers
This explains why Mike Rowe was pushing people to go into the trades so hard "there's a shortage of workers, they're making $260k" he said https://t.co/fuoZAY1Gn3
— Stephen “The Yellow Dart” Schutt (@schuttsm) April 8, 2026
FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN: The most connected hospice doctor in California.
A CBS News Investigation found one Los Angeles County hospice physician’s name, Dr. Rajiv Bhuva, on Medicare claims for nearly 2,800 patients across 126 California hospices in 2024, according to the last full year of available data.
There are roughly 1,800 licensed hospices in Los Angeles County. Federal and state data show 742 of them — about 42% — have multiple indicators of fraud, as defined by the state of California.
No doctor in California is connected to more hospices than Dr. Rajiv Bhuva. In 2024, his name appeared on Medicare claims across 126 hospice companies in California — 115 of them in Los Angeles County alone.
Much more at the link.
HEH:
Dear @paradigm @a16z @polychaincap @coinbase
I'm building KoreanFlare – voice-activated wallet protection against North Korean hackers.
After $2.3B got stolen by Lazarus Group, I realized we need better verification than "enter password"
Our solution is simple:
Before any… pic.twitter.com/vtEGjzXCVm
— hrithik ( 히리틱 ) (@hrithikk) April 8, 2026
Now figure out something for Indian hackers.
YET SO MANY OF THEIR VOTERS EAT THIS STUFF UP: Democrats Playing With Fire by Embracing Hasan Piker.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (MINNEAPOLIS EDITION REDUX):
🚨 Minneapolis is looking to legalize sleeping in your car overnight in public spaces and create designated parking lots to sleep in.
Socialism is working great. pic.twitter.com/a9Gk01QBk5
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) April 7, 2026
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS ENOUGH MISSILES: US Navy seeks 1,200% increase in Tomahawk missile procurement for 2027. “In fiscal 2026, Congress granted the service $257 million for the purchase of 58 Tomahawk missiles. The Navy is now asking lawmakers to subsidize the production of 785 Tomahawk missiles for a little over $3 billion, including roughly $1.5 billion for Tomahawk missile modifications.”
STILL A FEW BUGS LEFT IN THE SYSTEM: Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour. “Oumi began running its test last year when Gemini 2.5 was still the company’s best model. At the time, the benchmark showed an 85 percent accuracy rate. When the test was rerun following the Gemini 3 update, AI Overviews answered 91 percent of the questions correctly. If you extrapolate this miss rate out to all Google searches, AI Overviews is generating tens of millions of incorrect answers per day.”
AI is an amazing tool, but never mistake it for a trusted resource.
EXPERTS:
Yesterday many “experts” told you we were headed for nuclear war & spent the entire day losing their minds. Today the Dow opens up 1300+ points, S&P rises nearly 3%, & oil has dropped $20 a barrel. As always, it pays to be rational. Congrats to those who didn’t lose their minds.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 8, 2026
To be fair, does anyone outside the emotionally unstable Bluesky hivemind still pay attention to our credentialed class?