Tootfinder

The analogies that commentators use to describe the crisis Trump caused by launching an illegal attack on Iran jumble a lot together.
And while some economists say the world won’t suffer the kind of inflationary cycle it did in the 1970s,
many compare today’s disaster with the last time Iran’s radical clerics avenged US imperialism in epic fashion in 1979

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
From less than a month ago, given reports that one of the Black Hawks trying to find the fallen F-15 pilots also got hit. Trump Dreads Failing Like Jimmy Carter Did on Iran https://emptywheel.net/2026/03/09/trump-dreads-failing-like-jimmy-carter-did-on-iran/

i'm not wild about this LP — it's ok, but maybe i should make space on my shelf and spin something new (i mean old) in its place
i paid six bucks for it a few years ago ... i'll bet i could still get a couple bucks for it!
it bears mentioning that paul chambers went to my high school
tommy flanagan is also from detroit, but he didn't go to cass tech, he graduated from northern (as did my father before him)

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

Dallas Cowboys Coaching Staff Adds Secret Weapon With Ties to Maxx Crosby https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-trade-rumors-maxx-crosby-odds-rise-post-combine-buzz

Disney says ESPN is valued at ~$30B and the NFL's 10% equity stake in ESPN valued at ~$3B; Disney has the right to buy back NFL's stake in 2034, per a filing (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

ESPN Valued at $30 Billion As Disney Reveals New Details on NFL Deal
Disney has the right to buy back the NFL's stake beginning in July 2034, with the league holding an option to acquire more of ESPN.

Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh? https://

Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, "designed for intentional living", in November (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6a33af09-99a3-49c2-be50-4cc47656903f…

Update logo scrolling past in the #revision infobeam rotation :D
#revision2026 #revisionparty2026

I'm still slowly figuring out @… but regardless of that, can we all just pause for a moment and appreciate their filter choice during onboarding? 🤌🏻

A profile of Patrick Radden Keefe, an investigative journalist who has modeled for J.Crew, appeared in HBO's Industry, and had his latest book optioned by A24 (Jonah E. Bromwich/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…

What Drives Patrick Radden Keefe?
Patrick Radden Keefe’s carefully applied ambition has propelled him to a rarefied perch.