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Wouldn't Read About It
Country slickers Lottie and Cameron sharing yarns you wouldn't read about...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/wouldnt-read-about-it/

from my link log —
A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel.
https://www.rovarma.com/articles/a-tale-about-fixing-ebpf-spinlock-issues-in-the-linux-kernel/
saved 2026-03-17

A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel | Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma
A system freeze led us deep into Linux spinlock internals, where we helped find not one but three bugs in the kernel's resilient locking code used by eBPF.

Pete Hegseth is working hard to make sure the public hears only good news about Iran war https://theconversation.com/pete-hegseth-is-working-hard-to-make-sure-the-public-hears-only-good-news-about-iran-war-278295

Pete Hegseth is working hard to make sure the public hears only good news about Iran war
Americans have been able to know what troops at war are facing, and make informed decisions about the war’s cost, because a free press has been able to tell the story − good or bad. Can it still?

Jensen Huang dismisses social media criticism of DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, asserting that claims that the tech homogenizes game aesthetics are "completely wrong" (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshar…

Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash
The CEO says artistic control remains with developers.

Yesterday, Donald Trump, once again, tried to sell the world a wildly implausible and false story about the peace negotiations with Iran,
a story that made it appear that Iran had made major concessions to our STRONG and MIGHTY leader.
The Strait was open we were told.
The Iranians had agreed to give up their nuclear program our addled leader told the world.
Essentially what Trump sold to us was yet another imaginary Iranian surrender,
which, as the Iranians…

Trump's Ridiculous Story About The Iranian Negotiations Crashes And Burns, And The Strait Of Hormuz Is Closed Once Again
Our country is on an unsustainable path, and must change course

"MSPs not told about collapse of funding deal for Scottish nature restoration"
#Scotland #Environment #Nature

Just finished "Song of A Blackbird" by Maria van Lieshout. It's an excellent and extremely timely historical fiction graphic novel about rediscovering a family connection that was severed by war, and the Dutch Resistance figures under Nazi occupation who saved many lives, in some cases at the cost of their own.
Despite being fiction, it's very closely grounded in historical facts, and the inclusion of photographs within the illustrations is really cool.
Now is an interesting time to be thinking about the fates of Nazis, collaborators, their victims, and the resistance, as well as how we remember them all. I especially liked the section at the end about the real historical figures and their fates. So "fascinating" that none of the Nazis were executed or died in prison (mostly they did serve long terms before their release), even those who oversaw mass killings and deportations to concentration camps. I'm a prison abolitionist and not a fan of state capital punishment, so on *some* level this seems like an outcome I should be happy about, but I somehow doubt that the state was this lenient for all prisoners during this time period...
#AmReading #ReadingNow

The Harvest: Canada’s MAID Program, Eugenics, and the Commodification of Despair
When a state administers death as a healthcare service and then discovers the dead have commercially valuable parts, the question is no longer about dignity. It is about inventory. Something has gone structurally wrong in Canada, and the evidence is no longer ambiguous. In 2024, 16,499 Canadians died through the country's Medical Assistance in Dying program, accounting for 5.1 percent of…

The Harvest: Canada’s MAID Program, Eugenics, and the Commodification of Despair | David Boles, Blogs
When a state administers death as a healthcare service and then discovers the dead have commercially valuable parts, the question is no longer about dignity. It is about inventory. Something has go…

P.J. Locke candid about adversity, versatility and mentoring for Cowboys in 2026 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/p-j-locke-candid-about-adversity-versatility-and-mentoring-for-cowboys-in-2026

I so dislike that everything has to be political.
I once was with friends and spoke about an interesting form of renewable energy (not dealing with if it would be scalable, doable or reasonable financially).
Ah! So you are a green-voter?!
Until 5s ago it was only about technology.
Can't I discuss anything without being placed in any political party immediately?
Actually, this kills any discourse. I'm just so annoyed that I don't speak about several t…

Nielsen: the Oscars drew 17.86M viewers on ABC and Hulu, down about 9% from 2025; the show delivered a 3.92 rating among those 18-49, or about 5.34M viewers (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/oscars-2026-tv-rating…

TV Ratings: Oscars Fall to 17.9 Million Viewers, Lowest Since 2022
ABC and Hulu’s telecast was off by about 9 percent from the 2025 awards.

Flash from the recent past : Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by Emelia Smith https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/18/flash-from-the-recent-past

Flash from the recent past : Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by Emelia Smith
Flash from the recent past : Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by Emelia Smith 18 February 2026 Social Web ATproto ActivityPub Fedi 🔖 https://writings.thisismissem.social/state...

How much does your museum fight about wall texts? Probably a lot! @… discusses different approaches to these interpretive devices.
https://hyperallergic.com/the-sticky-p…

This is about the cars of the guy who keeps telling us his rockets and satellites are completely safe and there's nothing to worry about
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/tesla-cybertruck-crashes-battery-fires

We Have Not Forgotten About The Epstein Files (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/we-have-not-forgotten-about-the-epstein
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p134#a260318p134

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a crow it came up that she has never been sat on by a cat. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never been sat on by a cat.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on b…

What Kubiak's Interview Process Proved About the Raiders' Front Office https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-klint-kubiak-interview-process-proved-about-front-office

Fact Check: NO TMZ Story About Zelensky Buying Diddy's Mansion For $61 Million -- Nothing On Their Site: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/18/fact-check-no-tmz-story.html

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

@… I found answers in the most obvious place 🙂 <https://bubbles.town/about#how>, and <

Trump babbling about everything he hears about negotiations in the background, Iran putting the squeeze off and on , with regard to Hormuz. Outcome is very uncertain because both players (Iran and USA) can be lying and are unreliable. But still financial markets have a continuous unwarranted optimism.
#iran #usa

This whole thread is such a joy to read, about migrating away from big tech and taking back control of a digital life. #TechSovereignty #TechEmpowerment
#DanmarkSkifter

«DarkSword: iOS-Exploit-Kit von Staatshackern und Spyware-Anbietern aktiv genutzt»
Ich bin immer noch erstaunt, dass viele glauben, das Apple Produkte wie iOS sicherer sei als der Rest und sie ja nichts zu verbergen haben. Jegliche digitale Tools können Schwachpunkte wie Fehler haben und dies werden bewusst gegen die User*innen eingesetzt.
🍎

DarkSword: iOS-Exploit-Kit von Staatshackern und Spyware-Anbietern aktiv genutzt
Googles GTIG deckt iOS-Exploit-Kit DarkSword auf – sechs Schwachstellen, drei Malware-Familien, mehrere Angreifer weltweit. Alle Lücken inzwischen gepatcht.

There's a lot about the whole "AI topic" where I don't know what I should think. But I am quite worried what the flood of low-quality "AI" code will do to the free and open source ecosystems.
I found this mail from Michał Górny, one of the most active developers at Gentoo Linux (full disclosure: I'm also a Gentoo developer, but not one of the most active ones 🙂 ), about the issues the ecosystem is facing, quite insightful:

What They Forgot to Teach You About R: #rstats

"I am the programming equivalent of a home cook."
I have talked about it for programming and making, this idea that it can be for personal enrichment, and even mental health, and always thinking about the things you produce in a capitalist/consumer context can be... not great.
https://www.robinsloan.com/…

An app can be a home-cooked meal
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.

Anybody in the fediverse representing EdTechNZ? They're just emailed me about their 'rebranding' to show that they're more 'open'. They don't explain what they mean by 'open', however, I've never seen anything I would identify as even vaguely open about them. From what I can see, they're a lobby group promoting proprietary education tech.

Catching up on news of the past week... I saw the posts go by about show company AllBirds pivoting to be an #AI company... er... "a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud solutions provider"... but I hadn't read the story... and now I'm just sitting here smiling and laughing! We live in strange times! 😃

Allbirds Is an AI Company Now… Seriously
The $2.2 billion wool sneaker darling that became a $39 million cautionary tale would now like to talk to you about its GPU infrastructure vision

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nirvana:
🎵 About a Girl
#Nirvana
https://chashollis.bandcamp.com/track/nirvana-about-a-girl-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/2SHTKB8YYlawTGIuJ2b2ok

We had our dryer vent blown out yesterday. Not quite 3 years since the last time. Our vent’s only got about a 20-25 foot reach, and horizontal, but it still coughed up about a basketball-sized bolus of lint dust. If you have a dryer in your home, when was the last time you cleaned it out, or had it done? Distinct fire hazard as it fills up. It’ll also work more efficiently afterwards. #PSA

such a fun label & will pretty much check out anything they put out, but as a non-londoner i had no idea about their main activity as promoters. https://social.lol/@thetonearm/116217980473411117

One of my favorite facts about Charlie Kirk is that most people have already completely forgotten about that dead Nazi.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jalen Ngonda:
🎵 All About Me
#NowPlaying #JalenNgonda
https://jalenngonda.bandcamp.com/album/all-about-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/60mXzhxdo3dtKYz1MNBLFD

I have been thinking about how LLM agents pose a threat to open source projects and what strategies can offer us at least some protection. Nevertheless, this is likely to remain a challenge: https://cusy.io/en/blog/how-llm-agents-endanger-open-source-projects.html

"I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran”
"A senior US intelligence official appointed by President Donald Trump abruptly announced he is stepping down from his post on Tuesday, citing misgivings about the administration’s war with Iran."
“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation"

‘Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation’: Trump-appointed intelligence official resigns over Iran war
A senior US intelligence official appointed by President Donald Trump abruptly announced he is stepping down from his post on Tuesday, citing misgivings about the Iran war.

I read this piece this morning ... it is worth reading..
The headline is misleading.
"Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done"
The "Everyone" here is more about other countries than about every human.
But that is a useful view because it highlights how trump has become an overt danger to all other countries.
The thought that crossed my mind was this: The leaders and people of those countries now have solid grounds to consider trump an e…

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

"Venezuela, my homeland, actually won something. I have never seen it happen; the last time Venezuela claimed a major international trophy was in 1945 and, of course, it was in baseball... our sport, the one we actually care about and that truly runs vinotinto red in the country's collective bloodstream... And it probably had to come against the US, the geopolitical bully that has idly shoved Venezuela around for generations"

Viva Venezuela, A Champion At Last
For almost my entire life, Venezuela has been a punching bag, a nasty joke couched in fake concern. I used to participate in some of that punching, to be clear. But as I grew into political consciousness, I struggled to reconcile, both within myself and whenever I was asked about the country where I was…

Caroline Lucas here is saying what's missing from most current Green Party messaging.
Leaders must be honest about the likelihood of collapse.
For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Climate crisis | The Guardian

My wife and I have passports, as do our kids (from an early age), so we aren't dependent on smudged, barely readable copies of our now-ancient birth certificates.
But it's not about me. It's about every American citizen who has a right to vote without being subjected to expenses, red tape, and potentially arbitrary decisions by political stooges regarding supporting documentation.
SAVE is a dangerous, un-American fraud.

I also think that Standing Rock has already brought this up for some of the folks I'd otherwise be talking to. I'm definitely not early to the party here.
I'm just coming back to this from recently finishing "Safety Through Solidarity" (a book everyone should read) and thinking about my own identity.
One of the things that came up in the book was the potential intersection between Haredim and anarchists on prison reform and abolition. Yet, we tend to neglect this opportunity for collaboration, I think for such reasons as I'm talking about.
Edit:
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@pixelcode/116200460629939519
For my non-🇩🇪 audience: My post below is about the conservative party's PM candidate for the state of Baden-Württemberg. His party whined about alleged “unfair mud tactics” by the Greens who…

I am reading "Baldwin: A Love Story" right now. It's huge but very good, and very enlightening on issues of race and color and sexuality and how individuals navigate a world with cultures built to oppress them and do the introspective and interpersonal work to think about and write about those cultures both creatively and truthfully. Huge recommend.
I'm reading the audiobook and the reader does a great Baldwin voice without making it feel like an artifical or shallow …

[OT] There's yet another study about how bad #AI is for our brains https://www.engadget.com/ai/theres-yet-another-study-about-how-bad-ai-is-for-our-brains-…

There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
Researchers have conducted another study about AI and its effects on the human brain. The results were grim.

What i like about this article from @… on the Billy Bishop Toronto airport is that it looks a the numbers.
Even if we ignore the whole noise and gas pollution, this airport is not doing so well since they introduced the train to Pearson and it's unclear how adding jets would fix it.
The value prop of the airport is that it's small and…

Nick Andersen said that CISA still isn’t legally allowed to carry out certain activities, such as outreach, despite ongoing threats to critical infrastructure systems.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2026/04/dh…

DHS officials warn about growing shutdown backlogs
The DHS shutdown is leading to unpaid utility bills at the Coast Guard, a vacuum of cyber planning activities at CISA, and grounded aircraft at CBP.

I do not want to talk about what companies want. Why they want to push for AI (even if I had a pretty good intuition and understanding of why).
I do care about my career and I am probably quickly tempted to generalize my thoughts on this.
I wouldn’t really enjoy spending my time reviewing, debugging, correcting, and fixing, and most importantly carrying the responsibility, for a statistical engine. I don't see what the career progression is either. Is it “push as fast as possible to get a promotion and get out of this area before the 💩 starts breaking and you end up spending 1000% of your time in incidents?”

so this password manager paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058 starts with:
> We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane
with

Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers
Zero Knowledge Encryption is a term widely used by vendors of cloud-based password managers. Although it has no strict technical meaning, the term conveys the idea that the server, who stores encrypted password vaults on behalf of users, is unable to learn anything about the contents of those vaults. The security claims made by vendors imply that this should hold even if the server is fully malicious. This threat model is justified in practice by the high sensitivity of vault data, which makes …

I think it illustrates the #GOP priorities pretty clearly #sigh
US spending on first week of Iran war raises stark questions about priorities

I think it illustrates the #GOP priorities pretty clearly #sigh
US spending on first week of Iran war raises stark questions about priorities

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: Just about.
VARGAS: An interesting design. [picks up Blake's gun] A hand weapon of some kind. You will instruct me in its use.
BLAKE: I'm not too certain about it myself.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/421 B7B5

Film director Werner Herzog has always been drawn to the limits of human knowledge
– to the places where science meets myth, where discovery shades into obsession.
In "Ghost Elephants", which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival,
he follows conservationist Steve Boyes in Angola as he searches for a herd of elephants that may or may not exist.
It is both a scientific expedition and a philosophical fable that asks what it means to chase a dream that…

Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
A film about the quest for “ghost elephants” is as much about not knowing and asking the right questions as about exploration, finds Davide Abbatescianni

📣 Wir – OER. net – wollen eine neue DHd-AG für nachhaltige, offene Bildungs- und Infrastrukturangebote gründen!
🤝 Werde Teil davon, bringe Deine Perspektive ein & tausche Dich mit anderen aus!
📅 Wann? Mittwoch, den 25. Februar von 12:30– 14 Uhr
📍 Wo? Auf der @… in Wien im Hörsaal 1 und online
✨ Wir freuen uns über eine rege Teiln…

This will be shadowbanned.
Bauhaus's 'In the Flat Field' is about being trapped in a barren landscape that simulates life but offers nothing. But what about our own world of the dead Internet, shadowbanning, streaming, dead publics, and only AIs to chat to ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a2hGhamVwA

@… Re: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/
Are you thinking about implementing DANE yet? I want to learn that next. Did it…

It’s amazing how passionate politicians are about “protecting children” when Mark Zuckerberg spends billions to tell them how to do it based on his exact specifications.
🤔

P.J. Locke candid about adversity, versatility and mentoring for Cowboys in 2026 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/p-j-locke-candid-about-adversity-versatility-and-mentoring-for-cowboys-in-2026

I met someone from the Fediverse that I have followed for years!! I am a big fan of all their work discussing climate change and energy usage.
It was really nice to talk about their work (and a bit about Vivaldi). Plus we had a nice chat about Bluey, and the advantages of social welfare for raising small kids in Norway. 🧒
Oh and of course I couldn't resist showing off one of my unicycles.
And no, I am not going to tell you who yet. I am curious to see if anyone guesse…

Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's CUDA core, reasoning and coding, CPUs' role in accelerated computing, Groq, China and the doomers, Nvidia's nature, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interv…

An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About Accelerated Computing
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his GTC 2026 keynote, navigating China and DC, and remembering Nvidia’s true nature.

WHERE ARE OUR FLAMINGOS? 🚀 Why no missile storm on Russia? – Truth about AFU "surgical strikes"!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/where-are-our-flamingos-why.html

There's a lot about the whole "AI topic" where I don't know what I should think. But I am quite worried what the flood of low-quality "AI" code will do to the free and open source ecosystems.
I found this mail from Michał Górny, one of the most active developers at Gentoo Linux (full disclosure: I'm also a Gentoo developer, but not one of the most active ones 🙂 ), about the issues the ecosystem is facing, quite insightful:

Francesca Hong interview…
“This campaign is about reclaiming the power of sewer socialism — how much it delivered for communities in terms of climate and clean water and investing in public education. This was a time where people saw that there can be a government for good.”
https://jacobin.…

Francesca Hong Is a Socialist Running for Wisconsin Governor
In Wisconsin, state assembly member and democratic socialist Francesca Hong has announced she is running for governor. We spoke to her about the campaign.

following jvns asking about good man pages, i have some thoughts about what i have liked and disliked when reading man pages, how i have tried to improve them, and guidelines i follow when writing them https://lobste.rs/c/chyw2a
perhaps that comment ought to be a blog post

Notes on clarifying man pages
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Hooverphonic:
🎵 Mad About You
#Hooverphonic
https://pilumusic.bandcamp.com/track/hooverphonic-mad-about-you-pil-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5drK2kTE2mrUdV33iHWyrx

Spagnola: Sometimes it’s not all about numbers https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-sometimes-it-s-not-all-about-numbers

I get my news from The Daily Show (c’mon, it says in their intro they’re the only source for news, right?) and tonight they’re talking about Megyn Kelly saying Mark Levin has a micro penis. Wow. And somebody else was saying the new Ayatollah of Iran is gay! What’s the world coming to? But then Troy Iwata said that was just queer baiting, which is a thing I never heard of, tbh, but he said he’s the only gay person in show business, so he probably knows what it is. Anybody else hear about this…

We Forget About 'Alligator Alcatraz' at Our Peril (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/we-forget-about-alligator-alcatraz-at-our-peril-dhs-ice-deportations-everglades-detention-facility-florida
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p56#a260417p56

Stephen Colbert says CBS released its statement "without ever talking to me" and talk shows have long been exempt from "equal time" rules (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stephen-colbert-cbs-james-talarico-…

Stephen Colbert Slams CBS for Statement About James Talarico Interview
Stephen Colbert slammed CBS for releasing a statement about his interview with Rep. James Talarico without his knowledge.

This x1000.
For every "[corporate] social media harms kids because" comment, I see the exact same concern for adults that we're doing NOTHING about.
Facebook has literally promoted a genocide in Myanmar, but for some reason they're still in business and probably promoting another genocide somewhere. How many kids got butchered in that massacre? These toxic cesspools of hate are a problem for ALL age groups, but targeting kids is only pretending to do something a…

The Raiders’ draft room is state of the art but what about the process? https://raiderramble.com/2026/04/16/the-raiders-draft-room-is-state-of-the-art-but-what-about-the-process/

A woman calling out the patriarchal system and rape culture... in 1771 London.
This was a great episode of #WhatsHerName podcast, and Catherine Jemmat's memoir is so old that you can read the full scanned version on the Internet Archive from the New York Library.

THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE Catherine Jemmat — What'shername
After a lifetime of betrayal and abuse as an 18th century sex worker, Catherine Jemmat broke the ultimate social taboo: she wrote the truth about her life. Her “scandalous memoir” helped change the way readers thought about women’s lives, and her second book introduced a radical new idea into English society – that the true ‘perpetrator’ driving women into lives of so-called sin and degradation was, in fact, society itself. Returning guest Miranda Garno Rossa …

The God in the Wire: The Book That Began with an Empty Shelf
I did not set out to write a book about technology. I set out to understand an empty shelf. The shelf is at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, mounted on a corridor wall beneath a sign bearing the universal symbol for Deaf access. The shelf once held a TTY, one of those text telephones that gave Deaf people their first access to instantaneous distance communication.

The God in the Wire: The Book That Began with an Empty Shelf | David Boles, Blogs
I did not set out to write a book about technology. I set out to understand an empty shelf. The shelf is at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, mounted on a corridor wall benea…

Spagnola: Sometimes it’s not all about numbers https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-sometimes-it-s-not-all-about-numbers

What to know about the decentralized antifa movement | AP News https://apnews.com/article/trump-antifa-executive-order-domestic-terrorist-organization-6ea07143e10bb811aa88b9da5aa26765

What to know about the decentralized antifa movement
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. Antifa, short for “anti-fascists,” is an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups and is not a singular entity. It consists of groups that resist fascists and neo-Nazis, especially at demonstrations. The order did not specify how the administration would label what is effectively a decentralized movement as a domestic terrorist organization. Trump had said last week on soc…

Confused about this artwork/book case stand

"60 Minutes” on Sunday plans to air a story about Trump administration deportations that was abruptly pulled from the newsmagazine’s lineup a month ago,
sparking an internal battle about political pressure that spilled out into the open.
In the story, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi spoke to deportees who had been sent to El Salvador’s notoriously harsh CECOT prison.
When the segment critical of the administration was struck from the Dec. 21 episode on order of new CBS New…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Los Bitchos:
🎵 The Link is About To Die
#LosBitchos
https://losbitchos.bandcamp.com/track/the-link-is-about-to-die-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/4IZYR8grCH5snauh6rQFbV

Q&A with Walt Handelsman, who retired at the end of 2025 as an editorial cartoonist at New Orleans' Times-Picayune, on the changes in a dwindling profession (Rob Tornoe/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-vanishing…

The vanishing newspaper cartoonist
When Rob Tornoe sat down with two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Handelsman, the conversation was less about one retirement and more about an extinction. Handelsman’s decision to put down his pen marks another milestone in the quiet collapse of staff editorial cartooning in America. Once a staple of nearly every major daily, the role has dwindled from hundreds of full-time artists to fewer than two dozen nationwide. What’s vanishing isn’t just a job category — it’s a uniquely sharp, …

RFK Jr. Confronted Over Statement That
Black Children Should Be ‘Re-Parented’
Because They’re All On ADHD Meds
‘What is clear is that the white man President Donald Trump tapped to serve as the nation’s highest health authority, wanted to take Black children out of their homes and away from their parents based on racist non-statistics he pulled directly out of his ass.’

RFK Jr. Confronted Over Statement That Black Children Should Be ‘Re-Parented’ Because They’re All On ADHD Meds
A federal administration full of proud white nationalists has no business taking it upon itself to assess Black health.

Gary Kubiak Doesn’t Hold Back New Raiders HC Klint Kubiak https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/gary-kubiak-admission-about-klint-kubiak/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Talking Heads:
🎵 Don’t Worry About the Government
#TalkingHeads
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/dont-worry-about-the-government
https://open.spotify.com/track/7pAAeToDaCaFROvuu8pZ92

Jerry Jones isn’t worried about George Pickens’ antics; but Cowboys face massive franchise tag call https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jerry-jones-isnt…

Consider the Strongest Notification Protections for Your Secure Messaging Apps
Secure chat tools are designed to keep the content of the messages safe inside the app.
So, for secure chat apps like WhatsApp and Signal, that means the company that makes those apps cannot see the content of your messages,
and they’re only accessible on your and your recipients’ devices.
Once messages land on a device, it’s still important to consider some privacy precautions, particularly…

How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)
A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. They’re important enough to government investigations that Apple and Google now both require a judge’s order to hand details about push notifications over...

News Literacy Project survey: 84% of US teens describe news media negatively, and 94% think news or media literacy should be part of their education (Diane Sylvester/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories

Teen distrust of journalism is rising — media literacy may be the industry’s best defense
When the News Literacy Project surveyed American teens last fall, the results were sobering: 84% described news media as “biased,” “boring” or “bad.” In her latest report for E&P, Diane Sylvester unpacks what’s driving that skepticism — and why it may say as much about the broader information ecosystem as it does about young people themselves. From classroom gaps to social media overload, the findings reveal a generation struggling to distinguish journalism from everything else …

Raiders DE Maxx Crosby tells all about how Baltimore trade fell apart https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/17/raiders-de-maxx-crosby-tells-all-baltimore-ravens-trade/89200773007/

A return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy
-- but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster,
residents’ fears about tsunamis, earthquakes and evacuation plans remain
Activity around the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is reaching its peak:
workers remove earth to expand the width of a main road,
while lorries arrive at its heavily guarded entrance.
When all seven of its reactors are working, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa generates 8.2 gigawatt…

One concerning theme about Klint Kubiak's Raiders coaching staff https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/16/one-concerning-theme-about-klint-kubiaks-raiders-coaching-staf…

Congress has released bills that fund the National Science Foundation and NASA.
Both of those look relatively flat.
NASA has a small, less than 1%, decrease.
The National Science Foundation has a decrease of about 3%, all in the education part of NSF, the science portion being flat.
The Agricultural Research Service has a small increase.
The Department of Energy Office of Science has a small increase.
The National Institutes of Standards and Technology actu…

One Year Into Trump’s Term, Where Does Science Funding Stand?
The CEO of AAAS is cautiously optimistic about federal funding for science, even as uncertainty makes research challenging.

A senior federal prosecutor in Miami has withdrawn from an investigation into John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director,
over concerns about the legal viability of a politically charged case Trump administration officials have tried to fast-track, people familiar with the matter said.
The prosecutor, Maria Medetis Long, is a career official who oversees national security investigations for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of Florida.
The top prosecutor…

Prosecutor Withdraws From Trump Team’s Investigation of Ex-CIA Director John O. Brennan
A career Justice Department lawyer, Maria Medetis Long, in Miami is said to have raised concerns about whether the evidence justified moving forward with a bid to prosecute John O. Brennan.

Raiders OC hire is all about prioritizing Fernando Mendoza https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/16/raiders-oc-hire-is-all-about-prioritizing-fernando-mendoza/88699920007/

Karoline Leavitt defended the ongoing development of an immigration concentration camp in her home state of New Hampshire today.
The possible construction in Merrimack, New Hampshire, has caused controversy in the state,
with the Republican governor Kelly Ayotte saying that she initially received limited information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about the facility
– which many local organizers and lawmakers have opposed.
Ayotte’s office published pla…

Wall Street ended higher on Tuesday, with gains in Delta Air Lines and other travel stocks, while the Federal Reserve began its ​two-day policy meeting amid investors' worries about high oil prices and the Middle East conflict
Fed expected to keep rates unchanged
Financials rebound from prior losses
Delta and American raise revenue guidance
S&P 500 0.25%, Nasdaq 0.47%, Dow 0.10%

Wall Street ends up as traders turn to Fed — Reuters
Wall Street ended higher on Tuesday, with gains in Delta Air Lines and other travel stocks, while the Federal Reserve began its ​two-day policy meeting amid investors' worries about high oil prices and the Middle East conflict.

Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues
Conservation and historical groups sued Tuesday,
challenging Trump administration orders removing exhibits on slavery, civil rights, Indigenous history and climate science from national parks.
A federal judge ordered restoration of an exhibit about enslaved people at George Washington’s Philadelphia home,
comparing the censorship to Orwell’s dystopian “1984.”
The removals exte…

Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues
A lawsuit filed in Boston says orders by President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have forced park service staff to remove or censor exhibits that share factually accurate and relevant U.S. history and scientific knowledge, including about slavery and climate change.

Eight skiers who went missing after an avalanche swept the Castle Peak area of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California
have been confirmed dead.
One skier is still unaccounted for, while six others, who had been stranded, have since been rescued.
The avalanche, which now ranks among the deadliest single avalanches on record in the US, occurred about 10 miles (16km) north of Lake Tahoe at about 11.30am on Tuesday,
engulfing a group of backcountry skiers – including f…

This is what Trump cares about
Voters care about paying their bills
Has anyone asked Republicans if they have ready access to proof of citizenship?
( fewer than 50% do )
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mh6q7jvvkk2o

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Rep. Brandon Gill on the SAVE America Act: "Right now, especially for Republican voters, this is pretty much all anybody cares about"

Trump believes that journalists "should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information."
In a social media rant about his war on Iran, the president claimed that "Corrupt Media Outlets" were helping the Iranian government spread disinformation.
He also highlighted a recent threat by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr to strip broadcasters of their licenses for sharing "fake news."
All thi…

Trump wants to cover up bad news about the Iran war
And Middle Eastern dictatorships are helping him do it.