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My kids have had the last week off of school and it's looking like they'll have a snow day on Monday, too.
Just slowly losing my mind over here.. (also way behind on work)

Scott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a "blow-up" with Evan Spiegel over strategy (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/figmas-answer-to-the-ai-software

Figma's answer to the AI software sell-off
My chat with CEO Dylan Field ahead of today's earnings call. Also: Snap loses its head of Specs right before the big launch, and OpenAI poaches another key Meta exec.

Every technological acceleration is framed as a gift of time to all mankind...
The original promise of acceleration was always more free time. Washing machines would give us more leisure, email would cut our labour, automation would give us a 4 day work week, and so on. None of this really happened; a rising floor of expected output swallowed the gains, and so we signed up for more, and we ended up running faster to stay in the same damn place.

How we lost the living Now
Before 1840, noon in Bristol happened about ten minutes after noon in London, and nobody much cared. The railway needed a common minute or it couldn't run - and that common minute is now a common nanosecond, shipped in real time.

Trump keeps escalating his war against Iran. Sets deadline on Monday, shortly before midnight CET. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-nuclear-facility-fourth-week-us-troops-9.7137298?utm_source=flipboard&utm_me…

'War is not close to ending,' Israeli general says after Iran strikes areas near nuclear site | CBC News
Iranian missiles struck two communities in southern Israel late Saturday, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured in dual attacks not far from Israel's main nuclear research centre, while President Donald Trump warned the U.S. will "obliterate" Iranian power plants if it doesn't fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-we-lost-the-living-now/?ref=westenberg-newsletter

How we lost the living Now
Before 1840, noon in Bristol happened about ten minutes after noon in London, and nobody much cared. The railway needed a common minute or it couldn't run - and that common minute is now a common nanosecond, shipped in real time.

Striking before-and-after images show extent of California’s snow drought
As California experiences its second-worst snow drought in 50 years,
new images show a stark comparison with last year’s snow levels.
This year, the Sierra snowpack peaked on Feb. 25.
It was only 73% of average, then rapidly dwindled from there.
Then, summerlike heat in March broke monthly records in many areas of the Western United States.
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with U…

Striking before-and-after images show extent of California's snow drought
Before and after images of the Sierra Nevada snow show the early decline in California's snowpack. Statewide snowpack levels sit at 20% of their historical average.

After a backlash, AMC opts out of screening an AI short film during its pre-show, programmed by ad company Screenvision, before feature films (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ai-short-movie-…

AMC Theatres Will Refuse to Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar
AMC has opted out of screening the award-winning short film during its third-party programmed pre-show, and it’s unclear if other chains will follow suit.

Binance and Bitget to probe a rally in RaveDAO's RAVE token, which surged 4,500% in a week, after ZachXBT alleged RAVE insiders engineered a large short squeeze (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business…

Binance and Bitget to probe RAVE’s 4,500% token surge as claims of insider-orchestrated rally grow
Nearly 90% of RAVE's supply was concentrated in just three wallets, and millions of tokens were transferred to exchanges before the price surge.

Megyn Kelly is urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the possibility of insider tradiing
Megyn Kelly turned to X to address concerns about insider trading.
Kelly was responding to a CNN panel where Josh Rogin made an alarming statement:
that somebody shorted the oil market by hundreds of millions of dollars, exactly 20 minutes before Donald Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great.

Megyn Kelly makes 4-word plea after suspicious market activity minutes before Trump announcement
Somebody shorted the oil markets before a big Trump announcement with Kelly is calling for an investigation, tagging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on X.

"Open land represents the future in its purest form — after all, every place was no place at some point." 😑 This is such a distilled expression of settler-colonial mindset. No, we do not need "new" cities, we need to fix up the ones we've got.
https://www.

Maybe America Needs Some New Cities
It sounds a bit kooky to promise a whole city from scratch. But it has been done before — and might just help solve the housing crisis.

Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? — Guardian US
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

NFL reporter Dianna Russini resigns from The Athletic after photos of her with New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel prompted an internal investigation (Rob Maaddi/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/russini-vrabel-0e0006364d9d31f8e0fec65ecfb937c0

NFL reporter Dianna Russini resigns from The Athletic
NFL reporter Dianna Russini has resigned from The Athletic less than a week after published photos of her and New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel at an Arizona resort prompted an internal investigation at The New York Times-owned sports outlet. The New York Post last week published the photos of Vrabel and Russini at the Sedona hotel and said they were taken before the NFL owners meetings that began in Phoenix on March 29. Russini joined The Athletic in 2023 after nearly a decade at ESPN, wh…

Die US-Schläge gegen iranische Univeraitäten und die angekündigten iranischen Vergeltungsschläge, zeigen, wie wichtig universitäre Zivilklauseln sein könnten.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/31/hea

Iran Vows to Target American University Campuses in the Region After U.S. Strikes Hit Iranian Universities
U.S. airstrikes have hit 20 universities and dormitories across Iran, according to Iranian state media. Videos posted March 28 and 29 showed the aftermath of an attack on the Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran, where an entire building was reduced to rubble. A few days before, Dr. Saeed Shamghadri, a professor at the university, and two of his children were killed in a strike on their home in northern Tehran. A strike on a research institute at Isfahan University of Technology …

"Old-school computing has a term 'molly guard': it’s the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance.
Anecdotally, this is named after Molly, an engineer’s daughter who was invited to a datacenter and promptly pressed a big red button, as one would.
Then she did it again later the same day."

Molly guard in reverse – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality

#Amiga #Amiga500 #A500mini

The A500 Mini Keyboard hardware is DONE!!!!
Purdy! A Quick Before and after for the keyboard! Finally, afer YEARS of work, THOUSANDS of hours. One last CAD tweak was needed and the hardware side of this project is FINISHED… Now, the pr…

Cuba: Trumps claim “Whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it,” and his brutal blockade are abuses of power - and regrettably the world's leaders have been strangely quiet.
Avaaz has a petition asking them to say something. I signed, you can too, if you go to
https://secure.a…

Stand Together Against Trump
Trump just said “Cuba’s next” after Venezuela – after he pushed it to the brink of collapse with a brutal blockade. This is illegal, and it’s time for leaders to stand together against his bullying, before his next attack. Sign to push leaders to stand together for Latin America’s independent future, and we’ll deliver our voices to them ahead of a key summit this month.

Cuba: Trumps claim “Whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it,” and his brutal blockade are abuses of power - and regrettably the world's leaders have been strangely quiet.
Avaaz has a petition asking them to say something. I signed, you can too, if you go to
https://secure.a…

Stand Together Against Trump
Trump just said “Cuba’s next” after Venezuela – after he pushed it to the brink of collapse with a brutal blockade. This is illegal, and it’s time for leaders to stand together against his bullying, before his next attack. Sign to push leaders to stand together for Latin America’s independent future, and we’ll deliver our voices to them ahead of a key summit this month.

Roofers Repair 78-year-old Widower’s Roof for Free After Scammers Left Him with a Big Hole https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/roofers-repair-78-year-old-widowers-roof-for-free-after-scammers-left-him-with-a-big-hole/

Roofers Repair 78-year-old Widower's Roof for Free After Scammers Left Him with a Big Hole
The man said he felt "pressured" into accepting, and before he knew it, the bill rose to 8-times that amount.

Hong Kong-listed Zhipu AI surged 30% after releasing its GLM-5, an open-source LLM with enhanced coding capabilities and long-running agent tasks (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/chinese-ai-stocks-new-model-and-agent-releases-zhipu-mini…

Zhipu leads rally in Chinese AI stocks, surging 30%, as a wave of new releases hits market
The Shanghai STAR AI Industry Index climbed 1.7% before paring gains.

U.S. seems 'on a path' to deploying ground troops in Iran,
Senator Blumenthal says after classified briefing
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he is "dissatisfied and angry" after a classified briefing Tuesday.
"I am left with more questions than answers, especially about the cost of the war," Blumenthal told reporters after the briefing before the Senate Armed Services Committee

WATCH: U.S. seems 'on a path' to deploying ground troops in Iran, Blumenthal says after classified briefing
“I am left with more questions than answers, especially about the cost of the war,” Blumenthal told reporters after the briefing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

No they want your DNA to track you.
Folks, have you seen GATTACA?
▶️ U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-bord…

U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News
American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home.

I feel like we all knew this. This is Bibi's crusade and Trump is enough of a doddering old fool to get talked into destroying the world.
https://ground.news/article/trump-approved-iran-operation-after-netanyahu-argued…

Trump approved Iran operation after Netanyahu argued for joint killing of Khamenei: Report
Less than 48 hours before the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran began, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to President Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of complex, far-off war the American leader once had campaigned against.

Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-instagram-facebook-tr…

Closing arguments begin in landmark social media trial set in Los Angeles
After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, a jury will listen to closing arguments before heading to the deliberation room to decide whether social media companies should be liable for harms caused to children using their platforms. Closing statements in the trial will begin Thursday at the Spring Street Courthouse in Los Angeles. Lawyers representing the plaintiff, a 20-year-old woman, and those representing …

#today I indulged in some more #recreational #optimisation reducing the size of a key page 5x before compression 3x after. Also doubled

16WW Energy Series Dataset
Time series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset

Planning applications in one of London’s wealthiest boroughs have ground to a halt as a result of a cyberattack before Christmas, leaving residents and businesses in limbo.

Hackers bring Chelsea’s planners to a standstill
London councils are scrambling to get services online after a cyberattack before Christmas

Widely used method underestimates forests' ability to prevent major floods, researchers argue https://phys.org/news/2026-02-widely-method-underestimates-forests-ability.html

Widely used method underestimates forests' ability to prevent major floods, researchers argue
Researchers from the University of British Columbia argue that a widely used method to understand and predict flood risk has led scientists to miscalculate how forests can prevent major flooding. The paper, published in Ambio, synthesizes decades of research to explain why the standard approach used to evaluate how forests impact flooding—comparing individual flood peaks before and after disturbance—fails to capture how floods actually develop.

Court docs: California's DOJ warned Nexstar executives that the state's attorneys were scrutinizing Nexstar's Tegna bid more than a week before the deal closed (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/04/california-doj-warned-nexstar…

California DOJ warned Nexstar of probe into TEGNA merger before deal closed
Nexstar proceeded with its deal after federal approvals, prompting lawsuits from states and DIRECTV over antitrust concerns.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is
refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine
made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology.
The news is the latest sign of the FDA’s heightened scrutiny of vaccines under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
particularly those using mRNA technology,
which he has criticized before and after becoming the nation’s top health official.
Moderna received what’s called a “refusal-to-file” letter from…

Moderna says FDA will not consider its mRNA flu vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology. The company announced the news on Tuesday. The FDA's decision reflects heightened scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has criticized mRNA technology. Moderna received a “refusal-to-file” letter, objecting to its clinical trial methods. The FDA said the trial didn’t compare the new shot to the best available standard of care. Moderna …

If no Iranian oil gets through the strait, prices could keep rising over time
— some companies say they are planning for $175 a barrel.
The Iranians understand the potential political effects of continued inflation in the United States less than seven months before midterm elections.
“Soon you’ll be nostalgic for $4 to $5 gas,” Iran’s top negotiator and the speaker of its Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, warned American consumers after the failure of the talks he led …

Iran Blockade Sets Up a Test of Which Side Can Endure More Pain
President Trump is trying to choke off the country’s lifeline with a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. But the Iranians are betting that his tolerance for political pain is limited.

Another Quiet Day: https://eyebeemania.net/2026/01/22/another-quiet-day.html

Another Quiet Day
After waking before 4 am and getting a mug of coffee, I did …

The Trump administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
After failing to obtain information through a summons issued to Reddit,
the government reportedly issued a subpoena demanding that Reddit provide the information and appear before a grand jury in Washington, DC.
The Intercept described the subpoena today.
“According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to pro…

Report: US demands Reddit unmask ICE critic, summons firm to grand jury
Trump admin reportedly gets grand jury involved in attempt to identify Redditor.

SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says it may take "several weeks" before the incident is resolved, after detecting an intrusion on March 28 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/hasbro-hacked-may-take-several-w…

Hasbro says it was hacked, and may take 'several weeks' to recover | TechCrunch
The American toymaking giant noted that it was continuing to "implement measures to secure its business operations," suggesting that the hackers may still be in the company's systems.

North Carolina led for just .4 seconds in Saturday's rivalry game against Duke.
But that's all they needed to secure the win.
Seth Trimble's three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left delivered the Tar Heels a 71-68 win and closed out a 9-0 run in the game.
After Trimble's three-pointer, the fans rushed the court before having to clear it,
leaving a delay and one last heave for the Blue Devils.
But a turnover sealed it and the party can begin on Franklin…

UNC takes down Duke on Seth Trimble's last-second shot
The UNC basketball team beat Duke 71-68 on a last-second three-pointer by Seth Trimble.

Israeli startup Memcyco, which offers real-time phishing and account takeover protection, raised a $37M Series A led by NAventures and others (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hk3ebm8i11g

27 years after their first exit, cyber founders behind Memco return with $37M Series A to tackle phishing and
The round included Steve Pagliuca’s Pags Group, as Memcyco focuses on stopping AI-driven attacks before credentials are misused. 

Time and again in the communist bloc, economic reformers from Moscow to Pyongyang planned to introduce rationality and markets into planning.
They often thought they had won the argument,
-- and not just among dissidents in labor camps but at the highest levels of their Politburos.
Yet almost every time, their proposed reforms were either whittled down to nothing before implementation, or passed and then reversed after a few months or years.
Why?
These reformers …

Why communist reformers always lost
Communism had reforming optimists too. Their failure can help today’s reformers to avoid the same fate.

A North Carolina man who says federal immigration agents shattered his truck window,
forcibly removed him from his vehicle,
and left him “bleeding and in pain”
has filed a $1.25 million damages claim against the federal government.
Willy Wender Aceituno, a U.S. citizen,
says he was stopped twice on November 15, 2025, while walking into a restaurant parking lot to pick up breakfast before work,
according to a court filing reviewed by Newsweek.
Aceitun…

US Citizen Sues ICE After Agents Allegedly Left Him Bleeding From Head
A man who says federal immigration agents left him “bleeding and in pain” has filed a $1.25 million damages claim.

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras confidentially files for a US IPO after withdrawing a previous IPO last year, and a listing could take place as soon as April (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-cerebras-files-confidenti…

Exclusive: Cerebras Files Confidentially For a U.S. IPO
Cerebras Systems has again made a confidential filing for a U.S. public offering, according to people with knowledge of its plans. The designer of AI chips and systems has been meeting with prospective investors before a potential listing that could take place as soon as this April, they said. The company had aimed to go public last year, but announced last December it was withdrawing its IPO

The Second Amendment Absolutists At WallBuilders
Suddenly Find An Exception
After The Latest ICE Shooting
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/second-amendment-absolutists-wallbuilders-suddenly-find-ex…

The Second Amendment Absolutists At WallBuilders Suddenly Find An Exception After The Latest ICE Shooting
The Christian nationalists at WallBuilders have spent decades declaring that Second Amendment protects an individual right to own tanks and nuclear weapons to fight government tyranny. Now, after ICE killed a protester who was legally carrying a weapon, they are blaming the protester: "They discharge their firearms and ... he goes to stand before Jesus."

Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Donald Trump have had a tense relationship
that escalated into threats by Mr. Trump,
before easing.
Anything could happen at their Feb. 3 meeting.
The meeting between the two presidents
— arranged after Trump threatened Mr. Petro with military action
— is meant to de-escalate tensions, diplomats said.
It is also meant to address topics such as “the fight against transnational organized crime, especially on the border,”…

Colombia’s President, an Outspoken Trump Critic, Heads to the White House
Gustavo Petro of Colombia and President Trump have had a tense relationship that escalated into threats by Mr. Trump, before easing. Anything could happen at their Feb. 3 meeting.

Even before extremist Republican Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20,
progressives warned of his fascistic tendencies and plans,
often citing his platform, and highlighting what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “Trump’s playbook of dictators.”
But too few people, even on the left side of the electorate, listened.
After all, those warnings have been sounded for months if not years.
“Trump is following, point for point, the playbook of …

Top Senators expose Trump’s fascist playbook
WASHINGTON—Even before extremist Republican Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20, progressives warned of his fascistic tendencies and plans, often citing his platform, and highlighting what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “Trump’s playbook of dictators.

How did we exchange information before photography,
before print,
even before writing?
How was truth represented in a world of stories, myths and oral traditions?
For most of human history,
truth wasn’t a fixed point;
it was negotiated within a tribe,
verified by proximity,
and sustained by trust.
In that sense,
we may be returning to an ancient condition:
truth as local, not universal.
This isn’t necessarily the apoc…

AI photo art raises question: What comes after ‘seeing is believing’? 
In the age of AI, photographs no longer express truth. That doesn’t make them any less meaningful.

The school year began with a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in South Minneapolis,
where two children died and at least 24 others were injured.
Local families barely had time to process those deaths — only five years after the killing of George Floyd rocked their city — before their daily lives were upended by the chaotic presence of federal officers harassing citizens under the guise of immigration enforcement.
A teacher named Sarah in the Twin Cities told me tha…

Opinion | Welcome to the Resistance, Public School Parents
School communities are central to organizing against federal harassment.

A rare desert plant in Nevada,
called threecorner milkvetch,
✅ increased from just 12 known plants to 93
after a large solar power project was built nearby.
💥Rather than clearing everything away, the project was designed in a way that allowed the plant not only to survive, but to grow in greater numbers than before
@…

Plant species near extinction mysteriously rebounded and is now thriving after a solar power project was installed
A plant called threecorner milkvetch, nearly extinct, has grown eightfold thanks to solar panels, surprising scientists and conservationists.

Insane commando plan to seize Iran’s uranium came at Trump’s request
The U.S. military has given the president a plan to seize nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium in Iran
that would involve flying in excavation equipment and building a runway for cargo planes to take the radioactive material out,
according to two people familiar with the matter.

The complex plan was briefed to the president in the past week after he asked for a proposal, they said,

Risky commando plan to seize Iran’s uranium came at Trump’s request
A plan briefed to Trump last week to insert ground forces to remove Iran’s nuclear material would be a very difficult endeavor of a type never before attempted in wartime.

A federal judge has ordered federal officials to preserve the evidence related to the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
The judge's order was filed late Saturday after Hennepin County and Minnesota officials filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Minnesota seeking to prevent the destruction of evidence.
The temporary restraining order bars federal agencies from destroying or tampering with any evidence connected to the shooting. 
Defendants include …

Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man; DHS officials say he was armed
A bystander video shows several agents wrestling with the man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian O’Hara issued a plea for calm as protesters gathered at the scene: “Please do not destroy our own city.”

Federal agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, leading to violent clashes between demonstrators and masked federal agents.
Video shows at least six masked agents wrestling a man to the ground before shooting him multiple times.
The video was taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts, according to an employee who spoke to HuffPost minutes later.
Minneapolis officials said at an afternoon press conference that the victim was a 37-year-old Minneapolis resi…

Video Shows Federal Agents Shooting Man in Minneapolis
He was shot multiple times after being wrestled to the ground by authorities.

This morning,
the CNN host Dana Bash referenced the footage in an interview with Bovino,
-- asking him why Pretti was shot after being disarmed.
“We’re not going to adjudicate that here on TV in one freeze frame,” Bovino replied.
⭐️ “It’s not a freeze frame,” Bash said.
“We’re showing a video of one of your agents taking the gun away.
And that happened before Pretti was shot.”
Minneapolis residents are risking their lives to document what is happ…

Believe Your Eyes
People are risking their lives to document agents in Minneapolis.

The Supreme Court ‘s conservative majority on Monday
sounded skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.
A ruling, likely to come by late June, that bars counting ballots arriving after Election Day
would send officials scrambling in 14 states and the District of Columbia, just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections to change their ballot rules.

Conservative Supreme Court Justices Skeptical of Letting Mississippi Count Late-Arriving Mail Ballots
The Supreme Court's conservative majority sounds skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots.