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Iran, Not Trump, Decides When This War Is Over
The U.S. and Israel started the war,
but with the Strait of Hormuz closed and gas prices skyrocketing,
Iran is in control now
https://newrepublic.com/article/207887/iran-control-war-not-trump

Iran, Not Trump, Decides When This War Is Over
The U.S. and Israel started the war, but with the Strait of Hormuz closed and gas prices skyrocketing, Iran is in control now.

Google Says Developer Verification Makes Android Safer. Critics Say It Just Makes Android More Closed
https://itsfoss.com/news/android-developer-verification/
“Under the new rules, F-Droid has no workable path forward. Compelling volunteer contributors to register t…

Figma's stock closed down ~8% on March 18 after Google updated its Stitch AI coding tool for UI design; FIG is down ~80% since the company's IPO in August 2025 (John Wang/@j0hnwang)
https://x.com/j0hnwang/status/2034425352366473223

John Wang (@j0hnwang) on X
Figma tanked 8% today on this news Now down 80% from IPO in Aug 2025

Mastodon doesn’t support closed caption files. Bluesky does, but the sizing is poop.
But you can use open captions _and_ link to a transcript.
Embedding a transcript as alt text instead of linking it? Probably don’t do that for reasons: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/long-alt.html…

Long Alt
TL;DR: Keep your image alternative text brief, devoid of special characters, empty of URLs, and ideally in one language. Here We Go Sometimes you can have too much alternative text, particularly for an . I don’t mean there is a limit to what is allowed, I mean there is a…

When I realized I have off tomorrow...

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For those of you curious - the Nazis downtown are getting absolutely humiliated.
The big anti-Islam protest downtown currently consists of about 8 protesters and hundreds, maybe thousands, of counter protesters. The counter protesters are currently walking/pushing the protesters off of City Hall grounds. True Minnesota hospitality at its best.
Jake Lang [right-winger who organized the event] and a handful of other racists/RW propagandists are surrounded by about 50 cameras and some antifascists chanting him down. A banner the group arrived with has been broken.
Currently has only about 5 supporters, and is being drowned out by counter protesters
The group led by Jake Lang tried to get inside Minneapolis City Hall, but the building is closed, as it is every Saturday.
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(This is all gathered from a bunch of different online sources; sorry I can’t link back to all of them, haven’t been keep track properly as I gather, but you can find more primary sources and video, I’m sure)
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Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions (Ashifa Kassam/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-criminal-court-icc-judges-trump-sanctions
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p42#a260218p42

Even our tomcat loves vinyl. #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse

"The State of Library and Information Science Research on Artificial Intelligence: A Literature Review"
https://doi.org/10.1086/739803 [closed access 🙄]

This week, our CEO Lise Fuhr was in New York at the UN General Assembly for the WSIS20 meeting, joining discussions on building a digital ecosystem that is people-centered, inclusive, & development-focused.
She took part in several side events covering different perspectives, and addressed the General Assembly on behalf of the IGF Leadership Panel.
One message was clear: inclusive and strong digital governance doesn’t happen behind closed doors. It works best when it’s built …

From Translink
*UPDATE*
Due to weather conditions, and to ensure public safety, the Pattullo Bridge is now closed to pedestrians and cyclists.
Visit https://pattullobridgereplacement.ca for more information about the replacement project.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Cadence shares closed up 7.6% on Wednesday after the chip design company reported Q4 revenue up ~6% to $1.44B and adjusted EPS of $1.99, both above estimates (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/cadence-design-systems-stock-earnings-ai-chip.h…

Cadence Design Systems shares pop on earnings beat, custom chip optimism
CEO Anirudh Devgan said he expects the trend of companies making their own custom chips to accelerate.

LineageOS: what breaks? Banking. I have a fairly robust risk appetite, but rooting a device to install a closed-source fork of Magisk that hides itself well enough that I can spoof Play Integrity so my bank's app will run is a few steps too far in the wrong direction. So choose what you prefer: access to your money, or some amount of control over your digital leash.
I see no way forward after September that doesn't involve having two phones: one that mostly lives at home for th…

Polls have closed in Illinois, where a series of bitterly contested primaries will decide which members of a new generation of politicians will try to replace several Democratic mainstays
-- including Senator Richard J. Durbin, the party’s No. 2 in the Senate.
The Senate primary and down-ballot races in deep-blue Illinois have seized national attention as longtime lawmakers step aside and Democrats hope to gain momentum heading into midterm elections that have been reshaped by …

Illinois Primary Election Live Updates: Polls Close, Vote Counting Underway
With Senator Richard J. Durbin retiring, the Democratic primary features two House members, Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly, and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton. AIPAC, the pro-Israel group, was a factor in several House races.

Ukraine embassy in Iran temporarily closed as Trump eyes possible strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/ukraine-embassy-in-iran-temporarily.html

Is your pet’s chip registered with Texas-based Save This Life? They’ve closed shop and gone dark, taking all the data with them. You need to re-register your pet.
https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/pet-microchip-company-went-out…

Microsoft's AI datacenters are now completely closed loop, liquid-cooled w/ zero evaporation loss.
At construction, they are filled with as much water as a golf course during the summertime ONCE, then never again.
✅ Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - Microsoft
https://

Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - The Official Microsoft Blog
This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services. Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to...

Justice Department leaders meet with lawmakers behind closed doors to quell Epstein files furor (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-epstein-bondi-blanche-d49d96d7a53f4e8f71460a8c34155b3b
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p123#a260318p123

AI drone software company Swarmer closed up 520% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at $380M ; its tech has been deployed in 100K combat missions in Ukraine (Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

This is basically the lyrics to 99 Luftballons
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/el-paso-airport-closed-after-military-used-new-anti-drone-laser-to-zap-party-balloon/

Quantum computing company Infleqtion closed at $15.59 in its trading debut, up ~9% from its opening price of $14.25, after merging with a Michael Klein-led SPAC (Mackenzie Tatananni/Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/infleq…

Are Churches being turned into mosques?
The Reform (sic) UK claim is debunked in The Big Issue.
They claim that 41 have become mosques in recent years.
There are 38500 churches in UK, 16000 CofE. Since 1968 only 2 have become sites for other superstitions, both to gurdwaras. 1 in Peckham became a mosque, but only after >10 years closed.
It's "almost impossible" for a church to become a mosque.

Very excited to hear that Sydney's "Doofberg" may well be a world champion in the "disgusting clogged sewer" league. OZZY OZZY OZZY!!!...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/17/fatbe…

Fatberg the size of four buses likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches – and it can’t be cleared
Exclusive: Secret report suggests fats, oils and grease accumulate in ‘inaccessible dead zone’ at Malabar plant, then dislodge when pumping pressure ‘rapidly increases’

Хочеться простого поньського, а не оце ось все
by fuyugi (#art #MLP

Jack Smith's lawyers ask Jordan for open hearing after closed-door testimony (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/19/jack-smith-jim-jordan-trump-00699653
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p30#a251219p30

@… I saw this in a theatre record at work today and thought of you: 'Rebellious Susan presents her compliments and love to her numerous admirers, and begs to state that owing to the recent severe weather her case is closed and adjourned till further notice. She, hopes, however, in a few days to be able to fulfil her numerous engagements. Seats may be booked at …

Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon, founded in 1732, is certified by Guinness to be the oldest, continually running book store in the world.
A quick search reveals: Osiander, founded 1596 in Tübingen. Korn und Berg 1531 in Nürnberg. Beck'sche in Vienna 1724 (but closed since 2018?), Höllrigl 1598 in Salzburg, Orell Füssli 1519 in Zürich, Cambridge University Press (and store?) 1534.
Now some of these started as print shops, but often also sold books. Anyone know a text discussing Gu…

Trump keeps winning:
US embassy tells all Americans to leave Iraq immediately after Iran managed to hit its air defence system in Baghdad. Overland, because the country's airspace is closed.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/united-stat

U.S. Embassy Urges Americans To Leave Iraq
The U.S. embassy in Baghdad was struck by an overnight missile attack.

Multiple explosions reported across Russian-occupied Crimea, Crimean Bridge closed: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/041753.html

France is ditching American tech. When will Canada? - The Globe and Mail (@…)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-france-is-ditching-american-tech-when-will-canada/
Archive https://archive.ph/sBmHK
With gag orders you will find out when it is to late.
And us gouvernement is already using it's power to close foreign accounts at US companies.
From several ICJ judges the accounts at US companies are closed. No Microsoft, no banking.
And a little earlier closing the account of a Dutch bank with connection to Russia made it go bankrupt over night.

A rock store eventually closed down; they were taking too much for granite.

Campus is closed* but the Faculty Club is open. I suspect this gets close to many of my colleagues' idea of perfection: a university without students.
*due to snow

Robinhood launches an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1B closed-end fund to provide retail investors access to private markets, offering 40M shares at $25 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/ro…

:neocat_scream:

*UPDATE*
The Pattullo Bridge is permanently closed to vehicles; the sidewalk will remain open for cyclists and pedestrians until the morning of Feb. 17.
At 7 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, all four lanes will open on the stalΕəwΓasəm (Riverview) Bridge.
Visit:

Excellent analysis of the war with Iran. (Bluesky link)
#iran

Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social)
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

Pat Tillman’s Brother Pleads Guilty to Setting Post Office Fire https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/us/richard-tillman-post-office-fire.html

Open models will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-next-phase-of-open-models

What comes next with open models
Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.

My favorite #udon place in #Saitama has, apparently, closed and become just another #ramen place.
I feel like this is an metaphor for something...

El Paso airport closed for 10 days for unspecified “security reasons” at 11:30pm Tuesday. All flights canceled. 10 mile airspace around the airport also closed.
#FAA #ElPaso #ELP

F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days
No flights would be allowed to or from the airport for 10 days under a flight restriction order that cited unspecified “special security reasons.”

Sad to see #Digg laid off a lot of their team and closed their doors again. Kevin Rose is coming back, but it isn’t looking good for the return.

Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/17/robinhood-s-new-ventu…

Robinhood’s new venture fund just snapped up stakes in Stripe and ElevenLabs
The closed-end fund aims to give everyday investors exposure to private firms before they go public.

Closed-loop dual-channel atomic beam interferometry beyond the half-fringe limit
Wei-Chen Jia, Yue Xin, Ke Shen, Zhi-Xin Meng, Xiang-Xiang Lu, Yi-Cheng Deng, Yuan-Xing Liu, Yan-Ying Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14777

Donald Trump wondered if the U.S. “shouldn’t even be there”
when answering questions about the war on Iran on Sunday,
claiming that Iran’s military is already totally obliterated
as the U.S. and Israel’s bombardments enter their third week with no end in sight.
A reporter asked Trump on Sunday about his demands that other countries aid him in trying to force transit through the Strait of Hormuz while it’s closed by Iran.
In response, he said that other countries…

As US Slaughter Continues in Iran, Trump Opines: “Maybe We Shouldn’t Even Be There”
“We don’t need it. We have a lot of oil,” Trump said. “It’s almost like we do it for habit.”…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
Closed City:
🎵 Closed City
#ClosedCity
https://closedcity.bandcamp.com/track/closed-city

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Melody’s Echo Chamber:
🎵 Eyes Closed
#MelodysEchoChamber
https://melodysechochamber.bandcamp.com/track/eyes-closed
https://open.spotify.com/track/3E3UsYLAB7WkWfKzyxNY8X

"Digital Learning: Exploring Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use of Open Educational Resources"
#OpenIrony

I saw the article "Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs" pop up and it reminded me of the local bank in a small town near where I worked once upon a time. They went from the two employees taking their lunch in shifts to being closed from 11am to noon after they installed the ATM outside.

UMMC clinics remain closed Monday and Tuesday after cyberattack
https://www.wtva.com/news/ummc-clinics-remain-closed-monday-and-tuesday-after-cyberattack/article_170b9a2e-ba20-43aa-b084-b62f57114650.h…

Several US states celebrate armed defenders of #slavery with official holidays every year, including #Mississippi.
The #Republican majority there even prevents a

This morning, Discord released a survey about #AI. Only a few hours later, the survey suddenly closed. Judging by the responses shared publicly by users — the feedback was uniformly negative.
The question is: will Discord respect the results, or will the surveys continue until morale improves?
#userresearch

Food for thought:
“Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed—and why it matters.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08141-1
This compelling perspective shows how openness alone fails to challenge AI’s power concentration.
As r…

I for one do not welcome our upstart AI agent would-be overlords:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
Seriously, that issue should have just been closed instantly. Markov chains pretending to act like a sentient being and writing shit-posting character a…

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

Elizabeth K. Joseph will speak on 'Open Source in Closed Ecosystems' as part of our General track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

I closed the online shop today with the announcement: "Closed today in opposition to fascism."

Ghost in the friendly and interactive shell (fish):
I removed a `set -x VARNAME ...` line from my fish config.
Spawning a new shell still had that variable.
I ran `set -e VARNAME`. For the current shell, it's gone.
Spawning a new shell again, I got it back. What..?
Okay, so I closed _all the fish instances_.
And the damn env var came back *again*!?!
Looks like that's because it's my login shell.
A fresh login session no longer had it.

Sunbeams better than most humans, cat declares #caturday

«Wie sicher sind Apple-Geräte wirklich?
Apple-Geräte gelten als vergleichsweise sicher. Doch sind sie wirklich sicherer als Windows oder wiegen sich Nutzer nur in falscher Sicherheit?»
Apple ist doch auch nur eine Glaubensrichtung was unter anderem auf *BSD aufbaut. Es ist extrem Closed-Source und auch deswegen funktionieren ihr Versprechen auf Hoffnung.
🍎

Wie sicher sind Apple-Geräte wirklich?
Apple-Geräte gelten als vergleichsweise sicher. Doch sind sie wirklich sicherer als Windows oder wiegen sich Nutzer nur in falscher Sicherheit?

Urgent request in Minneapolis / St. Paul:
Do you have info about business impacts of ICE activity?
− UPDATE: Especially daycare closures! ←
For example:
- biz closed early last night?
- closed today?
- reduced hours today?
- staffing issues?
- significant loss of business?
A legal group is gathering info for some kind of urgent action today. If you have •personal• knowledge of any of these kinds of impacts, please reply or DM me and I will connect you.
“ASAP ASAP”, they say!

Paramount sweetens its WBD bid with a "ticking fee" worth ~$650M/quarter if the deal isn't closed by year-end and offers to fund WBD's $2.8B Netflix breakup fee (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/paramount-swee…

CBP shot down party balloons with anti-drone tech before FAA closed El Paso airspace, sources say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cbp-shot-party-balloons-anti-drone-tech-faa-closed-el-paso-airspace-so-rcna258731
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p73#a260212p73

Trump wins another award no one knew existed, this time as the 'undisputed champion' of claiming that coal is not destroying the planet
https:…

Pentagon reportedly gave Customs and Border Protection laser weapon that triggered El Paso airspace shutdown – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.

Gotta appreciate the economy of this portion of the latest legal challenge to the DOE's attempt to force the Craig, CO coal power plant to remain open after everyone agreed to close it, and still want it closed! https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/30/craig-tri-state-petit…

Every year hundreds of dedicated hackers put their heads together and ask themselves one question
"How are we going to do it bigger, and better, than last year?",
and every year they do. Join them!
Give us your craziest ideas, your fresh outlook, your passion.
This is the place you can find all of the open calls for DEF CON Content, so pick your poison and show us what you got!

Z.ai launches GLM-5-Turbo, a closed-source, faster, and cheaper variant of GLM-5 optimized for agent-driven workflows and OpenClaw-style tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/z-ai-debuts-faster-cheaper…

#Vancouver
City crews will be dismantling a large construction crane at the site of the Oakridge Park development and the street will be completely closed to drivers between West 41st and West 45th avenues from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Melody’s Echo Chamber:
🎵 Eyes Closed
#MelodysEchoChamber
https://melodysechochamber.bandcamp.com/track/eyes-closed
https://open.spotify.com/track/3E3UsYLAB7WkWfKzyxNY8X

The president used both days of the weekend to spend hours at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
He also attended a closed-door fundraiser for his MAGA Inc. super PAC at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Saturday night.
Last weekend, Trump played golf at another of his South Florida properties a day after witnessing the dignified transfer for six U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war. That death toll rosethis past week.
Trump is increasingly complaining about mediacoverage o…

US military air crew killed in crash included Alabama father and and several members from Ohio
The six U.S. service members who died in the crash of a U.S. military refueling aircraft included an Alabama father who had just been promoted and deployed. The U.S. government released the identities of the deceased service members Saturday. They include three assigned to the Ohio National Guard and three assigned to a Florida air base. The family of Birmingham, Alabama, pilot Alex Klinner confirms he was killed in the crash. The family says Klinner had recently been promoted to major and been…

Google completes acquisition of Wiz
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/wiz-acquisition/

Google completes acquisition of Wiz
Today, we announced we've closed the acquisition of Wiz.

This 100% works

Minneapolis Public Schools closed schools because they deemed it too dangerous for students to be there on Thu and Fri.
Tomorrow morning, students go back to school. My question: what’s changed? Is it not still dangerous?
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Fears about the global economic fallout from the war in Iran grew on Sunday
as the U.S. energy secretary acknowledged in a televised interview that there were
“no guarantees” that oil prices would fall in the coming weeks.
A day after President Trump called on other countries to send warships to the region to end the de facto Iranian blockade of the economically vital Strait of Hormuz,
foreign governments responded with caution— if at all

Iran War Live Updates: Israel Launches Strikes as Trump Urges World to Defend Strait of Hormuz
Iran has largely closed the Strait of Hormuz to America and its allies, but the president’s earlier call for more naval reinforcements has gained little traction. The U.S. energy secretary, Chris Wright, acknowledged energy prices could remain high.

The MAGA-led committee insisted on a closed-door testimony, despite #HillaryClinton asking to testify publicly.
#LaurenBoebert, jackass that she is, then hypocritically took photos of Hillary during the closed-door deposition & leaked them to a

2025 NFL MVP odds, scenarios: Has Drake Maye closed the gap on Matthew Stafford, and who else could win award?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nf<…

From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed southbound for one night
Closure needed for sign installation work on King George Boulevard
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed southbound into Surrey for one night, because of ongoing construction work for the stalΕəwΓasəm Bridge. The directional closure will take place overnight from 9 p.m. on Thursday, January 8 until 5 a.m. on Friday, January 9.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Melody’s Echo Chamber:
🎵 Eyes Closed
#MelodysEchoChamber
https://melodysechochamber.bandcamp.com/track/eyes-closed
https://open.spotify.com/track/3E3UsYLAB7WkWfKzyxNY8X

Kremlin pushes for closed-door Ukraine talks, says Alaska summit understandings are foundational: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/kremlin-pushes-for-closeddoor-ukraine.html

"Hope in the Library: How Libraries Can Help Shape Our Future with Artificial Intelligence"
https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765136201
[leider closed access und für "einfach mal bestellen" zu teuer. 🙄]

Iran extends airspace closure
Iran further extended an order closing its airspace to commercial aircraft without explanation early on Thursday.
A notice to pilots said the closure was estimated to last until 7.30am local time, the AP is reporting.
A previous order had closed the airspace for just over two hours.
The Iranian government offered no explanation of the decision to shut its airspace amid the tensions with Washington over Tehran’s protest crackdown.

Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub to shutter; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says the closed hub makes up ~33% of global Helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/iran-wa

Iran war could wreak havoc on farmers, create a potential 'bottleneck for the entire AI story'
It's not just the oil industry that has seen soaring prices. The cost of commodities like fertilizers and helium is also rising fast.

House Republicans release transcript and video of Jack Smith's closed-door testimony before Judiciary Committee (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jack-smith-closed-door-testimony-released-house-republicans-judiciary-rcna251732
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p68#a251231p68

Past administrations had been war-gaming an Iran invasion for decades
– but with Trump in the White House, observers said that the rigidly closed circle of advisers around him,
the collapse of an interagency process in the government
and his erratic decision-making process made this unlike any other US military campaign in recent memory.
Donald Trump’s back-of-the-envelope plan for regime change in Tehran ran into the reality of the largest US intervention in the Midd…

From Translink
Oakridge–41st Avenue Canada Line Station to close early for two months in next phase of upgrades
Station elevator closed until April 30 due to construction
#Vancouver #Transit
The Canada Line’s Oakridge–41st Avenue Station will be closing early at 11 p.m. from Sunday to Thur…

An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/world/a

At This Office Park, Scamming the World Was the Business
Times journalists got a rare look inside one of the compounds where the online fraud industry makes its billions. Inspirational slogans (“Keep going”) were just the start.

Trump threatens to
revoke citizenship
of naturalized immigrants
convicted of fraud
In a long winded speech today, Donald Trump threatened to
🔥“reverse citizenship of any naturalized immigrant from Somalia or anywhere else who is convicted of defrauding our citizens”.
He spent a portion of his remarks in Detroit today heaping invective on the Somali community throughout the country, particularly in

Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accountant, gives closed-door testimony to House Oversight Committee (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/richard-kahn-jeffrey-epstein-accountant-testimony-house-oversight-rcna263136
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p59#a260312p59

Federal Reserve Mounts Closed-Door Fight Against Justice Department Subpoenas (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/federal-reserve-mounts-closed-door-fight-against-justice-department-subpoenas-2ab66630?st=SU2ZMz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p4#a260227p4

Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/tencent-timi-montreal-closed

Tencent closes TiMi Montreal game studio
The game industry's contraction is unrelenting.

The S&P 500 fell 1.5 percent on Thursday, as concerns grew about oil prices rising amid the prolonged conflict in the Middle East.
The Stoxx 600, a Pan-European index, fell 0.6 percent.
Stocks in Asia, where countries import vast quantities of oil and gas, slumped broadly on Thursday. Major benchmark indexes in Japan closed just over 1 percent lower, while Taiwan fell about 1.5 percent. The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong fell a little less than 1 percent.

S&P 500 Slumps in Worst Day Since War Began
The stock index fell 1.5 percent on Thursday, as concerns continued to grow about oil prices rising amid the war in the Middle East.

Crypto accounting startup Cryptio raised a $45M Series B led by BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global and reports having 450 clients, including Circle (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/12/cryptio-series-b-fundraise-b…

Exclusive: Accounting startup Cryptio raises $45 million to help big firms keep track of digital assets
BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global led the Series B fundraise, which closed three weeks ago.

After Trump administration officials gave a closed-door briefing to lawmakers on Tuesday,
Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said on social media that the administration had “NO PLAN” for the Strait of Hormuz
and did “not know how to get it safely back open.”
Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war.
But they have been careful not to express that directly to the presiden…

How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War
In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.

Shortly after 10 a.m., the California Highway Patrol announced on X that #Highway101 is #closed from Winchester in Goleta to State Route 1
“due to debris flow and flooding for an unknown duration.”
#CHP advises motorists to u…

Flash Flood Warning Issued for Parts of Santa Barbara County as 101 Closes for ‘Unknown Duration’
Debris flow and flooding close Highway 101 in both directions through Goleta Saturday morning.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) barred flights on Thursday in an area around Fort Hancock, Texas,
after congressional aides told Reuters a military laser-based anti-drone system was believed to have accidentally shot down a US government drone.
The FAA and Pentagon did not immediately comment but the FAA cited “special security reasons” in its notice about the restrictions on the airspace near the Mexican border posted on its Notam alert system, shorthand for “Notice to…

Boltz, which is developing open frontier AI models for biomolecular research, raised a $28M seed led by Zetta, Amplify, and a16z at a valuation of $125M (Andrew Dunn/Endpoints News)
https://endpoints.news/exclusive-boltz-raises-28m-seed-to-build-ope…

Boltz raises $28M seed to build open AI models in biology
Boltz raises $28M seed round to develop open-source AI models for drug discovery, partners with Pfizer. Founded by MIT researchers after AlphaFold 3's closed release.

It has been an extraordinary 24 hours in global markets
Oil prices have tumbled back from the four-year highs they hit on Monday
after Donald Trump suggested the US-Israel war on Iran could end “very soon”.
This time yesterday, Brent crude, the international benchmark, surged beyond $100 per barrel for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022
– triggering stark sell-offs across leading Asian and European stock indices.
Wall Street also started t…

Gather AI, which builds "curious" AI for drones and cameras to autonomously monitor warehouses, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total funding to $74M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/gathe…

Gather AI, maker of ‘curious’ warehouse drones, lands $40M led by Keith Block’s firm  | TechCrunch
Gather AI has closed funding from former Salesforce CEO's firm Smith Point Capital. Its warehouse AI system doesn't just scan. It seeks out specific data.

Alphabet surpassed Apple in market cap for the first time since 2019 after its shares closed up 2.5% on Wednesday, valuing it at $3.89T vs. Apple's $3.85T (Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/alphabet-

Thousands of public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday,
the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years.
The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages,
health benefits and more resources for special needs students.
The San FranciscoUnified School District closed all its 120 schools
and said it would offer independent study to some of the district’s 50,000 students.

US tech stocks and bitcoin rally after three days of selling; Nasdaq Composite closed up 2.18%, Broadcom 7.22%, Strategy 26.11%, and bitcoin rebounded to ~$70K (Emily Herbert/Financial Times)