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The New York Times reported that
Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses.
According to an internal Meta document,
the company may launch the product
“during a dynamic political environment
where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us
would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
This is a bad idea that Meta should abandon.
If adopted and released to the public,
it would …

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead’s mardi gras ball in oakland. the neville bros. open & play with the dead for the 1st time, chaotic but fun jams, & the beginning of their association for next few years. also: the dead show attended by joseph campbell.
soundboard: https://

John F. Burns, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times foreign correspondent who reported from South Africa, Iraq, and other bureaus, dies at 81 (Alan Cowell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/world/j

John F. Burns, Prize-winning Foreign Correspondent for The Times, Dies at 81
In a 40-year career that brought him two Pulitzers, he reported from trouble spots around the world, eloquently conveying the chaos of war.

This awful person terrorized my entire elementary school and well-beyond when he escaped from our local hospital almost 37 years ago.
Hadn't thought of him in a long time, but knew exactly who they were talking about when I heard “the monster of the Miramichi is dead" in audio news, today. I doubt he'll be missed by very many people at all.

Notorious Miramichi serial killer Allan Legere dead at 78 | CBC News
Miramichi serial killer Allan Legere, who terrorized the Miramichi for six months in 1989, has died at the age of 78.

Jeff Siemon, four-time Pro Bowl linebacker with Vikings, dead at 75 https://www.nfl.com/news/jeff-siemon-four-time-pro-bowl-linebacker-with-vikings-dead-at-75

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Dead Can Dance:
🎵 A Passage in Time
#DeadCanDance
https://voltakband.bandcamp.com/track/a-passage-in-time-dead-can-dance-cover

A TIME COMES IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU FINALLY GET IT . WHEN IN THE MIDST OF ALL
YOUR FEARS AND INSANITY YOU STOP DEAD IN YOUR TRACKS AND SOMEWHERE,THE VOICE
INSIDE YOUR HEAD CRIES OUT - ENOUGH! ENOUGH FIGHTING AND CRYING, OR
STRUGGLING TO HOLD ON. AND, LIKE A CHILD QUIETING DOWN AFTER A BLIND
TANTRUM, YOUR SOBS BEGIN TO SUBSIDE, YOU SHUDDER ONCE OR TWICE, YOU BLINK
BACK YOUR TEARS AND THROUGH A MANTLE OF WET LASHES, YOU BEGIN TO LOOK AT THE
WORLD THROUGH NEW EYES.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

"And so I check, from time to time, whether the leading AI models can do me better than I can. The result sounds like a version of me that has sustained blunt force trauma to the back of the head and spent years recovering in a hospital where the Wi-Fi, for whatever reason, only lets you log onto LinkedIn. I won’t repost the prose here because it’s not even bad enough to be interesting, and because you’ve already seen it all over the internet...
"

Infinite midwit
OR: if we were playing by Settlers of Catan rules, I'd be dead already

The anonymous Zionist hasbara meme poster has created at least two new accounts on two servers (ban evasion) to continue their reply and block harassment.
⁃ @avidity@qlub.social
⁃ @hedgerows@101010.pl
Please report block. #fediblock
(No one is pro the Iranian regime here but neither are we pro-American/Israeli aggression. “Antizionism” is being anti settler colonialism…

Vikings three-time All-Pro DB Joey Browner dead at 65 https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-three-time-all-pro-db-joey-browner-dead-at-65

Let’s say you’re diagnosed with a terminal illness, and your doctor gives you a time frame:
five years, two years, six months to live.
What would you do next?
Perhaps you get your affairs in order,
spend as much time as you can with loved ones,
or tackle a bucket list (as your health permits).
What happens, then, when the estimated end date comes and goes?
Bruce Deachman speaks with people who have experienced exactly this:
people who are …

dead freaks: rosie mcgee launched a newsletter & is posting 60th anniversary stories. around this time in 1966, she moved in with the band in los angeles, where they'd relocated with owsley. https://therealrosiemcgee.substack.com/p/storytime-for-deadheads-m…

Storytime for Deadheads: My Grateful Dead Stories - March 2, 1966
"60 Years Ago Today" blog posts here all this year, the year I first lived with the Dead. TODAY'S POST - March 2, 2026: The continuing narrative on living in L.A. with Phil, the Dead, and Owsley.

Raiders DE Maxx Crosby flew to Baltimore but the deal was already dead https://raiderramble.com/2026/03/24/raiders-de-maxx-crosby-flew-to-baltimore-but-the-deal-was-already-dead/

"I'll start using escalators when I'm dead", thought JM as he climbed the stairs painfully, two steps at a time. "This pain is nothing compared to the annoyance of a slow escalator filled with people."

This is the story of my whole life. Aside from my wives and kids of course.
And in writing this I came to realize that other than a scattering of travel alone (work, dead relatives, eclipse chase) I have not done the “in public alone, not lonely” thing very much for a long time. Odd that it seems so familiar still. Now I really miss it…
ht…

Decided to knock off for the night after I dead shorted the 305Ah 72V lithium house battery for the second time. I think I'm sundowning. Or possibly tired. Either way...!

Potentially my most heretical musical opinion: The Grateful Dead studio recordings are just better, especially without an altered sense of time. Also, and I’m not sure if this is related, it is some of the best house cleaning music ever recorded. #music #gratefuldead

I gave my kids my power bank ONCE (1 time) when their tablet was dead.
They haven't charged their tablet since, because now they assume I will charge the power bank in the meantime and the whole problem is happily no longer theirs.
I'm sure there's a general lesson in there but there's a definite lesson in the giant, adamantine cheek of my kids.

Sonnet 106 - CVI
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;…

Nighttime Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia – 4 dead, 6 wounded #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/nighttime-russian-strike-on-zaporizhzhia.html

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make,
It gives a chap the belly-ache.
The cow, the old cow, she is dead;
It sleeps well the horned head:
We poor lads, 'tis our turn now
To hear such tunes as killed the cow.
Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time.

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: No, but they weren't planning on coming back. All the instruments are set for landing. There's nothing for take off.
BLAKE: There'd be no point in going back. The world they left would be dead years ago.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/234

A terrible rail tragedy near Cordoba. At least 39 dead.
We won't know the causes for weeks yet. However, it's a reminder that all risks do increase with speed. The derailment of the first train, into the path of the second, seems to have happened very shortly before arrival of the second, with no time for even the most sophisticated system to stop it.

Emotionally brutal poem. Don't read it if you are feeling fragile today.

Taking up all the remaining oxygen in the room right now is AI hype,
exemplified by Jared Kaplan, who is quoted in this article:
-- ⭐️ --
"I spoke to Jared Kaplan, co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude.
He was a physicist the last time we spoke.
As a grad student at Harvard in the 2000s, he worked with the renowned theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed to open up the new directions in amplitude research that are being actively pursued today.

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Without intending to do so, the orange shit bag gave us a gift today. Worried about how you might be criticized for your post about a certain special person’s death? Save this message as the template you can use. If you follow this wording exactly, not a single soul can object to your message.
#POTUS47

Rosie McGee,
handcuffed to Bob Weir, front,
with other members of the 710 Ashbury collective being led out of the house after being arrested by police following a drug raid on the famous Grateful Dead house in Haight Ashbury on OCTOBER 2, 1967.
"By the time a paddy wagon arrived to take us down to the Hall of Justice, a crowd had gathered across the street.
Bob Weir and I were handcuffed together and as we came down the stairs, the crowd cheered.
A broad…