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2026 NFL Power Rankings: Way-Too-Early Look At How Every Team Stacks Up https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-power-rankings-way-too-early-look-how-every-team-stacks-up

2026 NFL Power Rankings: Way-Too-Early Look At How Every Team Stacks Up https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-power-rankings-way-too-early-look-how-every-team-stacks-up

A look at the OpenClaw craze in China: AI labs launch tools to help users set up OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts policies to support AI agents, and more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-09/china-s…

Cuteness singularity

I must need to look up the definition of a "good deal."
Go home #discogs, you're drunk.
#vinyl #music

Willem challenged us to ask ourselves what we would do if we were living under Nazi occupation. Before all of this, I doubt anyone thought they would be complicit. I doubt anyone said to themselves, "nothing. I would cower in fear and do nothing."
But for 4 years or so we all answered that question again and again with our lives. Now here we are, answering it again... Every day. But it's no longer "what would you do during the rise of Hitler?" It's now, "what would you do after the invasion of Poland," and "what would you do after you knew about the concentration camps?"
For some people, the answer is still, "nothing."
But a lot of people have been brave in the face of it all. A lot of people have died, and a lot more will die. He will die, perhaps after a ruling by some court or other but, honestly, probably not. That's just how these things work out. Lots of people die, some for no reason, some because they stood up against injustice. A whole lot of people do nothing, until it's safe to claim victory... Until it's no longer safe to be on the other side.
That's just how these things go. Fascism is self-defeating, but it causes incredible harm on it's path of self-destruction. The more people who stand up, who risk themselves, the faster it collapses and the fewer it can hurt. That's also just how these things go. It's incredibly dangerous for everyone until enough people take some extra risk and make it safe for everyone again.
But that question still stands... Which one of those groups are you in? Are you proud of what you are doing, or will you look back with shame? Some of y'all have a lot to be proud of, but, if you're not, it's never too late to earn your way into that proud group.

from my link log —
1SubML: plan vs reality.
https://blog.polybdenum.com/2026/04/05/1subml-plan-vs-reality.html
saved 2026-04-08 htt…

When asking someone to do something it's important to be clear about everything you are asking them to do, and when you are asking them to do it, up front.
Increasingly I'm asked to do something, I look at my schedule and other commitments and agree to the ask, and then weeks later am informed that "as part of X (what I agreed to) everyone is expected to do Y (something time consuming that wasn't mentioned before)" or "we need you to provide X (something necessary the day of the event) a week in advance (when there was no indication of this early deadline at the initial ask)".
This means that the calculations someone made regarding whether they could participate are based an incomplete understanding of what is required. That's not fair and it either results in forcing the participant to deprioritize something else or makes them push back on something they never agreed to and potentially withdraw.

X really twisted us to think that followers and engagement mean something. More people look at posts without interacting on these new social media platforms. We aren’t chasing an algorithm for engagement. Don’t give up.

I open Apple Notes to look for my notes earlier today and **surprise**, it is not showing up.
I'm kidding. There is absolutely NO SURPRISE that #Apple does NOT know, they absolutely do NOT know, how to implement push sync.
But we can continue to have huge expectations for #Apple AI.

I adjusted my position on the bed ever so slightly and she became sabotabby

"Nurseries backed by private equity have sprouted up across the UK over the last five years, taking over independent businesses and merging them into gigantic chains. To an outside eye, many of these look the same as before, but they report profits that are as much as seven times greater than the surplus made by non-profit nurseries, spend up to 14% less on staff, and have far higher rates of staff turnover than nurseries run from schools."

[The quote is from the book _The Country Between Us_ by Carolyn Forché. It is some of the most powerful and gut-wrenching poetry I’ve ever read, and the book still burns like a hot coal in my hands when I hold it. The book is among other things the origin of my handle, “in the hands.” Don’t look up that quote; look up the book. Read it slowly. You’ll know the quotes when you find them.]

Why does Canada’s $20 bill look like it has a scene from a horror flick on it?

php -S localhost:8000 -t .
HOLY CRAP!?! How have I never known that PHP has a built-in web server for development? How long has this been thing? (Rhetorical question as I'm about to look it up, just stating for emphasis on my surprise to have just found this option.)
#PHP

A look at local news outlets including The 51st, City Cast, and The Baltimore Banner expanding in Washington, D.C. to help fill a void created by WaPo layoffs (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with-was

With Washington Post Local diminished, other news sites step up their D.C. coverage
The 51st, City Cast, and The Baltimore Banner are among the outlets to announce expansions of Washington, D.C. metro area coverage since the Post layoffs.

Oh look, my new wallpaper just dropped https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009287

Look, I’m not saying I’m open to being kidnapped by aliens at this point if it means getting off this planet. All I’m saying is I wouldn’t put up a fight were it to happen.
*winks in the general direction of Alpha Centauri*

Cloudflare is preventing me from logging into a customer’s WordPress that they horked up. Apparently I look like a bot.
#Sysadminnery

😱
I had to look up "Langley HWDC" first to make sure that this isn't a veiled threat by the CIA.

I'm #hiring again and I really do wish people would look me up more before they applied. I'm not going to be impressed with your #google workplace skills, or your use of #canva, or any

Imagine having had opinions about many things in the past and now all you do is post about how great AI is.
Many such cases among software peeps I used to look up to.

Kinda' amazing that you can type this in and get a full, good (yes, I checked) summary of all the goings-on, far better than anything I can find in my (US) newspapers.

Many of Stockholm's thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up, amid growing US interest in Swedish AI startups Lovable and Legora (Orlando Crowcroft/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cb371b43-d5af-4666-a9f5-28ec3e00ea63

Sweden’s AI start-ups capture growing US interest
Many of Stockholm’s thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up

There was a time when creating massive amounts of code would have been valuable. There was a time when lowering the bar for creating software would have been beneficial. But today we are inundated with garbage apps, written too quickly and never maintained, half-working libraries, projects someone took up once and abandoned (I have several), and grift startups just waiting to be acquired and "fixed."
#LLM code generation is a pestilence. We don't need more code owned by people who know less, we need less code managed by people who know more. It's literally the opposite of everything we want. Oh, but it will be easier for infosec to find bugs so it's fine, right? I've found critical bugs that never get fixed (I think one of mine is like 7 years old now).
There are a lot of bugs that just can't be fixed because there are no systems to fix them. Go on Shodan and look for ATGs. There are thousands of them. I'm betting that most of those are not honeypots. It may be possible to blow up a bunch of gas stations with a for loop, but, yeah, we need #AI to find some more bugs.
https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/fuel-tank-monitoring-systems-vulnerable-disruption

"Grasslands and Wetlands Are Being Gobbled Up By Agriculture, Mostly Livestock"
#Agriculture #Wetlands #Environment

Grasslands and Wetlands Are Being Gobbled Up By Agriculture, Mostly Livestock - Inside Climate News
A new study takes a first-of-its kind look at how farming converts non-forested areas and major carbon sinks into cropland and pasture.

We are at war.
Gas prices are climbing above $5 per gallon across much of the country.
The political apparatus of the country is rife with division, infighting, and bureaucratic chaos that threatens to further upset 250 years of historical precedent. 
But look at Marco Rubio over there, getting his groove on.
DJ at a wedding! What a lovely time.
The secretary of state was pictured this weekend behind the turntables at a family wedding queuing up Calvin Harris’ …

Trump and His Cronies Are Partying as the World Burns
Donald Trump hosted a golf tournament at his private club and Marco Rubio played music and fist-pumped over the weekend amid the Iran war.

How well do your Congressional representatives align with the ACLU? They have a neat little summary:
#uspol

ACLU Congressional Scorecards
Find out if each member of the 119th Congress voted in line with ACLU positions and learn more about some of the bills that impact our civil liberties. Look up your elected officials by state or street address.

No se si visteis esto. Lo que estš haciendo gente para poder programar y que en la empresa piensen que estš usando un agente de loroestocšstico https://danq.me/2026/03/03/ai-agent-logging/

Primaries are tomorrow, #Tennessee!
(Please don’t DM me if your voter registration is messed up, images are from a third-party social post)
#TN #Vote

#caturday

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116332667717903322
I really think that we _are_ starting to build those tools. I'm party to a lot of discussions about how to use these tools well, and a lot of that starts to look like systems design: what are controls? What are the feedback loops? Where do we need to add new frictions? Where do we need to eliminate old bottlenecks?
We are still very, _very_ early in this.
But the work is getting done, and a lot of us 'haters' need to get in the drivers seat and start putting up useful critique like mttaggart's. I don't agree with the entire article, but it's solid work and solid case report. It’s very good stuff. We need a lot more of these conversations.
And we need to let people hate it. Not to be confused with obstinate blocking, but to have the feelings of hating it, of disliking the processes it engenders, of finding those new footings — or rejecting the bad ones. We can't look at this clearly unless we have the space to hate it.

We can save the internet by going back our roots*
*cat memes

A look at SpaceX's IPO, reportedly aiming to raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation, more than seven times higher than its ~$200B valuation in October 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5bf1fe0c-1593-49b7-aaf1-18e7da9b36ed

SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs
Can Elon Musk’s moonshot deliver the mooted $1.75tn valuation?

Lviv, look it up on the map, really close. Russia keeps targeting pure civilian , not military targets....
#Ukraine #Russia #Lviv
From Bluesky:

Erik Jonker (@erikjonker.bsky.social)
Lviv, look it up on the map, really close. Russia keeps targeting pure civilian , not military targets.... #Ukraine #Russia #Lviv [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Best message I received today:
“I just had a look at the website, and it’s up and running. In the middle of the night!!”
(punctuation as it appears in the original message)
I can haz vacation please?

How local rules generate emergent structure in cellular automata
Manuel Pita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00273 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.00273 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.00273
arXiv:2604.00273v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cellular automata generate spatially extended, temporally persistent emergent structures from local update rules. No general method derives the mechanisms of that generation from the rule itself; existing tools reconstruct structure from observed dynamics. This paper shows that the look-up table contains a readable causal architecture and introduces a forward model to extract it. The key observation in elementary cellular automata (ECA) is that adjacent cells share input positions, so the prime implicants of neighbouring transitions overlap. That overlap can couple the transitions causally or leave them independent. We formalize each pairwise interaction as a tile. A finite-state, tiling transducer, $\mathcal{T}$, composes tiles across the CA lattice, tracking how coupling and independence propagate from one cell pair to the next. Structural properties of $\mathcal{T}$ are used to classify ECA rules that can sustain regions of causal independence across space and time. We find that, in the 88 ECA equivalence classes, the number of local configurations at which coupling is structurally impossible -- computable from the look-up table -- predicts the prevalence of dynamically decoupled regions with Spearman $\rho = 0.89$ ($p < 10^{-31}$). The look-up table encodes not just what a rule computes but where it distributes causal coupling across the lattice; the framework reads that distribution forward, from local logical redundancy to emergent mesoscopic organization.
toXiv_bot_toot

Been up cleaning at Room 23 and returning library books so I took a good look at this bookshelf
#photo #photography #bookshelf

Another very cool Artemis launch photo.
https://x.com/erikkuna/status/2040052781591974318?s=20

Erik Kuna 🚀 (@erikkuna) on X
Here’s another behind-the-scenes look into remote camera setups for launches like Artemis-II. I set this camera up days before launch about 1,200 feet from the rocket. Locked the composition, dialed in my settings, walked away, and hoped for the best. That's how pad remotes work.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Stars:
🎵 Look Up
#Stars
https://rmmsc.bandcamp.com/track/even-stars-look-up

Pontus and some other members tidied up in our electronics corner yesterday. Just look how much usable space there is now! We never had so few boxes standing around in our L-room! <3
#hackerspace #electronics

Next Man Up: What does a fully healthy Shavon Revel Jr. look like? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/next-man-up-what-does-a-fully-healthy-shavon-revel-jr-look-like

Whenever people in a music video are lip-syncing their song while moving in slowmotion this is filmed by having a sped-up song on set for people to sing along to. Slowing down the video by the right amount makes everything look epic. So jump into this audiovisual masterpiece at 0:50 or 3:20, switch to 1.5x speed and imagine being on that set while a kid just walks around rapping to that sped-up song 😁

Keeping the #qemu issue tracker under control involves regularly triaging the reports and labelling them so they can (hopefully) be routed to a developer who can look deeper. We have had an up-tick in submissions recently so I've experimented with an #agentskill to off-load some of the more rout…

Electronic accordionist Grayssoker just posted a tune “1312” which I had to look up and found it’s a corollary to ACAB
There’s a ton of heavy mostly Eastern European hip-hop songs of the same title with dudes rapping in black masks, harshly flipping off cops and stuff
I don’t know if it’s a cover of one of those or what
From @…
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Project Hail Mary is the opposite of Don't Look Up. And both are great movies.

Set the Unsettled 🧘
尘埃落定 🧘
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

When Meta released its new AI-enhanced smart glasses last October, many minds travelled back to Google Glass, the search giant’s abortive venture into the same territory a decade previously. A lot has changed in 10 years.
https://www.computing.co.…

When AI goes hands-free: The rise of smart glasses and humanoid robots
In the fourth part of our coverage of IT trends in 2026, we look at the return of smart glasses and the rise of humanoid ...

What many people don't know is that my name actually means
"Support Lady Judge of God". For real. You can look it up.

Bliss. #CatsOfMastodon #cats

Did you miss our pop-up exhibition developed by Katelyn Stauffer’s spring 2026 class POLS 4575H: Women in US Politics? You can now experience “Pretty Politics: Women as Symbols, Women as Subjects” on our website, preserving the work of these students and finding new ways to look at our collection.
https…

I think you'll find we've always been at war with Eurasia, actually. Look it up.

A look at Munich's UnternehmerTUM, which tops the FT ranking of Europe's startup hubs for a third straight year and has supported 1,000 companies since 2002 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/50a5cb4d-d27a-402e-b1e1-b9be0002ebc8

UnternehmerTUM: Munich hub has winning formula for entrepreneurs
Centre tops the FT’s ranking of Europe’s leading start-up hubs for the third time

perl grep is very handy, but it's a bit vintage... I finally bothered to look up if ripgrep can replace it, and it can!
perl -nl -e ‘/blah(stuff.*)/ && print $1’
rg ‘blah(stuff.*)' -or '$1’

Just looked at my sisters car, the check engine light came on. My stupid ODB2 reader still works, even though it came with a Windows XP disk for a manual. The error code was P0420 which I think is just a "your car has 100k miles and will have this problem now" kinda thing. I got cold outside so we are making plans to look more later and figure out if its a sensor or the catalytic converter. Either way, P0420 exhaust code still cracks me up. Someone HAD to do that on purpose.

I really don't want to know what the cheeto said last night but I should probably look it up.

"En el caso de las izquierdas, hay algunas izquierdas que cuando se trata de Cuba miran para otro lado sin entender que Cuba tiene muchas funciones en la batalla cultural de las izquierdas del hemisferio occidental."
"In the case of the left, there are certain left sections that, when Cuba comes up, look the other way, without understanding that Cuba has multiple functions in the cultural battle of the Western hemisphere left."
Iramis R. Cšrdenas:

Iramis R. Cárdenas: “Cuba podría negociar reformas económicas, pero no cambios políticos bajo presiones”
En un contexto de bloqueo energético asfixiante, este investigador del Instituto de Filosofía de Cuba y profesor de la Universidad de la Habana, aporta algunas claves para dilucidar el futuro más cercano de la isla.

Since it looks like it might be a while until the Steam Machines are released, due to market bullshit around AI malinvestment and the subsequent price of RAM, I gave up waiting and Installed Jellyfin on a temporary machine.
Jellyfin is pretty nice. I like the sync-play feature so the machines in the kitchen and bedroom and studio can all be playing the same thing. Walking between rooms and detecting which is slightly ahead, makes me smile. Watching a TV show as I cook and being able to wonder around the flat viewing uninterupted.
A bit flakey with video though. Sync failure means they all pause sometimes. Might just be the wifi signal strength I guess.
Ripped all the old archive folders of DVDs and CDs. DVDs have a quite high failure rate after fifteen years in a cupboard eh? CDs faired better.
Expect I'll buy charity shop DVDs more now. Though also expecting half of 'em won't work.
I'm listening to music a bit more now I have a one button shuffle that triggers everywhere in the flat.
I set up a ytdl-sub to copy a few youtube playlists into the TV shows folders. Keeping like the last month's worth. Some shows, like the Dust sci-fi channel say, work really well as being part of the synced TV system instead.
Also made it slurp up all my old youtube videos into a folder too, so yet another local copy of everything I made, in there with all the other ripped shows.
I have spent far too long this month fussing with directory structures and tweeking icon images and things to make it look all pretty. Enjoy that sort of thing though.
#jellyfin #music #dvd

Set up a fourth CI builder instance running the freshly released Ubuntu Resolute / 26.04. I might eventually put a GPU on it, but for the moment it's using llvmpipe (I do want to run some tests without a GPU just to make sure that config works).
Temps were acceptable, but on the warm side, maxing out just under 80C CPU temp. Interestingly the DIMMs and VRMs on one side are much hotter than the others. I need to go back and look at the motherboard diagram, perhaps I could do some 3D…

@… Great write-up, very informative. I'll have a closer look at that Odroid, looks an impressive little powerhouse!

Good morning and happy Monday, lovely people of the internet. 🌤☕🥳
Just remember that today is also a new day to look to the future with hope. (Or something like that.)
#DavidLynch #meme #funny …

You know you're an Internet old timer if you remember Gene Ray, self described "Cubic and Wisest Human"
That's right, the infamous Time Cube! Look it up and try to comprehend such simple math with your oneist brain noobs :-)

What's up with Altitude Sports? Half the models in their webshop look like they had a first class embalming.

#TidalDisruptionEvents with SPH-EXA - Resolving the Return of the Stream: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae4748 -> How Black Holes Light Up the Dark: https://artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/physics/news/how-black-holes-light-up-the-dark/ - new hydrodynamical simulations explain how tidally destroyed stars reveal hidden supermassive black holes and why no two of these cosmic collisions look the same.

RE: #ACAB

Think about how expensive Uber has become. Now look at this chart (sorry; borrowed it from Reddit; assuming it’s not completely wrong), and draw the simplest conclusion about how much this LLM stuff is going to cost when you’re not getting a handout to subsidize it.
Heck, if a straight line is too hard for you, just ask the LLM.

Next Man Up: What does a fully healthy Shavon Revel Jr. look like? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/next-man-up-what-does-a-fully-healthy-shavon-revel-jr-look-like

So, look. I get why Tim Horton's has used this name for their promotion ("Timbits" are their name for doughnut holes, for those not familiar) and I really want the mission to be a success, but I don't want to be the guy who thought it up if things go pear-shaped. Space is hard.

look at all those over-fed over beered-up "tourists"

there's a line the art heavily employing cultural appropriation, no matter how problematic or otherwise it really is, can sometimes approach where the various shades of intercultural mixture, inadverdent or otherwise, ends up resonating with me more than otherwise simply because look at me. look at who i am. look what happened to me.

This the first morning it has been clear at sunrise since the equinox, and so I have discovered I have a bathroom-henge (new house). The sun lines up nearly perfectly with the door, a fixture, and a hook. I look forward to find out if it’s exact at the next equinox.

I wonder if the folks who are like "Hey look! I built an app with AI!" understand what supporting an application and supporting customers/users of an application is like.
I fear it's similar people who adopt a cute puppy and then later it sinks in that they'll need to care for a dog over its entire lifetime.
Of course some people just give up on their adopted puppy and surrender them. How many applications will be abandon-ware within a year or two?

Someone wrote a viral article claiming that Claude installs Spyware on your computer. The technical observation is real, but the threat is not. I took a closer look, and I would argue that the real issue with the Claude extension is somewhere else entirely, and I've seen little discussion on it: Matt Hand at Origin found that the extension actually allows almost *any* software on your machine to control your browser.
I wrote it up as an example for how threat modeling can be helpfu…

from my link log —
Reduced the size of Golang binaries by up to 77%.
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/agent-go-binaries/
saved 2026-02-24

How we reduced the size of our Agent Go binaries by up to 77% | Datadog
Get an inside look at shrinking large Go binaries in the Datadog Agent through dependency and linker analysis.

…sometimes there’s •not• a clear standard way. Sometimes you need flexibility. For example, a lot of what makes UI programming hard is layout: you have to make your own very specific application look good on a variety of devices and screens, which means coming up with an •algorithm• for adjusting your design for all those different contexts.
That’s an intrinsically hard problem that requires design chops and nuance and contextual knowledge. Attempts to abstract the decisions out of that problem have been stubbornly unsuccessful. (How many layout engines are out there now?)

A look at the AP's shift into video to generate DTC revenue; a source says US papers make up under 10% of its overall revenue and non-media clients are growing (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/associated-press-launc…

The Associated Press, With Long Ties to Print, Ramps Up Video Shows
The Associated Press, With Long Ties to Print, Ramps Up Live-Streamed Video Shows

2026 NFL Draft Odds: Who Will Make Up the Top 15 Picks? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-draft-odds-who-will-make-up-top-15-picks

Exclusive: Josh Butler Gets Real on Cowboys’ New-Look Defense https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/josh-butler-gets-real-new-look-defense/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116228011824152549
The Hague does not apply to the United States. Why? Because “we will fuck you up, that’s why” (aka Hague Invasion Act, look it up)

Do you want to look up a Swiss train connection directly on your terminal, no browser needed?
Necrom4 has written a TUI for SBB
#bahnbubble

So, look. I get why Tim Horton's has used this name for their promotion ("Timbits" are their name for doughnut holes, for those not familiar) and I really want the mission to be a success, but I don't want to be the guy who thought it up if things go pear-shaped. Space is hard.

Saints rumor puts 8-time Pro Bowler in play for Cowboys, Eagles and Lions in free agency https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/detroit-lions/news/saints-rumor-8-time-pro-bowler-cowboys-eagles-lions-free-a…

Should we really say that Trump and ICE are holding people in “concentration camps”?
Yes !
— because it’s both true and strategic.
It’s true because that's what they are,
as Andrea Pitzer explained in our recent conversation:
a place where people are held without due process after being rounded up based solely on what they look like and where they come from.
It’s strategic because it signals that this is an extreme circumstance that demands an urgent…

So I’m using Facebook marketplace occasionally to look for interesting local stuff (e.g. retrocomputing), and this means I occasionally see the main timeline Facebook serves up for me.
It’s literally ONLY right-wing shit like anti-vaxx stuff, racism about brown people and videos with real or simulated violence.
To call it a cesspit would be unfair to actual cesspits.
How are we as society not making an end to this garbage?

RE: #StreetMedics. I've been writing a lot about my own trauma, so it kind of fits with the theme of my current work.
I'd love to read stuff from street medics writing about their trauma, either in the form of fiction or non-fiction, just to start to wrap my head around what such a game could look like.
Also... folks should generally just have an idea of how fucked up shit can get and why street medics are often super traumatized and we should be making that as visible as possible.

I must go, #Caturday needs me

A look at Tony Dokoupil's tenure, with tumbling ratings and his kid-glove questioning of the powerful, as he became the face of the Weiss revolution at CBS News (Aidan McLaughlin/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/tony-dokoupil

Tony Dokoupil Is the Face of the Bari Weiss Revolution at CBS News. Will He Survive It?
With tumbling ratings and savage reviews, the hospital-drama-handsome anchor has hit a rough patch after a meteoric rise at CBS. Insiders are questioning whether he’s up for the job—and panicking at the show’s coziness with the Trump administration. Through it all, Dokoupil has come to represent the Weiss era.

Jalen Thompson: Cowboys new-look defense 'ready to step it up' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jalen-thompson-cowboys-new-look-defense-ready-to-step-it-up

GovAI and Brookings: many of the people most at risk if AI transforms work are also the best placed to find new jobs, as researchers disagree over AI's impact (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/jobs-mo…

Social Security COLA Increases Suddenly Look a Whole Lot Higher
“March’s 3.3% year-over-year inflation rate, up from 2.4% in February, could translate into a
Cost Of Living Adjustment of
3.2% for 2026,
according to Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security and Medicare policy analyst who calculates the projection.
Back in January, she had pegged the increase at just 1.2%.”

Social Security COLA Increases Suddenly Look a Whole Lot Higher — Barron’s
Higher gas prices drove the uptick in the projected cost-of-living adjustment.

Cowboys to Hold Private Workout for Sleeper Draft Prospect https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/andre-fuller-private-workout-sleeper-draft-prospect/

A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling (Jane Ruffino/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/say-goodbye-to-the-undersea-cable-t…

Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

Things like the #NoKings protests may feel like they're not enough, but they can be useful for building that network. Asking neighbors if they're going can help open up conversations, can lead to more conversations, can provide openings to find ways to escalate resistance, and can let you build what you need to feel safe going hard if you realize it's time.
Protests directly against facilities and other direct actions are small escalations that let you build trust and understand your network. If you want to know where you need to be, look at Twin Cities. That is the type of response that makes the machine grind to halt.
Make that happen everywhere and more escalation may not be necessary. And, if it is necessary to escalate more, that level of community organizing makes all other forms of escalation sustainable.

3 Running Backs Cowboys Should Target In Trade To Upgrade RB2 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/3-running-backs-cowboys-should-target-in-trade-to-upgrade-rb2

A look at Andrej Karpathy's "autoresearch" experiment, where an AI agent runs in a loop iterating and evaluating on training code to optimize a model (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/17/andrej-karpathy-loop-autonomous-ai-agents-…

‘The Karpathy Loop’: Former OpenAI researcher’s autonomous agents ran 700 experiments in 2 days—and gave a glimpse of where AI is heading
The former OpenAI and Tesla AI researcher's 'autoresearch' technique could be used by AI labs to speed up breakthroughs.

Buyers’ market: Stage is set for Cowboys to move up in 2026 NFL draft https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/14/buyers-market-cowboys-trade-up-2026-nfl-draft/89596525007/

A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technol

More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.
At a number of companies, employees compete on leaderboards to show how much A.I. they’re using. They’re racking up big bills along the way.

Cowboys assign UDFA jersey numbers; recycle Kneeland's No. 94 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/02/cowboys-udfa-jersey-numbers-marshawn-kneeland-no-94/89907485007/…

A look at MGX, Abu Dhabi's AI investment vehicle with stakes in Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI; the firm plans to spend up to $10B annually over the next few years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/op…