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'The United States is now a hostile and potentially predatory nation’, says conservative historian
Robert Kagan
In a new column in The Atlantic, Robert Kagan writes that Donald Trump "managed in one year to destroy the American order "
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/tv/vi…

‘The United States is now a hostile and potentially predatory nation’, says conservative historian | CNN
In a new column in The Atlantic, Robert Kagan writes that Donald Trump “managed in one year to destroy the American order that was.”

Iran has Ayatollahs .. be have far, far worse Ayatollahs here in the USA...
"The New Faces of Christian Nationalism"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letter-from-the-southwest/the-new-faces-of-christian-nationalism

The New Faces of Christian Nationalism
Trump has hollowed out the Johnson Amendment, which prohibited churches from endorsing candidates. Mercy Culture, in Fort Worth, has sprung into action. Rachel Monroe writes.

Finished reading “Erasure” by Percival Everett.
“Monk”, a largely overlooked black academic author, rages at the publishing industry & writes a deliberately offensive ghetto-lit parody. They love it, offering serious money. Satire collides with financial necessity.
A savage rebuke of publishing industry racism paired with genuinely moving dementia subplot. Uneven but provocative - raises uncomfortable questions about authenticity and selling out.
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Erasure
Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to def…

https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities, and preached master-race science
Edge - Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project to cloak eugenics and race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability, writes Virginia Heffernan

Sonnet 084 - LXXXIV
Who is it that says most, which can say more,
Than this rich praise, that you alone, are you,
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew?
Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story.
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature ma…

At least drugs make you feel good before they destroy you.
AI code just makes you think about how sand writes code faster than you.

Calling the war in Iran a success doesn’t make it so | Cognoscenti https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2026/03/12/hegseth-trump-iran-israel-oil-regime-change-andrew-carleen

Calling the war in Iran a success doesn’t make it so
"Any American who has been alive for the past quarter century — especially veterans of our post-9/11 military adventures like me — has seen this movie before and knows how open-ended wars in that part of the world play out," writes Andrew Carleen.

from my link log —
Linux internals: how /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory.
https://offlinemark.com/an-obscure-quirk-of-proc/
saved 2026-03-09

Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory - offlinemark
Introduction An obscure quirk of the /proc/*/mem pseudofile is its “punch through” semantics. Writes performed through this file will succeed even if the destination virtual memory is marked unwritable. In fact, this behavior is intentional and actively used by projects such as the Julia JIT compiler and rr debugger. This behavior raises some questions: Is […]

A look at the dearth of media coverage of Sudan's civil war, started in 2023; report: 32 journalists have been killed and 90% of outlets damaged or destroyed (Isma'il Kushkush/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/sudan-civil-war…

Sudan’s Civil War Is Silencing the Press - Nieman Reports
Sudan’s journalists risk their lives to tell the story of their homeland as the world turns away, writes Isma'il Kushkush.

I can't remember who posted this, but what an excellent article. So many things in it I'd forgotten about.
"From Meta Glasses to smartwatches, the AI revolution is every woman’s worst nightmare"
https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/

Why The AI Revolution is Every Woman’s Worst Nightmare
From Meta Glasses to smartwatches, the AI revolution is every woman’s worst nightmare, writes journalist and campaigner Jess Davies for Glamour UK. Read on here

Wait. So an #AI bot manifested some #AIslop (it neither creates nor writes), tried to get it merged into a #code repo, got rejected for being

Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/technology/axiom-ai-code-funding.html…

A.I. Writes Buggy Code. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Wants to Fix It.
Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check for mistakes.

“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
Yup! That's what every worker knows and should have been fighting for with solidarity for decades. Every neurodivergent person knows that we can't do concentrated work for more than 3 hours, and that extended hyperfocus blocks drain our energy for the next day. It's not sustainable.
Steve Yegge writes about how AI Capitalism creates an energy vampire

The AI Vampire
This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

Dave, @… writes: "Coder is analogous to calling a chef a chopper." lol yeah i should call painters "brushers" or "watercolour devs" or something :-)

from my link log —
Debugging random slow writes with GIN indexes in PostgreSQL.
https://iamsafts.com/posts/postgres-gin-performance/
saved 2021-04-06

Ajit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…

UN Weeps on Cue While Tehran Writes the Script (David Manney/PJ Media)
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/03/02/un-weeps-on-cue-while-tehran-writes-the-script-n4950170
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p35#a260303p35

Joseph P. Sweatpants 😉 writes:
Ok Machineheads! I hope it's ok to call ourselves that!?! Maybe "loose screws" is better??? Haha. Hey all you Loose Screws, the first This Machine was a huge success!! The New Deal Cafe wants us back!! Basically, we're going to roll every two months. The next This Machine open mic for works of political protest will be Sunday, April 12, sign-ups 1230p, music 1-4p. Watch the news, work on your songs, poems, jokes, etc.

It’s literally part of my job to review proposals, but this doesn’t mean that I don’t have better things to do.
Especially when someone writes in the very last paragraph, “btw, I don’t actually want a professorship, because that would limit my freedom to do what I want.”
Well then, do what you want, but stop wasting my and other reviewers’ time!
#AcademicChatter

It’s literally part of my job to review proposals, but this doesn’t mean that I don’t have better things to do.
Especially when someone writes in the very last paragraph, “btw, I don’t actually want a professorship, because that would limit my freedom to do what I want.”
Well then, do what you want, but stop wasting my and other reviewers’ time!
#AcademicChatter

14-year-old today: “The option of me becoming a classic coder, one who writes everything by hand, probably doesn't exist anymore, does it? Too bad, it was actually fun.”
😢

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/the-illusion-of-agi-or-what-language-models-can-do-without-thought

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought
It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

The universe does not simply exist in time -- time is something the universe continuously writes into itself https://theconversation.com/is-time-a-fundamental-part-of-reality-a-quiet-revolution-in-physics-suggests-not-273841

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters
#AI #AISlop #Microsoft

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters | - The Times of India
Tech News News: Microsoft has appointed Charlie Bell, its former security chief, as the company's new engineering quality head — less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said AI writes 30% of its code. The move comes amid rising Windows 11 bugs, underwhelming Copilot adoption, and growing evidence that AI-generated code introduces more errors than it eliminates.

Three solutions to secure Europe’s digital sovereignty
1. Eurostack: building an independent European tech stack
2. Homegrown European social networks
3. Strong enforcement of Europe’s digital laws
https://www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-de…

Pedro Sšnchez: No to war
It is naive to think that escalating conflict in #Iran will lead to anything good, writes Spain’s prime minister.
A powerful statement.
Every EU country should agree with this.
https://archive.vn/V5gMx

My WireGuard -> systemd script has grown quite a bit since I first wrote it. It now auto-converts all files in the input directory, writes files to the output directory, and sets appropriate permissions (all configurable). It also now has an optional argument to define a certain interface as 'default' (meaning it will have ActivationPolicy = up). I used it to setup Proton VPN on my Framework laptop and it worked seamlessly.

ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ / WireGuard to SystemD · GitLab
GitLab.com

"But should we be surprised by this chaos? As senior editor Jack Mirkinson writes, “The president is a congenital liar who loses a little more brain function with each passing day.” Perhaps there’s another reason we’re now at war, however: Israel has been longing for one. And “that has the potential to erode both the US-Israeli relationship and Israel’s already shaky standing with the American people,” Mirkinson notes."
#USPolitics

I'm still thinking about a longer blog post about LLMs, and one of the things I keep thinking about them is how they not only cause direct harm to the community, but also make people more suspicious of one another. And then I've been pointed out this text:
"I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me."
"""
I am a writer. A writer who also happens to be Kenyan. And I have come to this thesis statement: I don't write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT, in its strange, disembodied, globally-sourced way, writes like me. Or, more accurately, it writes like the millions of us who were pushed through a very particular educational and societal pipeline, a pipeline deliberately designed to sandpaper away ambiguity, and forge our thoughts into a very specific, very formal, and very impressive shape.
"""
#AI #LLM

Thanks to the extremist agenda of the richest tycoons supporting the authoritarians agenda, American tech companies are going to see a collapse in revenues and growth in these markets. Was it worth it just to support a bunch of child sexual predators? https://techpolicy.press/almost-two…

Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds
EU leaders are pursuing digital sovereignty plans to reduce the 27-country bloc’s dependence on the United States, writes Mark Scott.

Warum dieser Artikel über eine Konferenz in China 2024 erst jetzt erscheint, who knows, aber lots of spannendes Zeug drin. (I myself had politely declined an invitation.)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/how-china-learned-to-love-th…

How China Learned to Love the Classics
The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West. Chang Che writes.

India’s AI Impact Summit in New Delhi was a game of two halves, writes @OpenUK’s Amanda Brock.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/on-the-ground-india-s-ai-impact-summit-1…

On the ground at India’s AI Impact Summit – part 1
India’s AI Impact Summit in New Delhi was a game of two halves, writes OpenUK’s Amanda Brock.

> “almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off,” including the entire video team
Capitalism, working as designed.
Oh, you thought it was about making shiny, fun things for you play with? Oh, my sweet, summer child, no… capitalism is about fuck you.
Why?
Because. @…

Nice bit of #git #data driven #analysis https://

Ich schätze, dass einige etwas übertrieben finden, wie sehr ich darauf rumreite, dass #DigitaleSouveränität ein problematischer Begriff ist.
Großartiger Text dazu, und aktuell zum Iran:
"..the current wave pushing digital sovereignty as the key to ending dependency on American and Chinese technology is negligent of its Eurocentric bias. Despite democrati…

#Hiring for a #journalism assistant and got way too many applications. Too many cover letters have the same exact format, with bullet points summaries in the middle.
Is this how #AI writes cover letters?

Patriots suffer biggest beatdown of season in lopsided Super Bowl LX loss to Seahawks https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-suffer-biggest-beatdown-of-season-in-lopsided-super-bowl-lx-loss-to-seahawks

https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-ai-fuzzing/
The Linux kernel is toying with LLM tooling, not to write code (phew!), but to assist reviews and find bugs:
The fuzzer surfaces potential bugs; a human with decades of kernel experience reviews them, writes the…

Is a Clanker Being Used to Carry Out AI Fuzzing in the Linux Kernel?
Greg Kroah-Hartman appears to be running AI-assisted fuzzing on the kernel. Don't outrage yet, as this may not be a bad thing.

A coalition of 41 press freedom groups writes an open letter condemning the arrest of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez by ICE and urging her release (Free Press Action Fund Feed)
https://www.freepress.net/news/coalition-4

Coalition of 41 Press-Freedom Groups Calls for Immediate Release of Nashville-Based Journalist Arrested by ICE
A coalition of 41 press-freedom groups demanded that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

American history professor Gregory A. Daddis argues that Trump’s violent language
“represents a consistent and central aspect of his approach to international relations”
—and it must be taken seriously.
This rhetoric is also counterproductive, Daddis writes:
“All the while, an almost joyous attitude about inflicting suffering persists
despite its negative impact on the United States’ long-term interests.”
After Trump’s address to the nation last Wednesday

The true cost of Trump’s Iran war
On Sunday, U.S.

https://github.com/ellieayla/argparse-help-markdown extracts all the --command-line=arguments supported by a CLI tool built with the Python argparse library, and writes them as a markdown table.
It's like your-cool-script.py --help, but for embedding into README.md during CI.
No dependencies outside of standard library. Single file module. Works great with @… 's cog.

Typed on his iPhone with one finger of his non-dominant hand, a new book by Charles Garrettson '78 M.A.R. explores the meaning, truth, and joy he found after a stroke left him unable to continue his vocation as an educator. Read the full story by Kim Lawton! https://

Cowboys Urged to Use Caution on ‘Bad Apple’ George Pickens Decision https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/bad-apple-george-pickens-decision/

Joey Yates has been a highlight of this cruise. He is a performer playing evening piano. He's very talented, holding a room several times a night with sets varying from quiet instrumental, sweet vocals, and fun piano bar tunes. He writes his own material and does great patter with the crowd. He's also genuinely friendly with the guests, we enjoyed getting to know him. We ended up planning our evenings around his schedule.

Possible US Government iPhone Hacking Tool Leaked https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/possible-us-government-iphone-hacking-tool-leaked.html

So the new #Kreutz #comet #MAPS is *still* following the constant rapid rise in brightness it has shown since discovery: a dumb extrapolation - https://cobs.si/analysis/?comet=2688&from_date=2026-01-15 00:00&to_date=2026-04-30 00:00&observation_type=V&observation_type=C&plot_x_value=1&plot_y_value=1&fit_option=1&exclude_faint=on&exclude_issue=on&observer=&association=&country=&compare_values=compare - has it get 10,000-times brighter than the Sun at its extremely close perihelion which makes so sense at all, of course, physically.
"It must therefore be assumed that this increase in activity will level off significantly in the near future," writes https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/koj_2026/c2026a1/26a1eaus.htm: "More likely are parameters m m0=12.0 mag / n=4 (or even lower), which would still result in a (very short-term) maximum brightness of about –9 mag (but this would probably still be significantly too bright) – always assuming that the comet survives its perihelion passage unscathed."
For other views see http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005663.txt and https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17626 and https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10236580364221799 and https://cometografia.es/cometa-kreutz-2026-a1-maps-analisis/ - and the actual brightness is tracked at https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 where it has reached ~11.5 mag. now.

Secondo un sondaggio, quasi due terzi degli europei sostengono la sostituzione della tecnologia statunitense
Secondo una ricerca di YouGov condivisa con Tech Policy Press, quasi due terzi degli europei intervistati ritengono che sostituire i servizi tecnologici americani con alternative europee sia una buona idea, ma gli intervistati sono divisi se questo cambiamento è realistico.
L'analisi arriva mentre i leader dell'Unione Europea portano avanti piani di sovranitŠ digit…

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call
what he writes fiction.
-- William Faulkner

Mutual aid is everyday resistance | Cognoscenti #mutualaid

Mutual aid is everyday resistance
When formal systems become unreliable or morally compromised, people do not wait for consensus about how to change them, writes James Lomastro. They adapt by building informal networks of mutual aid that deliver essential items and services to people in need.

I'm afraid my students might not be pleased with one of tomorrow's assigned readings. Of course, I didn't read it ahead of time and threw it on the syllabus mainly because of the topic and the fit with this week's lecture. I should've known that the author, who writes mildly interesting but bone dry stuff now, wouldn't have written more interesting or less dry material in the past.

Here is a powerful essay on death and dying. I hope my time is far off, but I hope I approach it well.
https://www.thefp.com/p/death-is-nothing-to-be-feared or archived at

Death Is Nothing to Be Feared
We walk backward into our own graves, so filled with denial, because we’ve lived not really thinking that death could one day happen to us, writes Martin Shaw.

One sad thing, a Tik Tok trend, is threats of school shootings. Someone picks an arbitrary date and then writes a threat of a shooting. If the lad or lass attended school enough they will pick a date antecendent of the day of writing - and successful threats also means they learned to spell. Fucking hate this, hate Tik Tok trends..

“A jury in LA has delivered a damning verdict for two of the world's most popular digital platforms, Instagram and YouTube.
It ruled those apps are addictive, and deliberately engineered that way – and that its owners have been negligent in their safeguarding of the children who have used them.
…
Some experts have described the verdict as big tech's "big tobacco" moment, and we know how that worked out - although it didn't stop people smoking altogether…

What next for big tech after landmark social media addiction verdict?
The ruling could be the beginning of the end of social media as we know it, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services
is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.
But this year, it has unusually specific criteria.
In cover letters accompanying the applications, the institute said it
“particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
These would include those that foster an appreciation for the country “through uplifting and positive narratives,”
the agency writes,
cit…

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.

Camaraderie, learning from each other has led rebuilt Patriots' offensive line https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-offensive-line-camaraderie-learning-from-each-other-super-bowl-lx

Sonnet 084 - LXXXIV
Who is it that says most, which can say more,
Than this rich praise, that you alone, are you,
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew?
Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story.
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature ma…

Thinking of publishing a paper book with logical conundrums to recite to make the robot’s heads explode when the AI apocalypse comes; hoping that William Shatner writes the foreword.

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
AVON: Does it generate a beam or a total field? We will need to know that if we are to work on these equations.
GROFF: Total field.
AVON: [Writes] Clever. It must require a great deal of energy.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/315 B7B4

I can't believe Grammerly's AI has a feature, where the AI re-writes your human text, and they call it "humaniser".
#llm #slop

Charles Duhigg distinguishes "organizing" from "mobilizing" in a way I did not know before, then proceeds to classify a series of movements/campaigns as one or the other.
The real criterion seems to be how much decentralisation and local autonomy/focus a movement allows and fosters.
Reminds me of #Wikimedia chapters, which can be extremely varied and contain all sorts …

What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizing—and Infighting
Republicans have become adept at creating broad coalitions in which supporting Trump is the only requirement. Democrats get tied up with litmus tests, Charles Duhigg writes.

How AI startups and founders use "taste" as the latest buzzword for describing and distinguishing their products, in an attempt to evoke an aura of artisanality (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/wh…

Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste
Kyle Chayka writes about the concept of taste as a Silicon Valley buzzword and as a profit driver for A.I. developers.

GeoStruXer and Bentley used AI with satellite data to cut materials and embodied carbon in a Saudi grain warehouse retrofit—no performance lost.
Regeneration International launched training and standards to help farmers adopt regenerative practices at scale.
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Marc Elias writes:
DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:
Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"
And, it included a non-party in the caption.
These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

A profile of Spanish-language US news influencer Carlos Eduardo Espina, who has ~22.5M followers, relies on traditional media, and provides help to his viewers (Graciela Mochkofsky/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-rise-of-a-spanis…

The Rise of a Spanish-Language News Influencer
Graciela Mochkofky writes about how Carlos Eduardo Espina reaches millions of followers, on TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.

"The most recent orbital computations make it increasingly likely that the object [the new #Kreutz comet MAPS] is a fragment of one of the comets observed by Ammianus Marcellinus in AD 363, thereby strengthening evidence in support of the contact-binary hypothesis of the Kreutz system," writes Zdenek Sekanina in https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17626: "In this context, the comet is the only second-generation fragment of Aristotle's comet that we are aware of to appear after the 12th century. It does not look like a major fragment, but rather like an outlying fragment of a much larger sungrazer."

AI is McDonald’s. That Will Be Good, Bad, and Catalytic for Civil Rights Advocacy. | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/ai-is-mcdonalds-that-will-be-good-bad-and-catalytic-for-civil-rights-advocacy

AI is McDonald’s. That Will Be Good, Bad, and Catalytic for Civil Rights Advocacy.
The current trajectory of AI may have similar effects on how people engage with computers as fast food has on how we engage with eating, writes David Brody.

Rhamondre Stevenson finds strength in Patriots after losing father: 'They had so much support' https://www.nfl.com/news/rhamondre-stevenson-finds-strength-in-patriots-after-losing-father-they-had-so-much-support

#privacyNotIncluded #privacy #Glassholes
BBC News - Regulator contacts #Meta over workers w…

Josh Shapiro Writes That Harris Team Asked if He Had Ever Been an Israeli Agent (Katie Glueck/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/politics/josh-shapiro-memoir-kamala-harris.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p80#a260118p80

Can Donald Trump Win a War with Iran If He Can’t Explain Why He Started It? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/can-donald-trump-win-a-war-with-iran-if-he-cant-explain-w…

Can Donald Trump Win a War with Iran If He Can’t Explain Why He Started It?
So far, explanations are few and the goals—from regime change to ending a nuclear program the President already claimed to have “obliterated”—are many. Susan B. Glasser writes.

A reporter writes about a visit from the FBI in 2020, following his story about a hack, and the long-term personal impact, along with eroding press freedoms (Zack Whittaker/~this week in security~)
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/fbi-ag

FBI agents visited my home about an article I wrote, and now I can't go to Mexico
Mexico formally requested the FBI's help in seeking answers about one of my stories. Having federal agents on my doorstep sparked my own years-long effort to pry information out of the FBI to explain why it came to my house to begin with.

Pinterest CEO Bill Ready calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16, says social platforms gave "insufficient forethought" about consequences (Bill Ready/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/03/19/pinterest-ce…

Pinterest CEO: Governments Should Ban Social Media for Kids Under 16
"The cost of inaction is a generation of young people overwhelmed by anxiety and depression," writes Bill Ready, CEO of Pinterest.

“In western democracies, ageing and dying seem to have been reclassified as soluble problems,” clinical psychologist Frank Tallis in writes.
This is delusional – “a retreat from reality, and narcissistic”.
Climate-crisis denial, he suggests, in a striking formulation, can be seen as “the denial of death on an apocalyptic scale”.

from my link log —
When upserts don't update but still write: debugging PostgreSQL WAL activity.
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/debugging-postgres-performance/
saved 2026-03-24

When upserts don't update but still write: Debugging Postgres performance at scale | Datadog
When a high-volume upsert doubled disk writes, Datadog engineers traced the issue to Postgres WAL behavior and rewrote the query to eliminate hidden costs.

New England Patriots' quick rebuild, rise to Super Bowl underscores shifting AFC landscape https://www.nfl.com/news/new-england-patriots-quick-rebuild-rise-to-super-bowl-underscores-shifting-afc-landscape

Grant Tremblay (@astrogrant on X) writes:
"I have two versions of outlook and neither of them are working" is actually a generational NASA quote now. Not quite One Small Step but every generation lives in a different world."

AI and the End of Territorial Time | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/ai-and-the-end-of-territorial-time

AI and the End of Territorial Time
AI is altering the relationship between time and geography that has structured human life, writes R Street Institute president and co-founder Eli Lehrer.

This week: Scatec locked in a 25-year deal for Africa's largest solar-plus-storage project in Egypt. Vattenfall greenlighted Germany's largest 1.6 GW offshore wind cluster. Brooklyn is building a 9.46 MWh battery-backed EV charging depot.
Real progress, happening now.
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from my link log —
A century of “shrill”: how bias in technology has hurt women's voices.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-century-of-shrill-how-bias-in-technology-has-hurt-womens-voices…

A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices
Tina Tallon writes about how gendered technological bias and failures in the design of audio technology have affected how women’s voices are perceived in society.

A look at Vogue's wedding coverage and efforts brides make to be featured; Chloe Malle says it generates "some of the most time spent on articles" (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-a-vogue-…

Why a ‘Vogue’ Wedding Is More Coveted Than Ever
‘I think a particular kind of woman gets almost feral in their need to be acknowledged by Vogue,’ a publicist tells Charlotte Klein, who writes that a Vogue-covered wedding is more coveted than ever.

The Mississippi Public Records and Open Meetings Acts are called our “Sunshine Laws” for good reason.
They preserve the rights of citizens to know what their government is up to.
For whatever reason
—often at the behest of other politicians or public agency officials
—legislators will try to carve out exemptions to the acts.
Presumably they do this in good faith, ⚠️but it invariably ends up with the people elected to serve the citizens of our state being allowed to…

Opinion | House Bills Seriously Dilute Public Records Act
Layne Bruce writes that two bills passed by the Mississippi House will chip away at government transparency. 

Nothing unusual to see here. Just the Canadian armed forces training for to meet the greatest military threat they currently face … [checks notes] … an invasion by the US.

Legal activist Emily Galvan Almanza chronicles the many ways in which the justice system targets the poor.
It’s not news that judicial outcomes are often tied to the wealth and influence of a defendant:
Not only do the well-to-do have the resources to hire good lawyers,
but juries themselves tend to be made up of older, wealthier, white people.
A predictable result, writes Galvin Almanza, is that defendants of color, represented by appointed public defenders, pull lo…

THE PRICE OF MERCY | Kirkus Reviews
A legal activist chronicles the many ways in which the justice system targets the poor.

We need our military leaders to show their moral courage | Cognoscenti https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2026/01/20/minneapolis-ice-insurrection-act-trump-amerian-soldiers-andrew-carleen?linkId=900232191 …

We need our military leaders to show their moral courage
"It seems it’s only a matter of time before U.S. soldiers are deployed against the American people," writes Navy veteran Andrew Carleen. "When that moment comes, I wonder what kind of moral courage will we see from uniformed leadership?"

So stupid
This has to stop
https://bsky.app/profile/financialtimes.com/post/3mcuvf2gc6b22

Financial Times (@financialtimes.com)
We are here at Davos to make one thing crystal clear: With President Trump, capitalism has a new sheriff in town,' the US secretary of commerce writes. ft.trib.al/T0bsd6l

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Donald Macleod follows the irresistible rise of Italian opera composer Gaetano Donizetti. Today, Donizetti battles “pirates”, writes about love potions, and falls in love himself.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sg95

Voltaire once wrote that, “in order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work.
One must feel beauty and be moved by it.”
No large language model has yet been programmed to feel anything
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/inf…

Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste
Kyle Chayka writes about the concept of taste as a Silicon Valley buzzword and as a profit driver for A.I. developers.