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"The aim of the Ukraine government, the EU, the US government, the multilateral agencies and the American financial institutions now in charge of raising funds and allocating them for reconstruction is to restore the Ukrainian economy as a form of special economic zone, with public money to cover any potential losses for private capital."
Ukraine- Russia four years on – Michael Roberts Blog

Ukraine- Russia four years on
Today marks the end of the fourth year of the Ukraine-Russia war. After four years, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused staggering damage to Ukraine’s people and economy. There are wildly varyi…

The Westborough Crusaders: The Trilogy That Took Forty-Four Years to Earn Its Novels
Some work waits for you. Not patiently. Not the way a dog waits by the door, loyal and uncomplicated. It waits the way a diagnosis waits in a family's bloodline, silently present, expressing itself in symptoms you do not recognize until you are old enough to understand what your body has been trying to tell you. In 1982, I was sixteen years old…

The Westborough Crusaders: The Trilogy That Took Forty-Four Years to Earn Its Novels | David Boles, Blogs
Some work waits for you. Not patiently. Not the way a dog waits by the door, loyal and uncomplicated. It waits the way a diagnosis waits in a family’s bloodline, silently present, expressing …

Monday marks 100 years of television.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/23/television-100-years-old-biggest-tv-moments-of-century?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

From Attenborough’s gorilla mayhem to TV’s first gay kiss: the 100 biggest moments from a century of television
The moon landing! Royal weddings! Janet Jackson’s $550,000 nipple! As television turns 100, we charts its journey from terrifyingly dangerous to the thing that unites us

Thirty years later, the Cowboys still chase what once came easy https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/thirty-years-later-cowboys-still-chase-what-once-came-easy/90dea6526f3056904b671e74

Some Position Groups Will Take Years for Raiders to Rebuild https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-some-position-groups-will-take-years-rebuild

"Microsoft 365 has more than 450 million paid commercial seats. After roughly two years on the market, Copilot has converted approximately 15 million of them into paying users. That's a 3.3% conversion rate, at $30 per user per month, generating roughly $5.4 billion in annual revenue. That's less than what Microsoft spent on infrastructure in a single quarter (3)."
None of the numbers make economic sense.

Nadella paid $650M to recruit his AI chief. After 2 years he's quietly pushing him aside — these brutal numbers are why
Nadella just reshuffled his entire AI leadership. Here's what that means for your portfolio.

California sues Trump administration over allegedly 'unlawful' pipeline restart approval years after oil spill (Brie Stimson/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-sues-trump-administration-allegedly-unlawful-pipeline-restart-approval-years-oil-spill
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p113#a260123p113

The Crab Nebula Revisited Using HST/WFC3: #CrabNebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-revisits-crab-nebula-to-track-25-years-of-expansion/ (color coded the expansion in two sections from 2000 to 2024).

Four years after the massacre of nine black church goers in Charleston, South Carolina;
two years after the murder of a white anti-fascist and anti-racist activist in Charlottesville, Virginia;
and days after the racially motivated massacre of 22 people who were targeted because their murderer wanted to kill Hispanics,
America has reached a crisis point where we finally have to talk about racism in our society.
But is the media approaching this conversation in an …

Why Corporate Media Doesn’t Talk Honestly About Racism
Media conversations about racism are rarely accurate, let alone honest, facilitating the status quo and hindering systemic change. A discussion between Dylan Rodriguez, Eddie Conway, and Jaqueline Luqman

Q: How does the filling level of Dutch gas storages compare to that of previous years?
A: Not good.

“‘For Orbšn in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year’
…
US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.
Worldwi…

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
4 YEARS FULL-SCALE WAR: RUSSIAN FEDERATION COLLAPSE TRIGGERED Vlog 1328: War in Ukraine
After 4 years of the #fullscalewar and 12 years of russia`s

Sony is announcing its first new turntables in years, and lo, children, whatever has come before will come back around again https://www.theverge.com/news/865333/sony-new-turntables-2026

Sony announces its first turntables in years
The PS-LX3BT and PS-LX5BT turntables will come out in February and April, respectively, and are aimed at new and existing vinyl fans alike.

Sources: Giants exec Abrams leaves after 27 years https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47688708/giants-senior-executive-kevin-abrams-leaving-27-years-sources-say

40 Years Of Copyright Obstruction To Human Rights And Social Justice | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/23/40-years-of-copyright-obstruction-to-human-rights-and-social-justice/

"Use of private jets to Davos has soared in the past three years. Is it time for a super-rich tax?"
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateSummit

‘Pure hypocrisy’: WEF slammed for soaring use of private jets to Davos
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has gotten off to a bumpy start as participants are criticised for their soaring use of private jets.

UK's College of Policing issues new communications standards, including encouraging officers to engage with media, after 15 years of restrictive press relations (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/police-media-guidelines-updated/

Post Leveson chill in police-press relations thaws after 15 years with new rulebook
Police media guidelines updated for forces in England and Wales. Officers encouraged to speak to journalists.

11 Years of Home ASHP, Kingston-upon-Thames London: Case Study - Learn from a home air-source heat-pump experience in greater London, UK, a decade in. #ASHP #heatpump -

11 Years of Home ASHP, Kingston-upon-Thames London: Case Study
Learn from a home air-source heat-pump experience in greater London, UK, a decade in. #ASHP #heatpump

There is one thing that American don't seem to understand about Canadians.
For us, there is no "after Trump".
They have elected him... twice!
What guarantee do we have that they won't re-elect some other fascist moron in 4 years, 10 years or whatever?
None. There is none.
We have to assume the population of the whole country is not trustworthy and distance ourselves from them as much as possible.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/opinion/ukraine-russia-war-four-years.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OFA.h9Fb.pBM8GW2Um-oJ&smid=url-share

Opinion | Ukraine Has Passed a Point of No Return
Four years that changed everything.

https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social/post/3map36nbazc2q

Indivisible Palo Alto Plus (@indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social)
From our latest indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org newsletter, as we head into the holidays: 1/ Hello, friends. Close your eyes. Oops, that won’t work; keep reading. Imagine one year from now, three years from now, ten years from now. Okay, now try the “close your eyes and imagine” thing.

Adin Ross is 25 years old, has 7 million subscribers on Twitch, 4.5 million subscribers on YouTube, and livestreams daily to hundreds of thousands of people.
This is him finding out what fascism is.
Chat, are we cooked?

Indonesia backs away from coal exit test case amid financial and political pushback https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/indonesia-backs-away-from-coal-exit-test-case-amid-financial-and-political-pushback/

Indonesia backs away from coal exit test case amid financial and political pushback
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has scrapped a plan to retire a major coal-fired power plant, after having promised for years to do so. Airlangga Hartarto, the country’s chief economics minister, said in December that it would be unfeasible to shut down the 660-megawatt Cirebon-1 plant by 2035, which is seven years ahead of its […]

158 Giant Endangered Tortoises Released on Galšpagos Island Where They’d Been Extinct for 180 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/158-giant-endangered-tortoises-released-on-galapagos-island-for-first-time-in-180-years/

158 Giant Endangered Tortoises Released on Galápagos Island Where They’d Been Extinct for 180 Years
For the first time in 180 years, giant tortoises walk again on Floreana Island—in largest restoration effort ever undertaken in Galápagos.

A Billion Years Are Mysteriously Missing From Earth’s History. Now, We Know Why. https://www.404media.co/great-unconformity-gap-geological-record-study-columbia/

Star Wars began principal filming 50 years ago today

I was interviewed by Marcos Marcolin for the Brazilian #PHP community. It's a long interview, but I had fun with it. 🙂
https://www.marcosmarcolin.com.br/blog/php-30-years-la…

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.

Online liability shield still a lightning rod after 30 years
https://rollcall.com/2026/03/18/online-liability-shield-still-a-lightning-rod-after-30-years/

Online liability shield still a lightning rod after 30 years
Senators on both sides of the aisle criticized liability protections for social media platforms at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, but largely stopped short of supporting a full repeal as sought by some lawmakers. The hearing, billed as a review of Section 230 of a 1996 communications law 30 years after enactment, saw […]

I've signed up for this. Work worth doing: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/got-ideas-for-growing-the-open-social-web-bring-them/

Got Ideas For Growing The Open Social Web? Bring Them.
Register here for our Growing the Open Social Web Un-Workshop. For over three years now, since Elon Musk decided to spend $44 billion turning Twitter into his personal playground, we’ve been …

thirty years ago i didn't have mastodon so i muttered to myself in a kind of witless travelogue http://peter.honeyman.org/travel/travel.1995.html
i have kept this server on the dl for many many years (many years!) but a bofh emailed me today which is prob'ly the death k…

It’s worth noting that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originator of the bad deductive rule in question, spent his later years falling for and vehemently defending a variety of hoaxes involving fairies and communicating with the dead:
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-175-ghost-racket-crusade-10-22-2021/

After 30 years and hundreds of listens I'm still getting goosebumps from this amazing bassline, mood and pristine production...
Leftfield — A Final Hit (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiM-MBpe8gY

pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata

I was playing "Stranded" in the van on the way to Melbourne last week. First heard it live when I was a uni student (76,77?), and The Saints were playing in that funny house at the end of Wickham Terrace.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-22/50-

Australia's punk boom was born in Brisbane 50 years ago
The Saints released their single "(I'm) Stranded" in 1976, kicking off the punk movement in Australia. So how did it all unfold?

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #philadelphia, opening 3 nights at the spectrum. spring ’86, show #4.
soundboard: https://

Hawaii is coming to grips with the extensive damage left by the worst flooding the islands have seen in more than 20 years.
Over the weekend, heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago,
forcing thousands on the North Shore of Oahu to evacuate before more evacuations for parts of the island of Maui.
The rains lifted houses and cars, inundated farms, swept through grocery stores and left a thick layer of mud in streets, homes and ga…

@… @… @… Dave I’ve been waiting for that check to clear for 7 years

“Our main story tonight concerns Twitter, or as it’s being called since Elon Musk purchased it a few years ago: Twitter.”
John Oliver is a treasure.
(And I hope you’re not active on that shit site anymore. 😉😉)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI

I’ve supported @… via Patreon for a few years. Well worth adding for people who want to support more public science discussions. https://mastodon.social/@weatherwest/1

'Extremely serious' — Ukraine's battered energy system faces worst day in 3 years, Shmyhal says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/extremely-serious-ukraines-battered-energy.html

I find it quite fascinating to watch the development of Starbucks and how it's crushed by some competitors.
I believe, for years, the cornerstone of the Starbucks business model was this: many people want coffee with reasonably good quality, they want it often, and they're willing to pay very high prices for it. I'm saying this as being one of those people. ☕ 🧵

If you are buying a new computer, there's no need to throw the old one away. I was really surprised last year how many items found another owner.
Nothing to get rich of, but avoid unnecessary e-waste
https://www.locked.de/how-i-gave-my-old-computer-parts-a-s…

Looking back at some of my old decaps compared to one I did recently. Amazing what a difference 15 years of practice makes lol.
The etch is so much more surgical now (and I can preserve copper bond wires which was a pipe dream before - although to be fair back then copper wires were not in common use)
The clipped pin on the recent sample is intentional, you'll find out why in a few weeks

I haven't logged into Nextdoor for years but they send me email digests and the lead story on today's is "SAY NO to the 9-story monstrosity on West Portal Ave!". Never change, Nextdoor.

#USpol #nostalgia

Launched 48 years ago, NASA’s space probes #Voyager 1 and 2 are still exploring – and have long left the #SolarSystem. Learn more on Astronomy Day, March 28th, 7 PM, in public talk by #mpsgoettingen

What happens when you connect 400 car batteries in series and zap stuff? Anthony Drake will show you with this video. A couple years ago he hooked up 100 batteries. YouTube had some problems with that and almost cancelled his channel. He added some safety tips and they’re happy now. It’s 2 hours long and worth the time. It’s only ≈65V but he gets up to 150,000 amps. #science

Lovely 10 Year commemorative enamel pin from this year's IMIRT AGM.
I got to design this logo years ago, so I was thrilled when IMIRT reached out to me to update the logo. My favourite bit was switching out the D20 for a D10 for this commemoration (2015-2025).

woah. he's back.
I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back. by Tom Scott
#youtube

"Let’s start with the Injustice Foundation, which has given more than £380,000 to the Free Speech Union in recent years..."
Well, at least the Injustice Foundation are honest about what they stand for.
Who funds the Free Speech Union? - by Peter Geoghegan
https://de…

Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Free Speech Union went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.

Telnet is a remote login protocol that became obsolete in 1995 when SSH became available because SSH offers transport encryption while telnet does not.
Those who kept a telnetd running for whatever reason (and did not hide it behind a firewall) have had a root backdoor for the last ten years.
The telnetd server invokes /usr/bin/login (normally running as root) passing the value of the USE…

> for a large share of actual product work, the person who can say "here is what done looks like, prove it without seeing my rubric" is more valuable than the person who can write the code.
> Implementation is what AI is getting good at. Knowing whether the result actually solves the real problem is not an engineering judgment call, it is a domain judgment call.
Reposting to call out those two quotes and agree that this matches my experience as a staff developer…

Two Years of Building AI in Firefox | Tarek Ziadé
https://blog.ziade.org/2025/12/05/two-years-of-ai-at-mozilla/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

The Software Essays that Shaped Me
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/software-essays-that-shaped-me/

... we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent
observations and inferences by the thousands. The earth is billions of
years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary
descent. Scientists stand accused of promoting dogma by so stating, but
do we brand people illiberal when they proclaim that the earth is neither
flat nor at the center of the universe? Science *has* taught us some
things with confidence! Evolution…

good grief describing 1993 as “before most people were born” gave me an emotion
median age is apparently 30.9 years https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/world-demographics/

World Demographics 2025 (Population, Age, Sex, Trends) - Worldometer
Population Pyramid, Age Structure, Sex Ratio (Males to Females), Life Expectancy, Dependency Ratio of the World

Who put bleach in the kettle at work?!? We now not only have to boil several batches of water to get rid of the stink, but we've also lost all those years of hard work and built-up minerals!

A Philippine court sentenced journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio to 12 to 18 years in jail on charges that media advocates call fabricated; she is expected to appeal (Jason Gutierrez/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/world/a<…

Filipino Journalist Gets Prison in Case Seen as Attack on Free Press
Frenchie Mae Cumpio and her former roommate were convicted of financing terrorism and sentenced to up to 18 years in prison.

Dem rep identifies himself as one of this year's State of the Union designated survivors (Rachel Wolf/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-rep-identifies-himself-one-years-state-union-designated-survivors
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p52#a260224p52

"Two marsupials thought extinct for 6,000 years found alive in Indonesian Papua"
#Indonesia #Animals

Two marsupials thought extinct for 6,000 years found alive in Indonesian Papua
Two species of marsupials thought to have been extinct for the past 6,000 years have been found very much alive on the island of New Guinea.

The Zeroing of Knowledge: When Everything Is Known, What Remains Worth Learning?
Knowledge used to be expensive. It cost years of apprenticeship, tuition in the tens of thousands, decades of practice, and, more than anything, the brutal currency of time. A physician spent twelve years beyond high school before being trusted to cut into a human body. A lawyer spent seven years and a bar exam before being permitted to argue before a judge.

The Zeroing of Knowledge: When Everything Is Known, What Remains Worth Learning? | David Boles, Blogs
Knowledge used to be expensive. It cost years of apprenticeship, tuition in the tens of thousands, decades of practice, and, more than anything, the brutal currency of time. A physician spent twelv…

How often do NFL teams get coaching hires right? What 23 years of data tells us https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7056940/2026/02/24/nfl-head-coach-hire-success-rate/

I just looked at the first commit for Kitten (then called NodeKit) from *four years ago* and, boy, has it come a long way since then :)
Four years ago: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/commit/d8b59a8d9fc5625f510205b3f4fa798aedc57832
Today:

Initial add · d8b59a8d9f
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

In the corridors of Washington, D.C., whispers of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s potential retirement have grown into a roar.
At 75 years old and marking 20 years on the bench, Alito’s upcoming book release on October 6, 2026,
just one day after the start of the Court’s new term,
has fueled intense speculation that he may step down to ensure his conservative legacy endures under Trump’s second term.
With Republicans holding the Senate majority ahead of the 202…

Supreme Court Shake-Up? Alito Exit Could Hand Trump Critical 2A Appointment
In the corridors of Washington, D.C., whispers of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's potential retirement have grown into a roar.

Yes, I know how bad nor’easters can be, I lived in PA for 7 years.
One year we had three feet of snow and no power for 4 days.
A big reason why we moved to Arizona.

4 years into Russia's full-scale brutal invasion and bombing of Ukraine today. The way to shorten it is to double our support to Ukraine.

Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are "unfair", as it takes "20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time" to train a human (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-

Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch
"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."

At least 70% of things I read about people doing with "AI" assistants like "Open Claw" are basically things people have been doing with deterministic, secure tools like Home Assistant for years.
Oh you can tell your bot to dim the lights via WhatsApp chat? Welcome to 2015!

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in encinitas, including the debut of one of their classic early ’76 combos. audience tapes.
early show: https://archive.org/details/jg76-02-22.015181.jgb.early.aud.unknown.jupille.sbeok.t-flac16

@… Fun fact: Espresso House has been expanding to Germany in recent years. I don't like it. I remember that I always found it a quality coffee chain in Denmark Sweden. I think they're doing something different here, or I'm hallucinating.
In any case: Espresso House in Sweden is, as far as I remember, also quite expensive, I guess you could say they…

Not sure what in the 26 years I've been using it for buying and selling basically nothing but weird (and often obscure) music and collectibles would have suggested to eBay that I'd ever be into some shit like 'luxury fashion', but it's 2026, and here we are

How often do NFL teams get coaching hires right? What 23 years of data tells us https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7056940/2026/02/24/nfl-head-coach-hire-success-rate/

Jeffrey Epstein Hid a Personal Archive for Years in Secret Warehouses Across the United States - SFG Media
https://sfg.media/en/a/jeffrey-epstein-secret-archive-us-warehouses/

#unix #unixHistory https://www.bgr.com/2077916/university-of-utah-historic-os-ta…

This Once Lost Computer Artifact Was Found In A Storage Closet - BGR
A recently found UNIX tape in a University of Utah storage closet dates back some 50 years to the foundations of our modern computing technology.

The #Texas races are turning out a bunch of unintentional hilarity and I'm here for it.
This is their latest attempt to smear #Talarico.
Even enabler class Republicans like Cornyn, who know better, are high on their own supply from so many years of blatantly pandering to Nazis.

Scary Austin (@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image The #Texas races are turning out a bunch of unintentional hilarity and I'm here for it. This is their latest attempt to smear #Talarico. Even enabler class #Republicans like Cornyn, who know better, are high on their own supply from so many years of blatantly pandering to Nazis.

Omg, #immich just told me that we visited #rome 12 years ago. 12?! Omg - where does time go?
But I'm just - so - glad that I took those photos. And for this feature in Immich.
These reminders about our vacations and adventures.. Just so precious.

If you think you need a new computer anytime in the next 3–5 years you probably should buy one right now.

General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/general-catalyst-commits-5b-to-ind…

General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years | TechCrunch
The pledge marks a sharp jump from General Catalyst's earlier $500 million–$1 billion India earmark.

Basically: If you run OpenClaw connected to any meaningful system you are not fit to design, program or run any kind of software. That disregard for security and quality should leave a black mark on you for many years.

"Satellite images indicate that the Doñana Marshland will disappear within 60 years"
#Environment
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-satellite-images-doana-…

Satellite images indicate that the Doñana Marshland will disappear within 60 years
The Doñana National Park, considered one of Europe's most valuable wetlands, is expected to lose its marshland in 61 years, according to calculations from a major water-resource monitoring study carried out by the University of Seville. The study has developed an innovative algorithm, based on machine learning, capable of detecting the presence of surface water with high precision using images from the Sentinel-2 satellite.

snow day news drop: last week, i turned in a draft of the book i've been working on for the past 6 years! right now, it's called "the invisible hit parade: a taper's history of music" & will be out in 2027 from da capo/hachette. much more to come, obviously!

The world's longest-running lab experiment Is almost 100 years old https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-longest-running-lab-experiment-is-almost-100-years-old

Epic v. Google: Epic and Google have a secret deal involving Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and Android, with Epic spending $800M over six years on Google services (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/866140/epic-google-fortnite-android-u…

Epic and Google have a secret $800 million Unreal Engine and services deal
Antitrust settlement talks have revealed a deal between Epic and Google over the Unreal Engine and unspecified services, which could impact the judge’s decision.

This is what Weizenbaum wrote about the dawn of the computer age: it was used as an excuse to not even try to make society better. The same thing is happening with “AI” now.
We know what would make society better.
One example is UBI (which Weizenbaum mentions in the same book in passing as “negative income tax”).
But of course we don’t have universal healthcare or UBI nor really any other advances (perhaps the ADA was a rare win); instead trillions of dollars are invested into software that tells us to bomb schools; for the sole reason to say it was the computers’ fault, not ours.
This book* was written 50 years ago.
*Computer Power and Human Reason
#AI #society

"Study finds global increase in hot, dry days ideal for wildfires"
#Wildfires #Climate #ClimateChange

Shein founder Xu Yangtian made a rare public appearance in Guangdong, pledging to invest ~$1.45B into the province's supply chains in the next three years (William Langley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/76976a62-44cf-4e45-8d26-b19db5283831

After four years of war, millions of Ukrainian families are reaching the breaking point.
They’ve fled not once — but two, three, even four times.
Every time they rebuild, the fighting reaches them again.
Every escape means leaving more behind.
Every displacement pushes them further into uncertainty.
Many families have nowhere to turn.
And a deep funding crisis means UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency,
is being forced to make impossible choices
— …

Apple says it plans to move some production of Mac Mini to Houston from Asia later in 2026, as part of its efforts to invest $600B in the US over four years (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-plans-to-ma

After nearly 80 years of membership, the U.S. is officially no longer part of the World Health Organization (WHO). 
Donald Trump initiated the removal process in an executive order on, the first day of his second term.
https://myfox8.com/news/politics/us/un

Source: Greenoaks, one of Brex's top investors, will return twice its investment after Capital One's Brex acquisition for $5.15B in a half-cash, half-stock deal (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/exit-brex-investors-rising-zombie…

An Exit for Brex Investors; Rising Zombie Funds
Brex’s $5.15 billion agreement to sell to Capital One isn’t the kind of exit employees or investors would have dreamed of four years ago, when it was valued privately at $12.3 billion. But it appears to be a good enough ending to the corporate credit card startup’s run as a private company.For ...

Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 7.3% YoY to ~$17B, narrowly above est., its slowest growth since 2023, as EV sales failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/…

Depending upon whom you ask, Moscow Idaho hosts either a Calvinist utopia or a patriarchal cult in which women must submit or face discipline at home and at church.
At the center of it all is notoriously controversial Douglas Wilson, the firebrand pastor who’s been presiding over his Mother Kirk fiefdom for more than 40 years. 
To learn about Christ Church’s culture of abuse and social control, VICE has interviewed 12 former and current church members and Logos students, and rev…

Inside the Church That Preaches ‘Wives Need to Be Led with a Firm Hand’
Evangelical pastor Douglas Wilson wrote that men “conquer” and women “surrender.” Christ Church survivors are starting to speak out.

In 1588, Galileo had not yet looked through a telescope.
Microscopes, pendulum clocks, barometers, and steam pumps were decades away.
Francis Bacon,
a member of parliament still in his twenties,
was only beginning his writing on science.
Robert Boyle wouldn’t be born for another 39 years,
Isaac Newton for another 55.
But a subtle shift in perspective was already taking place,
heralding the
‘culture of growth’
that would blossom i…

The Renaissance book that heralded growth - Works in Progress Magazine
Long before modern science, Europeans learned to see their own time as an age of invention rather than decline.

Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve information for at least 10,000 years (Gayoung Lee/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-glass-chip-holds-terabytes-of-d…

Microsoft's Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 Years
"This will change the way we think about keeping data and archival preservation."

A formerly incarcerated man,
who has since been cleared of his 1985 first-degree murder conviction,
was able to save his lawsuit from summary judgment as requested by New Orleans,
whose retired police detective allegedly withheld exculpatory evidence from the court.
The man was jailed for more than 30 years for the alleged murder,
and he has plausibly alleged a negligence claim against the ex-detective and a vicarious liability claim against New Orleans.

As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities,
big tech companies have been making themselves indispensable to the increasingly tyrannical state.
Among them is Amazon subsidiary Ring,
the company behind those AI doorbell cameras that have exploded in popularity over the last few years.
Back in October, Ring announced that its devices would soon be looped into a network of Flock AI surveillance cameras.
That network, an inv…

Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.

Half the street corners around Minneapolis have people
— from every walk of life, including republicans
— standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles,
which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that
tracks ICE vehicles
and mobilizes responders.
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years.
I have never seen anything approaching this scale.
Minneapolis is not accepting what’s happening here.

#Nithya #Raman,
a progressive urban planner,
entered Los Angeles politics with a bang when she was elected to city council in 2020,
defeating an incumbent Democrat endorsed by Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton.
⭐️More than five years on, the 44-year-old is making waves again
with her last-minute…