2026-03-01
Horseshit
Epstein
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Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters | The Verge
Between 2011 and 2019, Epstein invested in major crypto exchanges and software development firms. He grew close with one of the most influential yet troubling figures in the field, Tether cofounder Brock Pierce. Epstein even forged ties with Bitcoin’s core development team and mused about changing the technology of Bitcoin itself. But while Epstein courted established crypto players, less reputable branches of his network — notably those tied to Vladimir Putin’s Russia — promoted sketchy investments and likely contributed to massive investor losses during the 2018–2019 height of speculative crypto-mania. Most stunningly, it now appears that one of Epstein’s most eager recruiters worked in crypto marketing and PR, repping both major fintech firms and fly-by-night crypto schemes… while also allegedly scouting women for him to victimize. The most ominous and significant of Epstein’s crypto connections was also likely his first: Brock Pierce. Pierce is a cofounder of Tether, a so-called “stablecoin” that uses blockchain tokens to track US dollars.
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A reckoning is underway, ignited by the mountain of Epstein documents, which are giving the public a window into the rarefied world where the 0.01% are protected by the law but not bound by it, while the rest of us are bound by the law but not protected by it. Among hundreds of names appearing in the files are three of the nation’s best-known billionaires: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates. Americans are fed up, not just with the depravity of some people in the Epstein class, but also with the massive wealth they continue to accumulate while the working class struggles. We aren’t talking about beheadings today, but modern-day guillotines are on the way: shame and taxes.
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Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His 'Girls'
Obit
Electric / Self Driving cars
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Games media set for more layoffs, as IGN-owned Eurogamer cuts editorial staff
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NATO says iPhones are secure enough to handle classified data
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Nintendo adds spyware to re-release of Game Boy Advance ROM from 2004
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why consumer choice is being stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it
Safety was the story. Revenue was the reason. And then the EU passed the Digital Markets Act, and suddenly — suddenly — sideloading was technically feasible on iOS. Alternative app marketplaces became possible. What had been framed as a fundamental architectural safety requirement for over a decade turned out to be, in fact, completely optional the moment there were legal consequences for keeping it mandatory. Apple didn’t discover some new security technology that made sideloading safe. They didn’t fix the underlying problem they’d been citing for fifteen years. They just… allowed it. Because the alternative was billions in fines and potential market access restrictions in one of the world’s largest economies. The impossibility was never real. The justification was never the justification. The real reason was always “because fuck you, and because you don’t have a choice, and because we’ve structured things so that you can’t make us change until governments get involved.”
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Paramount Beat Out Netflix, Won Warner Bros. and Will Change Hollywood Forever
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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we'll examine the history of ATMs—by IBM. IBM was just one of the players in the ATM industry and, by its maturity, not even one of the more important ones. But the company has a legacy of banking products that put the ATM in a more interesting context, and despite lackluster adoption of later IBM models, their efforts were still influential enough that later ATMs inherited some of IBM's signature design concepts. I mean that more literally than you might think. But first, we have to understand where ATMs came from.
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Federal agencies may have a Claude problem now
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Trump instructs federal agencies to stop work with Anthropic
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Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon supply chain risk designation in court
every person of conscience needs to stand behind Anthropic, as they stand up for their right to [checks notes] not be effectively nationalized by the Trump administration and forced to build murderbots and to help surveil American citizens. No, I wouldn’t have believed this either in a science-fiction movie, but it’s now just the straightforward reality of our world, years ahead of schedule.
It’s one thing for the government to reject Anthropic’s terms—and entirely another to banish them permanently and, absurdly and punitively declare them a supply chain risk. Worse, they did it in favor of someone else who took pretty similar terms and happened to have given more campaign contributions. Anthropic deserves a chance at EXACTLY the same terms; anything else reeks of corruption.
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OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement with Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash
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AI Mistakes Are Infuriating Gamers as Developers Seek Savings
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AI Doomer Doublethink: The Orwellian Worldviews in the AGI Discourse
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Californian pulls AI ballot measures, citing OpenAI intimidation
The mysterious Californian behind two ballot measures to regulate artificial intelligence in the state said he was intimidated into scrapping them after OpenAI asked regulators to probe his identity. The initiatives were East Bay resident Alexander Oldham’s first foray into the world of state ballot battles, where propositions can take off seemingly overnight, attracting big bucks and intense opposition.
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AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them
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The AI narrative is an evolution of previous tech hypecycles
The new narrative is much simpler: You dont have to do anything. You even don´t have to know anything, because this new magic toy made by corporations who brought you the worst brainrot, enshittification, user exploitation, amplicfication of fascists (no link needed, just visit elon musks twitter for 10 minutes) and a straight up CSAM generator (also from one of space karens companys), will do everything for you, because it´s intelligent. It´s even in the name, how much proof do you need?
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DeepSeek to release new AI model next week in new challenge to US rivals
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Japan's Rapidus lands $1.7B to chase 2nm chip production by 2027
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$500K exit approved for Bay Area CEO days before harassment findings surface
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The Rise and Fall of a 3-D Printing Empire
That printer, the P-50, never worked well enough to sell. It was quietly shelved after going out to only a few customers, an early warning of how much the 3-D printing industry’s rapid growth relied on promises that have not come to fruition. For decades, people in the 3-D printing world heralded a new industrial revolution that would replace old machines on factory floors with sleek new printers that could cheaply and efficiently transform the way that nearly everything was made.
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Sam Altman's 'Human Verification' Startup Leans on Consumer Brands
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
Left Angst
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CISA replaces acting director after a bumbling year on the job
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Federal panel behind cancer screening recommendations hasn't met in one year
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Did Trump just overplay his hand?
My guess is that in time Trump will be remembered more for his AI policies than for ICE or his tariffs, and not in a good way. If anything really bad comes of pushing premature AI too hard and too fast into to the military, he will own it.
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Rewritten nuclear safety rules are made public
The rule changes came about after President Trump signed an executive order calling for three or more of the experimental reactors to come online by July 4 of this year — an incredibly tight deadline in the world of nuclear power.
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Blind refugee found dead in NY after being released by immigration authorities
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Classified Report Finds Kristi Noem Created Security Vulnerabilities at Airports - WSJ
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for months failed to appropriately respond to the findings of an internal watchdog that one of her biggest changes to airport security—allowing passengers to pass through screening checkpoints with their shoes on—is creating “significant” security risks, according to a letter from the inspector general reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and officials familiar with the matter. But a classified November report by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, the agency’s top watchdog, found that some of the TSA full-body scanners that most airline passengers pass through can’t scan shoes, according to people familiar with the report’s contents. The report determined Noem’s policy move had inadvertently created a new security vulnerability in the system. Some White House officials have been made aware of the report.
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Statement of Sen. Warner on Military Action in Iran
“By the president’s own words, ‘American heroes may be lost.’ That alone should have demanded the highest level of scrutiny, deliberation, and accountability, yet the president moved forward without seeking congressional authorization. The Constitution is clear: the decision to take this nation to war rests with Congress, and launching large-scale military operations – particularly in the absence of an imminent threat to the United States – raises serious legal and constitutional concerns. Congress must be fully briefed, and the administration must come forward with a clear legal justification, a defined end state, and a plan that avoids dragging the United States into yet another costly and unnecessary war.”
- Oddly enough, there doesn't seem to be any similar statements from this person about Libya, Syria, or Ukraine...
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here's Where It's Going Next
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Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Seeks Fame and Fortune, Escorted by an F.B.I. SWAT Team
You may never have heard of Alexis Wilkins, but she is one of the best-protected country music singers in the United States. F.B.I. tactical agents have ferried her to a resort in Britain before a dinner at Windsor Castle and to an appointment at a hair salon in Nashville. Last April, agents in two SUVs stood guard outside a senior center in Ronald Reagan’s boyhood home of Dixon, Ill., while she sang for a few dozen young conservatives. Ms. Wilkins, 27, is the girlfriend of Kash Patel, President Trump’s 46-year-old F.B.I. director, whose personal use of government jets and F.B.I. agents for himself and Ms. Wilkins has led to growing questions even inside the Trump administration.
Ben Williamson, an F.B.I. spokesman, said in a statement that Ms. Wilkins needed full-time SWAT protection because “as a direct result of her relationship with Director Patel, she is facing more than a dozen active death threats,” including some of a graphically violent nature. Last November, he told The Times that the death threats numbered in the “hundreds.”
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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The Air Force's new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but there's nowhere to put it
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Pentagon puts Scouts 'on notice' over DEI and girl-centered policies
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Secretary of Defense bans military from attending Ivy League Schools
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday said he was ordering the "complete and immediate cancellation" of all Department of War attendants at universities like Princeton, Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Brown and Yale, starting with the 2026-27 academic year. Hegseth added that the ban would also include "many others," claiming the higher education system has been "poisoned from within from a class of so-called elite universities who’ve abused their privilege and access to this department and utterly betrayed their purpose." Hegseth’s announcement comes after he similarly banned active-duty service members earlier this month from attending Harvard starting next year. He accused the universities of gorging themselves for decades on a "trust fund of American taxpayer dollars only to become factories of anti-American resentment and military disdain."
World
Iran / Houthi
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What we know about the joint US-Israel attack on Iran
The US and Israel have launched an attack on Iran. US president Donald Trump has described ongoing "major combat operations" and called for Iranian government forces to lay down their arms. Earlier, Israel's defence minister said Israel had launched a "pre-emptive attack" against Iran, with explosions heard across the country.
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US and Israel launch attack on Iran
Iran has launched retaliatory strikes on Israel, the Israeli military says. Explosions - thought to be Iranian attacks - have also been heard in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait.
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Israel and US launch strikes on Iran as Trump confirms 'major combat operations'
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Israel and the U.S. launch strikes against Iran
The U.S. and Israel have launched strikes against Iran with the goal of toppling the regime, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday. Iran retaliated by launching missiles at Israel and a U.S. naval base in Bahrain. An Iranian official said all Israeli and U.S. interests in the region were now considered legitimate targets.
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Israel says it has attacked Iran, declares state of emergency
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First known satellite image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran
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Trump Announces "Major Combat Operations" In Iran | ZeroHedge
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Trump Launches Strikes; Tells Iranians to ‘Seize Control of Your Destiny’.
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US, Israel attack Iran: Live updates after airstrikes launched
“It’s a very simple message. They will never have a nuclear weapon,” Trump vowed in a video message posted on Truth Social just before 3 a.m. He warned Tehran to “lay down your arms or face certain death.” Iran later warned that the “first wave of extensive missile and drone attacks” is underway across Israel.
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Reactions: All the Right Nazis and Islamic Apologists Is Losing Dey Shit
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Reports: The Ayatollah Has Been Killed
You know how Muslims always pretend to want to have "negotiations" while they prepare for their next sneak attack? Well Trump just did that to them. He's been pretending he wants to talk as he's been moving US assets into strike position, trying to get them to stop murdering citizens while he prepared the death-strikes on the regime.
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Ali Khamenei cut off from contact as Israel, US strike Iran | The Jerusalem Post
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Signs show that Khamenei is 'no longer with us', says Netanyahu
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, has ruled Iran since 1989. As Supreme Leader, he holds ultimate authority over all branches of government, the military and the judiciary in the Shi'ite Islamic republic. Over almost four decades, Khamenei built a regional power to rival the Sunni Muslim states across the Gulf while promoting nuclear technology that unnerved the surrounding region. Iran has been implacably hostile to the U.S. and Israel — while crushing repeated unrest at home.
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The Death of Khamenei and the End of an Era - The Atlantic
Khamenei’s death by the hand of a nation he worked very hard to kill is a hinge moment in the history of the 47-year-old revolution. He was the last of the regime’s first-generation founders. Khamenei confronted the paradox that every revolutionary caretaker must face: the revolution he preserved was designed for a world that no longer exists. George Kennan once wrote of the Soviet Union, “No mystical, Messianic movement can face frustration indefinitely without eventually adjusting itself in one way or another to the logic of that state of affairs.” Khamenei staved off that adjustment for nearly four decades through force of will, brutality, and the conviction that bending would mean breaking. In the end, he was felled by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, an American president and Israeli Prime Minister whom he loathed. He lived by “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” He died by death from America and Israel.
- Hard to pull off the "austere religious scholar" line, anymore.
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Israel Strikes Elementary School in Iran, Killing More Than 50
that fell back to the ground and struck the elementary school. The elementary school is attached to an IRGC naval base
The school appears to be adjacent to a Revolutionary Guards barracks. If the death toll is confirmed, the school bombing would be the largest mass casualty event of the US-led attack so far.
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EU naval mission: IRGC says passage through Strait of Hormuz 'not allowed'