2026-03-16
Horseshit
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Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs
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Estranged and Alone? How to Find Community After Going 'No Contact' with Family
At least 27% of adults over the age of 18 are estranged from a relative, according to a survey published in the 2020 book Fault Lines by Karl Pillemer, a Cornell professor of human development in the College of Human Ecology. Research on estrangement has been, up until recently, sparse, particularly when it comes to estrangement data that focuses specifically on Gen Z (which is odd, considering that another study found that the average age of first paternal estrangement is 23 years old). But where the data lacks, the topic of toxic family dynamics seems to be increasing rapidly among younger generations. There’s rapt interest in the lives of public figures with strained familial relations, like Miley Cyrus and father Billy Ray and Vivian Wilson and father Elon Musk (not to mention the explosive popularity of books like Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson and I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy.) Then, there’s social media. The phrase “parents estrangement” on Instagram populates an endless flow (probably hundreds or thousands) of quote and advice posts and videos that range from a couple hundred to millions of views per post. On TikTok alone, the phrase “no contact” is attached to at least 299,000 posts. The subreddit /EstrangedAdultchild boasts over 51,000 members.
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i started growing lettuce in a spare server cabinet. this is, for many reasons, a terrible idea. here's how i did it.
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Young people are turning to old-school hobbies to get off their phones
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Six friends started an annual trip. It would become a lifeline
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Sculpting jaws, giving scores: Inside the world of looksmaxxing
Obit
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Britain's Populist Right Has Surrendered Its Mind to America
Ethnographic research had some great insights. One respondent described influencer content as giving “a real insight instead of a biased view of things” - treating street-level videos as more authentic than mainstream journalism. Another cited far-right commentators Charlie Veitch and Paul Joseph Watson as trusted sources on immigration and urban decline, describing their content as “quite truthful.” And this is exactly why we have to look deeper into the digital world in which the populists have prospered.
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A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era
Electric / Self Driving cars
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Honda is killing its EVs – and any chance of competing in the future
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I bought a $2k electric ATV from China. Here's what showed up
I got the thing uncrated and then added a pair of 72V 30Ah LiFePO4 batteries into the empty battery box (I forgot to mention that, like any good toy, it was a batteries-not-included affair). I wired the batteries in parallel to give me a 60Ah pack with 4.32 kWh of capacity. That felt like enough, but we’re kind of making this up as we go along here, so who really knows? It was certainly thrilling, but also felt like overkill, so one early mod I performed was to downgrade the motor back to the factory-suggested 1.5 kW motor.
Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Trump administration to be paid $10B for brokering TikTok deal
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The Zoomer Obsession with DVDs Is a Blueprint for Saving Gaming
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Live Nation worker admitted ignoring predatory ticket broker practices
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As is tradition: EA Lays Off Staff Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch
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Nathan Fillion Says 'Firefly' Animated Series in Development
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And most heavily promoted: MacBook Neo emerges as company's most repairable laptop in more than a decade
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Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
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Meta and Google trial: are infinite scroll and autoplay creating addicts?
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ASRock launches Frankensteined motherboard with one DDR4 slot and two DDR5 slots
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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The Operator That Dethroned a King: Python's Walrus Operator Story
How two characters — a colon and an equals sign — caused Python's creator to resign, reshaped open source governance forever, and eventually became one of the language's most elegant features.
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It's hard to put a finger on what exactly Lotus Notes was from a modern perspective because the software itself was highly generalized. Wikipedia puts it like this: "Notes and Domino is a cross-platform, distributed document-oriented NoSQL database and messaging framework and rapid application development environment that includes pre-built applications like email, calendar, etc." Let's set aside for the moment the matter of Domino, which we have not introduced, and focus on the parts like "distributed document-oriented NoSQL database" and "messaging framework" which are strange ways to describe a groupware package but actually a very logical way to describe a rapid application development product—mentioned here as just one of the things that Lotus Notes is. I suppose that's a bit of synecdoche.
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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How risky is the Artemis 2 astronaut launch to the moon? NASA would rather not say.
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'Shiny' geometric object spotted on Mars sparks call for NASA probe
A party hat-shaped object spotted on Mars is drawing renewed scrutiny, with some experts suggesting it could be evidence of something major while others offered a trashy explanation for the cone. The object — roughly 20 centimeters long with a flat end — was first photographed by NASA’s Curiosity Rover in 2022 in Gale Crater near the Red Planet’s equator, and flagged on March 8 by Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb in a post on Medium. “Should we just assume that the mysterious cylinder is human-made debris and move on or turn back the rover to figure out whether its origin is different?” Loeb asked in a Medium post. Loeb urged NASA to dispatch the small SUV-sized Curiosity Rover, currently on the slopes of Mars’ Mount Sharp, to investigate the object, which was about 5 miles away. “The most likely explanation is that it corresponds to human-made debris,” Loeb wrote.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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'Revolutionary': Ukrainian para-biathlete wins silver using ChatGPT as his coach
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Dog's Cancer Cure via ChatGPT and mRNA Vaccine Offers Hope for Humans
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Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
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Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images
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The AI-driven 'kill chain' transforming how the US wages war
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The Pentagon Went to War with Anthropic. What’s Really at Stake?
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AI generates nude images that outrank real photographs in sexual appeal
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
Your next car purchase comes with an unwelcome passenger: a federal mandate requiring surveillance technology that monitors your every blink, glance, and head nod. Thanks to Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, NHTSA must finalize rules forcing all new passenger vehicles to include “advanced impaired driving prevention technology”
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Virginia legislature passes balcony solar bill – Utility Dive
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CIA Prepares Criminal Referral of Tucker Carlson, as Israel et al. Demand Arrest
Tucker said he had learned from several high-placed sources — and he obviously has many within the Trump administration — that the CIA was preparing a criminal referral about him to the DOJ. The subject of the agency’s report of suspected crimes: conversations he allegedly had with Iranian officials and others living in Iran prior to the start of the Trump-Netanyahu war. The clear implication was that Tucker had committed acts of subversion, or even treason, by speaking to Iranians in advance of the war that was about to be launched on their country. Despite how innately shocking this claim is, I had and still have zero doubt that Tucker was telling the truth about what he heard. I have known him for many years, spent much time talking to him both in front of a camera and away from one, and never once has he lied to me or misled me.
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State Department Cuts Price of Renouncing U.S. Citizenship to $450
Left Angst
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Costs and Benefits from the New Energy Crisis
Some of the winners are obvious: Russia and oil producers everywhere except in the Persian Gulf. The losers may come as a surprise: American consumers are being hit hard even though the US produces more oil and natural gas than it consumes, while China, despite its dependence on imported hydrocarbons, is relatively insulated from this shock.
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FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over 'hoaxes' about Iran war
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Jeff Bezos wants Washington Post’s newsroom budget halved, productivity doubled
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Texas Antifa Cell Convicted On Terror Charges As Trump Targets Far-Left | ZeroHedge
On Friday, nine defendants accused of being part of a North Texas "Antifa Cell" were convicted by a federal jury in Fort Worth. The incident in question took place on July 4th, 2025, at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas - where anti-ICE protests functioned as cover for the vandalization of government property (vehicles, guard shack, security cameras), the use if exploding fireworks at the facility, and the shooting of a police officer. The nine defendants faced a total of 65 charges that included attempted murder, aiding terrorists, and weapons charges. Those supporting the defendants have called those charges "outrageous", saying the defendants were there protesting ICE and that the government has gone overboard to send a message. The most serious charge (attempted murder, on which group member Benjamin Song was convicted) was against an Alvarado police lieutenant (Lt. Thomas Gross), a local law enforcement officer who responded to the scene after a 911 call. He was ambushed and shot in the neck by gunfire from a wooded area as he exited his vehicle (he survived). Shots were fired toward responding officers and possibly toward the facility/guards, but no reports confirm any ICE agents (as in deportation/enforcement officers) were directly shot or injured. Leftists on social media are already calling for violence against the jury who convicted their "comrades".
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Convictions for Parents of Teen Shooters Put Wyoming Gun Culture Under Scrutiny
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Hacked data shines light on homeland security's AI surveillance ambitions