2026-03-02
Worthy
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For years, you’ve sat in front of a rectangle, moving tinier rectangles, only to learn that AI can now move those rectangles 10x better. As someone outside the equity class, you begin to wonder what your role is in this new paradigm. And whether rectangles were ever your ticket to happiness in the first place. When I was the age my basketball kids were, The Social Network came out. Like so many, I am a product of that generation. I accepted the propaganda that my value to this world only went as far as my product could scale. At 28, I’m finally beginning to challenge that.
Horseshit
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We’re about to turn night into day. Is that a good idea?
A start-up called Reflect Orbital proposes to use large, mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to Earth at night, with plans to bathe solar farms, industrial sites and even entire cities in light that could, if desired, reach the intensity of daylight.
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How did I believe that? A cult survivor looks back at his lost years
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The reverse SCUBA suit is on its way: Fish Drives Tank
Epstein
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The Epstein Files And The Epstein Class
Watch a certain kind of Ivy league student give a speech and you're bound to listen to them effusively (and confusingly) praise someone else for all of their own success. Often someone peripheral to that success but who's powerful and possibly important to their ambitions, such as a college professor from whom they may later want a sterling graduate school recommendation. You see this behavior repeatedly in the Epstein files. Uncle Jeffery?...hello? Though I suppose when your life's goal is to make it into the snake pit of Goldman Sachs' upper echelon then you better learn early to "uncle Jeffery".
The Epstein files reveal the servile nature of that class of people and the ultra-narrow self interest that drives so many of them. Self interest so narrow that it can ultimately fail to serve their self-interest. This failure manifests not just in missed opportunities, but crucially at the most basic aim of self interest, ie self preservation. Reading the Epstein files is like watching greedy critters recklessly expose themselves to fatal risk for a chance to get a bite at a juicy treat. Mouse (or pussy?) trap be damned.
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Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Git was not designed with people's names changing in mind. This is a problem, because people's names do change for many reasons. The most common one many people will be familiar with is women changing their surname when marrying a man. The one I am concerned about is the name change that trans people go through as part of a social transition. Unlike changing a surname at marriage, in which a person's "maiden name" can remain common knowledge, changing your name during a transition leaves behind what we commonly call a "deadname". Revealing a trans person's deadname is a safety issue, which is a problem when working with git.
- Safety issue? No more so that revealing a maiden name...
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy
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Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since Sept 2025
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390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD
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Hackers Expose the Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside "Age Verification"
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Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading
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California introduces age verification law for OS, including Linux and SteamOS
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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OpenAI's Agreement with the Department of War
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OpenAI details layered protections in US defense department pact
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OpenAI has released Dow contract language, and it's as Anthropic claimed
OpenAI has released the language in their contract with the DoW, and it's exactly as Anthropic was claiming: "legalese that would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will". Note: the first paragraph doesn't say "no autonomous weapons"! It says "AI can't control autonomous weapons as long as existing law (that doesn't exist) or the DoD says so." Similarly, the mass surveillance use cases will "comply with existing law", but many forms of data collection that we'd consider "mass surveillance" are things that the NSA has consistently argued are legal under current law.
- In other words; the claims that Anthropic wanted to be above the law are true.
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Strike in the Middle East use Anthropic even after the Trump ban
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Claude dethrones ChatGPT as top U.S. app after Pentagon saga
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He wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took his life
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
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Bets on Fate of Iran's Khamenei Spark Uproar at Leading Prediction Markets
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Disgraced Mt Gox CEO Suggests Bitcoin Hard Fork to Recover $5 Billion in Customer Funds
On Friday, former Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles posted on X promoting a pull request he opened on the Bitcoin Core GitHub repository. The request outlined a one-time hard fork to recover roughly 79,956 BTC stolen from the exchange in 2011. The Bitcoin community quickly dismissed the idea, with the vast majority of developers and users calling it an attack on the protocol’s core properties of neutrality and censorship resistance.
Economicon / Business / Finance
Left Angst
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If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it)
This has been a long, long time coming. Long before Trump, the Snowden revelations made it clear that the US government had weaponized its position as the world's IT export powerhouse and the interchange hub for the world's transoceanic fiber links, and was actively spying on everyone – allies and foes, presidents and plebs – to attain geopolitical and commercial advantages for America. Even after that stark reminder, the world continued to putter along, knowing that the US had planted demolition charges in its digital infrastructure, but praying that the "rules-based international order" would stop America from pushing the button. Now, more than a decade into the Trump era, the world is finally confronting the reality that they need to get the hell off of American IT, and transition to open, transparent and verifiable alternatives for their administrative tools, telecoms infrastructure and embedded systems for agriculture, industry and transportation.
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OpenAI's President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It's for Humanity
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How the Federal Government Is Painting Immigrants as Criminals on Social Media
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The Pentagon says it’s ‘lethalitymaxxing’. Why has ‘incel’ slang crossed into the mainstream?
In 2026, this kind of language is appearing more frequently, from America’s most prominent newspaper to the highest tiers of the US government. Why has this disfigured way of speaking become so normalized? It starts with the rise of “incels”, a growing cohort of men who are “involuntarily celibate” and think women are to blame. Propagated via online forums like 4chan – the source of much gen Z slang – it has made its way to the mainstream thanks to a combination of algorithms, in-jokes and a Trump administration keyed into the language of these communities.
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I guess its the double "x" that makes it "incel"?
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Or is it "maxing"? (Feb 2025) Mewing, Beta Maxing, Gigachad, Baddie: Parents Are Drowning in New Lingo
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That's CNN, BBC, Financial Times, Economist, Bloomberg, and WSJ... "We learned it by watching you!"
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NIST to introduce restrictions on non-US citizens
Researchers at NIST who hail from outside the US are scrambling to find new projects, new labs, new jobs, and even new countries. They are responding to diffuse information that noncitizens are to be limited to three-year stints at NIST, and the clock is retroactive. James Kushmerick, director of NIST’s Physical Measurement Laboratory, confirmed the new policy at a 4 February town hall meeting, according to several researchers at NIST’s Boulder, Colorado, campus.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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FBI investigating 'potential nexus to terrorism' in deadly mass shooting
The FBI is investigating a “potential nexus to terrorism” in a deadly mass shooting that erupted just before 2 a.m. CT Sunday in Austin’s entertainment district, leaving at least three people dead, including the suspected gunman, and 14 others wounded.
Texas gunman, who killed 2 and injured 14 at a bar, identified as Ndiaga Diagne, a U.S. citizen born in Senegal. Diagne was wearing a shirt that said "Property of Allah" with an undershirt referring to Iran, according to multiple sources.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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Remember how we went into the USSR archives after the Soviet fall and found out which American groups, etc. they'd been funding? Getting the opportunity to do so with Iran would be very interesting.
- Thread is interesting for the people who don't believe the Russians fund US groups.
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U.S. Military Has Used Long-Range Kamikaze Drones in Combat for the First Time
America's clone of Iran's Shahed-136 had been used against Iran in an ironic vignette of modern drone warfare.
“The U.S. military got hold of an Iranian Shahed,” according to the U.S. official in December. “We took a look and reverse-engineered it. We are working with a number of U.S. companies in the innovation space.” “The LUCAS drone is the product of that [reverse-engineering] effort,” the official added. “It pretty much follows the Shahed design.”
The LUCAS was designed by SpektreWorks. Its website provides basic specifications for a related target drone design called the FLM 136, which has a stated maximum range of 444 miles and can stay aloft for up to six hours. Its total payload capacity, not counting fuel, is 40 pounds, and it cruises at a speed of around 74 knots (with a dash speed of up to 105 knots). Whether these details reflect the capabilities of the operationalized LUCAS design is unclear.
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Apparently these differ from "cruise missiles" in costing under $40k each, with much smaller payload, speed, and maybe shorter range.
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Tomahawks spearheaded US strike on Iran — why presidents reach for this missile first
Overall, the Tomahawk has been deployed more than 2,350 times. At roughly $1.4 million apiece, the Tomahawk missile has an intermediate range of 800 to 1,553 miles and can be launched from more than 140 U.S. Navy ships and submarines.
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Iran's Missile Barrage Tests Whether US Has Enough Interceptors
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U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run Out
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US Military says 3 service members have been killed
3 U.S. service members were killed, 5 wounded: The U.S. military said three service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded since the operations began. They are the first known American casualties from the fighting.
World
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Not only the AfD, but all political parties, have randos saying potentially or probably or even certainly anti-constitutional things. To justify a ban, you need more than random people saying random things. You need to show a) that the party is fundamentally opposed to the “free democratic basic order” (an ideological trinity consisting of human dignity, democracy and the rule of law), and b) that it exercises this opposition in an “aggressive” or “combative” manner. The BfV have hardly addressed b) at all, and their evidence has not convinced the court that a) applies.
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Dutch Tax Authority hands US software company control over VAT system
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Afghan Taliban open to talks after Pakistan bombs Kabul, Kandahar
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AWS UAE suffers AZ outage after "objects strike data center", amid Iran attacks
Iran / Houthi
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei Dies
An announcer appearing on state television broke down in tears early on Sunday as he confirmed the killing, saying the 86-year-old "achieved his long cherished wish of martyrdom in the holy month of Ramadan." "Today, Iran, the Islamic nations and freedom seekers across the world are grieving the evil attacks by the criminal Americans and wicked Zionists," he said. "The martyrdom of a personality of such great stature will begin a great uprising in the fight against the world's oppressors," he added. The semi-official Fars news agency, which has links to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported that Khamenei's daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter were also killed in the strikes.
The Washington Post published one of their infamous glowing remembrances of Islamic terrorists. The paper fondly remembered the brutal Islamic dictator as a “avuncular figure” with an “easy smile” and love for “Persian poetry.”
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Prior to attacks CIA assessed Khamenei could be replaced by IRGC headliners
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Shipping Traffic Through Strait of Hormuz Plummets After Attacks on Iran
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Trump crossed a ‘very dangerous red line,’ Iranian official to CNN | CNN
Khatibzadeh said many Shiite followers across the world will react to the killing of Khamenei. “Of course, from a religious aspect, he was a great religious leader, so many of Shiite followers across the region and around the world are going to react to that, and this is very obvious because President Trump passed a very dangerous red line,” Khatibzadeh said. “We have no option but to respond,” he added.
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Cyber attacks launched alongside with U.S.-Israeli military attack on Iran
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's ex-president, killed in Israeli airstrikes
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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A Small Nonprofit Did What the FDA Would Not
When you account for what the FDA failed to account for, the math changes. Vaccine risks outweighed benefits for the general population of 18–25-year-old males relative to hospitalizations: those caused by vaccine-attributable myocarditis/pericarditis exceeded the hospitalizations prevented via vaccination — by between 8% and 52%, with the team’s most likely scenario showing a 38% excess.
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Antarctica just saw the fastest glacier collapse ever recorded
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Why heterothermic animals control their body temperature
a growing body of research suggests that many more animals than scientists once appreciated employ this flexible approach — heterothermy — varying their body temperature for minutes, hours or weeks at a time. This may help the animals to persist through all sorts of dangers.
- Humans have a wider range than Official Science admits.
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California wants heat pumps. High power bills might get in the way