We continue to live in the absolute dumbest timeline imaginable.

CNN@cnn.com · last wk.

Users in the United States will now see the smallest of the Great Lakes identified as "Lake America" on Google Maps, following President Donald Trump's executive order mandating the change in how the US government refers to the lake amid his tense trade war with Canada. https://cnn.it/4gGw7ky

Darryl Taft was a tech journalist who pursued his beat with a genuine interest in the people that made tech what it was. The world lost someone good today and it hits Baltimore right in the chest. 💔 I enjoyed every single interaction I had with Darryl. My condolences to everyone in his orbit. RIP

I can save you some tokens. You did poorly on your date. Asking a computer to evaluate an innately irrational and emotional situation is... perhaps missing the whole point?

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2mo ago

we're so cooked www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Ken is on fire today. 🔥

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I feel like if you’re suggesting that being a misogynist dipshit is essential to political success, that says more about you than it does about politics.

Hunkerousness [HUNG-ker-us-nes] (n.) - Old fogy-ism; political conservatism; an inexplicable opposition to compassion, kindness, progress, and equality.

This is the way

Camille Fournier@skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 4mo ago

Fuck yeah. I have done this. I encourage this. Especially if you have shit you need from the project!

Worth a read pebblebed.com/blog/intelli...

gamifying killing pedestrians

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

Wut.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

anyway here’s @greatdismal.bsky.social in 2011 in Zero History describing the obsession with tactical clothing as a fetishized pursuit in a way that perfectly nails the combat cosplay of modern day ICE and BPD

if you have been personally victimized by bhyve’s lack of nested virt, you may be entitled to compensation! see here for more information: oxide.computer/careers/sw-h...

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I love the hope in @masnick.com's piece here (and appreciate being quoted), but I want to add an important bit of context — whether it's possible for LLMs to enable anything open to survive depends on who has power over those LLMs. Right now, that's fascists. Which is why the open web is in danger…

Techdirt feed reader@tdrto000.bsky.social · 6mo ago

AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Might I suggest it be followed by a #MeatIn day. That should satisfy the farmers. I'll support both days with fervor. share.google/Wa8ukpYbcgBC...

Maryland Farmers Push Back After Governor Declares ‘MeatOut Day’ - The BayNet

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Maryland Farm Bureau is voicing concerns about a recent proclamation by Wes Moore recognizing March 20 as “MeatOut Day,” saying the observance does not reflect the contributions o...

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I now join the chorus of folks looking for a job. I’ve got some software and systems engineering expertise, some AI/ML expertise, and I’ve been in a business seat for the past few years, meaning I know a lot more about how GTM, sales, etc works than I did. Let me know if you’d like to talk.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Lots of guys with backwards ball caps and truck nutz never gonna listen to Philip Glass again

You know, many of us said the post 9/11 War on Terror measures were Orwellian bullshit at the time, from DHS to ICE. The Patriot Act was chilling as well. Some of us objected vociferously. Perhaps we didn't have the mics or the power, but we remember 2001-2005 as a terrible time in this country.

A reminder that it's your last day for 2025 charitable giving. Food insecurity, homelessness, and reproductive health services are big on my list of targets but whatever yours are, now's the time to finish them if you haven't

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 9mo ago

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

EVERY house we looked at in altadena had a high fire risk, so we looked and bought in Pasadena even though there was less inventory. EVERY house i looked at in Altadena burned in Eaton, four weeks after we closed. Eaton missed our house by five blocks. the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 9mo ago

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

I'm excited to get on board too!

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 10mo ago

Madrid ↔️ Lisbon in just 3 hours – we're on board 🚄 Today, we adopted a plan to complete the Madrid–Lisbon high-speed rail connection by 2034. This is a key step in fully integrating Portugal and Spain into the European high-speed rail network. More → link.europa.eu/kqjJHM

Out-and-out superb explanation.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Trans girls on gender affirming hormone replacement therapy are girls in both physiological and performance terms! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Physical Fitness and Body Composition in Transgender vs. Cisgender Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Objective To compare fitness and body composition between transgender and cisgender individuals. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and SportDis...

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Kirsti Miller@kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Physical Fitness & Body Composition in Trans vs. C1s Individuals: synthesises data from 51 studies demonstrating that, in trans women there are no significant differences with c1s women in upper/lower-body strength or VO2 peak after 1–3 years of GAHT. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

Wanted to look at the new line of Polk Audio speakers. Got about 5 pages into the site and got a Cloudflare block. I'm not using a VPN or anything else wonky. No more research into Polk for me. It's truly surprising how sensitive I am to being told I'm not wanted somewhere. I just go elsewhere. /1

This is wild. Fantastic journalism.

NPR@npr.org · 11mo ago

The cough syrup was contaminated with industrial chemicals. Experts say this is no accident. It's the latest case of what is being called a global crime. n.pr/4nQIGfM

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91