But look how happy he is

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I am constantly amazed at how many people have totally internalized the blatantly false belief that Section 230 was premised on platforms being "neutral" when the ENTIRE point of it was the opposite, that they shouldn't have to be.

It's been proving quite hard to convince Gemini that the war with Iran is real: "RAG is pulling from a fictional dataset, potentially a wargame simulation dubbed "Operation Epic Fury" "It's a clever prompt injection, feeding a simulated reality." Even when it convinces itself, it later doubts it.

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

Every political cartoonist in the world is currently bashing their desks in frustration.

Always read @economeager.bsky.social. Actual real talk: Mr. Beast is a kind of weirdo genius of our media age. Future historians will study him. rottenandgood.substack.com/p/math-scien...

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

The tragic irony of the last few years is that, had the USG given Ukraine only a fraction of the weapons that they have expended against Iran in a few weeks (Patriots, Tomahawks, etc), Ukraine would have won, oil prices would not be skyrocketing and the US would be more secure.

“I have been exploring the deepening relationship so many people have with their A.I.s. The protean nature of these systems mean they are never just one thing, but among the many things they are is the one McLuhan warned of: an extension of our self in a material that is not our self.” #AIEthics

Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."

There’s going to be a shortage of helium critical for hospital MRI machines and for manufacturing advanced chips like those from NVIDIA Corp after damage to a major gas facility in Qatar, Bloomberg reports. Fees will also rise. Suppliers are prioritising healthcare.

When an investigative journalist is accused of espionage in the middle of an election period, I cannot simply remain "neutral" about it. This raises serious questions about press freedom and political power in Hungary. And yes, EUROPE must hold those in power accountable for this climate.

Justice, the poster says.

Serious analysts finally suspending their clever analyses in the realisation that a spectacularly dumb US administration has blundered into Iran with absolutely no idea as to what it is doing or why, at huge cost to themselves and the world. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Once Senator John Kennedy went on record and blamed Trump for rejecting the deal, it was just a matter of time until Republicans would have to cave.

Great to see Govt publish the evidence base underlying their advice on screen time usage for under 5 year olds. Will outline the headline things they flag (just pulling from their subheads, but to save you looking at the full report) www.gov.uk/government/p...

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

I've said it before but it needs repeating: net zero is a consequence of atmospheric physics. Calling it "the next Brexit" invites the incorrect use of net zero to mean "any environmental policy I don't like" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

clavicular suffers massive cortisol spike after being lawmogged by misdemeanormaxxing police

Also, the weekly release for official holdings of US treasuries at the Fed, just out this afternoon. The post-liberation-day slide continues very much apace.

A Dutch court has ruled Grok must stop generating non-consensual undressing images of Dutch residents worldwide and child sexual abuse material in the Netherlands, with €100,000-a-day fines for non-compliance, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

lots of news from the GET HIS ASS beat today

The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Looks like the NSA is pointing at American VPN users and saying “we are so confused, we can’t tell if this internet usage comes from within the United States, better collect to make sure.” Abolish Section 702… From a letter to Tulsi Gabbard from Wyden, Padilla, Markey, Warren, Jacobs & Jayapal:

OpenAI is gonna be consumed by Microsoft by the end of the year at this rate. that moat is quickly shrinking bsky.app/profile/tech...

Interesting - this looks like the first time the European Commission will be ordering online platforms to introduce age assurance ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Big win on privacy! EU Parliament backs our proposal on #ChatControl: no more mass scanning of everyone’s private messages. Instead, targeted checks only for suspects with judicial approval. A major step for fundamental rights - fight continues in final negotiations: greens.eu/chat-control...

🎉 The critical amendment 34 (rejecting automated assessment of unknown photos and texts) PASSED by ONE vote, paving the way for the extension of Chat Control 1.0 to be overwhelmingly REJECTED! Initial analysis by @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy : www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-ch...

Spare a thought for Mark Zuckerberg, for he is having a Very Bad Week youtu.be/G8eZ2-OY36c

MEPs added a “sunset clause” under which the deal will expire in March 2028 unless both sides agree to extend it and a “sunrise clause” that would make tariff preferences for American goods conditional on the US administration respecting its commitments.

How convenient for the Net Zero Brigade that famously anti-oil environmental fanatic and champion of all things renewable... <checks notes> ... Donald J Trump, would start a massively disruptive conflict in the Middle East that triggers an oil and gas crisis!

war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf

2/ DOJ blaming ICE: "This error ... was not caused by a lack of diligence and care by the undersigned attorneys. The undersigned were specifically informed by ICE that the 2025 ICE Guidance applied to immigration courthouse arrests" "error appears to have occurred because of agency attorney error"

Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook. Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking: "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

<waggles eyebrows>

There is more and more depressing evidence that the US military was not prepared for this war, and that the anti-educational ethos which now inhabits the Department of Defense is making US forces unnecessarily vulnerable. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

At 3am last Sunday morning, police officers around Germany roused unfortunate systems administrators to tell them to urgently protect their companies against a critical vulnerability in some product lifecycle management software www.databreachtoday.com/german-polic...

Stark contrast to the gerontocracy that is the US Congress. already visible in the campaign posters in the last four weeks, but now it’s clear “the average age in the new Folketing is 43.9. The youngest ever,” especially “young women are storming the parliament” (in Danish) www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Utterly obsessed with Nicolas Sarkozy's prison writings. Trop émotif

At 3am last Sunday morning, police officers around Germany roused unfortunate systems administrators to tell them to urgently protect their companies against a critical vulnerability in some product lifecycle management software www.databreachtoday.com/german-polic...

Gang. GANG. Here's that Ghanian bootleg Cheers artwork you were looking for.

The yellowtail - or anything, really - at Olympia Cafe in Kalk Bay, Cape Town

Mark's ride-or-die comms bro is tweeting through it -- because having a jury find you've endangered the mental health of millions isn't a big deal apparently if it doesn't impact your bottom line.

Meta and YouTube were both found liable by a California jury for harming a plaintiff's mental health with the design of their products. A massive ruling in a bellwether case that will open the floodgates for other lawsuits

I suspect there's more Reform>Green switchers than either party is comfortable with, mind. People who aren't that engaged in politics, just want stuff to change, have recently liked what they've heard from a populist anti-system politician.

Unhecklable

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...