This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

I think a lot depends on how that admin behaves. if there is A Tribunal, they expropriate like a half dozen families, and above all shut down Twitter, it might break the radicalization spiral

top comedians could never come up with a plot line as funny as trump buying his lieutenants parodically gigantic shoes and they're afraid to stop wearing them

"we"

If 176 children were slaughtered in their classrooms in Dublin, Brussels, Berlin, Tel Aviv or Texas by a foreign adversary, the world would rightfully be at a standstill. - Shona Murray www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... @shonamurray.bsky.social

‘Exploit every vulnerability’: rogue AI agents published passwords and overrode anti-virus software

It’s already happening, and Faculty who do this should be fired,whether tenured or not. Faculty who use AI to review their peers’ work should be fired. In my view these should not be controversial opinions.

ICE is trafficking people who aren’t from there to a tiny landlocked absolute monarchy on the borders of South Africa and Mozambique.

“.. Estimates from Bloomberg: Strait of Hormuz being closed for 3 months would get Brent crude #oil up to $164/barrel.” (via Schwab) ⛽️

This is how various Democrats are fucking this up. You can't trust the person described on the left to do productive things.

ooooh temu figured out it's now shorthand for "cheap off-brand garbage" and is not happy about it

Oh. @leahnylen.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“The Master has reported the container ship was struck by unknown projectile causing a small fire onboard. Full damage assessment impaired by darkness.”

Its small beans, but honestly hilarious how vain Trump is that he mistakenly said it was an "excursion" rather than "incursion" and now he's going to gaslight everyone as if that's a normal way of speaking. Just like the insane asylums with immigrants because he couldn't understand seeking asylum.

I know I’m a goddamn broken record, I really do, but Congress had a way to change that, it worked for decades, and the Supreme Court blew it up in the 1980s in a way that was impossible for Congress to fix. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In addition to oil, the war has bottled up the world’s main supply of sulphuric acid, setting back a lot of heavy industrial supply chains. theoregongroup.com/commodities/...

Another word you might use for it is "looting". "This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

The Iran-linked hackers who hit a Fortune 500 company today say it was retaliation for the U.S. missile attack on an Iranian school that killed at least 175 people.

Just now off the Senate floor: Susan Collins gets into an elevator. Chuck Schumer walks into that elevator behind her. Susan Collins quickly walks out before the door closes and looks for another elevator.

This news seems like a BFD. "one person familiar with the school strike said the building had been identified as a factory and had been an approved strike target" as the attack is "raising questions" re whether 'use of AI in this conflict had a role"

The problem, as this SW Latinx Biden '20/'24 skipper put it in a focus group last year, is that it for so many voters it feels like the world is falling apart. And Dems are not only not talking about solutions. They don't seem to even be aware of the problems.

Dems. Please. Stop proposing and running on tax cuts. I have no idea where this cursed trend came from, although I can guess. But your hypothesis on why to do this is wrong and you are badly missing where most Americans are at. Short thread with sources, focus group sound, and data.

So here we have the president deeming a lawmaker who has been mildly critical of him a traitor to the country. Once again, just imagine Obama or Biden declaring some random congressman "disloyal to the United States of America," and the round-the-clock media freakout you would have seen.

We are governed by truly evil people.

C&EN: "Strait of Hormuz closure hits Asia’s chemical industry" cen.acs.org/business/pet...

appears the ship that was damaged and partly abandoned was struck by a drone *boat*

It’s Matt Ridley, to save you some time. A man born into almost everything he’s done and caused the first bank run in the UK for a century as well as being clueless on climate change and COVID. Big Tufton St vibes though…

these graphs should scare the shit out of you

Can somebody, anybody, stand up for the Constitution? It won't defend itself!

None of that matters because he isn't allowed to be doing any of this in the first place.

Bellingcat has geolocated eight videos showing US Tomahawks cruise missiles in Iraq heading towards Iran. The missiles appear to be flying low across valleys and were most likely fired from the Mediterranean sea, an expert told us. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...

Adams is a heroic inspiration for evocative language - my favourite being ‘frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew via telekinesis’

It is already funny but now it’s become far funnier because they know everyone knows and is looking at their shoes but they still have to do this

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood. trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️ republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️ “sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️ naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️ villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️ powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️ list goes on

“Zaphod’s just this guy, you know?” somehow predicted the mess we are in on a spiritual level, I feel.

Three vessels have been hit by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz, maritime security and risk firms said on Wednesday, bringing the number of ships struck in the region since the Iran conflict began to at least 14.

Truly a perfect news alert

This is something I tell to everyone on the East Coast that I can. If you have never gone out and physically stood in front of The West before but just seen it in photos, you absolutely must. You think you have an idea, but you have no idea: it is stupendously, ridiculously bigger than you think

It smarts to have Iran now poised to give the administration its long-necessary punch to the face — but we all know that someone would eventually have to do it.

Textbook narcissistic denial. The break is going to be so ugly.

Mockler: The neocon boomers surrounding Trump are mortgaging my generation's future for another very expensive Middle Eastern war. We tried this with Iraq. We tried this with Afghanistan. It left us in trillions and trillions of dollars in debt.

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

“The first 100 hours of the war may have used hundreds of Tomahawk missiles, which can fly more than 1,000 miles and hit targets just a few meters wide… “Fewer than 100 Tomahawks are produced per year.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The US has burned through over 1,000 Patriot interceptors ($4 million each) to stop an onslaught of Iranian drones ($20k to $50k each). Using my last gift link from Bloomberg, which is doing some of the best reporting anywhere on the war. 🎁 🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Oddly enough I had that thought yesterday

Supply and Demand would like to speak to the Democratic senators out back.

Just about the most rational possible response on Iran's part. That the Trump regime has gone into this so staggeringly unprepared suggests it won't be that hard for Iran to do this. If only the fascists had a theory of mind to conceive of others as agents who also have a say in shaping the world

Renfer: I accidentally deleted my original brief because I was overwhelmed so I used AI to try and replicate my prior work