Neal Stephenson says he no longer believes head-mounted displays are the future, citing public discomfort with the devices and a general distrust of the users (Neal Stephenson/Graphomane) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

1/x “Friday’s press gaggle. Barely exaggerated: no01.substack.com/p/march-19-2...

Because the president of the United States is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. It's just that simple.

COVID didn't go away just because the people who promised it was over stopped reporting the deaths and #longCOVID they are responsible for. The attempt to bury it - and their victims - by cutting vaccines and treatments is what the banality of evil looks like in action. 🧵:

There aren’t enough jails for people who kill children through promoting and sharing anti-vaccination nonsense. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Spring Ice Tom Thomson 1915

Time’s up America. Enjoy your new civil overlord gang of morons.

This is going to be the GOAT of didn’t age well takes

Canada need to step up to help Cuba before more children or sick die from a lack of healthcare, food, medicine and fuel. Targeting civilians is not acceptable.

To be clear, in order to punish Canada*, Trump is threatening to tax Americans* an additional half-a-trillion-dollars a year.

“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them” - Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction masterpiece, Dune

This is art

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

exactly apple.news/AGHSE4REvRE-... from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

Well said!

odd?

My sources say it was former president John Barron

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

Canada entering the chat with no lies detected!👊🏾🔥🔥

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adroitly put

Saying the quiet part out loud as the Authoritarian attempts to control the truth. #25thAmendmentNOW

They’re all quite mad.

Just horrible people honestly

Ignoring science is self-destructive. “After a devastating outbreak in France, researchers there discovered bird flu was traveling on dust and aerosols. France began vaccinating its ducks in 2023 and saw a near-total reduction in bird flu cases.” www.propublica.org/article/bird...

A Pentagon recruiter openly offers corruption: “unmatched access to top-level government officials and privileged information flow — whatever you need, you can get.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

Always wrong. nationalpost.com/opinion/the-...

how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter

Look up “Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program” or “UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries)” to see examples for how the US used forced prison labour. www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...

A striking feature of Trump and his team is: they somehow imagine a world in which they are the only actors, only ones with power, and whether it's Tehran or Minneapolis are surprised when it turns out others do. There are many kinds of power and many nations with power.

Here it is #Canada. I plan to read it with champagne

not sure how to describe this kind of stupid

Insanity is very odd. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

HAJDU: "Just yesterday I heard a Conservative MP say that helping people was ideological -- if you think that helping people fix their teeth is ideological, or feeding a hungry kid at school is ideological ... I actually think you're out to lunch." #cdnpoli

pointless

Trump might as well just be Putin. www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

bring back hand coded assembly?

NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran. It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades. Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties. 175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.

Trump’s power and by extension his entire movement are built around the idea that by asserting something you manifest it in reality. Even if it’s not true many people will behave as if is so you can get away with it. It is alarmingly effective in law, domestic politics. It cannot unblock a strait.

insane and frankly criminal incompetence. as if that means anything anymore

Evil. You know it when you see it. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/inter...

The cults are upon us full force - MAGA, Evangelical/Endtimes, AntiVax, AntiScience, and now AI apple.news/AmTUHyFthTZW...

Rep. Lieu calls for a new investigation into Epstein’s death after released documents show a prison guard responsible for checking on him deposited $5000 into her account 10 days before his death and googled him right before he was found. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotic engineering, resigns citing concerns over domestic surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons systems (Sharon Goldman/Fortune) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Gosh, maybe the DoD really *does* need Claude.

Another unsolved (& admittedly hard for humans, too) AI benchmark: "write a satisfying 10 paragraph murder mystery. the pieces you need to solve the mystery should be clear enough in the first five paragraphs that you could solve it, but obscure enough that the vast majority of people will not"