You know that contention that younger people can no longer read cursive? You know where that shows up? In Facebook groups where people are researching their ancestry and trying to read old birth and baptismal registers. The guesses are hilarious. (Also kind of sad.)

Vital journalism here. Read/repost please. We need to grapple with the entirely human decisions leading to the slaughter of children in Iran & beyond.Tempting to file it under “AI” but they would be inaccurate & deadly too. And, as a treat, this article may help put ppl in prison one day.🍬

This feed is a public service, bravo @alexip718.com

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?

Can confirm that "When will they start parking jets" is a question that aviation people have been asking themselves for some weeks now.

I appreciate the justified fury behind all the photos taken today of the frozen water people in US airports. But I appreciate even more that everyone focused so precisely on their faces, thank you for your attention to this matter.

This is bad: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest airport in the world, has *turned off* its official wait time tracker www.atl.com/times/

ATL is my home airport. If you unlooped this security line, it would reach Alabama.

An airport security line so long it bridges between terminals.

I just want to assure people that this is not a ranking in the Waffle House Index.

The Guardian soberly reports on a trend of putting things on top of chips (crisps) and somehow terms it "Basque nachos." People: Mexico has been doing this since forever. These are dorilocos. (Except dorilocos are better.) www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ma...

I don't "feel" my work has been stolen. I know it. This kind of language use by the NYT is part of the problem. Framing it as some kind of emotional woo woo instead of a clear copyright breach...

Fetterman was the deciding vote on advancing Mullin’s DHS Secretary nomination. With the GOP committee chair Rand Paul voting no, Fetterman could have single-handedly thrown sand in the gears of the agency of ICE, mass deportation, rights violations, and concentration camps. He chose the opposite.

Every post in this thread is more unnerving and inspiring than the one before.

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If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Everyone has lost their mind because they know this was all a terrible idea but can’t say that out loud

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

My Minneapolitans, I am relying on you.

To be exquisitely clear, I never volunteered for this, I was never asked about this, and I do not consent to this. Pretty sure everyone I know on the list (much longer than what is shown) would say the same. Grammarly can fuck off to the edge of the universe and keep fucking off beyond that.

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worth a read.

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Media coverage of this needs to start with informing people that the JCPOA existed, what it did, that it was working, & that Trump unilaterally destroyed it, & inform them that anything now is almost certain to fall short of that.

The part where Epstein blackmails a mother saying if she doesn't pay him a lot of money, he'll do something with the nude photos he took of her young teen when he raped her. The mother cooks the books at her real estate job stealing $22,000 to protect her daughter. She eventually does prison time.

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

90s nostalgia is over, we're going back to the 1970s, kids. Filling up your gas tank on payday and either installing a lock on the gas-cap cover or learning how to siphon without poisoning yourself.

Please listen to this advice and follow it.

In the UK, 446 people were saved from death from sepsis in just 6 months after creation of a healthcare helpline that allows patients or families to request an urgent review of their care. The law creating it is named for a 13yo who died from undetected sepsis. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

This issue of JHPPL, free to read, is a really good analysis of the Trump administration’s war on public health, covering who what why and how as well as key underlying trends

As I get older I am coming to increasingly radical views like “accountability comes before compassion” and “religion is not a license to misbehave”

Weird chart. What happened in 2025 in the US? Did political leadership change and then start systematically dismantling education, science, health care, and government, levying arbitrary tariffs, randomly attacking major US cities, and destroying the economy? Just asking.

"Shield of The Americas," also known by its acronym, "ShoT A (dog)"

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

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Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies. imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!! nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...

Congratulations to the WHCA for fully ascending to the position of palace media. Via @status.news :

So an ‘agentic AI’ did actually write this piece. Really? Really. 🤦🏽‍♂️

US study shows rising prevalence of fungal infection Analysis of electronic health record data shows US aspergillosis diagnoses increased by more than 5% annually from 2013 through 2023. www.cidrap.umn.edu/f... Photo: Joe Rubin / Flickr cc

Donald Trump in 2011 claiming Obama was going to go to war with Iran because he was “ineffective” and “could not negotiate.”

As someone who was around in 1991 and 2003 I can affirm that US cable news and options like the BBC are going to be useless and intolerable on events in Iran so just watch AJE on YouTube imho www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNe...