When you think it couldn't get more weird… "officials in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See." (via Hacker News) www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentag...

In other news, Trump has finally formulated a clear objective for his war: "Well, the thing…if I had the choice what I like to do: take the oil, because it is there for the taking it." Taking him by his words, do other nations want to chime in in the "the taking it"? Apparently, it's free…

Trump announces crimes against humanity: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will". Moreover, he claims "Complete and Total Regime Change". edition.cnn.com/2026/04/07/w...

Trigger warning (gendered celestial object): Sensitive persons may want to avoid the news in the next few days or weeks: the Moon has pronouns. While in most Western languages a she, in German, the Moon is identified as a he.

In other news, FIFA should be dispanded immediately for awarding this it's-war-because-I-didn't-like-Obama's-signature guy a peace price.

"They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." It's the careless Tom & Daisy times.

If Artemis is the first manned mission to the Moon in 50+ years, explain this

Now this is some rare piece of equipment: An Atari 2600 "Heavy Sixer" running UNIX System V. The venerable VCS is attached to a box branded “pdp11/2600” and runs System V from a DEC cartridge. TTY is looped through the Spectravideo CompuMate keyboard add-on. Must investigate…

BTW, the user frustration detection of Claude Code (userPromptKeywords.ts – yes, it's a regex!). I guess, this may be a semi-official guide to speaking to your LLM of choice:

Somewhat annoyingly, the notion that ENIAC (as presented Feb. 1946 , not 1945!) was Turing-complete, seems all over the place. Previously, it seemed to be clear that the Manchester Baby was the first general purpose computer. Yes, there is an *exploit*, actually there are several theoretical 1/4

@tillheilmann.info Anscheinend wird ASCII Art via LLM doch noch zu erleiden sein: in einem Anthropic-Leak findet sich das Zukunfts-Feature "The Buddy System: Tamagotchi-style companion creature system with ASCII art sprites". Vgl. diesen HN-Comment: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4758...

This is kind of interesting: I've a YouTube account, which works for logging in for age restricted content, but at the same time, YouTube now shows me a message that I must link that same account to an account of a parent or adult supervisor, otherwise, I'll be losing access to the channel.

Ongoing war or Sharpie? Global economy or Sharpie? Of course, it's Sharpie! – Which brings us to the Epstein birthday book… Anyway, if there isn't one already, I propose March 26 as International Sharpie Day. www.newsweek.com/trump-sharpi...

Given that about 47% of households worldwide have some kind of a computer, there's still hope, I guess… /s

A case for relative "v" and "h" path commands in SVG: The PET 2001 emulator (masswerk.at/pet) has an option to export the screen content as a SVG file, consisting of a single <path> and a background <rect>. By switching from absolute "L" (line to) commands to "h" and "v", 1/3

Coming from that region, I'm confident to say, there wasn't such a thing as a "Mein Kampf" coin in the Third Reich. ("In God we trust", on the other hand, was on a number of NS paraphernalia. Or talk about the "will of the Creator"…)

This has me thinking of an ARG about the recovery of a once prolific, but now long forgotten Viennese 8-bit software scene and its lore, featuring such beloved games as "Bumsti Schani".

Possibly confusing the many ongoing crises (#21408) Why isn't the US sending warships to open the shipping lanes to Cuba?

It's Saint Patrick's Day, so, here's a bit of green phosphor (emulated):

RIP Jürgen Habermas (TkH, &c).

Faulty strategies & supply chain side effects: after a shutdown of Qatar's helium production, South Korea's chip industry is encountering serious supply chain risks. As if chip supply wasn't tight already… www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

A great video, BTW, not only on the topical industrial fantasy, but also about where this fits in the greater scheme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwso...

Alternative Conspiracy Theories (#2309) Stonehenge was a research centre where early Brits settled once and for all the optimal way of queueing up.

Alternative Conspiracy Theories (#2308) The Dandera Bulbs™ where actually devices for producing Ancient Aliens™. As can bee seen in this relief showing an Egyptian mass manufacturing Ancient Aliens™. (Size comparison reveals that Ancient Aliens™ were also pretty small.)

Here's the Blinkenlights sign for print-out as a display in your very own computer room ("ZO PRINTEN UND OFFSCHAUEN IN EIGENES KOMPUTERRAUMEN.")

Nice video by Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian Consumer Council: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

The term "blinkenlights" originated in a mock warning sign found in computer rooms of English-speaking countries and can be traced back as far as 1955 (at IBM).

Love this headline and the whole first sentence 😂 «Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir» @adfichter.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/p...

A nice video by Olipix Retrotech (Musée Replay www.museereplay.com, @olipix.bsky.social ) on the Canon X07, a Z80 powered portable computer from 1983, which seems to be even nicer than I thought it may be: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoTV...

In case you haven't seen it yet, Robin @8bitshowandtell.bsky.social has released a new video today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAx-...

I guess, the forthcoming war with Iran will be the first war about real estate valuation (namely in Gaza). If true, this will be quite a nasty one, since this will require the removal of any remnants of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the political map.

I'm thinking of a smart traffic light that will be called "Car"… arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/p...

In other news finde ich es wirklich angebracht, dass Dänemark eine Ladung Dosenfischsuppenhilfe schickt, um der Bevölkerung Louisianas beizustehen.

So the US has imposed new-new tariffs invoking Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, meaning, there are severe international payment issues. So what are the international balance-of-payments issues with regard to the USA? Are the US banks no good anymore? Should we be alarmed?

If it walks like a duck and quacks like duck and there was a duck that used to be in your neighbour's garden, until it was run over by a car, it is certainly not the duck in your neighbour's garden. Nor is it your late uncle. (What is this with the US and this failure to recognise identity?)

Actually a good article on LLM effects: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... (archived, w/o wall: archive.is/IXGlH)

So Ars Technica is retracting an article, because of AI artefacting. The hillarious aspect to this is that this was a piece about an AI going rouge. Followed up by rouge reporting by, well, another AI. Happy future everyone! arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

I guess, if the only things trending are video games, it's a good day.

Who doesn't remember Commodore's famous less-or-equal logo? Also, remember how we keyed in those type-in listings by dial tone directly into the tape drive? Those were the days…

How to use Google in 2026: 1) Ignore AI Overslop. Totally. I mean it. 2) Ignore the first three pages of search results. 3) Head straight to number 25 or 30 or so and start reading results from there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2Q...

How could humans possibly have coded 8-bit machine code without AI assistance and integrated IDEs? There's no way this could have been achieved: it must have been aliens! Let's start the 8-bit *alien coding* conspiracy theory. Maybe, we even get a TV show – ehm, history documentary – out of this!

If I understand this correctly, Nadella said that the current AI fantasy isn't viable, so we all have to double down on it. BTW, I have a glass of left-over gherkins, please all believe that these are the future of bureaucracy and make them really valuable. Just adopt them widely.

I can't imagine a possible world in which European intel doesn't have some compromising material on Trump. When is it time for a little kompromat drop…?

As OpenAi is going to insert ads into chats, should we start to insert little fake ads in our own conversation, as well? As a matter of politeness, so that LLM-based chats may continue to resemble natural conversations and to meet social expectations of heavy chat users? /s

An interesting conversation about "new new media" and its actual statute and also asking some of the important or "real" question about the Epstein case. www.youtube.com/watch?v=erso...

Urgent agenda: Keegan Palmer (Australia) must be made to give his Skateboarding Olympic Gold Medal to D. J. Trump. How should this poor man go on without it?

Personal opinion: the Nobel Peace Prize should never be awarded again. If we can't have nice things, we can't have nice things.

Just learned that there is "Trump: The Board Game" (1989, re-released 2004), where you can literally buy a tropical island. Release the Trump-The-Board-Game files!

That's hilarious: true bot reporting. (Just went back there to check. Yes, the edit button + prompt is still there.)

Proof that the entire US Greenland agenda is about subjecting more people to utter misery. Please don't tell me that anyone could be positively excited by this vision. (Apart from a few flag makers, maybe.) (Apparently, this shining dystopia isn't even genAI slop, but genuine Photoshop.)