AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE

Ollie Ballinger has an open source Google Earth Engine workflow for detecting building damage in Iran based on Sentinel-1 radar data. "Open access battle damage detection via Pixel-Wise T-Test on Sentinel-1 imagery"

Wow: "AI chatbots came second in trust levels, right after family doctors. They outranked elected representatives, civil servants and even faith leaders." www.cip.org/blog/introdu... I'm pretty pro-AI and this still makes me uneasy...

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

This is some quality software archaeology computer.rip/2026-03-14-l...

when life hands you liminal spaces make liminalade

I guess it’s a little poetic that the tech industry invented a transformative new employment-destroying technology and the very first industry it‘s going to destroy is tech

It's weird to think that I went through several rounds of interviews with a16z ten years ago

Given the state of the world today you gotta think outside the box (original source unknown)

I'm convinced that the technology of fiction has advanced dramatically in recent decades. The reason a lot of old pulp novels don't hold up (and could be written at astonishing speed) isn't just that tastes have changed—it's that there's WAY more competition now, so modern authors HAVE to be better.

A long time ago I was a junior Verilog programmer / "hardware designer," which gives me some context for being very very impressed by this arxiv.org/abs/2603.08716

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes." AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

Great Blue Herons in the great blue sky ...

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

Hey @aedwardslevy.bsky.social, what do you make of this poll? manhattan.institute/article/the-... I ask because it's the source of this terrifying statistic that showed up in the NYT today, and I want to know how seriously I should take it. (NYT article is here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...)

Starting to think they awarded this guy the FIFA peace prize prematurely

Why call it "rendered impossible due to sleep deprivation" when "cancelled by woke" is right there.

Punk's not dead, but... www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

it’s genuinely bonkers how every billboard in San Francisco is like: “Zirping your Pingos got you buggin? Yeah, Fnarf’s on that 🤖🦾”

Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

“I never want to end up in a position where I’m one of the Ningyōzukai manipulating the arms and legs of this puppet that frankly hasn’t been relevant since the early 17th century,” said the Marty Supreme star

I can't compete with this.

"To bring up an elephant in the room for an example, there are many people that are passionately and militantly against genAI use, but still participate in meat-eating ... Why perform rhetorical gymnastics to justify it by accusing critics of purity culture?" brennan.day/an-open-lett...

Some of those ugly things are things you wouldn’t want to tell your mom, your friends or even your lover. But it’s no public fucking service either. It’s just what I felt.” www.kerrang.com/the-darkness...

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

yo! dwarkesh interviewed @adapalmer.bsky.social!?

"It was quite the evening at the ground where the fans hate the players, the players hate the fans and everybody hates the board." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Who amongst us has not, etc. www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/03/04/m...

Yes I found this on the “sounds like a Mountain Goats lyric” group

this seems like something we should be funding

Should we be gambling on war? For so many reasons, no.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

The U.S. consulting market is expected to grow 7% this year as businesses turn to them to help them adopt AI. I’ve seen some claim AI will make consultants obsolete but this shows a lack of understanding in what they do. We’re more likely to see tech jobs shrink due to AI before consulting jobs.

Probably nothing (I mean this literally for once) but the first instance of my openclaw-raspberrypi autojournalist turning data into a story carcipization.github.io/ai-osint/202...

The solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines exported from China in 2024 are set to cut annual CO2 emissions in the rest of the world by 1%, some 220m tonnes (MtCO2). www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Sorry but the moral of the story is that, be you Anthropic, NSF, a Ivy university, a doctor, a cop, doesn’t matter if you do 95% of what these people tell you in the hope you get to save the other 5% of your ethics, or your dignity, or your funding. They’ll steamroll you anyway until full compliance

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE:

one 28-year-old deputy comms staffer now responsible for dozens of officials worldwide—across governments, major companies, international organizations—being removed from their positions due to their connections with jeffrey epstein

I think this will be a watershed moment in tech similar to Elon's layoffs at Twitter in 2022. AI coding agents crossed the threshold in December and this is the beginning of the fallout. "we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong." - Jack Dorsey

I'm actually getting the vibe that the key here is: Mamdani's not a conservative (unlike a lot of his Left-wing fan base). He wants to DO things, rather than "endlessly critique power". Trump's lizard-like property-mogul brain responds to that. bsky.app/profile/dipl...

A little (big?) piece of tech and counterculture history searchwhole.earth

During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab. 🧪🔭 news.agu.org/press-releas...