The most British headline ever. metro.co.uk/2026/03/01/l...

Half the websites have a login that goes like this: Email? [email protected] Do you want to use a password or get a code? Password Password? Pas$w0rd We've just sent a code to your phone. what is it? 8675309 Logged in! If I said "get a code", would that save me time???

I asked Claude what it thought of Sam Altman's recent antics.

It became necessary to destroy Iran to save it seems to be Trump's rationale. (Apologies to Peter Arnett, the great journalist, who died two months ago)

Does it need mentioning that Obama worked out a deal with Iran that stopped them from building a nuclear weapon and Trump tore it up?

Operation Epic Futility

Just an amazing songwriter. Gifted Link.

When Sam Altman writes "The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement," he wants you to think it's in the contract. But that's not what he says. He says "agreement". That's not accidental. That's intentionally deceptive.

Well, I guess CNN is going to be dead to us pretty soon.

If the boat were going the other way, the US would have just blown it out of the water from a drone and if any survived, dropped another bomb on them until they were all dead.

I can't believe our government has basically given up on Ukraine. I haven't, and I just donated to them again. u24.gov.ua

Fucking Netflix. My office computer doesn't use wifi, it's got an ethernet cable to the router for performance reasons. So what does Netflix do? It accuses me of trying to pirate their service because I am not on the same wifi as the TV.

The only witness to an ICE murder who was prepared to testify against them dies when his car accelerates to a high rate of speed and crashes and bursts into flames. How convenient for ICE. Almost Russian-convenient. Gifted link

Sports is an unhealthy obsession where people tie their emotional well-being to the outcome of a game between people they don't know playing a sport they don't play and are convinced that their stalker-like knowledge of players makes them a fan and their choice of underwear will affect the outcome.

It's all winter wonderland until enough salt is applied, at which point it's ugly slush.

The Courthouse New Service has definitely joined the resistance.

You'd have to be an idiot to travel to the USA right now.

LLMs have gotten good enough that it's jarring when they regurgitate falsehoods. Opus 4.6 told me this whopper: "Flores, Azores (Portugal) — sits on the North American Plate, making it and neighboring Corvo the only European-administered territory on that plate."

How in the world do we end up with someone owning an international bridge? We've taken leave of our senses. The privatization of government is an unmitigated shit-show. Gifted Link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Newsom and Pritzker demand refunds after US court tosses Trump tariffs

Studies that say illegal tariffs cost the average household $1000 last year. How much of the $1000 will each household get back? Zero. Nada. None. Importers will get the refunds, not us. Trump's tariff fuck-up is turning into $100 billion being stolen from consumers and given to businesses.

The FCC told CBS not to allow Texas state Rep James Talarico, who is running for US Senate, on the air. So Colbert made a Youtube segment to interview him, as Youtube is not under the FCC's thumb. Over and over again, the Trump regime is trying to censor dissent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

The party against cancel culture loves canceling everyone. deadline.com/2026/02/step...

Washington Post works hard to remind me why I canceled my subscription.

When you are in your 60s, your job is not to try to control the lives of teens. Your job is to tell them that the world is theirs, you're very proud of them, they should definite protest the system, and you will always post bail for them if they get into trouble.

As soon as a democrat becomes president, they will suddenly start the polling again "due to demand from our customers".

East Germany closed its crossings into West Germany. It wasn't to the benefit of the East Germans.

Why do news articles need to mention, let alone repeat, Trump's insane diatribe about Bad Bunny? We know Trump didn't like it. We're not stupid. Tell us what's new, not what's old.

And then a reactor on the opposite site of the moon explodes, propelling Musk and the moon out of orbit and eventually out of the solar system, and those of us on earth are going to party like it's Space 1999.

I wasn't too far off on this a year ago.

I wrote about the crypto crash and why this is the worst crypto winter in the industry's history. Sub to the Odd Lots newsletter here www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

Every few years, a new bunch of people learn that you should never write an email you don't want to see on the front page of newspapers. It's like clockwork. This year's "Ollie North (Email is never deleted)" Award goes to the Epstein pals...

"When asked about the doctored image... the White House was unapologetic. Kaelan Dorr, the deputy communications director, brushed it off" "Reposting the doctored photograph," he wrote: "The memes will continue." Utter contempt for the truth. A reminder to believe nothing from this administration.

Me: (After realizing a task is highly repetitive & long) "I think I'll have AI do it" AI: (After getting through the first 10 repetitions) "I'm going to write a python program to do this" Python program: (does work) Conclusion: AI has promoted itself into management.

You know that when "Melania" is available for streaming somebody is going to download it, recut it, and dub it, all to produce a satire that eviscerates her. And that satire will be seen by more people than the original.

The MAGAts clearly think they have the same immunity ICE has. That kind of thinking will, at best, get them arrested or, at worst, get them killed. If ICE later on provides protection for them, it will make things much worse. This is definitely a way for things to turn into a hot civil war.

Net-net: ICE beat the man, while in custody, so severely that he had life threatening skull fractures and brain hemorrhages, leaving him unable to work with severe brain damage.

Thanks for reminding us about Turkey's genocide against Armenians, Dr. Oz.

Way down in the article: "Our patroness saint is also alleged to have turned water into beer." Talk about burying the lede.

Looking forward to the “For your consideration…or else” campaign for the Melania movie next year.

I don't remember the "Then they came for Don Lemon..." line of the poem, but he's our martyr today. To the barricades for Don Lemon!

Right on schedule. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

If we can't abolish ICE, then they need to be repurposed for sweeping forests, a critical need identified by our president earlier that remains unaddressed.

Watching @governor.ca.gov on Bloomberg and I'll say this: he's a walking database of facts. There's no question he doesn't have a cogent answer for. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3qr...

How do the next 10 months till election play out? Is there *any* level of violence & oppression that would make congressional democrats do what it takes to stop it? Will local police and sheriffs ever start to defend their communities against ICE instead of collaborating? 1/

Oooh fun geopolitics here. Dr. Oz is Turkish and has Turkish citizenship. Turks generally hate Armenians, conducted a genocide against them in WWI. Armenians are very well entrenched and respected in America and have risen to very high levels of power (eg CA Gov). And Influence (Kardashians!)

So many businesses prefer to be mute or milquetoast during this crisis. They demand the right to flood elections with money. But these are artificial entities that have no soul and should not be allowed to participate in elections. If they want to speak, their owners can do so.

Now's not really a good time for unilateral disarmament.

70 is old enough to remember the 1960s, at least the second half, but young enough to still get out there and protest. 70 year olds are the historical continuity who may have been trying to bend the arc of history towards justice and are mad as hell that someone's bending it the other way.

I'm sensing some optimism that protests and reactions to ICE are causing Trump to backpedal (e.g., Bovino stripped of command). I remain skeptical. Trump liked the action, just not the reaction.