"Prepare for turbulence - how a prolonged Middle East conflict could reshape how we fly" and increase the cost for everyone. www.bbc.com/news/article...

OpenAI shut down Sora because usage collapsed from a peak of 1M to under 500K while still burning through money at a rate of nearly $1M a day. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

Remember when texting took off in Japan in the mid-90s, but everyone in the West said it would never catch on here? "AI glasses are catching on in China, from shopping to cheating. Early adopters are renting AI glasses for $6 a day for navigation, translation, and school exams."

Russia expels a British diplomat for economic spying www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Sri Lanka under pressure over Iranian navy ship hiding from US. Armed crew presence raises concerns over foreign military activity on Sri Lankan soil, sources say" www.euractiv.com/news/sri-lan...

Photos From the Third Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Protest www.theatlantic.com/photography/... More Photos: 'No Kings' protests across the country www.npr.org/sections/the...

Looking at American history, you can see countless examples of how progress has never come clean or quietly, but through strain and struggle, through voices lifted in protest and prayer, through generations insisting that the brighter angels be given room to speak.💪 #KeepTrying ♥️

America has always been a nation in conversation with itself, wrestling beneath wide skies with its better & darker angels. Lofty promises spoken in the same hour as broken ones, ideals of liberty rising even as shadows of injustice lengthened across the land. Keep hope... vimeo.com/1096145803?f...

As I've noted, like socmed, GenAI is inherently political tech, not neutral tools. Their design, regulation, & deployment embed the political priorities, corporate incentives, & pub. policy frameworks of the countries in which their owners operate, shaping how power, info, & influence are exercised.

🤔 The title of this piece and the word "may" are doing a heck of a lot of over-promising and heavy lifting. But beyond that, its conclusion is definitely premature: "Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite." www.ft.com/content/3880...

kkkkkkkk 🤣 The joy of studying language and discourse. This 🧵 from @aaron.bsky.team, the head of Bluesky Trust & Safety, reminds me of how #pork was the top-trending hashtag on Twitter in Germany on July 23rd, 2019. getthetrollsout.org/articles/isl...

How SCOTUS will rule on birthright citizenship is still a mystery, but it goes to show why the concept of "stare decisis," aka settled law, is "intellectually hollow bullshit" ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

"Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice," likely to die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

China stands alone by choice, its circle filled with the world’s exiles, states whose promises crumble easily and whose influence barely stirs the global air. Under Trump, the United States is already far along that same path. Look at who is on his "Board of Peace." theintercept.com/2026/03/02/t...

"Over the course of 2025, four million fewer Canadian travellers visited the U.S. than in the year before— a 22 per cent decrease. The trend shows no sign of slowing down: in January of 2026, the number of Canadians taking road trips into the U.S. dropped by 27 per cent..."

What makes this “mistake” even more troubling is that those arrested in court by ICE were individuals who were following the proper process and attempting to legally resolve their immigration status. #dispicable

"ICE mistakenly told agents to arrest people in immigration courts, DOJ admits." For nearly a year, ICE has been illegally arresting people inside immigration courts, with agents lying in wait to immediately spring upon people after they leave their hearings.

Cisco routers suffer from the same security flaw as TP-Link, and yet they got a pass. Passing regulations based on country of origin alone is bad public policy. If they truly wanted to safeguard the public, they would require ALL router manufacturers to meet a specific industry/government standard.

"FCC bans import of new consumer routers not made in the US over security threat — agency says foreign-made devices pose ‘unacceptable risk’ to US persons." Like the TikTok divestment order, this is a political decision meant to reshape the marketplace. www.tomshardware.com/networking/r...

🙀 Meta ends end-to-end encryption on Instagram. www.socialmediatoday.com/news/meta-en... What this means is that DM are no longer hidden from the platform & are treated like regular posts. With access to DM, Meta may have a broader dataset for AI training, content recommendations, or ad systems.

"Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next. Lawmakers don’t want VPNs to stand in the way of online age verification." www.theverge.com/column/89812...

The Helen Lovejoys of the world have finally won. They have been at it since the 70s. This is now their era.

So all STEM, all of the time? My alma mater, Syracuse University, to sunset’s 9 majors, reimagine others after the Art & Science portfolio review. Can't imagine why we would need Russian or classical history anymore. 🙄 dailyorange.com/2026/03/suns...

"But let me remind you — just as I remind myself — that tyranny cannot succeed where people refuse to submit to it." - @rbreich.bsky.social robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...

This is obviously a lie. "Iranian official claims Strait of Hormuz open to all but ships of ‘enemy’ countries." The mines that they have laid don't know, or care, whether the ship is from a friendly or enemy country. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Sadly, the targeting of power infrastructure can be lawful under IHL if it's clearly connected to achieving a concrete military advantage. lieber.westpoint.edu/attacking-po... But in this instance, it's purely punitive, since, as Trump stated, he's going after the biggest 1st.

Modern wars are hybrid. The U.S. and U.K. have long understood this; the difference now is that their rivals finally have the tools, expertise, and reach to try to match it. "Iran's social media strategy pivots to information war amid US-Israel attack." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"Eerie parallel’: Archived stamps reveal Canada was prepared to ration gas in the 1979 oil crisis. Rationing wasn't enacted, but proof anything can happen in oil shortage: economist" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We have seen this playbook before in countless other countries. America thinks this will be over in another ~ three years. But one sign of a shift toward entrenched authoritarianism is a regime-aligned media takeover. bsky.app/profile/soci...

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Is the US running low on certain munitions? "Hegseth has repeatedly said the US is upping the frequency of its Iran strikes. The data tells a different story" www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/p... It's no wonder some in the admin are pushing the idea it's Biden's fault for giving munitions to Ukraine.

As we noted earlier, the possibility of a war between the US and Denmark back in January was very real. "When Danish soldiers were flown to Greenland in January of this year, they brought explosives with them so that they could destroy, among other things, the runways in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq."

This "Truth" is fake. This is why the Danish Foreign Ministry has a "night watch" team to monitor U.S. President Donald Trump's statements & activities while Denmark sleeps. Operating from 5-7 AM local time, this team prepares a morning report on Trump's actions. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

It's time ... Some Capitol Hill Democrats are discussing how to get Schumer to step aside as minority leader amid concerns about his negotiating style and midterms strategy www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"China is on the cusp of becoming the world’s biggest public funder of research, according to a forecast by US academics, as stalled growth in government investment in the United States coincides with consistent rises in spending by the Chinese authorities." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 250 political prisoners in return for a further easing of U.S. sanctions. www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

"GOP Senate candidate on rising gas prices: ‘Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks’" thehill.com/homenews/sta...

"Long-haul Easter flights at risk due to fuel rationing" www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...

"Hundreds of Travellers Stranded In Europe As Germany, France, UK And Others Delay 722 And Cancelled 293 Flights Impacting Ryanair, British Airways, easyJet And Others In Berlin, London And More"

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$ 5-a-gallon gas is all but inevitable at this point. "Attacks on ships in Hormuz and strikes across the region expose Tehran's strategy of gradual escalation and long war, testing US, Israeli and Gulf resolve." www.euronews.com/2026/03/18/w...

When all the people with institutional knowledge are fired or quit, government agencies are left in the hands of inexperienced practitioners or political ideologues. You then have 3 – 5 years to get them back. After that, "what right looks like" is gone forever and you have to start from scratch.

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Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Germany has been hit particularly hard by rising petrol prices compared to the rest of the EU. A task force set up by the German government aims to counteract this while exposing the oil companies' profit scam." www.euronews.com/business/202...

Hurray for political cartoonists. They can cut with a paint brush 🖌️. This one is by Bill Bramhall of the New York Daily News

Very interesting opening session at the Social Media Access Days in Frankfurt has started – but as always we have so many unanswered questions about how we can manage, categorise, and share our datasets with other researchers… #SMAD2026

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"The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute reaches the alarming conclusion that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey."