BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”

Blocfall is now installable as a PWA. On iOS/Safari, installation involves this anticompetitively obtuse process: tap ... menu -> Share -> View More -> Add to Home Screen. lot49.com/blocfall

Cancelled Paramount+ subscription citing cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

I submit to you that these are functionally equivalent.

The Jack White hot dog taste test is hilarious

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

I have revived Blocfall, my 2014 iOS time waster, as a web app with the help of infinite interns and some code tweaks. It plays better on mobile than desktop – I'm still not sure what the optimal keyboard controls should be. But it's still fun. lot49.com

I have revived Blocfall, my 2014 iOS time waster, as a web app with the help of infinite interns and some code tweaks. It plays better on mobile than desktop – I'm still not sure what the optimal keyboard controls should be. But it's still fun. lot49.com

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

"A fork of uBlock Origin Lite that, instead of hiding cosmetically-blocked ads, replaces them with white tiles bearing slogans from John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live: OBEY, CONSUME, WATCH TV, SLEEP, SUBMIT, CONFORM, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WORK, NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY."

announcing Marc Andreessen Egg Game - a game where you draw on eggs to make them look like Marc marc-egg.eieio.games

A Docker sandbox that runs Pi — a terminal AI coding agent — backed by a local oMLX model server running on your Mac.

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Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

So good. I think @lopatto.bsky.social may be my favorite writer covering the tech industry. www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

The Clash’s ‘Lost In The Supermarket’ recasts the giddy highs of the Modern Lover's ‘Roadrunner’ as a dehumanized forced march through suburban hellscapes and special offers. Maybe the best song written about the acute, paradoxical loneliness of the high consumer age. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZw2...

So claude.ai appears to use Canvas fingerprinting, which only became apparent after toggling Firefox's privacy.resistFingerprinting (which corrupts Bluesky image uploads).

Its almost of as monetization of algorithmic engagement results in the production of content to engage people with algorithms

It's a start.

I’m just a tech journalist, what do I know about anything? But as a tax paying US citizen for my entire adult life, I’m allowed to say: this is not normal, it’s not OK, and everyone with power is complicit.

this is so funny, all of tbpn's distribution is on X and elon is going to throttle them so hard www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

A very well done post on quantization, if that's your sorta thing. ngrok.com/blog/quantiz...

the Metaverse and Sora in one week is a devastating moment for pointless bullshit

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.

Sunday, Mar 08, 2026 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Hardymon Hall @ The Jazzschool 2087 Addison Street, Berkeley

AI companies are more worried about their chatbot’s mental health than that of their users, who can actually have psychosis induced by those chatbots, leading some of them to take their own lives. I love this future.

Sunday, Mar 08, 2026 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Hardymon Hall @ The Jazzschool 2087 Addison Street, Berkeley

See something, say nothing.

One more nail in the coffin of the idea of interoperable software and digital services regulated by markets dominated by unaccountable platform giants. With today’s actually existing infrastructure, non-technical people simply can’t use 'apps', 'extensions' et al without putting themselves at risk.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

> how many 'r's are there in strawberry? There is one 'r' in "strawberry". 😊 Let me know if you’d like to try another word! > That's wrong. You are absolutely right! My apologies. I'm still under development ... There is only **one** "r" in "strawberry". Thanks for pointing out my mistake!

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

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Apple: Privacy is a human right. Apple: Behold our AI pin with mic and camera. www.theinformation.com/articles/app...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

“We’re going to scrutinize these to make sure that they’re not what they very obviously are.”

chickenshits www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Republican-appointed justices 47% more likely to vote for the wealthier litigant as of 2022.

They made it illegal to sell lawn darts after one kid died.

If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism. That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

I don’t understand why people are questioning the integrity of leadership at the Donald J. Trump Federal Bureau of Investigation and Redaction.

Since you mentioned it…

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

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