I woke up this morning and chose violence buttondown.com/charliejane/...

This isn't some abstract thing either. This is probably going to cost my sister her life. She beat cancer once but it came back. Her current variety is slow moving tho, and there was great hope that with the rate of breakthrus, it could save her life. That's out the window now. So fuck these people.

Oh I don’t know Marc, the Bhagavad Gita is one of the oldest and most influential scriptures about the nature of self and duty in the history of civilization and it’s why you get to run around doing the “I am become death” quote

"this is actually something that I think should make people stop and think: Ukraine has provided the United States with more aid in 2026 than the United States has provided to Ukraine." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/phillips-o...

The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.

*cRacK*

over at the newsletter I wrote about how Jack Dorsey is a pointless dipshit:

Big news for Marcus Aurelius.

proud of Europe for inventing having feelings in the 1920s, though

I mean do I believe that Marc Andreessen wakes up every day head empty, no thoughts on what he did previous days, and asks himself what he can do today to make himself the most money? Sure, he acts like he does. Am I amazed that's something he's proud of and admits? Absolutely.

Still less damning than the other guy saying "so I've read 410 biographies of histories greatest entrepreneurs."

The future is already here.

So this and pending verdict in Man City case (8 years now), only came to light because of outside effects: Football Leaks in Man City case and change in ownership requiring new owners to declare financial irregularities. The PL itself completely oblivious to all these (alleged) infractions otherwise

This case has taken the PL nearly four years to conclude. That clearly isn’t good enough. However complicated, things should be taking this long. The penalties include a suspended one-year transfer market ban, 9-month academy signing ban from PL/EFL teams and £10m fine.

Chelsea sanctioned by PL for bunch of “historical” / Abramovich era breaches of financial reporting and third party ownership rules. Penalties would have been far worse if the PL had actually caught them at it during the 10+ years Abramovich owned Chelsea. This comes after new owners “self reported”

This. Gen AI is actually very very bad for innovation as most, if not all "discovery" emerges from constraints and collabs. Almost every marvelous medical treatment or tech emerged because a group of curious weirdos kept trying something weird, often for shits and giggles. #ScienceSky 🧪

Remember: when Nigel Farage opens his mouth, the fossil fuel industry speaks.

sure but it was actually on the zx spectrum or commodore 64

that feeling when you blow up the alliance system you spent 80 years patiently building, before realizing you kind of need it

Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

This story is too dry to get much mainstream press coverage, so I don't know how this message will get out: But every company should be checking its records very carefully to make sure there's nothing unexpected.

Companies House has put out a statement confirming that, for five months, every company in the UK was vulnerable to the simple exploit we identified on Friday. It enabled anyone in the world to view and change their company details.

Sitting down to write the very last episode of Tides of History and I wasn't expecting to get hit with such a flood of emotions. Nine years is a long, long time to work on a single creative project. I'm sad it's ending but so incredibly grateful for everyone who's listened.

Random Monday morning diversion. Before we discovered the Hollywood Movie Trailer Formula, movie trailers were amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n14e...

was wondering why I was feeling a bit forlorn just now then remembered that it may be because the majority of headlines currently look like this right now:

What's extra funny is that AI and LLMs can just help themselves. For big tech, Google image search is an all you can eat buffet. But if you, the individual, want to save a single PNG of Popeye the sailor man to your computer, good luck.

Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

A dangerous trend ⬇️ American anti-abortion groups are increasingly trying to influence UK politics - and are spending a lot of money in the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2dl5j0w23o

What?! I knew that the really posh schools have had satellite campuses but fifteen of them? At that point you're surely just popping your name and coat of arms on something you've got nothing to do with on the day-to-day. It's a franchise.

*emerging from a tank I have driven through your homes* ok which one of you assholes is going to clean up this mess.

This whole report is great but the one thing that REALLY stands out is the fact that the EU could've fully shut down reliance on Russian fossil fuels had they aligned with their climate targets Add that to the grim picture of EU households wildly overpaying for energy to further enrich Norwegians

From this I extrapolate that they’re not even bothering to pretend to vet them any more. Probably because standards have eroded so far that the sort of thing that would have got you excluded in 2024 qualifies you for a GB News slot in 2026.

"I’ve seen a lot of coverage of Wright’s trip to Europe to sell American gas. Very little of that coverage has plainly called out Wright’s deceitful rhetoric, and none has pointed out how Wright’s rhetoric serves to enrich himself at the expense of ordinary Americans" Such a good piece here:

OK well that explains some of the posts on here I guess

A big takeaway this year has to be that Sinners and One Battle After Another were big, artist driven, swings bankrolled by WB whose future is ultimately unclear. I like living in a world where people like PTA and Ryan Coogler get to make the films they want to make with those resources.

graeme wood lectures in political science at yale

I think it’s cool when the gyre is widening. And it actually rocks that the falcon can no longer hear the falconer. it’s the time of really rad dudes

“legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul”

Reading about how Operation Market Garden was a completely ridiculous insane plan from the start, but ego and institutional heft caused such a momentum that it rolled into action Good job there's no modern equivalents!

He fucking hates them and I’m here for it

I find this chart by Anthropic about theoretical vs. actual AI usage, from @pbump.com's latest newsletter, very funny, and I think it's worth explaining why, and also please push back on any of this if you disagree, as I may write about it in the future. 🧵

There are only two possible scenarios where I can imagine these events, as described, can occur; 1) Playing Counterstrike circa 1999 2) Private education

this mf's named Ed Policy

Papa Grant Morrison swinging, beautifully dismissive of a ghastly group

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Someone has hacked my old X account and I cannot sign in on it.

And he's buried in Brompton cemetery should you wish to say hi to the father of epidemiology

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. These folks want to govern the UK in the model of a deranged authoritarian racist.