oscar winners vibe coders 🤝 "and, of course, my agent"

The Morrill Fire in Nebraska has killed 1 and consumed 549,000 acres with 0% containment. This is more than 10% of the entire area burned by U.S. wildfires in 2025, and makes it one of the 20 largest fires in U.S. history. Sunday forecast is grim: High Wind Warning, 25-35 mph winds, gusting to 50.

After losing 9 out of its original 11 cofounders, Elon Musk now claims that “xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt.” Elon Musk is now reviewing resumes of people who were previously rejected from xAI to try to rebuild its staff. Doesn’t sound desperate at all

This article tells the story of what researchers have been going through over the past 14 months. As funding dries up, professors struggle to keep people employed and to keep doing the work. The Trump Administration is destroying so much science in this country. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

*sobs*

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

Absurd

Exceptionally blackpilling list of endorsers and consponsors on Booker et al's tax cut bill www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...

>Dont tax anyone making under $50 million Look at my progressives dawg, we are never getting a real welfare state.

some smart comments here for anyone thinking about how to value SpaceX's Starlink constellation ahead of the IPO: x.com/stockthought...

For 5 weeks, Oakland's new speed cameras have been issuing warnings. Starting March 15th, tickets will be mailed to people exceeding the speed limit by at > 10 mph. So far the 18 locations have seen 140k instances of speeding. Most people were sent one warning. 11 people have been sent 30+.

The secretary of defense saying we almost have cnn in our grasp is some dark, dark shit

What this pair of stories tells me is that senior people at Cursor realize IDEs have no future in a world ruled by AI coding agents like Claude Code so they’re jumping on a sinking ship like xAI. Also AI coding are so futuristic that Mr. Self Driving Robots on Mars wants a piece of the hype.

where is Congress? www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

a useful new project from Google—creating a unique global dataset of flash floods and building a prediction model to improve emergency response techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/g...

A grim parallel between US escalating a trade war w/ China & realising that China has serious leverage in the form of rare earths & US launching a war vs Iran & realising Iran has serious leverage in the form of being able to blow up the world economy. Failure of statecraft.

"I'm not mad, you are!" as a DoD talking point

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

NEW: The FAA once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rocket parts from orbit within 25 years of launch.

Writing something on delays & restrictions on satellite images of Mid East—incl Iran itself—introduced by US Earth-observation companies. Keen to hear from researchers on how much it affects them, availability of non-US images, etc. Comment here or if it's sensitive get in touch over Signal.

This is a thing that is within their control and they absolutely should make their negotiating position

In December 2024, we reported that Character.AI was hosting many popular chatbots modeled after real mass killers. As of today: CAI is *still* hosting dozens of these bots. They're discoverable via simple keyword search, and often housed under killers' full names. futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪 gift link 🎁

Jensen Huang doing his best Oprah impression lately: and YOU get $2 billion and YOU get $2 billion and YOU get $2 billion... First #$CRWV, then #$LITE & #$COHR, now #$NBIS sherwood.news/markets/nebi...

NH political reporter Kevin Landrigan says Bobbi Boudman has won a state house special election, in a major upset and flip to D

carefully considering which of today's champions league highlights to screen for the boy

foiled, yet again, by time zones

Approximately 140 U.S. service members have been wounded in the first 10 days of the war with Iran, according to the Pentagon

Housing Affordability Index.. best in 4 years.. from @neilksethi.bsky.social Good news!

this bums me out!

Satellite company @planet.com has announced a *14 day delay* to the release of imagery in the MidEast. This will be a huge setback for those trying to verify events in the region.

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

My latest: in an interview with @science.org, new NASA administrator Jared Isaacman promises a big uptick in lunar robotic missions, another potential Mars 2028 mission beyond comms, and continued support for earth science observation. (Sorry astro and helio folks, time went fast.)

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Graber stepping down as CEO of Bluesky www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

With Starship V3 now slipping to April, what's a reasonable expectation for flights in 2026, maybe 3? One of those should be a prop demo for NASA... Reminder, SpaceX executives had predicted 25 launches...in 2025.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

whose missiles?

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

There's a push to for China to adopt an unprecedented Neptune orbiter mission. We may learn later those year if this enters the early study phase (and China has already signalled its commitment to developing nuclear power for space). spacenews.com/chinese-offi...

pork butt in the oven and the house smells amazing ama

sleepoids hate it when an earlymaxxer dawn moggs them

"The Wall Street Journal found that the Department of Homeland Security, created in 2002 to protect Americans, has turned its force against citizens."

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

NEW: Remember in 2022 when NASA booped an asteroid with a kamikaze spacecraft to prove they could swat away Earthbound space rocks and save the world? Well it turns out they booped it *so hard* that the bigger asteroid nearby ALSO got booped! Me @ NatGeo www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

hands down the absolute *strangest* “on background” sourcing I have ever seen in the NYT. Completely bonkers stuff www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Happy SpaceX 1 million satellites FCC application comment deadline day to all who celebrate

Fantastic blog here. defector.com/don-delillo-...

C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute

meditating on the question of "why didn't they ask ChatGPT to create an ad tech business?" may be instructive