Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

“A whole civilization will die tonight,” Trump declares.

OBAMA: *wears tan suit* - Behavior unbecoming for a president, major scandal. TRUMP: *literally says he will end a civilization* - Meh, whatever, it's Trump being Trump, hehe.

Would be nice to have a functional opposition party right now.

One of space twitter’s finest hours

New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: I Would Download a Car New Jury Ruling Could Reshape Social Media Liability with @leolaporte.me, @harper.lol, @brianmc.bsky.social, @cathygellis.bsky.social

This is pure 19th century nationalist ideology. "The U.S. census numbers are a measure of the country’s demographic health." Thanks, Mussolini. We only "need" more young workers because the top 1% are taking 50% of the economic growth (round numbers)

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That thing about us being like elves to our pets because by comparison we’re functionally immortal is cute until you realise at the end of Lord of The Rings they decided it was kinder to put Frodo out of his misery and said they were taking him upstate to Valinor to run and be free

They were put in place by the Federalist Society to “not understand.”

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Here are 5 menswear outfits to make recruitment officers think you're 43 🧵

This feels almost sitcom worthy

Why are ICE agents coming to airports? Because GOP blocked 6 different bills that would have opened TSA. They won’t fund TSA unless we give ICE unlimited funds and impunity. This is the GOP’s mess.

Something I haven’t seen mentioned is that more than TSA work at airports! Janitors, food service, retail, etc. I have no faith that security clearance to work at an airport will keep those people safe from ICE, especially brown and Black people with accents.

DOW JONES Down -2804 points YTD • Racism is expensive. • Racism is not cost-effective. The pending $10 gallon of gas, the overpriced food costs, the impending world war and economic collapse was completely avoidable. Enjoy your racist bounty. #TheyToldYou #KamalaHarris #HillaryClinton

this is what happens when you let this much wealth and power concentrate in the hands of so few people nobody wants any of this but them and they’re the only ones who get a vote

turns out @vimiller.bsky.social wrote about this today

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

Great work everyone, glad we did all this.

Harris accused Altman of being the “Goebbels of the Trump administration.” But on Tuesday, Harris said by email: “It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick.”

Home Depot seems super cool with all of this. #boycottHomeDepot

New story about how Hollywood (and the world) sees the tech industry, from "Silicon Valley" to "Mountainhead," to a promising new show called "The Audacity." ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/t...

Doing systemic racism to eliminate research on systemic racism to make systemic racism easier to hide and deny.

I appreciate that Murphy is being clear about this. at the same time...like, he's a senator? why is he demanding we do something? isn't he in a better position to do something? 1

Parker Ortolani blogs about the Neo: "The MacBook Neo is the first Mac that is truly, in every sense of the word, a bicycle for the mind. It’s the first Mac that almost anyone can buy and it’s going to unleash a whole new era of creativity because of it."

I posted a fun post about how I made my transcripts into really neat knowledge graphs. Hope it is helpful harper.blog/2026/03/1…

Announcing: Coming to PBS on April 1! LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman is a visually striking science-driven nature series that reveals Earth’s ecosystems through radical shifts in scale—from microscopic wildlife to the planet’s most iconic species, and even the potential for life beyond Earth. 🧪🦠

Excellent piece by @harper.lol on Dark Factory patterns. 2389.ai/posts/the-da...

just posted about dot files and attractors over at 2389.ai 2389.ai/posts/the…

Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.

I’m surprised more of us haven’t been transformed into The Joker at this point.

“At some point, the family said, they lost Naqvi's location that was being shared from her phone. Relatives said federal agents continued to tell them that Naqvi was not in custody, despite her location previously showing her at the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.”

🤣🤣🤣

Flying *has* been wilder lately

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

lol “unexpected”

@jcs.org you should swing by our office

All I want is the ability to store private data in atproto

Goddamn

“He says what the rest of us are thinking!”

Made a surprise visit to Colorado to hang with the parents.

A few more from our Friday jams.

We have been having a few friends over to the office for Friday afternoon. Club. Come hang out. HMU for an invite to the next one.

“The president had a feeling, again, based on fact, that Iran was going to strike the United States, was going to strike our assets in the region, and he made a determination to launch Operation Epic Fury based on all of those reasons,” Leavitt said. newrepublic.com/post/207384/...

I'm reminded of how many web frameworks there are and that those that survived exist do so because they took a principled "this is how we do this" stance. Just think of Django vs. Flask. My prediction for 2026 is that a similar thing will happen for agentic frameworks.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

“And it only becomes possible due to the invention, mass production and patenting of barbed wire and automatic weapons. So suddenly you can hold a lot of people with a very small guard force.”

The last time an EV maker stopped returning MKBHD's calls, they were bankrupt within a year.🤷🏿‍♂️ Tesla is sitting on a giant pile of cash thanks to all their "genius" investors, so I don't think that'll happen here. I'm guessing they're still salty about his honest review of the Xiaomi SU7?