that looks like way more than several hundred to me. am i bad at estimating crowd sizes?

It remains something else that all of capital cowers before the awesome political prowess of people who narrowly won an election over inflation, then decided to lose a war in a way guaranteed to cause more and more visible inflation than pretty much anything short of nuking oil fields.

Really bleak stuff here. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

A toddler is rescued from the rubble following an airstrike on her home in Tehran. (via IranNuances)

Words to live by, from John Waters.

Brendan Carr has reached his final form as a vague, cartoonish villain appearing sporadically on TV sets during the Robocop movie.

epstein was in the trump files

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

in my restless dreams, i see that town you promised me you'd take me there again someday but you never did well I'm alone there now, in our special place, waiting for you

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Story on the death of a 19-yo in ICE custody. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/body-ca...

there are a number of psychos who review products on youtube referring to keyboards and mice as “desk accessories”

my therapist keeps telling me “sleep is an elixir for the body” but i know there must be even stronger potions out there & i bet i’ll find them if i just stay up a little longer…

To conclude my persuasive essay in which I argue against the refrain that 'online isn't real life', here is the Houston Rockets commentator saying 'jestergooning' and 'frame mogging'

Nothing worse than a harde klap in honkbal

Imagine going to work for seven months and the bullet holes are still there

Venezuela has the heavy oil the US needs, rather the light oil it sells and can’t actually refine domestically. If I were a maniac determined to start a war in the Middle East, invading a neighbor first who has the oil I can actually turn into gasoline would probably feel like a smart idea.

Democratic rising star extends ‘love’ after Hegseth pastor prays for his death Senate nominee in Texas James Talarico says ‘Christian nationalism kills’ in response to Brooks Potteiger remark.

wow. what a prophet. oh wait, 90 million other people had that thought. collective consciousness achieved.

i think we’re inside a rare window in time where, technologically, it’s evident to all of humankind that there are no winnable wars. and so obviously we’re going to throw a trillion dollars into building some kind of AI-powered energy weapon, because fuck that.

wow. langchain vuln left ee en vees exposed. more than a quarter of fortune 500 using this llm.

‘’Dad, what did the 80s sound like?’’ #synthwave #80s #nostalgia

somehow missed this story about a US aircraft carrier firing its 5-inch gun and repeatedly missing what i’m assuming was a patrol boat. i knew that battleship movie was full of shit but this ridiculous.

An early roundup from our security desk: > Number stations > Gaza fallout > Defense industry disruption > ICE co-opting the cops > Iranian cyberwar > Apple's Pegasus-killer > RUS encryption > Data broker criming And more!

the domino meme but it’s cousteau inventing the aqua lung and the fifth fleet getting bombarded by suicide drones

a polity with the power to respond to such an existential threat and chooses not to should not exist. in that sense these sociopaths are totally right. it’s geopolitical natural selection. it’s like being strangled to death by someone who’s 112 years old. yes, technically a murder, but…

it’s like he’s trying to train a cat to use those talking buttons

yeah but who’s going to moderate all of our instagram content if mark can’t ignore labor exploitation in africa?

any copyleft folks have a mind on this ‘cleanroom as a service’ bit? can’t tell if bros just be hyperventilating

apparently grok thinks erika kirk was in the druski skit playing herself

Speedrunning the Crusades, but this time without papal support, is gonna be so fun.

"If courts don't push back and give their rulings teeth," journalists could feel that they risk prosecution by doing what in the past was considered routine reporting, FPF's Seth Stern told DW:

With Western Civilization now deemed too woke, the manosphere has started converting to Islam. This is how the right breaks up. open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

So this happened when we called the White House switchboard yesterday.

Judge recommending maxximum jail term

1) This rules for @wired.com. 2) It's staggering how many incredible journalists worked at the Daily Dot at the same time circa 2014.

An early roundup from our security desk: > Number stations > Gaza fallout > Defense industry disruption > ICE co-opting the cops > Iranian cyberwar > Apple's Pegasus-killer > RUS encryption > Data broker criming And more!

I’d never thought to use primary sources for historical research. Very cool.

I've been a huge fan of Ej's writing for years, and I am truly overjoyed that she'll be gracing our culture section with her brilliance!!!! Welcome to @wired.com!

well i dunno who i trust more on this, the most prestigious medical association on earth or four dipshits who asked claude to sum up some cherry picked papers

I’d say FBI has really humiliated itself this time but it has done so like clockwork since its inception. The generational resets where it appears to suddenly get its shit together after bouts of rampant abuse and corruption are mainly an illusion brought about by bad television.

Given that the rest of this war had no plans, this is not immediately encouraging

oh my god

time to repost the thing

"Check Point has found that Handala is just one of several hacktivist fronts that it says—based on connections in the groups’ malware and server infrastructure—all represent a single state-sponsored group of hackers that it calls Void Manticore."

Seven foreign doctors and aid workers who volunteered in Gaza described a perverse situation in which Israel permits doctors into Gaza but not medical equipment—even months into a supposed ceasefire—prompting several to smuggle medical supplies in, even as they treat new casualties of war.