Dynamic pricing and enshitification is not just for consumers or producers, but also prospective employees. "The system rewards workers not for skill or experience, but it’s judging our desperation rate,” said Nicole Moore, president of Rideshare Drivers United. www.marketwatch.com/story/employ...

Liberal aliens will teleport you to Panera. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

The method uses separate DNA strands. Some types bind to cancer markers. Another carries a toxic drug. When two distinct cancer markers are present, DNA components bind to the site, boosting drug delivery. Both markers must be detected for the drug to be active. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Poetry? "Trump, the only elephant in the world who walks around with his own china shop."

Translation: 'I'm too lazy to make up data that supports my view, so I'll just reject other views without any basis."

My writing process often includes giving multiple LLMs the same prompt, then choosing and editing to ensure the final reflects my ideas and voice. Considering how lazy I am in other parts of my life, the threat of 'cognitive surrender' to myself and others seems real. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/r...

Countries that don't allow US military planes to use their bases and pay the Iranian toll can again get tankers through the Strait. The IRGC has won this round without relinquishing nuclear ambitions or power. If the US invades, many American military lives could be lost. www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u... Nothing promotes confidence in your dedication to military excellence more than firing your top general during a war, because they won't support firing blacks and women for no other apparent reason.

Job report based on data from before the Iran war. This report shows the federal government is still contracting, wage growth is slowing, and the hiring and firing rates are both down. Not as strong an economy when you look at the details and what's likely coming. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

As we discover more evolutionary stages of life, possibly necessary to reach sapient life (e.g., brachiators> hands), some of which may occur only on planets with Earth-like features (e.g., oceans, magnetosphere, tectonic plates), my Drake equation number goes down. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

New attacks demonstrated by security researchers are probably not in the wild yet. Since this is essentially a DoS-like flooding attack, these attacks might have signatures that can be detected and blocked by intrusion protection systems or even firmware recoding. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Are shredders and degaussers running 24/7 in the White House? I didn't think that would happen until the end of Pedo's term.

So, Pedo has lost Europe, is losing the Saudi Middle East, and called African countries 'shithole' countries (in his first term, it seems so long ago). Are his only allies two-faced ones: Russia, Hungary, and Israel? I guess Javier Milei will still support him.

Bondi was scheduled to testify under oath on April 14, 2026. Can she get out of it now that she is fired? If not, without presidential protection, ... he can still pardon her. Maybe that's the plan: get her to lie under oath with the promise of a pardon if she gets caught.

I guess being completely incompetent and unqualified is also why they don't realize that Pedo will first force them into criminal and traitorous acts before kicking them to the curb.

So my only choice, besides Elon, is another Pedo-supporting billionaire. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I want to see the Flintstones animated version. It might involve motivating pterosaurs.

Art be damned, will it make money or please our Pedo benefactor? asks Larry Ellison. theonion.com/analysts-say...

I use and expect great advances from transformer and backpropagation-based AIs, but fear any tech controlled by monopolistic capitalists: "They took the books I wrote about love to create chatbots that isolate people and prevent them from finding human love.. catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

Elements heavier than iron are only formed in supernovae or neutron star mergers. The black hole mass gap discussed in this article supports the idea that some supernovae only leave behind debris, including heavy elements, to form solar systems like ours. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

www.politico.com/news/magazin... Hammond proposes a national framework for AI developed by smart technocrats on either side of the safety issue, “Both sides prefer developing a smart framework before it becomes a totally populist issue where the focus will probably not go where it’s supposed to.”

"Peter Thiel’s crusade against college attendance, Marc Andreessen’s boasts that he avoids introspection. All these critics of learning for its own sake are beneficiaries of privileged educations. As monopolists, they believe they’ve cornered the market on critical thinking."

Friedman's imperfect solution makes a lot of sense, which basically guarantees that Pedo won't do it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...

This is almost a survey article, showing a deeper history than I remembered, beyond isolated incidents of Pedo nominating unqualified prosecutor office heads who then perform disqualifying actions and get disqualified. They cite 12 cases across three districts. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

A superhero dog and it's not animated! I'm in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGTJ...

Quantum advances bring 'Q-day' closer, the day that quantum computers can crack the core asymmetric encryption algorithms that TLS, VPNs, and really all network security relies on. That probably refers to 2048-bit keys, so the stopgap is to move to 4096 with FS on. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Translation: The Pedo regime breaks all trade treaties, rendering the WTO irrelevant. Pedo patrons will suffer from digital tariffs, so the US suddenly expects WTO nations to support them. When the US doesn't receive support, they dismiss the WTO as irrelevant. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/b...

Humanitarian reasons? Sure, that sounds like Pedo. Nothing to do with the fact that the Russians want it, I'm sure. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

www.schneier.com/blog/archive... Something that people who buy encryption cracking in TV plots don't realize is that: "Mathematical cryptography is the strongest link in most security chains. The real problems are elsewhere: computer security, network security, user interface, and so on."

After decades of people promoting untestable string theory variants, "Even though this model deals with incredibly high energies, it leads to clear predictions that today's experiments can actually look for," said Dr. Niayesh Afshordi (U of Waterloo/ Perimeter Institute). phys.org/news/2026-03...

"A team member used the AI to fix a simple typo in a pull request. Copilot did the job, but it also took the liberty of editing the PR's description to include: "Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast." www.neowin.net/news/microso...

"Someone draft a memo calling this 'Biden's war. It'll be like Epstein and Watergate had a love child and Monica Lewinsky was the midwife. And could Don Jr. and the donors" (good band name) "be a little less obvious while insider trading?" "It's okay. Don Jr. and Eric will still need cute staffers."

It seems unlikely that our President fucked children in Idaho, but it is worth checking into.

Good article. Assuming 267 million US adults and using Erica Chenoweth's estimate that 3.5% of the population will lead to regime change (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_...), we will need 9.345 million protesters next time.

This is going to change some science fiction plots. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Proof in this context would have to be adjudicated by a court of law. There is a lot of credible evidence that Donald J. Trump raped children.

Translation: 'You're the only somewhat famous person to attend CPAC this year, so we fawn over you in hopes of disputing our irrelevance.' www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Pretty nice, short tutorial on geological dating of sediments and fossils. I think I like the argumentative narrative as a way to present it (more than I was slightly annoyed by it). youtube.com/shorts/iGTBe...

Wonderful!

Translation: This new LLM release passes the Turing test more effectively than the last one, just like every LLM release since ChatGPT-4. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/t...

I certainly hope so. Something needs to. BTW, I support the original intent of 230 to protect companies from their users' actions, but once algorithms start making decisions, accountability should fall entirely on the companies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/does...

Calling all Republicans who used to support Ukraine, please stand up. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Prediction. His new deadline for a deal is roughly when he will have invasion forces in position for Kharg Island, and ...? He won't wait long after troops are in place to act. Like Netanyahu, he believes war delays his (Epstein) accountability. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Translation: We're going to steal money from other NATO members to restock our munitions for our ill-conceived war, and hope they don't notice.