It's genuinely incredible how "listens to what Trump says and interprets it as a policy goal" puts you in the top 5% of Trump understanders

watching oil trade with no position

The geopolitical macro take I saw said: take profits in oil now, but look for a double top.

When you can’t be drafted because you’re retired but then remember you’re still in the Retired Reserve.

Good bird.

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Complete and total vindication

DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.

All I have to say is I didn't sell hard enough

This is why I don’t have any footage from Lang‘s event where he got his ass beat in Minnesota. If I die covering DHS, so be it. I’m not fucking dying for Jake Lang.

'TACO' and 'the adversary gets a vote' are concepts in conflict, by the way.

I feel like people are in shock at these opening prices and haven’t really processed them.

The enemy gets a vote. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

Delta: "please rate the interaction you had with this AI agent on a scale of 1 to 5." Me: "2." Delta: "did you mean to say something else, or is that the rating?" 🤦

And it's over: CDU's Hagel concedes defeat to Greens' Özdemir and invites him to form the next state government. Nothing remarkable, but a reminder that in a world of political chaos, German democracy still works quite well. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Not great to see Bloomberg running headlines like this!

Kick him out

The outrage over the boat strikes was insufficient to put a stop to obvious war criming, so now we get this.

Americans voted for war crime proponents—open, unsubtle advocates for years, whose big criticism of the U.S. military and allies was insufficient war criming due to, uh, wokeness or something—telling themselves it would bring peace to the Middle East, and stick it to Middle Eastern war criminals.

this is a really good description of human people

Also, I realize that actors have trashed international law, but yes, civilian utilities are supposed to be protected under the Geneva Conventions. We’ve seen how Russia has acted in Ukraine & Israel in Gaza & Lebanon. It’s bad for everyone when war becomes a/b freezing & dehydrating civilians.

Seeing 50 and 60-year-old HN devs share how Claude Code reignited their passion for building software and solving problems over the framework rat race is exactly how I feel. I haven’t felt this energized in years. Detractors argue AI removes the craft and familiarity with implementation details.

If the main US and Israeli war aim is simply to destroy the Iranian state and economy then that's more achievable than many on this site think

A pre-industrial society is less likely to be able to sustain a position as a functioning geopolitical actor

Investors are more worried about missing the next TACO/CARES Act than getting caught in the next Lehman.

Suddenly thinking about how much US water infra is extremely vulnerable to cyber attack

Ferrari strategy again 🤦🤦🤦

Fix On Road Daily

They made a deal with Venezuela to starve Cuba of oil. With Iran, the goal is different. They want to bomb them back to the pre industrial age. Don't really need to negotiate with anyone for that.

This is a great history lesson on the mispricing of labor as technology cuts costs. I’ve written how hourly billing fields are in an interesting spot when AI does hours of work in minutes. How long until clients figure it out? This article argues software development faces this given Claude Code.

"Fire hurts," complains arsonist www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...

We have crossed 3 years of constant layoffs in tech and it’s now a worse job market than the housing crisis and COVID. It’s on track to be as bad as the dotcom crash which was a four year downturn, thanks to AI-driven layoffs, since it doesn’t look like the tech job market willl recover this year.

That planning was woke. They'll do new, stupider planning

3+ hour delay. AA is simply not a serious airline

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

you can genuinely watch the news anchor not compute in real time

So is where I feel the need to remind folks that the selective service system still exists. But in practice, yeah. Super-lazy back-of-the-envelope, holding all of Iran might require c. 600,000 ground troops. (~3x our max Iraq deployment). But you also need rotations, so 2x or 3x that.

The arsenal of democracy, built for and trusted by the world to enforce a freedom-based rules based order for nearly a century, being suddenly turned on the free world like a pro wrestling heel turn by the "indispensable nation", is one of the most unprecedentedly dramatic events in world history.

As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear: Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes. Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.

WSJ has some bad data but LOL DVOL 100%

“So far, Google’s AI infrastructure buildout drove an 11 percent rise in the company's total emissions last year.”

🧵 Today’s news: Proton turned over payment info for a Stop Cop City account. Not good — it's state repression in action. Controversial opinion: We don't think this means all activists should abandon Proton for docs/email. It depends on your threat model. Let's explore. (Long thread incoming 👇)

Solid take.

He's about to find out that the enemy gets a vote

I occasionally see humor posts I made to Usenet via Delphi passed around as memes. Before that I was on WWIVnet and telnetted into MUSHes. There are still people on Al Gore's internet who remember when it got pictures. Do not speak to us of the deep magic, witch. We were there when it was written.

Is there a long oil ETF that doesn't serve you a K-1?