At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

"No. They know why."

I’m really sick of visiting red states and getting age verification requests at all, let alone for perfectly mundane things like BlueSky. And I’m also pissed that every time I’m outside the US, I get real privacy controls. Privacy is a joke in the US.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

"I don't like the government but I'll put up with a lot of bullshit up to and including a violent death for free healthcare, a reliable paycheck, GI Bill, and a generous defined benefit pension I can draw at 37 years old" describes *a lot* of people in the military

The Iceberg Theory, visualized:

This isn’t the occasion to debate its contents. But the TL:DR summary is that Mythos is really good at hacking but it’s a case of prepare, don’t panic. that’s a really useful dose of realism (not least because of the argument that it served anthropic’s commercial interests to hype up mythos) 11/

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

People commenting on videos of Marines blasting “War Pigs”, “Fortunate Son”, “Born in the USA”, etc. with their “well ackchyually” takes is tiresome. THEY KNOW WHAT IRONY IS BECAUSE THAT’S PART OF THE FUN. See also: “Rock the Casbah”, “Bombs over Baghdad”, and “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor”.

It’s so funny that if Trump’s approval rating was 70% he could probably blaspheme all day, but he’s sitting at 39% and there’s one commandment in America above all else, which is don’t be a huge fucking loser

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

Well she’s only working 9 to 5 🤷🏼‍♀️

The Rapture of McDonald

Is the Popa a Catholic? In this Ohio diner, they aren’t so sure.

Plot of the sequel to The Rock just leaked

But… apparently only the white people

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

DOLLY PARTON IS WEAK ON ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR EXPORT CONTROLS

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

Claude says we might be cooked: “If you include every navigable strait, canal, mandatory-pilotage narrows, and river mouth where a sovereign state has the physical ability to interdict and charge, you’re looking at roughly 50 to 55 discrete choke points worldwide.”

The Spanish have an opportunity to do the funniest thing right now

I’m currently lounging on a beach in Mexico, re-reading @greatdismal.bsky.social’s Neuromancer because I realized that I never finished the Sprawl trilogy. I think that I forgot just how fun the book is and what an impact it had on me. Stay cyberpunk and that’s not just the margaritas talking.

Welcome back from deployment, now proceed to the armory and get those weapons clean

Abolish Sheriffs. it's almost annually that 1 of 92 Sheriffs in the state of Indiana is busted for corruption like this.

To all who celebrate

In related news, Hegseth will agree to a ceasefire with Anthropic. But Anthropic has to accept higher prices paid by DoD, free compute in DoD data centers, and a full public apology in exchange for amending the prohibition on domestic surveillance to add “unless explicitly authorized by Congress.”

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Does High Dynamic Range (HDR) ever not make everything look terrible? It feels like I’m missing something, but I’ve never seen it actually improve the color or picture quality, only make it worse.

Trump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will … We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end”

These stupid assholes now think Sam Altman invented “telling people what they want to hear.”

Yeah sure. It was called “if you marry this girl before you deploy she receives a housing allowance, full medical vision and dental and $400k if you get shot in the neck”

There is bascially a 100% chance if that if Trump orders the destruction of Iran's entire electrical infrastructure along with a finding from DOJ / DOD GS that it's legal, the U.S. military will carry it out and basically 0% chance any future D admin would prosecute them for it

This is going to result in a Gandalf the White level callsign change.

Liturgical Calendar (amended 2026): - Palm Sunday - Maundy Thursday - Good Friday - Holy Saturday - Easter Sunday - WTF Are We Doing Monday - Power & Bridge Tuesday - Hospital & Elementary Wednesday - Orphanage & Mosque Thursday - Nuclear Holocaust Friday - Holy Shit Saturday

Trump’s really acclimated to Florida, because no self-respecting New Yorker would ever miss this many consecutive off ramps

Presidential Easter messages are weirder than I remembered

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

At least Claude is honest about the issues with project, skills, and MCP distribution: “There is no API for managing Claude Projects today.” “This is workable but not scalable.” “…has a manual bottleneck that Anthropic hasn’t solved yet.”

ok but shooting down airplanes with surface to air missiles and IR sensors isn't asymmetric anything

At some point, AI vendors are going to realize that cowboy configurations are hurting their corporate adoption, but apparently not anytime soon