Apple increasingly heading for “you are the product” enshittifiction territory because money. Ads in Apple Maps benefit no one but advertisers and shareholders. They certainly don’t benefit users. Ads have already made the App Store worse and now this. What’s next? www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Rather than examining why the GOP is investing such enormous political capital in a bill that strips voting rights from millions of Americans, the media focuses on whether it might backfire politically. I want to warn you and I want there to be a record. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ther...

Well yeah. Being accountable to the public is a political argument. Just as not being accountable to the public is an authoritarian (political) argument.

Mockler: Do you agree that we've won? He said we've won. Yes or no? Jennings: If you consider a condition destroying their military capabilities… Mockler: We haven't. If that's true, why can't the strait of hormuz be open if their military is destroyed?

this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream “DEI hire” would sink to the ocean if they weren’t kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies

Enough is enough. I make the case in today’s Toronto Star for why it’s time to push back on Doug Ford’s bullying and chaos. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

when you send the boss a long powerpoint and she just replies “thx”

"Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England as part of updated planning requirements published by the government." Imagine taking the energy transition seriously.

What’s remarkable about this piece is that it doesn’t even attempt to argue the Iran War is close to achieving some important goal. Instead he argues: 1. There have been times in history that gas was more expensive 2. Other wars (some of which he also supported) had gone even worse

If you’re in Calgary, Canada, it was the shady tactics of those fighting smart, responsible infill housing policy that first inspired me to pull back the curtains on “The Populist Playbook.” That infill policy is being discussed by City Council again, I hear. Don’t fall for the Playbook, Calgary.

Trump voted by mail but his candidate still lost…

“.. Iran would not only demand an end to the war but .. guarantees against future military action, compensation for wartime losses and formal control of the Strait of ​Hormuz, the sources said.” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Any Democrat who votes for the first part after they've announced the plan for the second part needs to be tarred and feathered.

In Canada, we believe that everyone should have a chance to get ahead. Education is key to that promise. So for the next year, we’re extending the increase to federal student grants and loan limits.

It’s incredible how quickly OpenAI’s fortunes have shifted. Disney was willing to invest $1B and allow Disney characters to be used to create AI slop videos in Sora just a few months ago. Now both the deal and Sora are dead. Life comes at you fast.

Hell, Cambridge and Guelph are only 7 KMs apart and the transit time is probably even longer.

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

Damn, this series of really brutal polls on the economy

what the actual fuck

NASA science is usually strongly driven by peer review & community-derived priorities. That's how we (as a country) know we're investing in "great science." That includes basic & applied research. Dictates coming down from the administration, bypassing that process, are not how we do "great science"

not only are they not good people, this performative courting of nonexistent integrity is a bizarre waste of everybody's time

“Iran holds a lot of cards with the Strait Of Hormuz.” That’s the quote to remember. Geography can be economic power, and “that vulnerability remains pretty much forever.”

> @reuters.com

“.. We’ve not seen anything like this,” Gareth Ramsay, chief economist at oil and gas giant BP, told the conference. “It’s every oil analyst’s study piece or worst nightmare — one that we never thought would happen.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

JFC. This is where I live.

I’ll never understand how someone grows up in Santa Monica and becomes this angry at the world.

It took so much stupid to get here

Durbin: It’s interesting—now they want to put ICE agents in airports, but they won’t be wearing masks. Wait a minute—they argued before that ICE agents on the street were vulnerable to doxxing and other things, but in airports they’re not? There’s an inconsistency there.

Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials discovered Ku Klux Klan items while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters

BREAKING: The Pentagon is preparing to deploy another 3,000 troops to the Middle East, raising the possibility of U.S. servicemembers entering Iran.

McGovern: He’s doing nothing to make healthcare more accessible. They say we don’t have the money—but we have a billion dollars a day to blow on this crazy war. I don’t think he gives a shit about the American people. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and he’s golfing.

what did he know

Sources: Anduril, Palantir, and Scale AI are part of the group developing software to run President Trump's planned $185B Golden Dome antimissile shield (Drew FitzGerald/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

BREAKING: Minnesota officials sue the Trump administration, accusing it of withholding evidence related to three shootings by federal officers.

MacFarlane: As for the press secretary saying that I’m a veteran CBS reporter—I am not a veteran CBS reporter, I am a former CBS reporter—but I am a veteran reporter, and I’m here to break news.

If we apply Justice Samuel Alito’s logic on mail-in voting to sports contests, from now on whomever scores first wins. March Madness will now be only one day and as such we will only see 100 Buffalo Wild Wings ads.

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

Wait times at some of the country’s busiest airports were above four hours again on Tuesday, as airlines lose patience with Congress.

🚨 BREAKING: Oklahoma is handing over its voter rolls to the Trump DOJ — including sensitive personal data. The department agreed to drop its lawsuit against the state.

“A house divided against itself sounds expensive to rebuild.” — Abraham Lincoln, 1858 buff.ly/3sCiPBH

The problem with using litigation as the tool to deal with deepfakes are court backlogs for civil cases. Because provinces underfund courts, criminal cases take priority so they don't time-out under Jordan, and civil cases languish for years as a result.

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I’m still collecting stories and I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

Wild that America has a president who regularly goes “I’ll start World War 3” to tank the stock market and then at the last minute says “j/k I’m not invading Greenland/Iran/Canada/etc” then the market jumps back up with mysterious people making a killing after he backs down. An amazing coincidence.

"To make matters worse, “this week is exacerbating conditions that were already bad,” Labe said." - via @heatmap.news

1. I’m not actually sure they CAN count. 2. I’m 100% sure they can’t be trusted to count fairly. They will lie about the results and likely destroy evidence. 3. This is open corruption.

Reporter: Who do you blame for all this? Traveler: Trump

In the words of the great Frederick Douglass about the cult of Robert E. Lee, “is it it not about time that this bombastic laudation of the rebel chief should cease?”

This is pathetic. Jacques wasn't fired. He didn't "expose" anything. His term expired, and he disqualified himself from the permanent post because he decided he wanted to play for the cameras. But that's why Poilievre wants him on the job, because for him, Parliament is a clip factory.