Obligatory meme.
Obligatory meme.
Commodity analyst Paul Sankey on CNBC, with an unnerving analogy:
"Some of us are looking at this a bit like what we saw with Covid, where the market seemed to be 'air-walking', regardless of what was clearly a very bad situation -- and then, suddenly, you know, collapsed when it all came home."
"The Economy" == "The wealth of me and my friends and family"
Didn't order it, didn't like it when it was delivered, can't send it back, and there's no choice except to pay for it.
New level of hell: just learned through local networks that visitors to the Delaney Hall concentration camp in Newark NJ are being turned away due to "dress code violations."
A teen whose mom has been detained there for five months was turned away last week for wearing a top with spaghetti straps.
people liken LLMs to 'junior engineers'
they are far more akin to distinguished engineers that have alzheimers and cant remember what happened 5 minutes ago but know what a bloom filter is
Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”
10/10 take. no notes
Prediction:
If there's a "settlement" or payback of tarriffs, then it'll take the form that tobacco settlements did - paid to the states to use primarily as general budget slush funds.
tired: "no plan"
wired: "accelerationist"
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This is a quick read, and worth it.
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
So the "plan" now is to declare victory in time for the midterms? Good luck with that.
Bracing for tomorrow's "No one could have predicted . . . "
Cartoon by jonesy - Three people looking out floor-to-ceiling windows in a building corner office at the world burning around them. One is saying "Somehow we need to monetize this - and quickly"
Evergreen
True in Tech, true in politics. The no-drama, highly functional folks who solve problems in the most efficient way possible are sidelined.
This is in fact a perfect cartoon
theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are
A day after Hegseth talked about “crazy regimes like Iran, hellbent on prophetic Islamist delusions".
Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry
“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”
Some shit is about to go down with NIH study sections, friends. Keep your eyes peeled for change that may affect your grant submissions.
My concern is this: Iran is using the cheap stuff to deplete the region's air defenses. Then, in a few days or a week, it launches what's left of its more capable missiles.
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