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Obligatory meme.

11.03.2026 15:35 👍 259 🔁 36 💬 5 📌 1

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."

11.03.2026 14:37 👍 1119 🔁 320 💬 28 📌 44
Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5) | The American Yawp Reader
10.03.2026 13:00 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"The Economy" == "The wealth of me and my friends and family"

09.03.2026 21:48 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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.

09.03.2026 20:35 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

09.03.2026 12:07 👍 177 🔁 77 💬 8 📌 10

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

09.03.2026 12:31 👍 78 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

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...

07.03.2026 20:34 👍 1386 🔁 568 💬 15 📌 63
teewatterss on Threads:
“losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

08.03.2026 16:47 👍 10286 🔁 2257 💬 3 📌 31

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.

06.03.2026 16:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

tired: "no plan"
wired: "accelerationist"

06.03.2026 15:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein A Department of Justice document combined with interviews reveal that a long-running investigation into organized crime led law enforcement to suspect the serial sex abuser of money laundering, distri...

Every paragraph is informative.

06.03.2026 15:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines
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Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇

06.03.2026 05:00 👍 64 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 14

This is a quick read, and worth it.

06.03.2026 01:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

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.

05.03.2026 20:41 👍 2875 🔁 1548 💬 90 📌 380
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Here’s How Long Trump Is Planning for the Iran War to Last Donald Trump predicted it would be over in four weeks. Officials in his administration are planning on something much longer.

called it.
newrepublic.com/post/207405/...

05.03.2026 16:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So the "plan" now is to declare victory in time for the midterms? Good luck with that.

05.03.2026 15:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bracing for tomorrow's "No one could have predicted . . . "

04.03.2026 19:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"

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

04.03.2026 18:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

True in Tech, true in politics. The no-drama, highly functional folks who solve problems in the most efficient way possible are sidelined.

04.03.2026 15:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is in fact a perfect cartoon

04.03.2026 01:00 👍 835 🔁 132 💬 9 📌 4

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

03.03.2026 15:41 👍 4984 🔁 1036 💬 33 📌 37

A day after Hegseth talked about “crazy regimes like Iran, hellbent on prophetic Islamist delusions".

03.03.2026 14:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry

03.03.2026 14:08 👍 2111 🔁 459 💬 47 📌 10

“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.”

03.03.2026 03:09 👍 580 🔁 262 💬 39 📌 43

Some shit is about to go down with NIH study sections, friends. Keep your eyes peeled for change that may affect your grant submissions.

03.03.2026 02:30 👍 80 🔁 39 💬 7 📌 7

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.

03.03.2026 01:55 👍 323 🔁 85 💬 24 📌 7
CBS and CBS News, HBO and HBO Max, CNN, DC Comics, Harry Potter, TikTok, Star Trek,Warner Bros., Comedy Central, South Park, Avatar Studios, Turner Classic Movies,The Food Network, HGTV, Discovery, TLC, OWN, Adult Swim, TNT, TBS

CBS and CBS News, HBO and HBO Max, CNN, DC Comics, Harry Potter, TikTok, Star Trek,Warner Bros., Comedy Central, South Park, Avatar Studios, Turner Classic Movies,The Food Network, HGTV, Discovery, TLC, OWN, Adult Swim, TNT, TBS

CBS and CBS News, HBO and HBO Max, CNN, DC Comics, Harry Potter, TikTok, Star Trek,Warner Bros., Comedy Central, South Park, Avatar Studios, Turner Classic Movies,The Food Network, HGTV, Discovery, TLC, OWN, Adult Swim, TNT, TBS

02.03.2026 22:13 👍 751 🔁 260 💬 237 📌 190