Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate:

ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees who declined to identify former clients.

Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...

After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and into less-developed areas.

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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine.

That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.

NTSB says Waymo robotaxis illegally passed stopped school buses in new incidents The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday it is investigating a new incident in ​January of Waymo self-driving vehicles passing a stopped school bus with its ‌lights activated in violation...

Note that these incidents occurred *after* Waymo did a recall to ensure its vehicles wouldn't keep passing stopped school buses.

The company doesn't seem to know how to fix this.

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War in the Middle East Threatens Global Food Production

War in the Middle East Threatens Global Food Production www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/b...
So Armageddon or Climate Meltdiwn-either way - a piece of bread will buy a bag of gold…

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
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Punching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chef’s Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the World’s Top-Rated Restaurant

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If you want to see colonialism in the 21st century, look at West Papua: soldiers secure the land, companies extract the wealth, and the indigenous population is pushed aside.

‘It means missile defence on data centres’: drone strikes raises doubts over Gulf as AI superpower Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare

Drone strikes raises doubts over Gulf as AI superpower ... "It is believed to be a first: the deliberate targeting of a commercial datacentre by the armed forces of a country at war" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07] YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

WATCH: This is STILL one of the toughest truths for some to accept, but one of the most IMPORTANT — car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtowns and urban areas!

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Exclusive | Google’s Rush to Get 1,000 of Its People Out of Dubai When War Erupted The glut of stranded staff was a notable example of outsize evacuations by large companies from Gulf states.

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How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives

Don't worry, it's not like they're all in it together and covering for each other...

"How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Execs"

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A Word to the Wise: Don’t Trust A.I. to File Your Taxes

This shouldn't be surprising, but do resist the temptation: LLMs are not ready to file your taxes for you.

Hormuz Is the Hidden Risk to the AI Economy A world where we can cook up AI videos in seconds from the apps on our phones might seem remote from the physical realities of warfare in the seaways of the Persian Gulf. In fact, they’re closely inte...

South Korea & Taiwan have made many bad energy choices favoring fossil fuel over renewables. They're paying the price now, with repercussions for global technology. The Iran war should make them correct their mistake - @davidfickling.bsky.social

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California colleges spend millions on faulty AI chatbots Community colleges are spending millions on AI chatbots that students say often give inaccurate answers. Many might see upgrades soon.

“In testing by CalMatters, they [the chatbots] often answered general questions correctly but struggled with more specific ones. East Los Angeles College’s bot couldn’t even correctly name its own president.”

The United States Could Lose the Gulf Iran’s attacks on its neighbors are a reminder that the United States cannot protect them.

“Gulf states can no longer believe the United States can or will protect them from existential threats. And even as they are forced to openly cooperate with Israel in its war, they increasingly view it as a threat.” My new piece on the Gulf and the Iran war.

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The Iran War’s Most Precious Commodity Isn’t Oil The CIA calls it the “strategic commodity” of the Middle East. But it’s not referring to oil or natural gas. What the American spy agency has in mind is far more prosaic: drinking water. Don’t underes...

Food is not the most immediate concern, water is.

A few strategic bombings by Iran on desalination plants, and most of Saudia Arabia will literally die of thirst within a week

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Why I Don’t Vibe Code A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.

Hey all, I decided to write up some of my thoughts in more detail about why I don't vibe code, in case it's interesting to any of you

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Earth Is Warming Faster Than Previously Estimated, New Study Shows Researchers found the first statistically significant evidence that global warming is accelerating.

"Planetary warming has significantly accelerated over the past 10 years, with temperatures rising at a higher rate since 2015 than in any previous decade on record, a new study showed." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trillions of Dollars of U.S. Investment at Stake in the Gulf A Dubai billionaire’s critical post on X highlights how turmoil in the region stands to upset an increasingly profound economic relationship with the U.S.

“Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war?”
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Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down

Come for the smart analysis of the Gulf's changed global role since 2003, stay for the brilliantly relevant Aimé Césaire quote.

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5 Takeaways on America’s Boom in Billionaires

This is absolutely disgusting. No wonder the billionaires love Trump and are willing to ignore the fact that he is one of the worst people ever to hold public office.

From their point of view, he's their Lincoln, FDR and JFK all rolled into one orange bag of piss. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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The first anti-AI fashion show in Barcelona: clothing that blocks facial recognition created in a neighborhood of Nou Barris. On March 13, Barcelona will host a day of technological resistance with fashion shows featuring clothing that blocks facial recognition and workshops on reprogramming artificial intelligence algorithm...

“The main activity will be an anti-AI fashion show, where garments designed specifically to confuse facial recognition systems will be exhibited. These pieces seek to protect citizens’ privacy from the constant mapping of security cameras operating in public spaces.”

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

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People Have the Right to Refuse AI Britt Paris is the author of Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up, a new book published by the University of California Press.

"If AI is inevitable, why is it being shoved down our throats? What options do we have?" writes @hellobrittparis.bsky.social in @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Refuse! Don't be a mark!