https://theonion.com/doj-designates-posting-photos-of-balding-elon-musk-as-domestic-terrorism/

Terrifying.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/paul-weiss-deal-trump-executive-order-withdrawn.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Paul, Weiss: “one of three law firms targeted by President Trump as part of his retribution campaign”

In an earthquake you find out what was built on sand.

https://gizmodo.com/tattoos-could-be-a-hidden-cancer-risk-study-of-twins-finds-2000578684

Correlation but a twin study so noteworthy. Skin cancer and lymphoma with larger tattoos. No mention of animal models and no obvious mechanism.

https://www.minnpost.com/other-nonprofit-media/2025/03/can-the-worlds-largest-ice-rink-survive-a-warming-planet/

Similar to making snow for Nordic skiing. “He’s dead Jim”

https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/20/iphones-were-being-stolen-off-porches-right-after-delivery-and-now-we-know-how/

Usual: bribe AT&T staff to get delivery times, get FedEx delivery schedule, etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/nasa-astronauts-overtime.html

I went to Caltech in part because I wanted to be an astronaut. There I met the competition. I became a physician instead :-).

They get usual gov travel per diem. It wasn’t bad in 1970.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/well/mind/sleep-cognitive-shuffling.html

“You start by taking a random word — “Pluto,” for example. Then think of as many words as you can that begin with the same first letter, like so: “Plane, poodle, play, peaches.” When you run out of “P” words, you can move on to the next letter of your original word, which is “L,” and do the same thing: “Love, light, lemur, linger.” Take a second or so to visualize each word.”

https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/18/apples-passwords-app-was-vulnerable-to-phishing-attacks-for-nearly-three-months-after-launch/

Fixed now. Don’t worry, they were careful about everything else.

https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/keeping-the-rule-of-law-alive/

I hope Canada can join what will become the heir to NATO.

https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/unpunished-crimes/

The Philippines are quite a mess.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/schumer-cr-failure-explained

The Dems have no leader.

https://appledispatch.substack.com/p/comprehensive-guide-for-backing-up-apple-notes

From 2024. I don’t know if this still works but Notes lack of local backup/restore is an issue. Even Contacts can create a local archive.

https://gizmodo.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-terrorgram-inside-a-global-online-hate-network-2000576764

Shirky’s “Cognitive surplus” was supposed to mean people would do good creative things with their brains.

https://gizmodo.com/im-the-villain-recording-reveals-head-of-social-securitys-thoughts-on-doge-and-trump-2000575249

Dudek comes across as a foolish geek who is discovering that his hero and his boss are both batshit crazy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/doge-errors-funding-grants-claims.html

I wonder if they really believes their own claims … and are now in panic mode.

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/elon-musk-the-accidental-sovereign

Krupp was much more competent though.

https://gizmodo.com/when-it-comes-to-unwanted-weight-gain-humans-and-labradors-have-this-in-common-2000573900

Labradors are famous for overeating. Maybe the fat helps them survive cold water. Their metabolism is not the issue – and strict diet and exercise works.

https://followmehere.com/2025/03/14/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/

We know this movie.

https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/172810/~/cancel-enrollment-%28amazon-smart-reorders%29

Brother printers provide ink status to any network device, so your Alexa device just has to ask. Turning this off is a bit convoluted; it’s simpler to get rid of any Amazon device from one’s home.

Update. The directions on this page are obsolete. I think it’s not possible to disabled this for an alexa device now.

https://www.persuasion.community/p/our-hamiltonian-moment

If American democracy survives Dems will need a vision.

“American civil servants operate … detailed rules constraining their behavior, and are told to prioritize compliance with these rules rather than achieving concrete results for citizens.”

He is 100% correct about the fed bureaucracy. Congress screwed up the civil service.

“Since the Trump administration does not want to take up Hamilton’s legacy of good, competent, effective, uncorrupt government, the other side should claim it as their own.”

https://followmehere.com/2025/03/12/rare-tooth-in-eye-surgeries-restore-vision-to-blind-patients/

A completely bonkers idea that somehow works.

https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/maybe-a-short-ceasefire-maybe-not/

Trump is an empty shell now. A shell moved by Musk, Putin, and other lesser known names.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/trump-federal-workers-rehire-ruling.html

It is hilarious that the GOP once claimed a connection to honor or integrity. (They don’t now. Too laughable.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-deletions.html

No surprises but a handy reference. They lie on Trump scales.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-america-betrayed-europe

It’s impossible to separate stupidity and madness from strategy in Trump/Musk land.

Here Noah Smith, who represents the relatively sane side of the technarchy, tries to construct a rationale for why the GOP and Trump should betray democracy and freedom across the world. Including one I think is contributing: “The U.S. has deemphasized manufacturing and let its defense-industrial base go to rot, leaving it incapable of matching even Russia’s rate of weapons production, let alone China’s.”

https://tech.kateva.org/2025/03/rip-simplenote-data-freedom-and.html

The export / import was simple, except for an annoying style bug in the import tool. Simplenote was a great product for me for 15 years, but it’s time had come.

https://thenewstack.io/mcp-the-missing-link-between-ai-agents-and-apis/

A standard API for the proprietary APIs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/teenagers-school-girls-boys.html

This has been true for years and it is part of why we got Trump in the first place. We may need “boy schools”.

https://www.theverge.com/tesla/627894/tesla-stock-sales-protest-musk-trump-doge

If Trump kills Canada’s auto industry Canada should open the door to Chinese EVs.

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

I only discovered today.

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/#atom-everything

An impressive tutorial on using 2025 tech. LLM capabilities vary by language and library so will change what is used.

“Don’t fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing LLMs and assuming that failures which would discredit a human should discredit the machine in the same way.”

https://gizmodo.com/neanderthals-and-early-humans-hung-out-way-more-than-we-thought-study-finds-2000574316

Happier than Sapiens eating Neanderthal

https://tidbits.com/2025/03/11/apple-updates-keep-malicious-web-content-in-the-sandbox/

Adam says it would have been fixed quietly but Chrome required public disclosure.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/ketamine-effects-elon-musk/681911/

Ketamine’s off-label use is deeply crazy and very Musk.

https://stealmytesla.com/

Recycle to save American constitutional democracy.

“years of experience in the automotive industry, with a special focus on luxury vehicles, premium wheels and rims, catalytic converters, and driver assistance systems”

https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/

“botnet of cameras and DVRs”

https://notes.kateva.org/2025/03/when-maga-say-woke-they-mean-secular.html

For the MAGA “woke” is the enemy of “morality, community, rootedness, faith, and civilizational pride”. Which, if you understand “woke” as “secular humanist”, is true. When they say “woke” they mean “secular humanist”.

https://thenewstack.io/ai-coding-assistants-are-reshaping-engineering-not-replacing-engineers/

Midway through the article.

“Systems Design: This is the core job of a mid-to-senior-level developer, and AI is terrible at it.”

https://theonion.com/trump-says-recession-unfortunate-but-necessary-step-to-get-to-depression/

We might get 2022 prices again.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/02/27/our-changing-relationship-with-apple/

Jobs could run Apple more or less as he wished, but Apple since Jobs operates like a normal publicly traded corporation. A PTC with monopolistic power over its locked-in customers.

(Tsai says peak Apple was 2010. Seems right)

https://notes.kateva.org/2025/03/project-2025-perplexity-summary.html

“The weirdest parts are the trans and porn obsessions. The funniest part is the TikTok ban. The fossil fuel thing wins “most insane”. The cruelest part of 2025 may be removing support persons with cognitive disabilities.”

Produced by reading a Perplexity Deep Research summary and extracting key points from that. Usual LLM caveats apply.I’ll correct if I see anything better. I’m not going to read the originals.

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Computation got better faster than humans could figure out rules.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-democracy-american-south-vance-bourbons

Similar to eastern Germany?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/06/trump-corruption-united-states/

It took the Great Depression to drive reform in prior episodes of massive corruption. The corruption needs to be covered relentlessly.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-wapo-piece-on-post-constitutional-america

Only Putin is over Musk.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/continuing-crisis-part-vii-overview

Excellent summary, well written.

There is nothing in the GOP now save love of power and scorn for those who love discovery, knowledge, grounded truth.

Beyond that is hatred for compassion. Hatred of the weak that cling to life. Endless ignorance and hatred. That is what we oppose.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/06/heres-why-the-c1-chip-doesnt-have-mmwave-5g-says-kuo/

Cables had to more or less conform to a standard. Wireless connections are free to be anything.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-planning-the-biggest-heist

American voters are going to give Andreesen dollars for his bitcoins. Because we are so stupid there are no words.

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/129-untangling-the-foreign-aid-ruling

‘Alito’s dissent … it combines a remarkable amount of hypocrisy with statements that are either materially incorrect or, at the very least, misleading.”

It’s amazing how little competence is needed to join SCOTUS.

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-state-of-the-union-is-less-than

“Forty-two days, nine hours, three minutes, and two million years into my second term, we can all agree I’ve done lots of stuff”