One good use of the supposed two-week ceasefire is to get back to talking about the Epstein files

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"AI Slop (n.) The endless tide of mediocre, derivative content produced by models trained on other models’ mediocre, derivative content. The cultural equivalent of feeding a landfill into a blender and calling the result “progress.”"

"The Devil's Dictionary of Vibe Coding" goes hard

proudly presenting PRINT GALLERY OF AN ARTIST, a short platformer exploring recursive spaces, inspired by a video on M. C. Escher's Print Gallery

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Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽

How did that work out for Afghanistan in the long run? My memory is a bit fuzzy.

Also, there's an American Dad song on what happened with Nicaragua that can explain it. Forget who were the actors in the Iran-Contra affair though. Damn fuzzy brain.

The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching.

Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher.

That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

Sometimes I'll go get coffee and tell them my name is Frodo, that way when it's ready they go "large iced coffee...for Frodo" and then I yell FOR FRODO! and then nobody laughs and then I go drink my coffee alone in my car

Still Not Forgetting Or Forgiving.

Molecular Red In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of t...

As it happens, I wrote a book to counter a certain Cold War triumphalism, in which I read the collapse of the Soviet Union as prefiguring the collapse of the United States....

One of the most useful ideas in service design: every service has a frontstage and a backstage.

The frontstage is what users experience. The backstage is what makes it possible.

They're not separate problems. They're two sides of the same thing. 🧵

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Today I'm launching Design the service: a free 14-day email course on service design.

A thread on what makes it different, and why I built it. 🧵

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

✨ A Little Perspective is out now! ✨

I put my all into this strange, experimental game, and I'm so excited to finally let you all experience it for yourselves.

Head over to the Steam store to buy it now (10% off for the first week).

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Every PI

Line chart showing atmospheric CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1958 to 2024. A light blue sawtooth line shows raw monthly values, reflecting the seasonal cycle of plant growth. A dark blue smooth line shows the seasonally adjusted record, rising from 315 ppm in 1958 to over 426 ppm in 2024. A dashed red curve shows the super-exponential fit, with the instantaneous growth rate rising from 0.27%/yr in 1960 to 0.64%/yr in 2024, more than doubling over the period of the record.

1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing?

The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise.

A thread. 🧵👇

So I am curious why creative types think this is less true than for software? Software is also the expression of a particular kind of thought and business logic. Indeed often the mark of good software is that it so closely ties to the domain (ie reality) that it ‘feels natural’ to a domain expert.

“I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.”

Seamus Heaney

The media is now: NYT: bootlicking/dark satire/farce/psyops; The Onion: News Outlet

I prefer this, even knowing The Stones version by heart…

A cartoon showing soldiers sitting in a transport plane with jump door open. One soldier asks "Where are we heading, sarge?". The soldier next to him answers "Not sure. But @DonnieJunior just made a $150M Polymarket bet on Kharg Island beachfront futures. By Wintersart (substack.com@wintersart).

This is all too real. These days, satire is just news but in teaser format.

EVs were meant to bypass oil. Now they’re stuck at the Strait of Hormuz The war has blocked the only sea route for the high-grade, low-carbon aluminum EVs need. There's no quick substitute.

“EV supply chains were optimized for speed and cost under stable geopolitical assumptions... What’s emerging now is recognition that resilience needs to be designed end-to-end from the start … rather than treated as a downstream logistics problem" restofworld.org/2026/gulf-ev...

#Blue
Brazilian Painter, Draftsman and Graphic Artist Antônio Maluf

Ecuación de los desenvolvimientos con círculos
(Gouache on paper)

#AntônioMaluf #AbstractArt

Person, Place, Thing by Marissa Lingen Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Excellent short story from @marissalingen.bsky.social that's a great example of how we build on earlier SF and do something different with it. Excellent point of view.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_03_26/

Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.

Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer to turn her farm into a data center | TechCrunch A "major artificial intelligence company" reportedly offered a Kentucky family $26 million to build a data center on their farm.

There are real American heroes all around us if we pay attention.

techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/k...

Another (arguably even better) shot by the same LA photog, Jill Connelly, posted to her instagram.
(Cropped)

How Meta’s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial Aggressive strategy and loss in the trial highlight a problem for tech firms: a widespread distrust of social media companies

“Years of garnering bad will from the public has left social media companies searching for a persuasive argument around why they are not liable for societal harms, and the trial in California at least initially shows they have yet to find it.”