The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran.
Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
In this article, one doc talks about how physicians should try being less paternalistic and authoritarian. Meanwhile, lots of docs writing to me absolutely outraged that we refer to a nurse practitioner with a doctorate as “Dr.” after the first mention, per our style for anyone with a doctorate
Unflattering photo of Pete Hegseth
Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with images taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out photographers from two subsequent news conferences.
I certainly wouldn't want more unflattering Hegseth photos to show up.
Largest room I ever stayed in was at a motel in the middle of the Mojave desert that had a bed, a TV that only received one channel (no cable), a door where someone had kicked out a chunk of the interior panel, and nothing else but lots of empty space. My wife was not happy.
He gives them the toys they want and that’s apparently good enough for them.
Panpsychism for the win.
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Soon to be appointed as a special vaccination envoy for “The Shield of the Americas".
Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.
Another overconfident politician thinking he can take on Chotiner. In this case, Greg Landman, a democrat from Ohio.
"It is fraud" -- Neguse nails Kristi Noem for lying during her testimony yesterday when she told the Senate that DHS's $220m ad campaign starring her "went out to a competitive bid" (it did not), and tells her "I think there's gonna be accountability" (1/2)
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
Not only do we need to keep the “Crypto Agenda” in the US, we need agenda tariffs to keep foreign agendas out. USA!
“If Americans are being instructed to leave but are given no viable pathway, that suggests one of two things: The system is not being activated, or the system has atrophied,” said Shawn VanDiver, president of AfghanEvac, a group that supports Afghan nationals seeking to come to the United States after having served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan. He noted that during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Biden administration had organized the evacuation of 121,000 people in a matter of days.
Meanwhile, Biden evacuated over 100K people from Afghanistan in a matter of days.
Hope no one is forgetting that the Trump administration gutted the State Department in 2025.
WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?
NOEM: Yes
WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?
NOEM: No.
Less technical-LLMs are confirmation bias machines.
after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.
Lots that I don’t like about the Pentagon and AI, but AI isn’t needed at all for this kind of analysis. It’s military access to the commercial datasets, not the software that’s problematic.
When you’ve lost Erik Prince.
OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.
openai.com/index/our-ag...
At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.
Good time to remember that Marc Andreessen claimed that he and the other tech broligarchs were forced to support Trump because of the Biden administration's arbitrary regulation and strong-arming of AI firms.
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
They stole Jean Auel's final unpublished novel.
I'm old enough to remember when he sued the San Jose airport because they wouldn't let him land his jet during their noise preventing late night curfew hours. A man of the people.
Ongoing investigation that will last until at least 2028
NEW: A popular right-wing X account that called the video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social:
Who could have predicted that a tech company would forego safety in exchange for market share? www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
