*SUSPECT IN MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE ATTACK IS DEAD: CNN

Israeli cabinet members: “blood libel”

IDF via AP: “The military said the charges were being dropped because the **video** did not show abuse violent enough to merit a criminal conviction and had been improperly leaked to the media.”

UFC Fighters to Train FBI Agents in ‘Historic Seminar’ This Week: We’ll ‘Be Even Better Prepared to Protect the American People,’ Kash Patel Says UFC fighters will head to Quantico, Va. this week to train FBI agents and students in what FBI director Kash Patel is calling a "historic seminar."

You may well laugh, but you’ve probably never seen the way a UFC fighter disseminates a 302 to every office that needs to receive it. variety.com/2026/politic...

Um, how did they "verify" this account?

Did it just have to pay $7 a month?

Everyone will be quick to point out how Vietnam ended, but my favorite part of this is about how our military is somehow “leashed” under Pete Hegseth. Which just goes to show how there will always be some idiot finance bro in NYC claiming we’re fighting wars with one hand tied behind our backs.

a black and white photo of a group of people running in the sand ALT: a black and white photo of a group of people running in the sand

Sew-Hulud
Shite-Hulud

"Bless the Maker and His water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May His passage cleanse the world.
May He keep the world for His people."

Over to you, Archimedes of Syracuse.

A recently published study from a team of researchers in Europe attempts to measure the degree to which X’s algorithm is poisoning the brains of those who continue to use it. The study, which took place in 2023, randomly assigned around 5,000 X users to view either their algorithmic or chronological feeds over a seven-week period, and then measured the effects on users’ political attitudes and online behavior. For anyone who does not have a vested interest in the financial success of X, the findings are pretty grim. The researchers found that the “For you” tab shifted users’ political opinions toward more conservative positions on certain issues—for example, the then-ongoing criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They found that the algorithmic feed increased user engagement, promoted conservative-coded political content, and demoted posts from traditional news sources, which appeared in users’ algorithmic feeds 58.1% less often than they did in users’ chronological feeds.

Finally, and maybe most troublingly, the researchers found that these effects were asymmetric—that although turning the algorithm on changed users’ views, turning it off did not move views in the other direction. After the study, the chronological feeds of participants the study exposed to the algorithm contained 60% more posts from conservative accounts and 28% more posts from conservative political activists, relative to the chronological feeds of study participants who did not use the algorithmic feed. The researchers attribute these results to the types of accounts that users encountered in the “For you” tab and eventually chose to follow, thus adding those accounts to their chronological feeds, too. In other words, once the X algorithm moves you to the right, you probably stay there. And if you use the X algorithm long enough, even on those occasions when you decide to peruse the “Following” tab, you will probably see more conservative-coded content than you would have if you had never checked out the “For you” tab in the first place.

I know we all understood that the post-Musk version of Twitter featured more right-wing slop, but this academic study of the algorithm's effects is pretty astonishing: Just 7 weeks of using the "For you" feed made X users more sympathetic to Trump www.fastcompany.com/91507338/x-a...

Every god damn "innovation" capitalists churn out ends up just being "what if we could have slavery or near-slavery, but hide it?"

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

Man these DOGE videos are like the parody of the fantastical version of “unelected bureaucrats” Republicans have railed on for years

Huge relief to hear nobody was lost.

*SUSPECT AT LARGE AFTER ATTACK ON A MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP
*NO DEATHS AFTER ATTACK ON MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP

I have recently been able to use Bluesky for quick sports things, train delays, and weather in my neighborhood.

We love to see it!

Big techbros are watching and working overtime for their respective Skynets.

Why are techbros

"The spirit of liberty requires moral courage among the people who are elected to Congress... but it also requires all of us It requires us to speak out without fear It requires us to tell others unpleasant truths that they do not want to hear."

A map of the Middle East with casualties. It is done by country, and as a result doesn't show how many of the victims in Gulf States are guest workers.

Al Jazeera has a very good tracker of the deaths and injuries in the Iran war. It would be striking, however, if they ran a separate tally for guest workers, bc by far the most frequent victims in the Gulf states are guest workers, often from S Asia.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

@slotkin.senate.gov: I hope you're asking questions about whether Russia was SPECIFICALLY involved in Benjamin Pennington's death. What appears to have been that strike on Prince Sultan seems like one that Iran would have had a hard time pulling off on its own.

Trump is in a snit with Spain bc its president Pedro Sánchez has funny ideas about rule of law.

And Trump just took back South Korea's missile defense bc he needs it bc he started a stupid war of choice in the Middle East.

It's only going to get worse from here.

"Shield of the Americas" is an attempt to counter co-host Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil.

Meanwhile, if SCOTUS gives Trump his wish, 300,000 Haitians may be sent back, exacerbating its crises.

Now that Iran & the US are fighting over World Cup (be clear: Iran started it; Trump's tweet is a defensive response), let's review OTHER countries North America is supposed to host.

In addition to Iran, Egypt, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are on State warning list. 1/n

www.fifa.com/en/tournamen...

The next day, she was put in a jail cell. She met a woman there who had been arrested for allegedly assaulting a federal officer. The woman told Martinez that she’d gone to a protest because “some girl got shot.” Martinez realized that she was that girl.

Then, days later, the government asked to drop the case. The judge dismissed the charges with prejudice, meaning that the case cannot be retried. It was an abrupt reversal. “Put that in your books, Exum,” Martinez said in front of television cameras in the courthouse lobby. Still, that day, D.H.S. released another statement calling Martinez a domestic terrorist. The next night, she went to dinner with the woman she had met in jail. Martinez had remembered her being “so bubbly, so full of energy.” Now the woman seemed changed. She told Martinez that, although the charges against her had been dropped, she was struggling. At times, she was on high alert that she would encounter federal agents again. Martinez went home that night but was unable to sleep.

This New Yorker profile of Marimar Martinez--the US citizen CBP shot who survived--includes the friendship she made w/woman she met in jail who had protested her own shooting.

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

BREAKING: powerful iPhone hacking tools used by Chinese criminals originated from US defense giant L3 Harris.

Their zero-click exploits went to Russian spies too.

Unbelievable harm to our collective security.

Scoop: @lorenzofb.bsky.social, here's why it matters 1/
techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/a...

Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center

A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big

hmm

UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension.
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.

(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

uk.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-us...

Oman Evacuates Ships From Oil Terminal in Precautionary Move Two oil tankers were hit in Iraqi waters, the latest in a string of attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf that are raising risks to global energy supply from the deepening Middle East war.

ships being struck in iraqi waters is significant because iraq just has a tiny bit of coastline right at the tippity-top of the gulf, nowhere near the strait of hormuz www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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