Lost Volumes

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2 headlines from this week

You know what? Fine, tech bros. You win. You get to do algorithmic pricing.

But in return, we get to do algorithmic taxing on everyone with a net-worth over $5million. As a little treat.

KDO: 28 Years Later… It’s getting a little ridiculous, isn’t it? 28 years of kottke.org, as of today. Older than Google. Older than The Matrix. Older than Christopher Nolan’s feature film career. Older than Elle Fanning. Ol

KDO is 28 years old today. "Older than Google. Older than The Matrix. Older than Christopher Nolan's feature film career. Older than Elle Fanning. Older than Kurt Cobain when he died. It might outlast American democracy." [kottke.org]

The Berkshire Eagle soars once again How a Massachusetts community saved a great newspaper from a predatory hedge fund

At one time The Berkshire Eagle was one of the finest medium-size dailies in the country. Then the vulture capital fund Alden Global Capital moved in and hollowed it out. Charles Sennott takes a look at how the Eagle is soaring once again under committed local ownership. #journalism

Come for Bert’s tracing the trajectory of Providence over the years. Stay for details of how he corresponded with Buddy Cianci when the former mayor was in federal prison

Musicians/artists/labels - do any of you use Ampwall and how do you find it so far?

Thanks for asking. I’ve been sniffing around it for awhile and am looking for a push to hop aboard.

Happy Butt Friday

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The problem with convenience is that it’s convenient.

The benefits are obvious.

The costs are concealed.

We fall for it every time.

Always ask what you are paying to take that short cut or save that half-hour.

#technology #productivity #humanintelligence #calm

See how this works?

Hegseth gutted offices that would have probed Iran school strike The number of Pentagon employees who focus on mitigating civilian casualties has dropped from 200 people to less than 40.

Hegseth gutted offices that would have probed Iran school strike

The number of Pentagon employees who focus on mitigating civilian casualties has dropped from 200 people to less than 40.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

Patel fires FBI Iran experts just in time for war. Counter-terror generally has already been taken apart.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Navy's Avenger Class Mine Hunters Have Left The Middle East For Good The last four Avengers in Bahrain were carried off on a heavy lift vessel at a time of crisis, where mining the Persian Gulf could come into play.

As the threat of mines in the Straights of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf in general I am reminded of this article in The War Zone in which a few months ago the trump admin PULLED all the minesweepers out of the gulf.
#war #iran #PersianGulf #mine #navalmines #Hormuz

www.twz.com/sea/navys-av...

Let’s make it EASIER on Trump and the administration to wage this war in Iran! Great vision, Dems.

Google Map marking a place called "Bockagh".

Did a chicken name this townland?

The Weight by Hozier, Elvis Costello, Mavis Staples, Warren Haynes Love Rocks NYC March 5, 2026 YouTube video by Mark Lachovsky

Mavis Staples, Warren Haynes, Elvis Costello, and Hozier perform The Band’s “The Weight” from Thursday nights Love Rocks concert.

youtu.be/j5UvFL_v3lM?...

This may be the oldest ‘butthole’ imprint on Earth Fossils show exceptionally rare evidence of a cloacal vent—the slit that most vertebrates use to excrete, have sex and lay egg—which could shed light on the evolution of the orifice

Fossilisation as a primitive form of arse photocopying? Must have been some office party. Or was it simply an early Butthole Surfers gig? www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

At times like these it always helps to read some William Butler Yeats

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Scientists discovered a caterpillar that murders insects and stitches their dismembered body parts onto its back as armor

You’re welcome. Happy day! 😆

The bananadrine was bullshit, though.

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Another 2 Teslas become sentient and immediately self immolate

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

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Johan Siggesson’s Striking Portraits of ‘Big Tuskers’ in #Kenya #photography #elephants

Link for more of Johan's #elephant photos and information: www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/joha...

No words to describe the experience of seeing an overhead corona aurora at THE SAME TIME as a total lunar eclipse--this happened last night on our aurora workshop. Crazy experience. The aurora was so bright and the snow glowed green under the blood moon.

Well played, good sir/madam. Well played.

The image displays an article titled "Please don’t put ground-up wasp nests in your vagina" from Popular Science.

Don’t put ants in your ears
Or bees in your anus
Lick a porcupine once
You’ll find out what pain is
And there’s just one last thing
One final reminder