This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.
One thing I have learned from years of talking with and reporting on truckers is that times like these always wipe out small shipping companies and owner operators. It’s brutal and it sucks, for them and for everyone who depends on them (ie all of us)
👀 This was the man who attended the scene of the mid-air collision that Trump falsely blamed on DEI hires among Air Traffic Controllers, even before the debris had been recovered.
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"If the disruption continues, consumers could see higher prices for bread within six to 10 weeks, eggs within a few months and pork and broiler chicken within six months, estimates Raj Patel, food system expert at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs."
The sinking of the LNG carrier Arctic Metagaz has already forced other shadow fleet tankers carrying sanctioned Russian natural gas to avoid the Suez Canal and Mediterranean. That means longer voyages around Africa and fewer shiploads of LNG being delivered.
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This past week, Ukrainian drones struck and sank a Russian shadow fleet ship in the Mediterranean carrying liquefied natural gas from a sanctioned Arctic project. A European Space Agency researcher shows how a weather satellite captured the initial explosion.
Trump and Hegseth have been blaming Iran for supposedly bombing its own Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility with the girls' school.
Business is booming for a company that operates the largest ICE detention facility and is also building "man camps" for AI data center projects.
There are now two reported attacks on desalination facilities in Trump's Iran War: one on an Iranian plant; one in Bahrain. This marks a dangerous escalation in a region highly dependent on #desalination for #water supply.
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Even more ominous development. “In the Gulf, desalination facilities are not merely infrastructure. They are essential lifelines that supply drinking water to millions. Striking them risks turning a military confrontation into a direct threat to civilian survival.”
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Stablecoin companies "hold more Treasury debt than major U.S. government creditors like Saudi Arabia and South Korea... the next crypto crash could cascade into major losses for the highly sensitive short-term U.S. debt markets in which Treasuries predominate."
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1) This is beyond horrific; 2) this does not encourage me to visit the US; 3) I don't think ticket sales for the World Cup and the Olympics in LA will do very well as more people hear about stuff like this.
Hmm, unclear to me why the DOGE members used ChatGPT in this case. We know from previous reporting that DOGE made use of Grok and other AI chatbots / models in cases involving other government agencies.
Deep dive into how two DOGE employees relied on ChatGPT to identify "DEI" projects as their main process for cutting National Endowment for the Humanities grants.
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
hands down the absolute *strangest* “on background” sourcing I have ever seen in the NYT. Completely bonkers stuff www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
I don't think you can fully understand how this fucks over Jamaica, without understanding Cuba medical interventionism.
The PC market has been a bellwether for the AI-related memory shortage that is increasingly affecting all consumer devices. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Analysts expect declines of 11 percent for new PC shipments and nearly 13 percent for new smartphone shipments because of the AI-driven memory shortage. www.idc.com/resource-cen...
Smartphones and computers will have less memory, fewer capabilities and cost consumers more in 2026 and probably 2027. That's because the tech industry's buildout of AI data centers has created a huge memory shortage for all devices, and memory costs have spiked.
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Couple things here:
1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!
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Fascinating interview with a queer writer who used open-source software to build an "independent, self-hosted community for sexual minorities in Taiwan." Includes observations about the tradeoffs involved in building an "anonymous, inclusive and high-trust" community that has thrived for a decade.
Step 1: Self-righteously declare English to be the official language.
Step 2: Fire everyone who can read or write English.
I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.
An analysis found that, following Trump’s claim that acetaminophen was linked to autism, orders for the drug for pregnant patients in emergency rooms dropped, while the number of children prescribed an unproven autism treatment increased
"It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they'd known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family."
Tech companies have until August 2026 to comply with the EU AI Act's rule requiring public summaries of AI model training data.
New analysis shows that the big AI players (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft) have so far neglected this requirement for GPT, Gemini, Claude, and other models.
Camp East Montana was supposed to be the Trump administration's model for a new breed of large-scale, makeshift immigrant detention centers. Eight tumultuous months, 60 violations and three deaths later, ICE is preparing to close it. New from me: t.co/jOIIRAMJCo
