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Announcing: Coming to PBS on April 1!

LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman is a visually striking science-driven nature series that reveals Earth’s ecosystems through radical shifts in scale—from microscopic wildlife to the planet’s most iconic species, and even the potential for life beyond Earth. 🧪🦠

The Dark Factory Is a .dot file StrongDM published a spec, Dan Shapiro built Kilroy, we built three more. Every implementation converges on the same architecture. The interesting artifact isn't the factory code — it's the pipeline g...

Excellent piece by @harper.lol on Dark Factory patterns. 2389.ai/posts/the-da...

The Dark Factory Is a .dot file StrongDM published a spec, Dan Shapiro built Kilroy, we built three more. Every implementation converges on the same architecture. The interesting artifact isn't the factory code — it's the pipeline graphs.

just posted about dot files and attractors over at 2389.ai 2389.ai/posts/the…

Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.

I’m surprised more of us haven’t been transformed into The Joker at this point.

DHS detains US citizen from Evanston at O'Hare, releases her in Wisconsin after nearly 2 days The woman's family said federal agents told them that she was not in custody despite her phone location previously showing her at the Broadview facility.

“At some point, the family said, they lost Naqvi's location that was being shared from her phone. Relatives said federal agents continued to tell them that Naqvi was not in custody, despite her location previously showing her at the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.”

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Flying *has* been wilder lately

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

nytimes: What to know about the report. Job growth fizzled in February, a sign of unexpected weakness in the labor market. Employers cut 92,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department reported on Friday, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent. The job losses cut across nearly all major sectors, including health care, which was weighed down by a nurses strike in California.

lol “unexpected”

Man I want to. I don’t think I can swing it.

@jcs.org you should swing by our office

Where is it?

Why would you put my real name out there like that

Oh let me think more and get back to you shortly

I do this already. But people keep reading it.

All I want is the ability to store private data in atproto

Goddamn

DerekBroox Brooks

“He says what the rest of us are thinking!”

Made a surprise visit to Colorado to hang with the parents.

A few more from our Friday jams.

We have been having a few friends over to the office for Friday afternoon. Club. Come hang out. HMU for an invite to the next one.

White House Says We Had to Bomb Iran Because Trump Had a “Feeling” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had a shocking explanation for why the U.S. launched a new war in the Middle East.

“The president had a feeling, again, based on fact, that Iran was going to strike the United States, was going to strike our assets in the region, and he made a determination to launch Operation Epic Fury based on all of those reasons,” Leavitt said.

newrepublic.com/post/207384/...

I'm reminded of how many web frameworks there are and that those that survived exist do so because they took a principled "this is how we do this" stance. Just think of Django vs. Flask.

My prediction for 2026 is that a similar thing will happen for agentic frameworks.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

“And it only becomes possible due to the invention, mass production and patenting of barbed wire and automatic weapons. So suddenly you can hold a lot of people with a very small guard force.”

YouTuber MKBHD says Tesla 'stopped talking to me' ahead of his new Model Y Performance review Marques Brownlee, the wildly popular YouTuber known as MKBHD, said Tesla won't answer his messages.

The last time an EV maker stopped returning MKBHD's calls, they were bankrupt within a year.🤷🏿‍♂️

Tesla is sitting on a giant pile of cash thanks to all their "genius" investors, so I don't think that'll happen here.

I'm guessing they're still salty about his honest review of the Xiaomi SU7?

211. Making Sense of the Tariffs Ruling Friday's 6-3 ruling reflects an emphatic repudiation of a specific claim of delegated statutory authority by the Trump administration. Folks should be wary about reading it as more—or less—than that.

As is usually the case, Steve Vladeck in One First provides a more detailed & grounded analysis of #SCOTUS #Tariff decision open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

The Germans & French didn’t believe it, at least partly because: “They remembered the dubious intelligence case presented to justify the invasion of Iraq two decades previously, and were wary of trusting the Americans on what seemed like a fantastical prediction.”