1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
A press freedom index has given the Americas its lowest ranking since it started recording results six years ago.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
mysteries of the uk financial structure
Basic mines are effective. Iran has been planning for this contingency for decades, these won't just be basic mines. Unfortunately, our mine clearance capability is poor. New systems are just coming on line and aren't exactly promising.
centerformaritimestrategy.org/publications...
this is the energy we gotta bring to The Tournament
it's too bad Lawrence of Arabia & friends disabled the hejaz railway
if this war ever ends they should build more trains around the region. some countries are trying to revive more sections of it
wild in Europe they are looking at a 36 year old guy where in America anyone below 60 is barely a citizen
Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.
xAI’s Grok chatbot is powered by unpermitted gas turbines at a Mississippi power plant. Here's how we know.
Support the people patrolling the streets to keep our neighbors safe from ICE! They have been working so hard, and as gas prices rise, their work gets more expensive too.
I sent them $50 today! Can you?
(International folks can send me PayPal and I’ll pass it along! @coldwater, put ⛽️ in memo)
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
I'd love to see any of the documents, PIAs/PTAs for the deployment of basically every privacy violating technology against Minnesotans. We've had ludicrous amounts of 4A/Privacy Act violations here, from FR to drones to dissenter databases, you name it.
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
problems with petroleum products and distillates are not priced in - analyst
Saudi alternate pipeline to Red Sea can do one but not both
www.middleeasteye.net/news/swingin...
oliver north then and now w a point about him
IranContra is back! h.t. @brucedlittle.bsky.social
Chile's new president is extremely right-wing, Catholic, with Nazi roots. But women in Chile are strong and organized. “Women are having abortions right now, they will be doing it tomorrow, and they will keep doing it – no rightwing government will stop that." - member of Con las Amigas y En La Casa
looks real good
NEW: Before the Iran War, Trump ignored warnings that Iran could retaliate across the region and stop oil shipments. Now, with energy markets in chaos, some aides are pessimistic about the lack of a strategy to end the war. But they haven't told Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
article confirms no one willing to tell grandpa that the game is up
variation on a classic
this feels like a million years ago (11 days) .. uk green election upset
"The military also bought $6.9 million of lobster tail this September."
democrats still seem to be laboring under the delusion that they can introduce stuff to pass while trump is president and they, not trump, will somehow get credit for it. they learned nothing from trump taking credit for covid stimulus checks
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
Even if they projected a quick, decisive military campaign of days, it’s pretty alarming that military planners are only now considering their options. Disruptions in the strait can’t be a surprise if there was any contingency planning done.
One particular outcome of this war is that U.S. allies, partners and enemies will have a much more concrete picture of U.S. vulnerabilities. Obviously the U.S. hasn’t mobilized forces for major sustained combat, but even this snapshot will be consequential.
The playful, prolific use of hyperlinks in online journalism (eg Slate, Pitchfork) didn’t anticipate link-rot. Now so many articles are pock-marked with cryptic allusions that some long-dead link once explained. Weird how quickly a new style comes to feel more archaic than the traditional format
I was revisiting my favorite-ever SXSW talk (it's stuck with me for over a decade), Russell Davies talking about digital best practices. Ironically, almost every link in the writeup is dead.
Typepad, Storify, image hosting, all that wisdom and work just gone.
onlydeadfish.co.uk/2014/03/10/g...
we never saw this coming, except during every war game
