David Jekel

Unironically this is a theme in "The Acolyte"

I wouldn’t wish this fear on anyone, not my worst enemies. It’s a unique and terrible hell to be sitting in the diaspora worrying about your family, as massive bombs hit their city, even if it’s something you’ve experienced all your six decades. It only gets worse, each time.

There is plenty of Doom to scroll

Newsworthy events happen in this time zone as well

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

This applies to the East Coast, too, right...?

The volumes in 0 and 1 dimension are trivial and don't have any power of \pi. And you can go from n to n+2 by taking slices and using polar coordinates in the two new variables.

The volumes do contain only integer powers of \pi. In the odd case, the square root of \pi in the Gamma function combines with the extra one. And this is probably counterintuitive because the power of \pi that occurs in the volume of the n-ball is the floor of n/2.

Massive fires continue to burn into the night at the Port of Salalah in Oman, with the blaze caused by Wednesday’s drone attack against the port by Iran having now spread to most if not all oil tanks at the MINA Petroleum Facility.

Gamma function should express volumes of spheres because such volume is computed inductively by slicing. Hence we should expect some pi

You compute it with the trick of doubling the variables and using polar coordinates

Stimmen von Iraner:innen, die sich sowohl gegen die Mullahs als auch gegen die Pahlavi Monarchie positionieren - Mehrheit der Iranischen Bevölkerung - sind weniger sichtbar.

Interview mit Shoura Hashemi , Direktorin von Amnesty Austria, zum Angriffskrieg auf den Iran.
@thenewarab.bsky.social

Prison sentences for pair who attacked gay men hailed as sign of hope for Kenya’s LGBTQ+ community The perpetrators were jailed for 15 years for robbery with violence in the east African country, where homophobic attacks are increasing

Prison sentences for pair who attacked gay men hailed as sign of hope for Kenya’s LGBTQ+ community

The government of Spain has removed its ambassador to Israel, according to a decision published Wednesday in the official state gazette.

Following the move, Spain’s embassy in Tel Aviv will be led by a chargé d’affaires, a source at the Spanish Foreign Ministry said.

Experts fear ‘unethical’ vaccine trial in Africa is ‘prototype’ for US studies under RFK Jr Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Red commercial dumpster with redbox+ DUMPSTERS written on the side.

The movies aren’t very good but this is rather harsh.

Japan will begin releasing oil from its reserves as early as Monday to offset disruptions in Middle Eastern supply, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Wednesday in Tokyo.

my parents were telling me that there was acid rain in india during the iraq war too so they’re expecting it to happen again

Keine Entschädigung: Flugzeug in Linz gepfändet Eine nicht geleistete Entschädigungszahlung der irischen Billigfluggesellschaft Ryanair an eine Frau hat auf dem Linzer Flughafen nun eine kuriose Konsequenz nach sich gezogen. Ein Exekutor brachte in...

So because #Ryanair in 2024 treated a passenger to a 13-hour delay and €890 in costs for a new flight, and then simply ghosted her, an Austrian court today impounded one of its airplanes at Linz airport. ooe.orf.at/stories/3345...

He was detained for 104 days. A year later, he's still fighting for the right to free speech The case of Khalil, who was detained last March, sits at the vanguard of a battle of immigrants' due process and civil rights, and the Trump administration's mass detention and deportation policies.

Mahmoud Khalil remains in limbo but ready to fight

www.npr.org/2026/03/10/n...

Immigration detention on track for deadliest fiscal year since 2004 Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.

Deaths in ICE custody already surpass last year’s total

www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

This scoping review synthesizes recently published research on news media coverage of gun violence in the United States. Following PRISMA-ScR guidelines, a systematic search of Web of Science and Google Scholar databases identified 76 peer-reviewed empirical studies published since 2000. Analysis reveals several recurring themes. First, news media coverage tends to be greater for incidents involving numerous victims, particularly women and/or children; occurring in schools, religious sites, or government buildings; or carried out by perpetrators who are young, ideologically driven, and/or show signs of severe mental illness. Second, race plays a significant role in shaping narrative frames, with media portrayals often depicting white individuals more sympathetically compared to racially minoritized individuals, regardless of whether they are victim or perpetrator. Third, media narratives display dynamic evolution over decades, transitioning from framing gun violence as isolated and episodic to addressing it as a part of broader social contexts and societal concerns. Finally, news coverage of gun violence is associated with negative audience emotions, especially fear, as well as with increased gun background checks suggestive of accelerated gun purchasing. Regarding media coverage's role in inciting further violence, however, studies present mixed findings. Limitations include the exclusion of social media discourse, which warrants study in future research. Future studies should also examine how news media coverage represents individuals across diverse gender identities, LGBTQIA+ communities, and disability statuses, while adopting intersectional perspectives. Three interrelated conclusions emerge from this analysis: the different types of gun violence that occur, the level of news media attention each receives, and the academic research that has investigated these media portrayals to date.

Personal academic news: the paper that I submitted 520 days ago has been accepted! It's on a topic that is meaningful to me bc of gun violence in this country and bc of the shooting that happened in my town when I was a kid.

Forthcoming: "News Media Coverage of Gun Violence: A Scoping Review"

ICE isn't just building detention centers. It's engineering an entirely new industrial infrastructure for mass deportation; modeled explicitly on Amazon's supply chain. Here's the full architecture of what's being built. 🧵

Yeah me too

BREAKING: US-Israeli strikes on Iran on Tuesday were the 'most intense airstrikes of the war', according to Reuters report.

The mystery of a globetrotting iPhone-hacking toolkit Tools used in a series of hacking campaigns by hackers in Russia, Ukraine, and China may have originated inside U.S. government contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.

"US military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine" techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/u...

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Never trust a policy that only claims to protect you due to an exception.

As with abortion, the exceptions are not real. They exist on paper to give false comforts to people who will very much be impacted.

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.

This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.

The study underpinning this played one particular trick.

Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5