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This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.

Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

Tiger Leaping Gorge, China, where the river squeezes through the cliffs

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Tick tock! Lesson’s Motmot #HotelBouganvillea #CostaRica 3/25 #Sony a6700 #Tamron 50-400 @ 400mm (~800mm eq.fov crop) Program #birds & wildlife mods #Photomator #FrameMagic #nature #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature

My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about agentic engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. …

I spoke about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit last month, in a fireside chat hosted by Eric Lui - here's the half hour video plus highlight quotes and extra notes from our conversation simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/14/...

The culture of parenting has changed, writes Henry Mance. Many people have fond memories of boarding school, but very few intend to send their children to one: ft.trib.al/UlVPu4W

A fair coin "knows" π.
Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π.
Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay.
Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io
#Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding

"This is what the aurora in Iceland looked like today. From about 1.30 to 3.30 the whole sky was on fire. Every few minutes there were beautiful, winding ribbons."

📸Paweł Kamil Misiński
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Another view of this beautiful Osprey. Have a great day.

The Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice (Official Video) YouTube video by dixiechicksVEVO

I know everyone on BlueSky is too young to remember this song, but there was a time not long ago when the US began a war in the Middle East. The real foe was a 3-woman country band who dared speak out. In their next album, those Chicks told the patriarchy to continue to fuck right off. Keep fighting

Fourth-quarter GDP revised down to just 0.7% growth; January core inflation was 3.1% The PCE price index for January was expected to show headline inflation at 2.9% and core at 3.1%.

The war is a mess and the immigration policy is a disaster but at least the economy is o— www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/...

This baby elephant wants to be close to his mom

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The owner didn't need to speak; the dog handled the entire situation

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"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"

got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

Helping a swan with a fishing hook and line stuck inside.

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Guy Makes 'Distracted Boyfriend Meme' Painting Using MS Excel's Bar Charts, Microsoft is Impressed With His Skills (Check Viral Pic) | 👍 LatestLY A Twitter user named Planet Dave has utilised his time in quarantine to make some artwork in MS Excel. He made a painting of 'Distracted boyfriend' using the app and it is so impressive that...

It's polite to credit the original www.latestly.com/social-viral...

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

‘God, It’s Terrifying’: How the Pentagon Got Hooked on AI War Machines An excerpt from the coming book Project Maven shows how the US enlisted Silicon Valley in its vision for AI warfare, now playing out in Iran.

The US turned to Claude and other artificial intelligence systems to help shape its vision for AI warfare. In Iran that strategy is unfolding in real time.

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Pagoda in Kyoto | Toshi Yoshida
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Hey does anyone remember how we had like a decade of near zero interest rates? Thank god the USA spent that time investing in infrastructure! What a calamity if we had just squandered the last best chance of our lives

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.

It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.

Why Bay Area allergies are suddenly so bad this year A warm winter has caused plants to flower early and pushed the Bay Area’s allergy season into overdrive.

A warm winter has caused plants to flower early and pushed the Bay Area’s allergy season into overdrive.

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

Congrats on the Prize !!!

Part of me thinks the speed of change in llms is part of the reason we aren't seeing more productivity increases (in the economic measures sense not the individual human sense). You start working on something based on best practices and three months later it's obsolete.

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

Promotional graphic for the MIT Press Bookstore Pi Day deal. Copy encourages buyers to use code PIDAY at checkout and the deal is valid for 30% off select titles from March 12th through the 15th.

We love π! Starting today, folks can join us in celebrating with a special sale through the MIT Press Bookstore. Get 30% off mathematical puzzle books and our best physics books (in-store and online) with code PIDAY: mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/piday

This is Ranger. He is politely requesting attention from these mannequins. Happy to wait as long as it takes. 13/10 (TT: rangerthenycgolden)

Morning.