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Remember when, just weeks ago, the Dems told the military that they must not obey illegal orders. We passed that red line when they obeyed orders to start a war that had not been declared by Congress.

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If you have an X account, esp if you have a lot of followers, please RT this post. I'd like to get my real account back. Thanks for your help.

WIRED
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The Future of Iran’s Internet Is More Uncertain Than Ever

Iran’s internet shutdown has reduced connectivity by 99 percent, with air strikes likely causing additional outages, and few workarounds remaining.

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To Get Hot, Break Your Jaw. Then Everything Else

“Looksmaxxing”—achieving the hottest, manliest version of yourself—can be intimidating. It’s hard to know where to start, but we recommend with your jaw. Crack that bad boy wide open. A big, broad, shockingly vast jaw is the bedrock of masculinity. You’ve heard of the jaws o...

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Lots of great defecation physics here: “ 66 percent...

Lots of great defecation physics here: “66 percent of animals take between 5 and 19 seconds to defecate. It’s a…small range, given that elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand times more than a dog’s, at 10 milliliters.”

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Lars Mensel: … the only way out of the delusion that AI can replace all of us is to do good meaningful work, and to appreciate good work when we see it.

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Remembering pop songwriter Neil Sedaka

Sedaka, who died last week at 86, wrote and recorded hits in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s – songs like “Calendar Girl” and “Breaking up is Hard to Do.” He was nine years old when he began studying piano at Juilliard. Sedaka told Terry Gross in 2007, “To the shock of my family, after studying at Juilliard I sold 40 million records in five years.” The British invasion derailed his career until years later when Elton John helped revive it, by signing Sedaka to his label. 

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new album by The Paranoid Style, led by composer-singer Elizabeth Nelson. And Justin Chang reviews the new Pixar film, ‘Hoppers.’


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The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World...

The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway. Enrollment is now open; the class will deal with questions like “Which regimes are using this tournament to launder their reputations?”

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The Verge Interviews Tim Sweeney After Victory in ‘Epic v. Google’

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The Verge: Sean Hollister: What would you say the differences are between the Apple and Google cases? Tim Sweeney: I would say Apple was ice and Google was fire. The thing with Apple is all of their antitrust trickery is internal to the company. They use their store, t...

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Long-term support for Linux releases gets a new lease on life

If you want to keep your Linux instances safe and secure, your best course is to use Long Term Support

The post Long-term support for Linux releases gets a new lease on life appeared first on The New Stack.

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The case for running AI agents on Markdown files instead of MCP servers

Overhead illustration of hands at a desk with a keyboard, mouse, and coffee cup, representing developer productivity and AI agent workflows.

A venture capitalist is running his entire company on twelve Markdown files. No web application. No workflow engine. No orchestration

The post The case for running AI agents on Markdown files instead of MCP servers appeared first on The New Stack.

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These Beats Headphones We Like Are $150 Off

Save a chunk of change on the Beats Studio Pro over-ear headphones.

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When AI Companies Go to War, Safety Gets Left Behind

We were promised AI regulation and a race to the top. Now, we’re arguing about killer robots.

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The Road To Magic City Monday Is Paved With Good Intentions

The Road To Magic City Monday Is Paved With Good Intentions
Here is a funny headline, from the CBS Sports website: "Hawks will not cancel 'Magic City' event despite Luke Kornet's public plea." Dang! My faith in Luke Kornet's power to halt the promotional machinery of multibillion-dollar professional sports franchises with mildly word...

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SETI might be missing alien signals because...

SETI might be missing alien signals because “stellar ‘space weather’ may blur ultra-narrow radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations before they leave their home star systems”. SETI usually looks for “extremely sharp frequency spikes”.

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The Many Ways of Being Muslim

During Ramadan, Sohaira Siddiqui, executive director at the Al-Mujadilah Center and the host of the podcast "More Muslim", talks about the diversity of the Muslim community in New York and around the world.

Photo: Mayor Mamdani attends Taraweeh prayers in Staten Island. Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.


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Fonts and footnotes!

Lab Notes 024: adding curated (and custom) typefaces to Leaflet theme options, and a whole new way to add footnotes (and sidenotes!) to posts

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Eventually we’re going to have OpenClaw-like assistants that can filter or prioritize emails and calls, but for now I wish there was some kind of voicemail scripting. If a voicemail transcript contains “$”, delete it.

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Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right to Criticize Google’s Play Store Until 2032

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Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge: But Google has finally muzzled Tim Sweeney. It’s right there in a binding term sheet for his settlement with Google. On March 3rd, he not only signed away Epic’s rights to sue and disparage the company over anything covered in the ...

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It’s Angst Day In Canada’s Angst Capital

It’s Angst Day In Canada’s Angst Capital
Of all the trade deadlines, the NHL's is the best because it is the most active and most chaotic. How chaotic, you ask? Try this. The St. Louis Blues traded defenseman Colton Parayko to the Buffalo Sabres, a big deal given the fact that, in a reversal of traditional fortunes...