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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WIRED
• Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman
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.
McSweeney’s
• Madeline Goetz and Will Lampe
To Get Hot, Break Your Jaw. Then Everything Else
Lots of great defecation physics here: “ 66 percent...
Chris Coyier
• Chris Coyier
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.
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?”
The Verge Interviews Tim Sweeney After Victory in ‘Epic v. Google’
theverge.com/23996474/epic-tim-sweeney-interview-win-google-antitrust-lawsuit-district-court
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Janakiram MSV
The case for running AI agents on Markdown files instead of MCP servers

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.
WIRED
• Brad Bourque
These Beats Headphones We Like Are $150 Off
Save a chunk of change on the Beats Studio Pro over-ear headphones.
WIRED
• Steven Levy
When AI Companies Go to War, Safety Gets Left Behind
We were promised AI regulation and a race to the top. Now, we’re arguing about killer robots.
Defector
• Albert Burneko
The Road To Magic City Monday Is Paved With Good Intentions
SETI might be missing alien signals because...
SETI might be missing alien signals because “stellar ‘space weather’ may blur ultra-narrow radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations before they leave their home star systems”. SETI usually looks for “extremely sharp frequency spikes”.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
The Many Ways of Being Muslim
During Ramadan, Sohaira Siddiqui, executive director at the Al-Mujadilah Center and the host of the podcast "More Muslim", talks about the diversity of the Muslim community in New York and around the world.
Photo: Mayor Mamdani attends Taraweeh prayers in Staten Island. Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.
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Fonts and footnotes!
Lab Notes 024: adding curated (and custom) typefaces to Leaflet theme options, and a whole new way to add footnotes (and sidenotes!) to posts
Eventually we’re going to have OpenClaw-like assistants that can filter or prioritize emails and calls, but for now I wish there was some kind of voicemail scripting. If a voicemail transcript contains “$”, delete it.
Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right to Criticize Google’s Play Store Until 2032
theverge.com/news/889595/tim-sweeney-signed-away-his-right-to-criticize-google-until-2032
Defector
• Ray Ratto
It’s Angst Day In Canada’s Angst Capital