Github’s uptime lately seems…..concerning?
Meta acquires Moltbook. From TechCrunch:
OpenClaw blew up among the tech community, but Moltbook broke containment, reaching people who had no idea what OpenClaw was, but who reacted viscerally to the idea that there was a social network where AI agents were talking about them.
Moltbook is still crazy and interesting, but not sure it fits at Meta in the way that OpenClaw might’ve. I’m just glad Peter Steinberger ended up at OpenAI.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Meet the NY1 'Morning People'
Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter hosts of the Spectrum News NY1 show "Mornings on 1" and the new digital show 'Morning People', talk about their new show, plus some of the local news they've got their eyes on.
photo: Likely view from upper floors of the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, looking east (sookie from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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“Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported...
“Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections.” The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics.
McSweeney’s
• Alex Baia
Introducing: Free Time
WIRED
• David Gilbert, Matt Giles, Leah Feiger, Zoë Schiffer
They Helped Plan the January 6 Rally. Now Their Events Company Is Raking in Millions in Government Contracts
The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.
WIRED
• Carla Sertin
GPS Attacks Near Iran Are Wreaking Havoc on Delivery and Mapping Apps
Delivery apps are glitching and navigation routes are changing abruptly thanks to electronic warfare disrupting the satellite signals that power everything from missiles to your ride home.
WordPress Developer Blog
• Birgit Pauli-Haack
What’s new for developers? (March 2026)
WordPress 7.0 RC1 is just around the corner. Catch up on the first wave of Dev Notes, Real-time collaboration, new WP-CLI block and ability commands, and all the latest Gutenberg updates developers need before the release.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Christiane Amanpour on the War With Iran
Christiane Amanpour, chief international anchor and host of CNN's "Amanpour" and PBS' "Amanpour & Company," talks about the latest news on the war with Iran.
Photo: Women members of Iran's Red Crescent society stand near smoke plumes from an ongoing fire following an overnight airstrike on the Shahran oil refinery in northwestern Tehran on March 8, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
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The Shape of Paris
The Shape of Paris is a balletic short film of skateboarder Andy Anderson zooming, grinding, spinning, and floating around Paris in the summertime. It is also beautifully shot by Brett Novak; Paris has never looked better. As a YT commenter put it: “bro wtf this is the cleanest footage I’ve ever seen. The cinematography and color grading is insane.”
Also, this is the first skate video I’ve seen with “trick acknowledgements” in the credits. Great touch. (via craig mod)
Tags: Andy Anderson · Paris · skateboarding · sports · video
Defector
• Dave McKenna
Senior Day Ain’t What It Used To Be
The University of Maryland honored all the basketball team’s departing seniors on Sunday before facing Illinois. Diggy Coit, Collin Metcalf, Elijah Saunders, and Solomon Washington walked onto the court with family and assorted loved ones, and got framed jerseys and drawings of themselves to commemorate the end of their run in College Park.
Their Maryland careers are over, yet it seemed like they'd all just gotten here. Well, OK, they all did just get here. Every honoree in this year's senior crop was a first-year Terp. You gotta combine all their days in College Park together to amount to what only yesterday passed for a standard college stay.
“Yeah, it was not the typical mood for a senior day,” says Maryland booster Jack Cullen, who says he can “count on two hands” how many Terps home games he’s missed since his days as an undergrad in the late 1970s.
Defector
• David Roth
Report: President Donald Trump Is Giving “All The Boys” Dress Shoes That Don’t Fit Right
The Modern Times cafe moved to a pay-what-you-want model...
The Modern Times cafe moved to a pay-what-you-want model during the ICE occupation of Minneapolis. Now the cafe is making it permanent (and pivoting to a nonprofit). “Some had come for a free meal; others were there to pay double or triple their tab.”
Working on Inkwell is in some ways a little awkward because I’m competing in the same space as some of my friends for the first time. But I root for their success and find ways to collaborate. It’s similar to how MarsEdit and Micro.blog work together and also “compete” as blogging client apps.
Sneak peek of Inkwell for Mac. It’s coming along well. I was going to do a beta but might jump straight to 1.0 this week. Need to fix a few things and wire up version checking.
Android folks, @gregmorris is looking for beta testers for Micro Social.
If anyone else would like to test Micro Social on Android please let me know.
Apparently I cant open test or release until I have at least 12 closed testers for 14 days!
Micro Social https://microsocial.micro.blog/2026/03/10/if-anyone-else-would-like.html
With GridGain acquisition, MariaDB bets on in-memory computing and Apache Ignite

MariaDB is one of the stalwarts of the open-source database world. Born out of the MySQL fork following Oracle’s acquisition of
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“A group of runners starts jogging around a...
“A group of runners starts jogging around a circular track, with each runner maintaining a unique, constant pace. Will every runner end up ‘lonely,’ or relatively far from everyone else, at least once, no matter their speeds?”
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Viral 'Quittr' Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users
A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits.
WIRED
• Luke Larsen
Apple MacBook Neo Review: Delicious, Low-Hanging Fruit
At $599, the MacBook Neo is Apple’s first budget laptop. For the most part, Apple cut corners in the right places and made a MacBook its intended buyers will adore.