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The Daily
• The New York Times
Trump Wants to Change How We Vote. Will He Succeed?
Trump War Takes Darker Turn as Unnerving Leaks Hint at Big Escalation
Bracket (and Trump)... busted.
It's March Madness - we might as well call it Trippi Madness. Joe picks his way through a special bracket... then blows the rest of it up. What's the most likely thing to happen in 2026? Why Joe thinks Trump is just as busted as this bracket. Where are Democrats going to make the biggest gains this year? And what races might surprise everyone, but not Joe! What year is 2026 most likely looking like - and why is that bad news for incumbents everywhere?
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Scripting News for email
• Dave Winer
Scripting News: Thursday, March 19, 2026
My NCAA bracket could’ve started off better, but caught the last couple minutes of Spurs/Suns, so good. Officially back in the playoffs. 🏀
Hit-and-Run Belligerence
How should we see the Israeli-American War on Iran? How should we understand it, or maybe even escape it? The writer and historian Daniel Immerwahr is our guest, with the essential qualifications, starting with his ...
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Westenberg.
• JA Westenberg
Members Only: How do we define our own flourishing?
Nikolai Kardashev believed we could classify civilisations by the eneregy they harness. The Soviet Astrophysicist proposed three “Types” of civilisation - Type I controls the energy budget of its homeward, Type II controls a star, and Type III controls a Galaxy. By Kardashev’s measure, the human
Just realized today that we hadn’t released the Epilogue update for Android that improves book search. It has been done for a while. Finally out now! Lots of apps and versions to juggle right now.
WIRED
• Andy Greenberg
US Takes Down Botnets Used in Record-Breaking Cyberattacks
The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting more than 3 million devices in total, according to the US Justice Department.
Email was into agents before they were cool
It turns out you’ve been using agents since way before the AI variety started deleting everything in their owners’ inboxes.
NetNewsWire 7.0.2: The Return of the Error Log
NetNewsWire of Yore had an Error Log window (on Mac) which could help you figure out what’s going on when a feed or account is acting weird — when it’s stopped updating, for instance.
NetNewsWire 7.0.2 brings that feature back, and we’ve already used it to help fix a syncing authentication bug (bug fix will be in 7.0.3).
Get your updates the usual way and enjoy the return of the Error Log!
For more details, plus screenshots, see How to Use the Error Log.
300+ issues of the UK music magazine NME from 1969-1983...
300+ issues of the UK music magazine NME from 1969-1983. The ads alone are incredible.
WIRED
• Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
In this episode, we dive into Nvidia’s annual developer conference and what CEO Jensen Huang is saying about the future of the company.
StopTheMadness Pro and StopTheScript Extensions for Safari
#TheDearHunter's new album, Sunya, is out now. May need to wait until after midnight depending on your timezone, or trick time with a VPN.
Actual Headline in the Actual New York Times: ‘Trump Jokes About Pearl Harbor in Meeting With Japan’s Leader’
Javier C. Hernández, reporting for The New York Times:
He was responding to a question about why Japan and other allies had received no advance notice of the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran.
“We didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise,” he said. “Who knows better about surprise than Japan, OK? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK? Right?”
There was some laughter from the officials and journalists gathered in the room. “You believe in surprise, I think, much more so than us,” he added.
As Trump sinks further into dementia and his presidency slides further into disarray, his administration, in a sick way, gets funnier and funnier.
‘Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done’
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