I feel like I’m losing my mind, but it’s really just that he’s losing his. In any sane world, he would be impeached and removed.

Susman Godfrey Secures $1.5 Billion Settlement in Landmark AI Piracy Case | Susman Godfrey L.L.P. Agreement Would Result in First Major Payout to Creators Challenging AI Exploitation of their Work, Believed Largest Recovery Ever in a US Copyright Case Susman Godfrey has announced the terms of a la...

Good people, please fill out those Anthropic claims. Settlement is going to be around $3000 per book.

"Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion plus interest into a settlement fund, equating to approximately $3,000 for each work covered by the settlement."
www.susmangodfrey.com/wins/susman-....

Support CFPB workers in need while making a statement with cool merch available now at CFPBUnion.shop.

We Need to Control AI Agents Now Automated bots are about to be everywhere, with potentially devastating consequences.

Article by @zittrain.bsky.social from nearly 2 yrs ago w/ smart ideas about embedding AI agent metadata at the level of Internet architecture, as a means of control. Since then, more of us can imagine a world w/ many AI agents. Read at least the last 7 paragraphs. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Wow! Thank you sharing this. That was my first computer, and the only one I’ve kept all these years. So awesome the way you could attach accessories to it, including a printer.

You can follow along at @smallflock.com

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

“He is going to take screenshots of fonts he likes and put them in a folder called ‘cool fonts’ and not know why.”

I love this piece about the MacBook Neo. It reminded me of pushing my old hand-me-down Packard Bell past all its limits and loving every minute of it.

samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

The worst thing about credit bureaus is that you have no ability to opt out of them, and now without the CFPB, little recourse when they make mistakes. You are not their customer, you are their data source, so they have little interest or incentive in serving you. They need to be held accountable.

Trump’s Reckless Gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the White House is dismantling the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin.

This article does a good job conveying the importance of the CFPB, and what's at stake now that it's not allowed to operate. It touches on many of the actions I was involved with personally as a technologist, supporting lawyers and examiners in Supervision.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

It has! This is the second Maersk Lego set. I used to have this once from over a decade ago.

I love this, and I’m surprised there are so many left. Still plenty of photo opportunities for the back page of 2600 Magazine.

Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem His use of the Iran war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.

Pete Hegseth, if he does not resign, should at least get out of the way and let better men than him talk to the nation and to the press.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

That Red Roof! Those Tiffany Lamps! It’s a Pizza Hut From the Past.

This is a serious nostalgia bomb for me. This Pizza Hit Classic even has a poster promoting the BOOK IT! club. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/d...

This device management profile trick is working for me, for now. robservatory.com/block-the-up...

Many Places, Many Design Histories The Nordic Forum for Design History Biennial Symposium, 6-8 May 2026, Ubmeje/Umeå, Sápmi/Sweden.

The upcoming Nordic Forum for Design History Biennial Symposium at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social looks fantastic. www.umu.se/en/umea-inst...

Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024 The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.

New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

Seems like a big deal. Also, staggeringly stupid of Bondi to put it on paper.

Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations Recently disclosed records suggest a closer relationship than the Commerce secretary previously indicated.

Secretary Howard Lutnick lied to the country about his ties to Epstein.

Now we learned that they were in business together.

He has no business being our Commerce Secretary.

He should resign.
www.politico.com/live-updates...

Darknet Diaries – True stories from the dark side of the Internet.

Not sure how I managed to miss 170 episodes of the @darknetdiaries.com.web.brid.gy podcast, which is so is clearly up my alley, but I’m glad that I know about it now! darknetdiaries.com

Duke professor Dan Ariely had longstanding friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, newly released files show Ariely is named in 636 of the some 3 million newly released files. He was a prominent professor at Duke over the course of his correspondence with Epstein.

Dan Ariely was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and asked for contact info for a "redhead." He is co-founder of BEworks, a KYU Collective company, which also owns my former employer IDEO. We need a response from all 3 companies, and they should cut all ties with him.

dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Today, construction on the nation’s largest infrastructure project came to a halt - with hundreds laid off - because Donald Trump is out of control.

The good news: political pressure still works, and we can use our voices to make sure he doesn’t have the last word.