I mean, I just generated six hallucinations about me in as many minutes via Googles AI Overview, you can tell your bosses that podcast is full of shit

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

I understand the sentiment, but feel just the opposite. AI is saturating every surface of students’ lives. What we have to offer them is not small tweaks to their engagements w the technology, but rather spaces separate from it via which they can develop their own critical faculties.

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy

corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor

that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post. Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6. If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.

“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps. Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war. Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war. The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane

Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

Grossly inappropriate for the Secretary of Defense to send from his official government account, DOD official seal attached. What message does this send to our many Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, atheist, and other troops? Or to the non-Christian Americans he's supposed to protect?

The obscenity of a budget that cuts the forest service to fund the re-opening of Alcatraz as a prison.

Red States: We are canceling all programs that don't support our theology.
Blue States: We're canceling all the same programs, but because they don't support our business school.

Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

I love (hate) how every 3 months there's a story about how theres 150 evil white men with insane amounts of $$ who use their influence to ruin everything around us, but we never talk about it bc there's a single mom who wants to buy her kid a cookie with her food stamps and thats what really matters

Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It's Totally Wrong Human users are astonishingly willing to take AI chatbots by their word, even when the information they provide us is entirely made up.

We're shockingly prone to "cognitive surrender."

For >90% of Americans, college is the only point in the lifetimes where they will live in dense, walkable, racially diverse places.

That's also why the Interstate Highway System, in the hands of white supremacist urban segregationists, was a social engineering project as much as a jobs project

“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young representative named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As someone who licenses a decent amount of software, I’m preparing for cost increases across the board without any real idea when they’ll hit. And that’s best case. Worst is when we’re all paying for bailouts because the tech is too integrated with critical systems to be allowed to fail.

At some point someone is going to have to pay for AI and I’m pretty sure it won’t be the companies currently trying to force it into everything.

Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk. The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship. Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it.

From the Penn student paper:
www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics by new IOC policy on female eligibility Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy It aligns with U.S.

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event).

However....
apnews.com/article/ioc-...

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

The ancient scrolls tell us that, in the Before Time, a president's admission that his administration had not considered the obvious likelihood of the war widening when they first attacked Iran would lead to immediate congressional hearings.

DCCC Sets Lobbyist Cash Record as Dems Campaign on Affordability The campaign arm pulled in $4.1 million from lobbyist bundlers in February, including firms representing pharmaceutical, insurance, and corporate landlords.

NEW: While campaigning on “affordability,” House Democrats just set a single-month record for lobbyist cash, with bundled contributions from lobbyists representing pharmaceutical giants, health insurers, and the nation’s largest corporate landlord. readsludge.com/2026/03/25/d...

"Please don't worry about our indoctrination machine being left alone with your children."

Many of our current deregulatory and division of labor revisions resemble nothing so much as a rollback of the protections fought for and won in the last two centuries

At this point I don't wonder how much insider trading is going on. I wonder how much policy is being made with the purpose of insider trading on it.

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms

"The deal is an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars to a foreign company for the purposes of boosting the production of fossil fuels, a main driver of climate change, while throttling offshore wind power."

unreal timeline, truly

Love it when Republicans do that thing where they squish their greedy little rat hands together and lean in like "Ima get REAL with you, liberal " and then inevitably say the fakest, most insane shit you've ever heard.

Radical extremist cleric issues angry new fatwa -->

"You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right."

Goddamn, Melville could really cook.

The cost of fresh vegetables is up a stunning FORTY EIGHT PERCENT from February 2025:

www.bls.gov/news.release...