"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."
"You're making Neil mad."
I'm sorry he wasn't around for Taylor Gourmet.
The correct question would be: "What is your favorite dinosaur, and why is it Tyrannosaurus rex?"
Exclusive footage of yesterday's White House meeting with Anthropic's CEO:
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This would be shocking if true given how much of the US military's success over the decades has been based on a total mastery of logistics and the ability to get food and other supplies anywhere on the globe where they're needed.
But look at the bright side: Within 10 years, quantum computing probably would have ended the banking sector anyway.
Two months ago, the Trump administration was threatening Anthropic with a virtual death penalty by declaring it a risk to the military supply chain.
Now one Anthropic AI tool is so powerful that the administration seems scared out of its mind at what it could do.
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Happy 50th anniversary to “All the President’s Men” — a film that owes its existence to Redford, who bought the film rights, developed the script and cajoled a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein.
I thought it was “a great character study,” he said later. But, for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”
If you want a stark demonstration of how Trump's power over social media has increased since his first term, look at his threat that "a whole civilization will die tonight."
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Trump warns on Truth Social that "a whole civilization will die tonight ... probably."
Six years ago, Twitter put a violence warning label on a Trump tweet in which he threatened that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."
Now he's using his own social media network to threaten that "a whole civilization will die tonight." And...
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So when will someone decide to repurpose all these ICE-purchased warehouses as data centers?
Latest example: Traffic at all three DC-area airports halted Friday because a "smell" forced the evacuation of FAA employees from a facility called the Potomac TRACON. It was the second smell-related evacuation from there in two weeks.
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Trump promised a "new golden age" of aviation. Sean Duffy urged Americans to dress accordingly.
So why for we get hourslong TSA lines, soaring ticket prices & the first back-to-back years of multiple airline fatalities in 20 years? @Oriana0214.bsky.social writes:
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
NEW: The Trump admin has spent a year working to arrange deportation flights to Iran in coordination with Tehran.
The war ended those efforts, leaving the fate of Iranians in ICE custody murky — and in some cases ordered released. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
I'm old enough to remember people getting the vapors because restoring the Everglades was going to cost $7.8 billion. Over 35 years.
Also, guess what project has barely started 28 years later.
I'm just waiting for all that sweet, sweet inexpensive Jones Act gasoline to hit the market. Can't hardly wait.
Somebody involved in this movie really know their way around a newsroom:
The person obsessed with their office chair.
The reporter who says I wrote those awful things about you because you never answered my calls.
Killing the story about the plane crash because nobody from New York died.
Law enforcement needs a warrant to get your location data from cell phone providers.
But the FBI has found an alternative avenue: Buying that information directly from data brokers.
This reminds me a lot of the George W. Bush-era proposal to pay a lot of money to the companies holding the leases for long-dead oil and gas projects off the Florida Gulf Coast. (It might have been $200 million.)
Even some enviros thought that was a boondoggle, given that the projects were dead.
Of course, the oil execs donated way, way less than $1B to Trump's campaign. The entire U.S. oil industry spent much less than Elon Musk did to get Trump elected.
And now he's rewarding them by shoveling money to one of their competitors (a French oil company) to kill two already-dead wind farms?
I'm just been imagining the reactions of people who decide to read Vineland after seeing the movie and are immediately bewildered about who these people are and what they're doing.
it’s beautiful to think One Battle inspired a whole new generation to read Thomas Pynchon’s wikipedia page
Overhead in Alexandria:
Woman: "Can I get this made with fresh ingredients?"
Guy behind the counter: "Uh, this is McDonald's."
Friday night news dump: The Trump admin was silent for months on the fate of Title X, the program that provides contraception to millions of low-income patients.
Tonight, 2 days after my article on the looming funding cliff, they released the long-delayed guidance...with some interesting changes.
... while citing Trump's criticism of war coverage by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, neither of which is a broadcast outlet.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage
Last night was a big night for offshore wind:
Vineyard Wind finished construction and Revolution Wind began sending power to the grid @wbur.org #energysky
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