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this is from the old blog a coupla years ago. it's a story about a billionaire survivalist bunker davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2...

AI images on blog posts etc

Honestly no wonder all of California is full of new and emerging defense tech startups

Subaru with a thin blue line sticker AND a vision zero sticker. NYC contains multitudes

The Olympic wolfdog turns out (no surprise) to be a genius who can open doors as well as an athlete who can get over an 8 foot fence

hey okay can someone tell me if I need to go to a grocery store before it snows tmw or if dc is fine, I’m tired and haven’t been paying attention to anything other than tariffs

here's to the Pivot to AI viewer who bought me a present off the wishlist! amzn.to/4s2JTlA it's this keyboard. not bad. mechanical, slightly clicky. UK layout.

Couple of my favourite iPhone photos taken during my recent trip to Japan.

alysa liu skating to stateside by pinkpantheress feat. zara larsson for the olympic gala means a lot to me and 12 other people

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Ants.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Opus.

NEW: Trump Says He Will Now Raise Global Tariff to 15 Percent www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

You will never gaslight me into thinking this hallucination machine will ever do my job 💜✨

first saw this LP in a shop 43 years ago, thought "oh i should get that". somehow i had never played the whole thing until today. it's pretty good! and criminally underrated www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

good breakdown of how limited Trump's tariff powers are now

Just realized that people who read my blog in a feed reader never see my blogroll.

most of the time I'm a fan of this website but we're about to go to war with Iran and my "popular with friends" feed is all "the Will Stancil profile is about ethics in journalism" discourse

It's so crazy to me that America went to war with the greatest naval power on earth over a tariff on tea and now our government is like "we found a new source of revenue, it's... the same thing"

Block, formerly Square, is a company that makes a useful and wildly successful payment system, CashApp. it's run by ayahuasca beard weirdo Jack Dorsey and he's currently trashing Block by trying to force AI into everything. www.wired.com/story/inside...

mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/116102...

on the "Golumbia was right" beat for 9 years now sure miss the dude here's my obituary davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2... anyway get "cyberlibertarianism," it's the book of the moment

I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE THIS It's in the title story of CURSED BUNNY by Bora Chung!!! Mass market "soju" is just industrial alcohol with artificial sweetener!!!

with apologies to sarah's attempts at hot takes, the only reason it's not received wisdom is that trying to see the entire unabridged series requires the knowledge to fan subtitled episodes from the back of a truck

Hiring people: When you have interviews with a candidate and later the candidate emails and hey nice meeting you thanks for your time… in the days of me hiring, I’d write back and say hey nice meeting you too, or some such. No one else does this anymore now and it makes me feel INSANE.

Apple Ramadan Wallpapers 🌙 basicappleguy.com/haberdasher...

Asked the company about this of course but no answer. If you have thoughts I’d love to hear them.

i think this is right. i was a harding fan until, well

so glad i got to see the kiefer exhibition at slam

will stancil is the zelig of the most annoying online stuff

jeeb

based on WH information, it appears there are a lot of exceptions to the new 10 percent tariff -- doesn't apply to certain food products already excepted, doesn't apply to goods already subject to other tariffs, doesn't hit goods covered by USMCA -- in short

update -- trump now says (on the other social media site) that he has indeed signed an executive order with a 10 percent global tariff, but we still do not have text so I can't answer detailed Qs about it yet

Trump is to the tariffs as Kennedy is to vaccines.

and here is the complicated rundown of the new tariffs Trump plans to impose soon possibly later today, and it may all net out close ish globally to what the court just invalidated. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

no I refuse leave me alone stop no

i knew the archive. today guy was weird but i didn't realise he was a frothing nutter arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... annoying it's often the only practical option

this is good stuff from @robinwigglesworth.ft.com but i feel compelled to point out yet again that not only were 2025 SEC enforcment actions at an 8-year low, only *four* of them were against public companies www.ft.com/content/b5d9...

here’s our latest tariff tracker by the way which we will adjust once we learn real stuff soon www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

yea I just had this same convo and real ones know GET THAT PAPER hm I am unwell

“In a criminal trial, I would feel morally obligated to convict, however, in a civil trial I could set those views aside,” adding, “I believe it would be to the benefit of the human race for Mr. Musk to be sent to prison.” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

anyway so what did I miss

shokunin made newsweek with only slight misquotes www.newsweek.com/ai-brad-pitt...

(the will stancil piece isn't interesting enough to get mad at)

"The initiative to have the Secret Service purchase suits happened because Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem disliked how a protective detail was dressed in the suits they bought for themselves"

the chicago pope must excommunicate the heretic jd vance

"While a phone can be easily put away, however, someone who needs corrective lenses might find it harder to take smart glasses off." seems like a plus to me! if you're stupid enough to wear those glasses into the courtroom, having to remove them such that you are unable to see at all is fitting

my work here (on this earth) is done

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew — theonion.com/aide-wearily...

"bayesian" should not be a red flag meaning "Bay Area sex pest" but somehow it is

“It looked like the Severed Floor but had an area we could clearly turn into a café. Will went really hard on this.” nymag.com/intelligence...

great profile of Scott Rogowsky aka the HQ Trivia guy by @amanda.omg.lol, on how he's kinda sorta trying to run back the magic of HQ techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/r...

The archive site, which is facing an investigation in which the FBI is trying to uncover the identity of its founder, is commonly used to bypass news paywalls.