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Friday, February 27, 2026
Shooting Our Own Dudes
The "scary Mexican drone" thing is just some nonsense, but they have all cooked their brains on their own bullshit.
The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a “seemingly threatening” drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawmakers said.
Threatening?
Policy Ideas
Yes we know that wealth taxes are UNPOSSIBLE so how about my little idea of a kajillion % tax on private passenger jet flights.
Somewhat kidding, but I used to think that the fact that 1st class passengers had so share some indignities with the rest of us would minimize those indignities somewhat.
Now the actually rich, and Trump officials, fly private.
This isn’t just about air travel.
Weird
These 18.5 minute gaps just keep happening.
The lobbying company founded by Lord Mandelson discovered during an internal investigation that a “significant” tranche of his business emails was missing.Global Counsel conducted an internal audit of Mandelson’s company emails after the government agreed this month to release tens of thousands of messages relating to his time as the British ambassador to the US.The company was concerned about what would be published about its own business interests under the mass disclosure, and conducted the audit as part of a due diligence process.The investigation was still going on when the company went into administration last week but an initial report said that significant numbers of emails were missing from Mandelson’s account. The company does not know how the emails came to to be missing.The emails that have been kept include a series of exchanges with senior officials and ministers in government, relating directly to Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Even The Centrists
The value of centrist-coded people saying this stuff is that leadership can't try to wave it away as some "left wing bluesky thing" which they have wants to do (resistance is fading, however).
Well Then
Everyone who had "team of billionaire pedophiles with Russian mob connections is collaborating to destroy the world" as their top explanation for things is looked pretty smart right now.
New docs say Jeffrey Epstein collaborated with the Russian mob to loot the New York Daily News, then tried to help Mort Zuckerman discard it when reporting became inconvenient.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
BYE LARRY
May all the people who ran to his defense over the years be forced to keep him company in retirement.
Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty distinction — and remaining on leave until that time, a Harvard spokesperson confirmed to The Crimson.
Summers also resigned Wednesday from his role as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, a position he has held since 2011, according to the spokesperson. He will not teach or take on new advisees.
Maybe one day someone will explain, clearly, why Larry was one of those indispensable men that you just had to have around.
(sorry for worse than usual typos, a combination of phone blogging and THE DAMN HOVERING "AI" BUTTON MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO SEE WHAT I AM TYPING)When Isn't It Insider Trading
Genuinely confused about how one would make that distinction in any consistent manner.
An editor who works for YouTube's biggest creator, MrBeast, has been suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi and reported to federal regulators for insider trading, Kalshi officials said on Wednesday. It's the first time the company has publicly revealed the results of an investigation into market manipulation on the popular app.
Seems like the whole game is trying to figure out which the insider bets are and then betting with them.
Computer Say Arrest
There will be more and more of this.
Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.
The guy says the cops obviously knew he was the wrong guy but didn’t care. They took him anyway and weren't in any hurry to release him
And of course in our database society, such arrests will follow people forever.
Computer Say Yes
Its "creators" (freaky tech weirdos) are basically an apocalypse cult, so this is no surprise.
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
[Insert obligatory WarGames joke here]
The longtermist "effective altruism" guys were all in on destroying civilization so that their group chat could emerge from stasis in a few million years to find paradise.
No this never made any sense.
[I bet The Kids Today don't even watch WarGames]
The Opposition
The reasons are pretty obvious.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats have been working behind the scenes to try to prevent a vote on Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie’s Iran war powers resolution – a measure that would require every member of Congress to go on the record about a potential U.S. war with Iran.
Plenty of Democrats support bombing the shit out of Iran and then forgetting about it 5 minutes later. Another bunch don't want to be on the record either way.
It is extra funny as Dem leadership only makes process arguments (you must ask Congress nicely, Mr. President) against attacking Iran, even though they work to prevent Congressional input.
Leadership at odds with Dem voters isn't sustainable.
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
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