“According to the administration itself, there is only one objective: attack Iran until Trump feels like the war is over.”
https://www.firewalledmedia.com/p/why-were-really-in-iran-part-1
Jedeed does a great job of exposing the nexus of insanity in the War against Reason.
The case against ai “fast takeoff”
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/lossy-self-improvement
Unpredictable chaos develops over years, not weeks. That’s the optimistic case now.
“United Airlines is planning for $175 per barrel through the end of 2027”
https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian
Best I can tell it’s a pretty good description of the current state. A broken mix of effective war tech and mad king.
“Let’s keep his “Good, I’m glad he’s dead” post bookmarked for when Trump himself finally keels over”
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/22/trump-glad
I just outlive Trump. I must …
“BSIs are a worse mess than RSRs were in Ventura … technology is still brilliant, but their current interface is shockingly flawed”
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/22/last-week-on-my-mac-brilliant-engineering-in-a-flawed-interface/
I hope LLMs turn out to be good at following basic UX principles. Because humans obviously cannot.
“The American Constitution had a crucial defect at its heart, he said: it based the government on the principle that humans were inherently equal.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-21-2026
Musk, Bezos, Thiel are there.
“Owens has placed her support for Kent’s decision to resign over the Iran War front and center in her ugly, relentless battle to elevate the antisemitic Catholic right as a righteous opponent of America’s alliance with Israel”
Separate church and state.
“disservice to stereotype us Singaporeans as oppressed, timid, politically apathetic digits … it would also be a mistake to assume that we’re free.”
https://adimagazine.com/articles/no-free-labor-for-authoritarians/
Singapore is a different dystopia
“experience is akin to being oppressed by the most insufferable middle manager you’ve met. They won’t beat you; they’ll just irritate you to death”
Operation Chain Reaction: "JPMorgan Chase neglected to report more than $1 billion in suspicious financial transactions linked to Epstein"
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2026
Money laundering, drug trafficking, prostitution. I suspect there are mob relationships still to be uncovered. Also, Melania connections.
Doubtless Trump's AG, Todd Blanche, is implicated too. He blocked records release.
"When a coding agent uses a subagent it effectively dispatches a fresh copy of itself to achieve a specified goal, with a new context window that starts with a fresh prompt."
https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/subagents/#atom-everything
Nice intro.
John Gordon
