“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.

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Why We're Really In Iran: Part 1

The Crystal Clear Objectives

Firewalled Media

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.

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Lossy self-improvement

The case for why self-improvement is real but it doesn't lead to fast takeoff.

Interconnects AI

“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.

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March, 19-21: God is a comedian

A stiff drink is recommended

Gold and Geopolitics

“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 …

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‘Good, I’m Glad He’s Dead.’

Link to: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116268334535345382

Daring Fireball

“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.

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Last Week on My Mac: Brilliant engineering in a flawed interface

After an unfortunate incident three years ago, RSRs were put on pause. Now they’ve been rebadged as BSIs, what is wrong with their current implementation? The list is long.

The Eclectic Light Company

“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.

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March 21, 2026

On March 21, 1861, former U.S.

Letters from an American

“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”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-joe-kent-and-candace-owens-are-really-up-to-in-their-critiques-of-the-iran-war

Separate church and state.

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What Joe Kent and Candace Owens Are Really Up to in Their Critiques of the Iran War

This story is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...

TPM - Talking Points Memo

“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”

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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.

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March 18, 2026

I was intending to take tonight off, but there’s big news—I mean, aside from all the other big news—that I want to make sure gets attention.

Letters from an American

"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.

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Subagents - Agentic Engineering Patterns

Subagents - Agentic Engineering Patterns

Simon Willison’s Weblog