"Trump doesn’t like to lose. And as his chances of pulling off a win in the war on Iran look increasingly slim, the world may soon face the prospect of a volatile president confronting a foreign-policy dilemma that is utterly out of his control. ... it’s time to anticipate how he might react to the specter of failure in Iran—and prepare for the possibility that his response could make the conflict even more dangerous."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/20/trump-iran-war-outcome-failure/
"AI is supercharging Brandolini’s law, as this paper and others like it show. “It’s just not worth it for scientists to try to debunk all of the bullshit, because there’s so much more bullshit, and it’s so easy to produce bullshit, and it takes so much energy to refute it,” Drake said."
" In the United States, an escalation in both legislative dysfunction and executive dominance, growing pressure on people’s ability to engage in free expression, and the new administration’s moves to undermine anticorruption safeguards all contributed to the negative score change."
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2026/growing-shadow-autocracy
"As artificial intelligence — led by Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic — drives to become the nation’s dominant industry, one of the most pressing questions is how technology is affecting, if not supplanting, politics, potentially diminishing the centrality of elections."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/opinion/ai-economy-trump-future.html
"There have long been copycat killers, but this is a whole other level — copycat killing fueled by the viral power of meme culture."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/opinion/mass-shooters-online-radicalization.html
"To wipe out the history of certain groups does more than hide their stories from view. It denies those people their rightful place in the American story and precludes the valid claim they have to the present. This isn’t just a question of political disagreement. It’s about whether our country can remember who we really are."
"Instead of using a mechanical pull to open the doors, Teslas have a button or a handle that triggers an electric motor, which disengages the latch. The doors are not powered by the car’s main battery, relying instead on a second low-voltage battery. If that smaller battery fails, the doors will not open, noted Transport Canada in its collision investigation."
"Why would anyone follow them into a pseudoreligious war? Because they claim to carry God in a bottle before them."
“These technologies are dangerous societally,” Karp continued. “The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.… Why is it that we’re absorbing the risk of disrupting the very fabric of our society, including the most powerful parts of our society, if it’s not because it’s about maintaining our ability to be American in the near term and long term?”
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
