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Marco Rubio on Monday: “Imagine an Iran that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran.”

Donald Trump on Wednesday: “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”

Irony is dead.

RE: https://graphics.social/@metin/116335353888270814

TL;DR: LinkedIn tries to fetch content from over 6000 known Chrome extensions. If an attempt to fetch ‘chrome-extension://extension-id-asdf/known-path.png’ succeeds, obviously the user has extension asdf installed. It also uses other methods, but they’re sniffing for Chrome extensions.

Incredible post. His sister is at university, her dissertation is in Google Docs - all locked out.

„By Wednesday morning, Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions—known as source code—that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub.“

Because if there’s one thing GenAI companies absolutely don’t take lightly, it’s copyright.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-races-to-contain-leak-of-code-behind-claude-ai-agent-4bc5acc7

Today's April Fool's puzzles were pretty good, especially including

I played https://squaredle.com 04/01:
*42/42 words (+9 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 11

Connections
Puzzle #1025
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#Flagle #1500 (01.04.2026) 3/6
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Squaredle

Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!

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Follow-up: @gruber has noted that location permission is not requested on either iOS or Android, so this is removed functionality, code for future development, and/or impressively sloppy slop.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/31/new-white-house-app

Technical Analysis of the Android Version of the White House’s New App

Link to: https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

Daring Fireball

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116324270189877586

Anthropic's Claude code was accidentally published and is full of AI slop and low-quality regexes (and is still among the best LLMs)
https://github.com/chatgptprojects/claude-code/tree/main

Supreme Court rules against Colorado's ban on 'conversion therapy' for LGBTQ kids

An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy violates the First Amendment.

PBS News
Republicans Flirt With Kicking Americans Off Health Care to Fund Iran War

Republicans are considering health care cuts to pay for the Trump administration's $200 billion funding request for the Iran war.

Rolling Stone