Do you understand why Trump has lifted the oil sanctions that were punishing Iran, the country he’s bombing, and Russia, the country that’s helping it?

Do you understand why Trump is sending 5,000 Marines to sail through the Strait of Hormuz while complaining that none of our friends and allies will help him reopen it?

Here's the whole explanation.

https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian

the pressure from social media worked. In systemd, age verification has finally been reverted and removed for good. Linux is always for privacy conscious users, it isn't just another Microslop SlopOS https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41179 thanks @reddy_1975 for the heads up!

EDIT: they rejected the PR. So keep fight on! systemd folks are cowards and enabling this mess.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116263819407575175

That's right folks, it is now easier to buy a firearm than to load open source software on your phone in America.

The President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

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Having fun with the revelation that Kagi Translate is actually something like a thin wrapper over an LLM, so you can pass anything you want as the "to" language in the URL's query string and it will do its best to "translate" your text to that

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=pentagon+speak&text=I+think+we+should+break+up.

Sources: a JPMorgan-led bank group halted a $5.3B debt deal for Qualtrics, whose existing $1.5B loan trades at 86 cents on the dollar, on weak investor interest (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17/jpmorgan-halts-qualtrics-5-3-billion-debt-deal-on-software-pain
http://www.techmeme.com/260317/p48#a260317p48

Google has become everything it once pretended to disdain -- an arrogant, sleazy, control-freak monopolist.

Its latest anti-user, anti-competition move will shut down the alternative app marketplaces that Google used to show off as "we're not like Apple" evidence. https://thenewstack.io/f-droid-says-googles-android-developer-verification-plan-is-an-existential-threat-to-alternative-app-stores/