https://thenewstack.io/ai-programming-languages-future/

Huh. I don't know.

This is wrong and also a terrible situation regarding #iphone:

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/21/iphone-spyware-is-everyones-problem-now

This means that Ukrainian soldiers were likely trying to organize against invading Russian forces and were being hurt or killed in action because their data was being exfiltrated by Russia's intelligence services — though the article doesn't explicitly write that, that's probably what is still going on because Putin is a real P.A.B.

https://katu.com/news/local/osu-cites-inflation-costs-and-student-aid-needs-as-it-raises-tuition-and-fees-percent-money-cost-oregon-state-university-corvallis-dollars-credit-undergraduate-graduate-grad-students-inflation-economy-consumer-higher-education

I am older, more opinionated, and I'm headed back to class this spring term — therefore I do have opinions about such matters.

When they wrote that #Oregon college freshman typically take 45 credits over the course of one year that seemed high. So I looked this up.

The typical student takes around four years to complete their undergraduate studies and get a degree in their chosen field.

This is what I call the "rat race." KATU is at fault here. They think 45 credits is entirely normal for a college student to take during their first year. No, that kind of effort is not ordinary to me unless you plan to graduate in three years' time.

So — We have a stark divide here in broad swathes of American society. Some of us who are wiser feel that this ultra-competitiveness can lead to separation from people, polarization of thought, or cause more anxiety with everyone who's attending class and trying to keep up with homework, tests, paying bills, navigating their life, and paying rent too.

I don't think it's the youths. It's the bosses of corporations who need a reality check. It is KATU who is toeing the line here for Trump's and the Salesforce CEO's bastions within corporate America, and I think it is also the school admins deliberately raising the cost of tuition because in part they desire that people graduate and leave their institutions sooner than the way it used to be, and the students oblige SINCE THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO BE IN COLLEGE FOR FOUR YEARS even when they're using their financial aid. Did I miss anything? As younger folks, we have our school tests, lots of homework, we must pay our bills or lose service, go out on dates even at my age, and make sure the rent is turned in on time... I have to say to all the gray hairs pushing buttons and running the operations: just drop your rat race belief system. Go to hell if what you're thinking ain't alright. This is my contention.

To you sages who are all ensconced inside your Ivory Towers and issue your decrees from on high over the fate of us all — we, who only wish to be educated; well goodbye, and thanks for all the browser cookies generated by your slow, stupid websites tracking everything for both Google and Meta's AI scraping of OUR content stored on THEIR Cloud infrastructure. Think about it, and I'll be seeing some of you during spring term.

I'm an old Generation X Deadhead. My parents were anti-hippie and somewhat conservative (they weren't bad people only a bit strict) however I had a few positive musical influences in my young adult life. One of them was the college's DJ and also my younger friend who spun Phish and Grateful Dead tunes on the Robo DJ system the college had going at the time. Also, vinyl was occasionally played by him. We would all hang out at his house located not far from Oregon State University in the early 2000's. This person was also a member of a now-defunct PNW band called Future Roots. They were kind of a cross between steady rock and some blues. My friend played banjo and my other two friends his age who lived with him each had a guitar and a saxophone.

Several years ago I got into #TameImpala aka Kevin Parker. He's the psychedelic Aussie solo guitar and electronic musician who is well known in America to both Generation X and Millennials.

I do not know if Keven Parker of Tame Impala ever was (or is now) a Deadhead. I was listening to a 1968 recording of Clementine by Jerry Garcia, et al. and their song sounds almost like "Sundown Syndrome" by Tame Impala. Both Parker's riff and the Dead's March 2, 1968 rendition are good. I won't say one is better than the other. What I mean by riff is that Sundown Syndrome is not a cover of #Clementine. Parker does his own lyrics and beats for Sundown Syndrome however the similarities between the two songs are heard. Maybe it's just a complete coincidence that Sundown Syndrome turned out the way it did in terms of delivery? I am not a musician but Sundown certainly has a 1, 2, 3, 4 -> 1, 2, 3, 4 "stepping into the two-step" rhythm that Clementine also has in its cadence.

Kevin Parker is younger than me (b. 1986) and so he's not from my parent's generation — some of whom really loved the Dead. If you're interested, just YouTube Sundown Syndrome by Tame Impala and 02.02.68 Clementine by Grateful Dead. I won't need to provide the links.

nixCraft is the only well-known tech professional who has written this. He writes from the heart. All of the other established, syndicated writers and techies at Ziff-Davis, Ars Technica, Marcus Hutchins, and the rest of them won't comment. These writers and technologists are complacent because they are fully anchored to their occupations. Most of them with the possible exception of Marcus Hutchins (who is an honest computer security researcher) are uneasy with stepping out of line.

Do better, #America! Don't put up with this crap from the corporate fascists. I've written about this quite a bit on mastodon and elsewhere. I've received several sympathy "likes" on mastodon but never been published or publicly recognized through this medium or any other mediums. Except for #nixCraft and a few others all of us are constrained by the reality of not ever achieving formal recognition. Also, many of the poorer activists and writers (that's not me) who do deserve credit don't get it from the industry here in America.

Fuck you, Donald J. Trump. Save America this November 2026 by voting Democratic down the ballot.

It's way beyond the pale that our country's congressional leaders do not have the fcking fortitude to stand up in unison and get rid of trump through invoking impeachment or censure or something.

This country's executive branch is a total rip-off.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/world/middleeast/a-us-intelligence-assessment-in-february-found-that-an-attack-on-iran-was-unlikely-to-result-in-regime-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RlA.ZUM2.BtIuwfZcK-DT&smid=url-share

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/iran-oil-fed-kevin-warsh.html

On the purely economic side, the Orange Idiot is doing as much as humanly possible to trash America's #economy so the rich can take even more money from us.

Trump wishes to appoint Kevin Warsh to be Fed Chair. Warsh is a fellow and former Epstein follower like DJT. Warsh's wife is an heiress to the Lauder fortune and is a billionaire.

The very worst people are being put in charge of critical decision-making, once again.

This motherfucker of a nominee will lower interest rates even if oil prices reach above $100 a barrel. Mark my words.

Some uber geek commenters who leaned libertarian over on Slashdot seemed to believe back in late 2024 and early 2025 that Elmo Musk and DJT could have been best friends for life. There were a few of these libertarian interlopers or trolls on that site, though not too sure about infosec.exchange's general leanings.

The problem was that as a staunch libertarian and saboteur with his DOGE Department activities and his ai infiltrating the #VA 's billing systems to slow down US veterans and his other code shit running amuck elsewhere inside our federal government's online networks, Musk is still not as extreme as the biggest loser in American politics who never, ever admits being wrong.

Donald J. Trump a.k.a. the Orange Idiot, is good at playing both sides, taking the credit for the worst deals imaginable while at the same time screwing over the other parties by giving them virtually nothing in exchange, and then in political contexts blaming all of what took place solely on the Democrats.

In the interim—

I want to see these smart women, such as this CNBC reporter and also the VP at the #Brookings Institution who is critical of the US's aggression in Iran (and who does not actually criticize the Trump Regime overtly) to continue giving the rotten Trump Administration and their not really legal war effort both a really hard time. I'm all here for that. Thanks, ladies. You rule.

Link:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/iran-conflict-duration-middle-east-regional-war-experts.html