Who is [Stephen Smith]?

Modified quote from Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastián d'Anconia’s famous speech (which doesn’t seem so long next to that 60-page-ish radio address, a Chavez rant, or the 2026 SOTU)

A former host of “The Miseducation of America” has made decades of shorthand a bit more confusing by reviving the old name of a government agency …

The DoW → https://www.war.gov/

The DOW → https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/index/DJIA

DOW → https://www.dow.com/, is part of the DOW and the DoW is a customer.

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Try it out: news.kagi.com (Settings > Visual enhancements > Toggle "show world tension index" on)

Like I said a couple days ago …
https://mastodon.social/@thomasefleming/116189075227741408

There’s definitely something to this … https://economist.com/britain/2026/03/08/ten-years-after-the-eu-referendum-britain-has-become-more-european

“Ten years after the EU referendum, Britain has become more European”

Is it just me, or does anyone else find delta to be one of those really annoying words because there are several other words in the thesaurus which could accomplish the same bit of information transfer without creating any confusion or making the less informed feel stupid and too uncomfortable to ask a follow-up question cause it seems like everyone else gets the cryptography?

Just say gap, or difference, cause that’s all it is.

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/revealed-the-london-tube-platforms-with-the-biggest-gaps-031625

For a more 1990s Wired experience, check out https://wired.jp. Stay far away from the .com one if you'd like to not go down a negativity death spiral of doom scrolling (like seriously who is in charge these days over there?).

Canadian English full page translation made this https://wired.jp/article/series-philosophy-of-technology-17/ an enjoyable read even though I only know a handful of Japanese characters. Not sure about what would happen in American English.

Will the UK eventually start to rejoin the EU? What a dumb question, it’s already happening. It’s like pot being legal nationally in the US, it’s no longer an if but a when.

Anyway, a pro-Brexit newspaper was just acquired by Germans (they already own some slices of American media too) … https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/06/german-twist-in-the-telegraph-tale-shatters-lord-rothermeres-dreams