There is a quiet assumption most of us carry around about the devices that fill our cities. Traffic cameras sit on their poles to catch speeding drivers. Smart sensors monitor air quality for public…

We look at a strange, divisive and forgotten weapon that was banned in the USA but tolerated in Great Britain.

Russia is not a great power. It is in no way a contender for the title, and treating it as one of the “power brokers” of the world benefits no one except the autocratic regime that hinges…

We ‘hurl defiance to the stars’, but in their silence—when we see them at all—the stars return only crushing contempt. To the question ‘What is to be done?’, then, she can legitimately answer only,…

A San Francisco jury found the Tesla CEO liable for $2.1 billion in damages over tweets

My latest piece in America Magazine lays bare the extent to which US government policy seems to be going in outright opposition to decades of Catholic teaching—particularly on climate, war, and civil…

Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched…

A papal adviser calls Peter Thiel a heretic after his secret Rome lectures on the Antichrist draw global attention and a Vatican rebuke

The U.S. attack on Iran has diverted attention from the tariffs the United States has applied liberally since Donald Trump took office in January 2025. While tariffs based on the International…

In most elections in the United States, we have "first past the post voting" in which whoever gets the most votes wins.

After years of driver shortages, the T has finally has enough bus operators to be able to exceed its pre-pandemic levels of bus service, according to MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng. Eng appeared on…

Although I was early in calling Trump a fascist, and although I’ve even described his acolytes as Nazis, I’ve been […]

the widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics You’ve Probably Never Heard of “Murc’s Law”, But You’ve Seen It in Action Lots of Times…

Ryan Whitwam (Hacker News): With its new limits on sideloading, Android phones will only install apps that come from verified developers. To verify, devs releasing apps outside of Google Play will…

If you’ve attended any of our presentations or office hours, you’ve probably heard us mention just how complicated the U.S. federal statistical system is. Luckily, our partners at the…

As a wise commenter remarked, "They finally found the POTUS who Trump said congratulated him on having 'the guts' to invade Iran... it was 45!"

My wife was in hospital this morning. We turned up to A&E at 1:30am and were seen by medical people who had obviously come from all over the world to work there. In fact, the most striking thing was…

The best Stratechery content from the week of March 16, 2026, including everything not written, what Jensen Huang has in common with Steve Jobs, and Trump's delayed trip to Beijing.

NASA has put out a draft request for proposal for how to move its historic flown spacecraft around the country. Spurred on by two Texas senators bid to relocate space shuttle Discovery from the…

Notes from a livestream with Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley, on fighting back.

Once you have no more earning potential, you’d think the advertising would go away. If you have no money, there’s no reason for people to pay to manipulate you to get you to give them some. Google…

Last year, a guy I know

I had coffee yesterday with my friend, Sgt. Huy Nguyen, the president of the Oakland Police Officers Association. He had just returned from a memorial service for the four Oakland cops who were slain…

Things will be bad enough after the government doubles the price of vaping in October with its new vape tax without going full prohibition, but the “ban it harder” mentality always seems to prevail.…

The government is spending money faster in 2026 than it did in 2025 — a year surpassed in spending only by 2021.

With the collapse of the last major US–Russia treaty, a new phase of nuclear competition is emerging—faster, broader, and harder to control. On February 5, 2026, the New START Treaty expired—quietly,…

The war between the United States and Iran continues to drag on. In a shocking twist, it seems victory might not be the fait accompli it was initially presented as being. President Trump attempted to…

Sometimes it feels like governments are actively trying to make everything worse. “Affordable” healthcare that no one can afford. AI regulations designed to ensure 450 million Europeans…

The USPTO refused to register the mark ZENCAT in the word-and-design form shown below, for cat food and nutritional supplements for cats, concluding that confusion is likely with the registered mark…

A pairing of works by two composers who exemplify pushing back against oppressive systems; both operate at the interventions oscillating between poles of hemispheric influence; both are embedded in…

The Pre-War World Is Gone by Noah Rothman There is no going back to the world as it was before February 28. Under fire from the Iranian field commanders independently targeting the region’s civilian…

Russia is taking what they’ve learned on the battlefield in the Ukraine War and sharing that with Iran. This is not a new strategy for the Russians, but it is already spelling trouble for the…

Georgios Athanasiou , PhD Researcher, University of Antwerp Photo credit : Julian Lupyan, via Wikimedia Commons The Chios migrant boat shipwreck of 3 February 2026 <span lang="EN-US"…

The post Norway’s Crown Princess Speaks Out On Epstein Links For First Time appeared first on Life in Norway.

The online publication Ixbt.com published "The National Messenger Max Has Opened Up New Business Opportunities: Integration Is Available for More Than 8 Million Companies and Individual…

Apologies: bad html code in this post, now fixed, made the site inaccessible for several hours today. Thanks to Alain for reporting it, apologies to all for the inconvenience. * I&#8217;m struggling…

My monthly column with the UK outlet, Middle East Eye: Who&#8217;s excited about the US and Israeli war on Iran? As the Middle East is on fire, from Tehran to Manama, the Israeli weapons industry is…

This week&#8217;s episode is about the ongoing political, military and moral catastrophe in the Middle East and how myths around the &#8220;muscular Jew&#8221; have been so destructive in the last…

"A striking datum of this war is how few attempts have been made at selling it, rhetorically dignifying it, morally arming it or situating it in some context of shared Western interests. [...] Of…

Ofcom don't consider geoblocking the UK to be sufficient for an overseas website r/LegalAdviceUK: "I run a self-help forum for people with depression. Ofcom has been bombarding me with emails…

America seems to be moving in a direction that feels increasingly uncertain, and for many people, that uncertainty is hard to ignore. The growing tension with Iran is not something most Americans…

So today is "Nowruz," the first day of the Iranian calendar. The word-by-word translation of it is "New day" as "Now = New" and "Ruz = Day". People normally celebrate this year in Iran by gathering…

San Francisco&#8217;s &#8220;beloved&#8221; BART system is &#8220;on the brink of collapse,&#8221; says the New York Post, and the only thing that will save it is for voters to agree to raise taxes…

Governments around the world are introducing age-verification and youth social-media laws, but these policies may be doing far more than protecting children. They are quietly pushing identity into…

Everyone I discuss either age verification, or the forthcoming Android app installation&hellip;

Mamata Banerjee’s most important strength is her street-fighting ability, not governance. She won West Bengal for the first time in 2011 by beating the Left Front, which earlier ruled the streets, by…

After 2024, Democrats drew the right immediate lesson: get better at being online. More native creators. More distributed media. More willingness to compete in the places where politics, culture, and…

New article from Special Needs Jungle: We seem to have gone from “your voice matters” to “decisions have already been made” in less than the blink of an eye. On the very day the Schools Minister,…

If a bearblogger would be willing to post this to hacker news I would be grateful. My account is too new to post. Thank you —— Hello HN, I am taking a crack at running for MP in the…

Emily Birnbaum, writing for Bloomberg in July: Meta is also helping to fund the Digital Childhood Alliance, a coalition of conservative groups leading efforts to pass app-store age verification,…