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28 March 2026

The broligarchy's war on journalism

The capture of US media by Trump allies is accelerating and the UK is the next in line. Plus: the mystery money behind my old newspaper.

broligarchy.substack.com

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-broligarchys-war-on-journalism?r=nv9u6&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true Permalink
27 March 2026

Stop Calling Them Billionaires. Start Calling Them Predators.

The men who trafficked children, rigged markets, and bought governments share one belief: the rules don't apply to them. There's a name for that.

blueamp.co

https://www.blueamp.co/p/call-them-by-their-name-the-predator

the predator class…

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26 March 2026

Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media tr…

techdirt.com

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/everyone-cheering-the-social-media-addiction-verdicts-against-meta-should-understand-what-theyre-actually-cheering-for/ Permalink
26 March 2026

Judge Boots DOJ Prosecutor From Courtroom, Demands To Know Who’s Actually Calling The Shots

This judge ain’t fucking around. Earlier this month, we covered New Jersey federal judge Zahid Qurashi’s response to the actions of Trump’s DOJ, which begins wi…

techdirt.com

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/judge-boots-doj-prosecutor-from-courtroom-demands-to-know-whos-actually-calling-the-shots/

Judge’s Ain’t fucking around ? it remains to be seen… there is nothing stopping this madness as of now and the 🇺🇸 Democrats are asleep at the wheel while being driven into the Abyss.

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26 March 2026

Microsoft recule face à la révolte des utilisateurs contre l'IA imposée

Après des mois de critiques, Microsoft admet avoir été trop loin dans l'intégration forcée de Copilot dans Windows 11 et promet de réduire sa présence.

da.van.ac

https://da.van.ac/microsoft-recule-face-a-la-revolte-des-utilisateurs-contre-lia-imposee/

l’inévitable Backlash et ça vient aussi en entreprise et franchement ça pue et en plus ça sert à rien #CoPilot

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26 March 2026

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this a…

theguardian.com

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

Worrying doesn’t begin to describe this war crime

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Because you know, there is really nothing else to talk about : Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain

24 March 2026 Aliens

Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain

There is no associated website yet, but the move comes after Trump ordered the release of files related to UFOs.

404media.co

https://www.404media.co/government-registers-aliens-gov-domain/ Permalink
22 March 2026

Ageless Linux

"Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't." Open source activism…

werd.io

https://werd.io/ageless-linux/ Permalink
20 March 2026

ICE Just Detained a 7-Year-Old Canadian Girl With Autism at the Infamous “Cage” Facility in McAllen, Texas. No Criminal Record. Valid Documents. No Reason.

A 7-Year-Old Canadian Girl With Autism Is Sitting in Trump’s Most Infamous Detention Center Right Now. Her Stepfather Is American. Her Mom’s Papers Are Good. IC…

deanblundell.substack.com

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/ice-just-detained-a-7-year-old-canadian?triedRedirect=true

the banality of the US descent to hell.

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20 March 2026

Prediction Markets Promised Better Information. Instead They’re Creating Powerful Incentives to Corrupt Information.

There’s a concept in economics known as Goodhart’s Law, often summarized as: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” The idea, origin…

techdirt.com

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/19/prediction-markets-promised-better-information-instead-theyre-creating-powerful-incentives-to-corrupt-information/

Disinformation as a service really, its like we’re betting against ourselves in every evolutions of technology and then eating popcorn watching the mess enfold in real time impacting flawed democracies, rendered useless without anti bodies to fight against this plague.

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18 March 2026

The Jehovah’s Witnesses Are Back Abusing Copyright Law To Unmask Their Critics. Again.

EFF announced last week that it has stepped in to defend yet another anonymous Jehovah’s Witness critic from having their identity exposed through bogus copyrig…

techdirt.com

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/18/the-jehovahs-witnesses-are-back-abusing-copyright-law-to-unmask-their-critics-again/

the same old tricks used by Scientology & other coercive cults

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14 March 2026

A quote from Jannis Leidel

GitHub’s slopocalypse – the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open membership and shared push access untenable. Jazzband…

simonwillison.net

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/14/jannis-leidel/#atom-everything

This is really bad…

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12 March 2026
lowyinstitute.org https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/un-s-commission-status-women-empty-chairs-are-story

more than half of humanity is not represented at various levels of governance, be it supra national or national representative democracy.

what could go wrong?

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11 March 2026 AI

An AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform in two hours using a decades-old technique

Security firm Codewall turned an offensive AI agent loose on McKinsey's internal AI platform Lilli, a system used by over 43,000 employees for strategy work, cl…

the-decoder.com

https://the-decoder.com/an-ai-agent-hacked-mckinseys-internal-ai-platform-in-two-hours-using-a-decades-old-technique/

Brave new world …

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11 March 2026

Syndicates of Capital

Jessica Burbank: A new world order is here. States (countries) are no longer the highest form of power globally. Power has shifted to wealthy individuals who

kottke.org

https://kottke.org/26/03/syndicates-of-capital Permalink
11 March 2026

Headless Windows 11 in Docker, Over SSH, No GUI Required

Running a full Windows 11 VM inside Docker with KVM acceleration, accessible entirely over SSH — and the gotchas we hit getting Claude Code working inside it

blog.fsck.com

https://blog.fsck.com/releases/2026/03/11/windows-in-docker/

Interesting…

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10 March 2026

Canada Is at War ... With the United States

Pete Hegseth took time out from the chaos of the Iran war to make an announcement that Donald Trump has renamed the region from Mexico to Greenland as “Greater…

charlieangus.substack.com

https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/canada-is-at-war-with-the-united Permalink
10 March 2026

“Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campai...

“Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections.” The Scale

kottke.org

https://kottke.org/26/03/0048529-billionaires-made-19-perc

the Cancer of US politics

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9 March 2026

If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms

I think this recent post by AI industry CEO Matt Shumer is worth a read. In it, he basically explains how quickly LLMs (large language models) are evolving to s…

techdirt.com

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/09/if-youre-going-to-defend-ai-and-whine-about-its-critics-you-should-probably-be-honest-about-its-actual-harms/ Permalink
6 March 2026 AI Anthropic

Anthropic’s Statement To The ‘Department Of War’ Reads Like A Hostage Note Written In Business Casual

We’ve been covering the ongoing saga of the Trump administration’s attempt to destroy Anthropic for the sin of having modest ethical guidelines around its AI te…

techdirt.com

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/anthropics-statement-to-the-department-of-war-reads-like-a-hostage-note-written-in-business-casual/

The reason the regime get its way : the silence & tacit compliance, preemptive obedience of the technology sector.

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