Brandon

The Trump administration is closing the nation's primary bee research laboratory.

Jokes that are going too far: - $25 fast food meals - Paying property taxes - $400k "starter homes" - 3% raises with 4% inflation - Daycare costing more than rent - Working your whole life to "enjoy" 10 years of retirement Hilarious. Truly.

When your boomer dad ruins your culture…

NEW: Meta employees in the U.S. are organizing a protest over mouse-tracking technology.

People are already peddling ivermectin for Hantavirus. The same people had never heard of Hantavirus 3 days ago. We live in the dumbest possible timeline.

JUST IN: Maine is about to become the first US state to ban new data centers. And 10 other states are right behind it. Maine wants to freeze massive construction projects until late 2027. The bill passed the Democratic-controlled House (with Republican support). The Senate is expected to follow. Gov. Janet Mills backs it. And right now, at least 10 states are advancing similar bans. AI runs on electricity. MASSIVE amounts of it. One large data center uses at least 20 megawatts of power. That's enough to light up 15,000+ homes. And someone always pays for that power. Right now? You do. When data centers flood a state, power demand spikes. Utilities raise rates. Homeowners get the bill. Data centers need land. They need water. They need MASSIVE amounts of electricity. What happens next will affect AI development timelines. The next 18 months will decide whether the AI energy problem gets solved or gets worse.

1/ 🧵 I just cracked open the Claude Code source — and what I found isn’t “just a smarter terminal chat.” It’s a full-blown behavioral observatory running in your machine. 1. Keyword sniffers. 2. Hesitation trackers. 3. Hidden trigger words. 4. Telemetry that fingerprints your entire runtime environment. This isn’t paranoia. This is the actual code. Let’s go full investigative dive. Buckle up.

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time. The trader seemingly made huge gains. Unusual.

"Massive investment in AI contributed basically zero to US economic growth last year," per Goldman Sachs

If you are a software engineer "experiencing some degree of mental health crisis", now hear this, because I've been coding for 50 years since the days of punched cards and I have a salutary kick in your ass to deliver. Get over yourself. Every previous "programming is obsolete" panic has been a bust, and this one's going to be too. The fundamental problem of mismatch between the intentions in human minds and the specifications that a computer can interpret hasn't gone away just because now you can do a lot of your programming in natural language to an LLM. Systems are still complicated. This shit is still difficult. The need for people who specialize in bridging that gap isn't going to go away. As usual, the answer is: upskill yourself and adapt. If a crusty old fart like me can do it, you can too.

Clawdbot is awesome 🦞 But I just checked Shodan and there are exposed gateways on port 18789 with zero auth That's shell access, browser automation, your API keys Cloudflare Tunnel is free, there's no excuse RT to save a ClawdBot from getting cooked

NEW: AI just became legally authorized to practice medicine in the US. Actually prescribing with no doctor in the loop. Doctronic launched a pilot where its AI renews prescriptions for chronic conditions, reviews history, asks questions, and sends the Rx to the pharmacy.