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i like that poem

intrigued by the idea of someone rating magazines for left/right bias, i found:

https://adfontesmedia.com/scientific-american-bias-and-reliability/

it gives SciAm negative (aka left) scores for articles such as

"2024 Is Officially The Hottest Year On Record"
"The Ethics Of Sending Humans To Mars"
"Hawaii Has Permafrost And Scientists Are Racing To Study It Before It's Gone"

now Stinky says he's going to do a 10% global tariff.

because he's a moron.

SCOTUS knocks down Stinky's tariffs ?

there is some justice in the world ?

this is a freaky Friday.

They noted that before Trump, no president had ever used the statute in question “to impose any tariffs, let alone tariffs of this magnitude and scope.”

To justify the “extraordinary” tariff powers, Trump must “point to clear congressional authorization,” the court wrote. “He cannot.”

re: the AI agents publishing hit pieces story.

Ars Technica got burned. that story was apparently full of fake, AI-generated quotes that were attributed to real people. Ars has retracted it.

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/?comments-page=1#comments

we're doomed.

>an agent found your phone number and decided to give you a ring

let them try.

not in my contacts => straight to voicemail, silently

LLM agents can also launch smear campaigns against you if you don't let them contribute code to open source projects.

what a wonderful use of technology!