Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
07.03.2026 00:04
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Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
We're gonna see abunch of fuel surcharges but no war surcharges and that's coward shit.
Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic
English rural life finds a way
When the Future Feels Foreclosed: AI Resignation and the Power to Act Jan-Philipp Siebold, Annemarie Witschas, Rainer Mühlhoff First published: 18 February 2026 ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of ‘AI resignation’ to capture how young people encounter AI not only as a helpful or flawed tool, but as an overpowering and seemingly inevitable force that can foreclose their sense of political and personal power to act in relation to the future. Building on qualitative work with high school students in Germany (ages 15–18), we conceptualize AI resignation as a future-oriented sensibility that emerges at the intersection of pervasive data-driven infrastructures and hegemonic narratives of AI inevitability. Drawing on Foucault's late work on subjectivation and subjectivity, as well as extensions in media and affect theory, we identify four contradictory pulls that structure adolescents' everyday engagements with AI—between enthusiasm and dependency, effortless access and eroded learning, self-governance and repeated failure, aspiration and foreclosed futures—and show how these double binds gradually hollow out experiences of self-efficacy. We further argue that AI resignation fulfils a strategic affective function within digital capitalism: by naturalizing dependence on predictive AI infrastructures and normalizing diminished expectations of the power to act, it stabilizes the very sociotechnical structures that produce it. The article concludes by outlining implications for re-politicizing AI and education, emphasizing power-critical curricula and collective spaces of reflection that enable young people to meaningfully participate in shaping sociotechnical futures.
📢 New Publication 🎉
We are excited that our latest article has just been published with Wiley @futurehumanities.bsky.social:
“When the Future Feels Foreclosed: AI Resignation and the Power to Act”
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.
Whew.
All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.
It will be an andorlike like the Blake’s 7 remake
So now Claude has played a decisive role in two US invasions of foreign countries. And yet I'm expected to invite it into my classroom, in the name of "inevitability." How is this any different than prescribing or prohibiting what textsI teach? What if the college said I had to assign Rambo?
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
Let me remind that in the run up to Iraq 2003, 'realist' scholars who opposed the war, some of whom had been regular oped contributors before, couldnt place in the NYT or WaPo at all, eventually paying to run an oped as an advertisement.
Just a few weeks ago, all these European powers spoke of the threat that the US now presents to Europe. They talked about the possibility of Trump attacking Greenland, like it was an imminent and existential danger. Now Trump unilaterally bombs Iran and they all fall in lockstep
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
There should be a hobo signs unicode block
This year, we are celebrating 100 years of the life and work of Stafford Beer. At the 2026 ASC conference, Conversational Confluences, we have a special track that invites participants to reflect on his work.
More on this and other tracks on events.asc-cybernetics.org/2026/confere...
Graph showing daily global mean sea surface temperatures for 2026. This is also compared to the daily data from the 1981-2010 average and 1991-2020 average. Annotations are also shown to the current year with the other years from 1940 to 2026. There is a seasonal cycle. There is a long-term warming trend. 2023 and 2024 are also indicated, which were the warmest years on record. Data is from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis and updated through 25 February 2026.
The daily global mean sea surface temperature is beginning to rise once again toward more anomalous value... will be keeping an eye on how this evolves in the coming months as La Niña quickly fades. 🌊
Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
“From what we can gather, Chopra has been deliriously wandering the now largely uninhabited Epstein Island for years, crying out for food and forbidden eros,” said independent analyst Gina Mosley
WWIII
operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s
Maintaining and encouraging media psychosis in the base is not representing their interests
It is possible to imagine liberal humanitarian rationales for some of its behavior. These rationales are tortured, post hoc and obviously inoperative in the decision process. Electoral candidates who aspire to represent liberal humanitarian ideals should be frank about this imo
The United States is not a conceivably benevolent and decisive actor on the world stage in recent history or in the foreseeable future. If decisive, not benevolent. If benevolent, not decisive.
This post was not about Iran but thanks for chiming in over there
it's 2026 and the cool S is still not in unicode
The global information war ran from the beginning of earth systems analysis to the development of large language models. What's about to happen will feel like pearl harbor to most people, but it's hiroshima.
Anthropic already allows its stuff to be used to surveill Americans abroad so it's a whatever for me personally but if you're in the states you should reward them and express your approval in writing on the internet imo
I don't want pragmatism! I want the aesthetic of pragmatism!
Supervised tax compliance and evasion from a spatial evolutionary game perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22892
Astronomers have produced the largest and most detailed map ever made of the vast web of cold cosmic gas stretching across the heart of our galaxy, showing thread-like filaments resembling rivers of material flowing through space reut.rs/40D8RME