David Brody

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

I mean, you don’t need a fancy AI for that. It’s a war of aggression w/o Congressional authorization, so automatically none of it is legal.

Toronto Synagogue Is Damaged by Gunfire on Night of Jewish Holiday

At this point, we just have to assume that every Jewish holiday results in some attack on a Diaspora Jewish community: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

Toronto synagogue struck by gunfire, police investigating Toronto police are investigating after a synagogue in North York was struck by gunfire late Monday night.

I will never understand how we have reached the point in Canada where synagogue shootings have become so common that they fail to shock. Yet many politicians still stay on the sidelines and those who regularly speak out on social justice remain silent.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Remember what I was saying? $80 billion in debt with $30 billion in revenue (not profit) and a $15 billion market cap?

They're dead. Even if they panic and try to spin off all of the properties they just bought, they'll never come close to profitable.

This is why Netflix walked away.

This one is pretty good re modern social justice themes, and it’s not very long, except it glosses over the traditional storytelling component, so it’s not well suited to Pesach newbies (or kids).
www.amazon.com/Gates-Freedo...

Hold on, lemme go find my box of high school mementos in the basement so I can dust off my antiwar protest signs. A bit of white out can change the Q to an N.

Like if another candidate for office put me in this advertisement I would probably say something.

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Department is expected to drop its appeals of four trial-court rulings that struck down the president’s actions against Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

sure is just as well that no big name law firms immediately capitulated to these unlawful actions, thus signalling both their cowardice *and* incompetence.

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

168 killed at girls' elementary school in Iran

abcnews.com/Internationa...

Also 5/6 are white and 5/6 are male.

I mean, this has been up on YouTube for a month.

And the Collins oppo and attack machine hasn’t even turned on yet.

Matthew Kassel, who has done the key stories on Platner's knowledge of his tattoo and now on this podcast is someone I worked with many years back. He is a solid reporter who also happens to be Jewish. Many people ignored reporting and concerns from Jewish people and outlets here.

I’ve heard anecdotally in a few different ways that in the Biden-to-tech revolving door, A-team people went to Anthropic and B-C team went to Open AI. Personnel is policy.

Not beating the rap that he isn’t an antisemite.

Another vote for Ahsoka, who in addition to what was mentioned above, also fought off an entire ship of clone troopers without killing any of them.

Protestors upset at the US/Israel strikes are trying to storm the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan

Google tool makes AI cheating easier, teachers say – The Markup A Chrome browser tool features a movable bubble that provides information without typing a prompt, spurring a rise in AI cheating on tests.

A Chrome browser tool features a movable bubble that provides information without typing a prompt, spurring a rise in AI cheating on tests.

The main surveillance thing Anthropic objected to wasn‘t something illegal—it was giving govt capability to further abuse legal surveillance by using Claude to remove the last semblances of privacy-protecting friction between different data systems and sets.

OpenAI doesn’t give a shit about that.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

Bridge Over The River Morb

It’s amazing how Sid Meier created so many solid games with 1990s graphics and the only thing his imitators have really improved since is the graphics.

The War Powers Resolution is the sword master in Raiders of the Lost Ark that Indiana just disregards and shoots.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

"Just so you know, I'm getting ready to blame the Jews for anything bad that happens."

The bigger context of the Anthropic-Pentagon fight is that it's the opening chapter in what will be a multi-year fight over to what extent American AI is nationalized. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine are monitoring the U.S. operation in Iran from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trump is currently located, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago

www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

And the political predicate here, once again, is GWOT. The American people became inured to airstrikes and spec ops all over the world so long as we were taking our terrorists in limited engagements. Both Bush and Obama admins. MAGA sees this as just a continuation of the same but w/ the gloves off.