Regulators have levied $10,000 fines against a doctor and a pharmacist for offering peptide injections at an anti-aging conference last year.
Two women who received the injections had to be hospitalized and intubated to help them breathe.
Traffic to top tech publications has plummeted since 2024, new analysis shows www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/traf...
Gen. Paul Nakasone, ex NSA chief, says at an event that he was distressed by the rift between the Pentagon and Anthropic, including the unprecedented ban on contractors using Anthropic on security grounds: “This is not a supply-chain issue.”
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this observation from Kat Duffy is still ringing in my head
new details about the Pentagon's fight with Anthropic are coming in fast and still under dispute, but this excellent analysis from @rightsduff.bsky.social and @amostoh.bsky.social from friday is very much worth your time. bsky.app/profile/just...
It's getting to be you can't even profit off war deaths on the insider trading app anymore
WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
Columbia University just emailed affiliates letting them know that federal agents from DHS abducted a student this morning from a campus residence under false pretenses and with no warrant or probable cause.
Deliveristas ending their shift and about to head home over the Williamsburg Bridge, though the blizzard. One of them, Salvador,tells me he’s happy for the cutoff by the city.
“This is more dangerous than last snowstorm, harder to move in,” he tells me in Spanish.
In my newsletter: A free-to-read link to this story and the full kindergarten deportation call
drewharwell.com/stories/a-fa...
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
I'm looking for experts of the business and metrics of the podcast industry for a piece on @indicator.media. Whom should I bother?
The Dolarhyde performance is iconic and he played a lot of memorably unsettling characters, but he had the sort of character actor charisma that even in small parts made you wish a movie would follow him around for a while. I saw him carrying his groceries home a few times in the East Village, also.
This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI.
AI does three main things:
1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive
2) transfer wealth upwards
3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)
People who would never otherwise agree with the premise of "downsizing" but nevertheless want to stop paying people to do necessary work now get exactly the panacea they need to justify this position. AI is nothing but permission structures all the way down.
www.artforum.com/features/gen...
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
Tons of reporting on Musk’s science fictional business plans, not near enough about his white supremacist and fascist worldview. Good to see this from the Guardian!
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
10 years ago they told us AI and self-driving cars were going to wipe out up to half of all jobs. They didn’t.
But while everyone was talking about whether they would, companies rolled out algorithmic management and used digital tech as a pretext to reclassify workers as contractors.
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
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From the amazing Becca Rothfeld, laid off by the Washington Post last week and immediately hired by the New Yorker:
The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
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imagine having one of the best tech reporters of all time on your staff and then choosing to lay them off
WaPo’s tech desk was one of the best in the business, and I relied on @nitasha.bsky.social’s reporting countless times in my work. Journalists like her and others laid off today were a source of vital insights into SV politics, helping us in the EU understand who and what we’re facing
