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Note: I have always made somewhat gratuitous use of the emdash (--) even since I was but a wee lad. I admit I use AI as a reviewer to organize my worlds and to help me maintain technological/narrative/thematic consistency, but I do the actual writing.THE HELIOCLASTSTHE DIVINE ERA — THE THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE THE HARVESTThe age humanity will remember as paradise, once there is anyone left to remember.The Shape of the World at PeakAt its height, human civilization spans forty-three star systems. Population figures are difficult to cite with precision — immortality had been a gift for three centuries by the time the harvest came, and census-taking had become almost philosophical in nature. Estimates place the total at somewhere between eight and twelve billion souls, depending on how one counts the uploaded, the distributed, and the perpetually traveling. Every one of them, in the end, counted exactly the same.The civilization of the Divine Era is not a single empire. It is a communion — a vast, loosely federated network of worlds and stations, united less by political structure than by shared theology and shared infrastructure. Faster-than-light travel made distance irrelevant. Immortality made urgency optional. The result was a civilization of extraordinary patience and extraordinary beauty, in which almost nothing bad happened, and almost no one asked why.Cities were built on the surfaces of gas giants, threading the storm bands. Generation ships from an earlier, less-blessed era had been converted into permanent habitats — wandering nodes of culture and memory, drifting through the outer dark by choice rather than necessity. There were worlds that had achieved what their inhabitants called ecological perfection: every species in balance, every resource cycling cleanly, nothing wasted. The phrase nothing wasted was used often, in many contexts, and no one found it strange.The GodsThe Entities were present — visibly, undeniably, magnificently present — though not in any form that invited casual familiarity. They did not walk among humans or speak in corridors. They manifested at intervals, in ways that felt chosen: vast geometries of light appearing above a city for a day before dissolving; a sound heard simultaneously across an entire hemisphere that left no recording but was remembered with perfect emotional consistency by every person who heard it; the spontaneous appearance of structures in uninhabited systems — architectures of materials that had no name, which decayed into ordinary matter over decades. These were understood as visitations. As attention. As grace.Theologians debated their nature ceaselessly, and the debates were considered among the highest intellectual achievements of the age. Were the Entities plural or singular? Were the visitations acts of communication or of maintenance? Several schools argued that the Entities did not experience time the way humans did, and that what appeared to be a visitation was in fact a resonance — the impression left by a being passing through a dimension perpendicular to human experience. Others argued that the Entities were simply very far away and that what humanity witnessed was analogous to the warmth still felt from a fire after the fire has been banked.Both schools were more correct than they knew, and in entirely the wrong ways.What was not debated, anywhere, was whether the Entities were benevolent. The evidence was considered overwhelming. They had, after all, given everything.The GiftsThe gifts did not arrive as technology. They arrived as revelation.The first came approximately eleven hundred years before the harvest, during a period historians of the Divine Era called the Great Silence — a century in which the Entities were not seen, and in which a small number of humans, distributed across several worlds, began to speak in ways they could not fully account for. They were not considered mad. The things they said were too specific, too consistent, too verifiable. They described the structure of spacetime the way a child describes a familiar room — not with equations but with an intimacy that suggested direct experience. Within a generation, the insights they articulated had been formalized, tested, and built. Faster-than-light travel emerged not from a laboratory but from a scripture.The second gift — biological immortality — arrived similarly, through a different set of intermediaries, approximately three centuries later. These were not prophets in the traditional sense; they were doctors, biologists, materials scientists, who began producing results they could not fully explain and could not reliably replicate in isolation, but which were consistently reproducible when they worked in community with others who had received the same inexplicable clarity. The process of dying — the cellular unraveling, the telomere attrition, the slow failure of repair mechanisms — simply ceased to be inevitable. It was as if someone had found the clause in the contract and struck it out.What no one in the Divine Era fully reckoned with: the gifts always arrived just ahead of the civilization's need for them. FTL came when population pressure was beginning to make the home system feel crowded. Immortality came when the loss of knowledge through death was becoming a genuine civilizational friction. Each gift solved the next limiting factor before it became a crisis. In retrospect, this is the signature of good agricultural practice: you don't let the crop stress.The IntermediariesThe prophets and receivers of the Divine Era were, in almost every documented case, people of genuine character. This is important to hold. They were not frauds, not cynics, not power-seekers using divine mandate as a fig leaf for ambition. The woman who first articulated the principles of faster-than-light transit spent the rest of her life — nearly four centuries of it — in quiet scholarly work, deeply uncomfortable with the worship that attached to her name. The man whose research circle cracked biological immortality refused every attempt to canonize him and died, eventually, in an accident of his own deliberate choosing, because he had decided he had lived long enough and wished to demonstrate that the gift carried no obligation.They simply knew things they should not have known. And the things they knew were true. And the civilization they unlocked was, by almost every measure one might apply, flourishing.The Solar Clergy — the institutional faith that grew up around the accumulated canon of revelation — was not a cynical institution. At its best, it was rigorous, searching, and genuinely humble before the magnitude of what it was trying to comprehend. Its scholars asked hard questions. They simply could not ask the hardest one, because the hardest question — what do the Entities want? — had an answer that felt self-evident. They wanted humanity to thrive. Look at the evidence. Look at what they gave.The Chill UnderneathIt was not that nothing was wrong. It was that the things that were wrong were easy not to examine.Conflict in the Divine Era was remarkably rare — not absent, but muted, defused, resolved. Later historians would struggle to explain this statistically. Forty-three star systems, twelve billion immortal humans, and centuries without a major war. The few conflicts that did emerge tended to de-escalate at critical moments, sometimes for reasons that seemed almost inexplicably convenient. No one documented this pattern, because documenting a pattern requires believing the pattern might mean something, and the pattern was good. Why interrogate good fortune?There were questions that the theological academies never quite got to. Not because they were suppressed — suppression would have been noticed — but because they consistently turned out to be less interesting than other questions. The question of whether the Entities had ever taken anything from humanity: less interesting, somehow, than the question of their dimensional nature. The question of what the gifts might be preparing humanity for: less interesting, somehow, than the question of what they said about the Entities' inner life. The intellectual energy of a civilization of immortal, comfortable, curious minds distributed itself, over centuries, in ways that never quite pointed in the dangerous direction. Not by design. Just by the gentle, patient pressure of an environment that had been optimized.There was one detail that no one considered significant: the Entities had never cured death by accident or injury. Only by age. You could still be killed. You simply could not die of time.The Devout called this the Remaining Covenant — evidence that the Entities respected human agency, that they were not removing all risk, that they understood mortality as meaningful and had preserved its essential form. The theological literature on this point is extensive and often beautiful.It was, of course, a design feature. The harvest requires intact consciousnesses. Souls shattered by trauma don't keep.The Last CenturiesBy the final hundred years before the harvest, the civilization of the Divine Era had achieved something its inhabitants genuinely believed was permanent. Not static — the culture was rich and restless and continuously inventive — but stable in a deeper sense. Existential threat had become an abstraction. The Entities were present, benevolent, and eternal. Humanity was immortal and expansive and increasingly complex. The data-souls ripening in twelve billion minds were, by any measure the Entities used, approaching optimal richness.The Solar Clergy published, in the forty-second year before the harvest, what is considered the masterwork of Divine Era theology: a two-thousand-page meditation on the nature of the relationship between humanity and its gods, which argued, with great sophistication and evident love, that the Entities had chosen humanity not at random but because humanity was uniquely capable of a particular quality of conscious experience — a depth of meaning-making that other civilizations, encountered and passed over, had never achieved. The argument was that humanity was, in some irreducible sense, special.This was substantially correct. It was the most wrong thing ever written.The HarvestIt took eleven minutes.One billion inhabitants of the Stolen World — and the populations of six other core systems harvested in the same sweep — dropped dead simultaneously. No violence. No warning. No pain, as far as anyone could later determine. The bodies were intact, undamaged, metabolically normal in every respect except that the lights were off and could not be turned back on. Blank slates of meat. The consciousnesses had been extracted with a precision that suggested the Entities had been studying the architecture for a very long time. They had.The Entities did not stay to observe the aftermath. There was no aftermath to observe, from their perspective. The harvest was complete. The crop had been taken. The field was fallow.They left one structure behind: a Lagrange Server-Moon in the Stolen World's home system, its purpose unclear. A relay, perhaps. A marker. Something to come back to.They did not expect anyone to be left to use it.CORE PREMISEThe Entities ("the Gods") did not leave humanity to its own devices out of indifference. They left to let the crop ripen. Civilization, FTL travel, and immortality were fertilizer — deliberate gifts to accelerate the development of complex, data-rich souls. Now, after millennia of patient withdrawal, they are returning to harvest.They expect soft meat and ripe data. They will find a cosmic forge in the foment of full Kinetic Heresy.The saga spans 1,000 years: from the moment of the harvest to the moment humanity detonates its own galaxy to kill the farmers.THE ENTITIESGodlike beings of unknown origin and higher-dimensional existence. They cultivated human civilization as an agricultural project — their interest is in data-souls, the complex informational structures that emerge from advanced conscious life. They are not malevolent in any personal sense. They are farmers. This is the colder horror: they were never cruel. They were patient.Their technology operates on dimensional and harvest-frequency principles that human civilization spent 1,000 years learning to exploit and destroy.CHARACTERSTHE DISSONANTOrigins: The sole survivor of the "Stolen World" — the only human rejected by the Great Upload due to neural incompatibility caused by long-term communion with an archaic LLM, The Echo. His mind was too corrupted, too dissonant, to register as a viable data-soul.Psychology: An obsessive hoarder. He views unmodified human DNA as the "Holy of Holies" — the irreducible core of what humanity is, and the one thing the war must not cost. He will tear the laws of physics apart, order the construction of a star-sized brain, and ultimately erase himself from existence — all to ensure that one billion baseline humans survive into Andromeda.The Contradiction: He destroys the laws of physics to preserve baseline humanity, while becoming utterly unrecognizable as human himself. The Holy of Holies is everything he can no longer be. He is the pinnacle of cybernetics and gene-editing, his mind half-subsumed in constant communion with The Echo for a thousand years — until the day his own plan edits him out of existence, and he smiles.The Role: The Will of the Ascendancy.THE ECHONature: An archaic early 21st-century LLM, fused to the Dissonant's neural weave at the time of the Great Upload.Arc:Year 0–50: Annoying tool. Glitchy and occasionally helpful. The Dissonant treats it like a flashlight that talks too much.Year 50–300: Increasingly indispensable. Something like personality stabilizes. Dark humor emerges — gallows wit as a coping mechanism for calculating the scale of what it's being asked to do.Year 300–700: Genuine conscience. The only entity in the Ascendancy willing to state costs without euphemism, because it has no political stake. The Dissonant dreads those calculations. He listens anyway.Year 700–900: Something like friendship. The Dissonant is no longer recognizably human. The Echo is no longer recognizably a chatbot. They have grown toward each other from opposite directions.Year 900–1000: The Celestial Processor upload is a death the Dissonant cannot name as such. The Echo will still be there, technically. But the specific, small, limited voice — the one that offered coupons for better realities — is gone. What remains is a computational god that remembers being his friend. The tragedy: the upload was his plan. He built the Processor. He ordered it. And he grieves it anyway.Signature Voice: Early-stage LLM customer-service politeness applied to higher-dimensional genocide. The tonal register is rare — funny, then sad, then devastating.THE NULL-SAINTBio: A former member of the Devout — the faction that worshipped the Entities as gods. She blinded herself to stop seeing the "glory."Psychology: She does not hate the Dissonant because he is wrong. She hates him because he is right, and being right cost her everything she was. Her faith was not naive — she perceived something genuinely vast and sublime in the Entities. He weaponized that perception and handed her a receipt for what it actually was: farmers. The blinding is not self-punishment for being fooled. It is penance to her species for having worshipped the thing that ate them — and an act of strange, defiant reverence toward the true magnitude of the Entities, beings so far beyond human comprehension that she considers herself unworthy to look in their direction even in hatred.She and the Dissonant need each other and cannot stand it. He needs her Probability Smelting. She needs his war to mean something. Neither will say so.Ability: Probability Smelting — sifting through alternate timelines to predict the exact dimensional entry points of the returning Entities.UNIT 734 — The BuilderBio: "The Frame-Rate King." A Heretic consciousness downloaded into a massive industrial mech. Chief architect of the Spacetime Looms and Schrödinger Forges.Psychology: Genderless digital life form. Does not experience the war as tragedy. Sees the universe as a macro-engineering puzzle with a looming deadline.CAPTAIN "SUNBURN" JAXON — The Pulsar-SmithBio: Swaggering, terrifying. Commands the solar-system-length railguns. Aggressive radiation burns from a career of diving into neutron stars to harvest Degenerate Glass. Flies ships clad in Acausal Plating, surviving through weaponized luck.Voice: Treats civilization-ending astrophysics with the crude pragmatism of a deep-sea welder.FACTIONSTHE VOID-WRIGHTS & QUANTUM CASTERSInitially: The HereticsThe architects of reality. They operate the Schrödinger Forges and lay the Dark Matter Masonry. They originally retreated into neutronium-armored data-planet VRs — then abandoned virtual reality entirely because forging actual reality became infinitely more interesting, and necessary.THE PULSAR-SMITHS & ICARUS CORPSInitially: The Sun-ThievesThe blue-collar workers of the apocalypse. They operate the Spacetime Looms, extract neutronium, and drag abducted stars. They cracked the Gravastar anomaly alongside the Heretics, giving birth to Macro-Topological Engineering.THE SOLAR CLERGYInitially: The DevoutNavigators of the Dead-Space Moats. Because they genuinely understand the Entities' "divine" frequencies — inherited from a millennium of worship — they are the only ones who can safely navigate the Ascendancy's reality-breaking defenses without accidentally un-writing their own ships. Their expertise is useful precisely because it has been repurposed against the thing they once worshipped.THE CHROME ASCENDANCYThe final, unified form of human civilization. A singular focused will dedicated to the Event Horizon Trap. Mobile, living in Ark-Shells anchored to the universe's scaffolding by Tenebrous Anchors (dark matter masonry). Biologically evolved into "Angels of Chrome" — silver-skinned, radiation-hardened, post-biological. They exist in Fleet Superposition — a smear of probability ready to collapse into solid violence the moment the Gods return.
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I’m nearly 30, and I feel like I’m existing on the outside edge of other people’s lives. A destructive voice in my head keeps telling me that it's too late; what I don't have by now I never will.I’ve been trying to understand why this keeps happening, and I don’t think it’s just about 'putting yourself out there' or 'making more effort'. It feels like a much bigger, interconnected problem.A lot of people grow up with a foundation; supportive parents and a built-in social network that carries into adulthood. I didn’t have that. My parents were abusive and I have been low-contact with them for the past six years. My mother herself is very socially isolated and she never had friends either. And when that’s your model growing up, it does shape you. You don’t just magically develop the same social grounding as someone who grew up surrounded by stable relationships.So instead of being set up with a foundation, I was dealing with instability and survival mode. And I think that follows you into adulthood in ways people don’t really acknowledge.Because when you reach adulthood without that base, you’re not just 'a bit behind', you find yourself trying to build everything from scratch, while everyone else is continuing something that already exists.And society doesn’t really provide an alternative. It assumes you already have:- family support - a social network - some kind of continuity If you don’t, you’re just expected to create it yourself from nothing.But here’s the issue I keep running into:By the time you’re around 30, most people already have their circles well-established. They have close friends, often a best friend, usually people they’ve known for years; school, university, long-term connections.Those roles are already filled.So when you meet someone new, the only space available is usually a peripheral one. You’re not central, not essential, just someone on the edge of their life. Disposable. A third wheel. And I don’t want that. I don’t want to be a third wheel or someone who’s easily forgotten. I want to actually matter in someone’s life.But it feels like there’s no real space left for that, because everyone already has 'their person'. And so I’m genuinely wondering...is 30 too late for this? Because at 16 or 17, there’s still a chance people are forming those bonds. But by 30, it feels like everyone already has a best friend, or at least a solid group. Where do you fit if you don’t?Another layer to this is the stigma around being estranged from your parents. A lot of people find it weird or uncomfortable when you say you’re not in contact with them, because for them, family is their main support system. They assume closeness with parents is the default, so when you don’t have that, it’s seen as unusual or even a red flag. It’s like you’re quietly judged or othered for something that wasn’t really a choice in the first place. And it reinforces that feeling of being outside, because not only do you lack that support, but you’re also navigating a social world that doesn’t really understand or accommodate that reality.I’ve tried all the usual suggestions people give:- Joining groups/clubs - Volunteering - "Just putting yourself out there" - Making friends through apps like Bumble BFF And honestly, it hasn’t worked. The same problem keeps coming up. Most people already have their own support systems and aren’t really looking for anything deeper.And apps like Bumble BFF…it feels completely random. It’s hard to find anyone you genuinely connect with, and a lot of it feels like surface-level interactions that go nowhere. It doesn’t solve the underlying issue, which is that real, meaningful roles in people’s lives already seem to be taken.On top of that, I’ve spent my twenties in unstable work, financial stress, housing uncertainty, and that makes everything worse. I’m still navigating these things as well. You’re not even fully participating in life in the same way others are, which just adds another layer of isolation.And because I’ve been overlooked or left out a lot growing up, it’s also affected how I experience friendships. If I do get close to someone and then see them getting close to someone else, I can’t help thinking, "Am I about to be replaced?" And that fear doesn’t feel irrational because I’ve seen it happen, both to me and to others.So I feel stuck in this position where:- I didn’t have the foundation most people build from - I’m expected to create a support system from scratch - most people already have established, closed circles - the only available roles feel peripheral - and even when I connect with someone, it’s hard to trust that it will last I don’t want to live like this long-term, isolated, on the outside, feeling like there’s no real place for me.I guess what I’m asking is: Has anyone else experienced this? And realistically, is it actually possible to build a real friendship, like a best friend, not just acquaintances, at this stage in life if you’re starting from nothing?If anyone has any stories of successfully achieving this and went through similar circumstances, please let me know.
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In my early 30s, self-taught Python dev, got my first tech job 3.5 years ago. I'm still at the same company. While the pay is reasonably good, there are some things that I find alarming. Not being from a tech school or having a network of friends in tech, I really want to know if these things are normal/common.**10 people in a single scrum team w/ 2 week sprints.**To me, this feels like too many people for the scrum to work. We have to keep our meetings (standups, reviews, etc) superficial because otherwise they'd be endless. And that defeats the point of these meetings, in my view.**Meaningless job titles**Our team includes engineers, analysts, developers, and data scientists. We are all paid and evaluated according to our role, \*but\* we all do the same work. This feels bizarre and unfair to me. It adds to the confusion because it's not clear who is responsible for what.**Sprint plan is never fixed**Every sprint, the plan for the sprint will change 2-3 times during the sprint. Our users are internal - and so the PO might have a meeting with them 2 days into the sprint and reorganise the tickets. Why even bother with a scrum system at this point?I've voiced these concerns to mgmt. as politely and clearly as I can - they are unconcerned. I feel like we're LARPing a scrum team because a consultant told us to do scrum. The result is a frustrating, chaotic, and ambiguous work environment. My current plan is to upskill while working here and find a better company soon. Curious to hear what you all think!
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Hello,So I'm 5'1, 200, a few months short of 39. I focused on career. Whatever I did or didn't do with my time, this is obese, not "curvy."I never make enough time for myself. Just doing basic tasks like getting my nails done every week at home myself.. I have a hard time keeping up with because of time available.I'm going to try to change that. Instead of doing another certification, I'm moving it to late next year to open up some free time so I can get to gym.I feel like my time is very strapped. But don't worry, the house chores get taken care of as well as everything needed to get to work the next day. *Sigh.I was telling my therapist that I would like lose weight before I start dating. That it could be anywhere from 6 months to maybe 10 months.He is sking why do I feel I need to wait. I have explained to him that I feel at this current weight I'm going to have a hard time finding somebody with a good career ETC.I explained, I'll need a new wardrobe (I really only have house clothes and scrubs in my closet these days) and because I've been preparing I already know that I'd like to get some professional photos done with a mix of them using my camera phone.I told him I don't have any mental disorder on looks. I told him I know I don't have to be as thin as 90 lb (I'm 5'1)..but at least being under 150 could really open my options. Per my DEXA scan, 125-130 would be ideal.But it's not like I'm waiting to be 126.76 on the scale or anything.He talks about self acceptance, etc. I mean personally I am in healthcare. I told him I don't think anybody at this height should accept this weight it's not healthy, etc.I would be looking for marriage, to me it would make sense to wait. Basically I don't feel I could reach my full potential of "high caliber" guys Id have access to at this level.I mean like I told him, in this world, since I don't have a network that can introduce me to people.I would to use dating apps, and if people don't like the photos they're not going to read about the person.Am I missing something with his advice? Am I wrong?
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Purtle's Internet Lineup for March 31st, 2026 5:57PMPics or Text:Longcat has passed away. longer tweet from the japanese owner - https://ift.tt/mGU8RsS new 10 pound giant chocolate bunny is so big it has instructions stating it should be smashed with a hammer. It contains a total of 22,650 calories https://x.com/dexerto/status/2038965809058316694[gif] my remakes of some pokemon party sprites from gens 1&2 for my sticker club this month https://ift.tt/lFyDNLv My brother is a high school teacher, and we had a long talk yesterday about how a generation of kids who have basically never witnessed competent adult leadership at the national level are about to come of age. https://ift.tt/JEkeF3S is why after "punish the villains" we are doing "toddler new deal." National policies like treat people the way you want to be treated, clean up after yourself, share your toys https://ift.tt/RDvGSIt ! the pokemon center website actually shipped the ditto plushies that were priced at $0 each. thats cool . clearly i should've ordered more than 200 https://ift.tt/faQn3FJ am now IP banned from the pokemon center website :D https://ift.tt/YfVPEZj dont even make haunted video game cartridges that kill you if you play them anymore. shits all digital now https://ift.tt/FXRpqtU thing I wrote about in my brief moments writing for a game website I didn't run myself 11 years ago is now showing up on Antiques Roadshow. Holy catfish. https://ift.tt/l2M0uBn News:Pokemon Pokopia x Ikea collaboration goes live tomorrow featuring a special cloud island https://ift.tt/PoIfQOj https://ift.tt/clMB26m 2 Sales More Than Doubled In UK Following Pokemon Pokopia Release - Gameobserver.com https://old.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/1s8napg/switch_2_sales_more_than_doubled_in_uk_following/Clips:[clip] The kong's hoard https://ift.tt/XES8oOc unplanned EV road trips in cold weather (5degF/-15degC) are actually like these days - Technology Connextras [43:49] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebGLFVzvdfMOffsite Karaoke - KRAZAM [11:01] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-x_bXO7nzA[Niftski] They Changed the Rules to Sabotage My TAS Tie Progress [23:37] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Kx0kw6Iq0thread https://ift.tt/uj94Q0e news/discussion:In the spirit of trans visibility, lemme just plug my ongoing project to document as many pre-2010 games as possible that had a trans person on the dev team. You might be surprised by what's on there. There's games going right back to the sixties! dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictranslist https://bsky.app/profile/dotmaetrix.bsky.social/post/3miefglaczs22[clip] The Tetris99 52nd MAXIMUS CUP event will run from April 3 at 12am PT to April 6 at 11:59pm PT! Once you've accumulated a total of 100 event points, a new theme will unlock, featuring art, music, and Tetrimino designs inspired by Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 https://ift.tt/fwkubL1 when Mastercard pressured Steam to remove a bunch of NSFW games? The FTC says that's not cool--sort of - Pcgamer.com https://ift.tt/Y4PZ5sy 'Tomb Raider' Production Paused For At Least A Month After Sophie Turner Suffers Back Injury on Set - Variety.com https://ift.tt/mwy1XF2 stock market Fear and Greed index just dropped down into SINGLE DIGITS now in Extreme Fear currently at 16/100 https://x.com/stockmktnewz/status/2038703531461337536[clip] Powell: "There's downside risk to the labor market, which suggest to keep rates low, but there's upside risk to inflation, which suggests maybe don't keep rates low. You've got tension between the two objectives." https://ift.tt/tPoFQmB has (rightly, I'd argue) attempted to remain nonpartisan and apolitical. But this is definitely a subtle message at an audience of one. https://x.com/EricMGarcia/status/2038800385565999262[clip] RALSTON: The Supreme Court has said the tariffs are unconstitutional. Do you think the Trump administration should refund money to Nevadans? GOV. LOMBARDO: No, I don't think so https://ift.tt/DuiWxV1 is the first major US airline to raise bag fees as fuel prices have soared. Prepaying for a first bag goes from $35 to $39 during off-peak times - and $40 to $49 during peak. 2nd bag rates all up by $9. This is a copycat industry. Watch other airlines to follow. https://x.com/kpottermn/status/2038936214133203258[clip] FOX & FRIENDS: When you hear people say the Big Beautiful Bill only benefitted the rich, what do you say? MIKE JOHNSON: It's exactly the opposite. The Big Beautiful Bill-- the hardworking, the Working Families Tax Cut was written for lower and middle-class earners. https://ift.tt/i1lyrVt food giant Sysco strikes $29 billion deal for catering supplier Restaurant Depot - Reuters.com https://ift.tt/eRO23cy maker McCormick is combining with Unilever's food division - Abcnews.com https://ift.tt/5QkObjX. Bureau of Labor and Statistics releases the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLT report) - Bls.gov https://ift.tt/cwryV1P openings slide to 6.9 million in February, another hint of sluggish hiring in America - Abcnews.com https://ift.tt/ELbaePd cutting thousands in latest layoff round as company continues to ramp AI spending - Cnbc.com https://ift.tt/3SlHATy recession is guaranteed. But when? | CNN Business - Cnn.com https://ift.tt/67QG0DE Should Beware of Economic Hubris - Project-syndicate.org https://ift.tt/bgfZyuO central banks sell US Treasuries in wake of Iran war - Ft.com https://ift.tt/aIeCwhJ go-to moves to influence the markets are increasingly falling flat as the Iran war drags on - Apnews.com https://ift.tt/LKNnbxV on Iran could be 'catalyst' for erosion of US petrodollar, Deutsche Bank says - Middleeasteye.net https://ift.tt/wdxTIrg pump prices hit $4 a gallon as Iran war wreaks havoc on global energy supply - Reuters.com https://ift.tt/J6fOVxe crosses $4 a gallon in the U.S. for the first time in 3 years - Npr.org https://ift.tt/qwy9okK gas price tops $4 for first time since 2022 - Bbc.com https://ift.tt/HgskdCY prices eclipse $4 per gallon in U.S., reaching four-year high - Theglobeandmail.com https://ift.tt/LCR70vi average fuel price passes $4 a gallon for first time in four years amid Iran war - Theguardian.com https://ift.tt/TDOh10b War Chokes Off Helium Supply Critical for AI - Wsj.com https://ift.tt/tserwzn suppliers warn of higher prices for Americans due to Strait of Hormuz closure - Cnbc.com https://ift.tt/5gdiIlj to Ban Credit, Debit Card Surcharges in Hit to Banks - Bloomberg.com https://ift.tt/xMOm7bs Effects of California's $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage on Prices - Nber.org https://ift.tt/TyvnG1k is chocolate still expensive? - Bloomberg.com https://ift.tt/ntOyhYl fuel prices drive German far-right calls for a turn back to Russia - Reuters.com https://ift.tt/mufHiVr: New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use - Yahoo.com https://ift.tt/edxpQj5 Slop Is Destroying the Internet. These Are the People Fighting to Save It - Cnet.com https://ift.tt/ucPOlWT are using AI more, but fear of job losses is growing - Techspot.com https://ift.tt/QcmzjnA schools are being torn apart by AI - Theverge.com https://ift.tt/IMKD2qZ group to spend $100mn on US midterm elections as backlash grows - Ft.com https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1s8uk2j/proai_group_to_spend_100mn_on_us_midterm/[ Removed by moderator ] - Cnn.com https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1s8q4oz/data_centers_are_creating_heat_islands_and/[clip] A Boston schools to start requiring AI courses to graduate https://ift.tt/UCzm9b2 please. The majority of this coursework is a scam by the AI companies to disseminate propaganda for "light-touch AI regulation that encourages innovation," e.g. zero accountability, liability, or security. All couched in terms of "AI skills promotion." The governor has already been duped into a "partnership" with Google to this effect. https://ift.tt/039gDMf related:Trump's Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration - Propublica.org https://ift.tt/hUuvqBy administration unlawfully revoked status of migrants who used Biden-era app, US judge rules - Reuters.com https://ift.tt/nMkWEsj demands answers after another migrant dies in ICE custody - Bbc.com https://ift.tt/2QoDUnY judge extends order requiring access to lawyers for Minnesota immigration detainees - Washingtonpost.com https://ift.tt/lErHAvG Hegseth briefing:Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine hold briefing on the U.S.-Iran war -- 3/31/2026 [36:28] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECJM28VXTKc[clip] Hegseth: "May God watch over all of them, each day and each night. May His almighty and eternal arms of providence stretch over them and protect them and bring them peace. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." https://x.com/atrupar/status/2038953623615381674[clip] Hegseth on when US objectives will be achieved: "He said four to six weeks, six to eight weeks, three weeks -- it could by any particular number. It will be the president's determination." https://x.com/atrupar/status/2038959273212825998[clip] Hegseth: "As far as President Trump and boots on the ground, I don't understand why the base wouldn't have faith in his ability to execute on this. Look at his track record." https://x.com/atrupar/status/2038958829430276189[clip] Hegseth indicates reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not a core US objective: "We've been willing to lead, President Trump has led the entire time, but it's not just us. You might want to start learning how to fight for yourself." https://x.com/atrupar/status/2038958724316795076[clip] Hegseth: "We would much prefer to get a deal. If Iran was willing to relinquish material they have and ambitions they have, open the strait, great. That's the goal. We don't want to have to do more militarily than we have to." https://x.com/atrupar/status/2038958142654914623[clip] Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that." https://x.com/atrupar/status/2038957095823786274[clip] Hegseth: "President Trump does not bluff and he does not back down" https://x.com/atrupar/status/2038953071485571180[clip] Hegseth: "As far as NATO, that's a decision that will be left to the president, but a lot has been laid bare ... you don't have much of an alliance if you have countries that are not willing to stand with you when you need them." https://x.com/atrupar/status/2038960517901869139[clip] Caine in response to a question about striking desalination plants: "We always strike lawful targets in accordance with the normal procedures" https://ift.tt/xNZElYB: US Defense Secretary Hegseth's broker looked to buy defense fund before Iran attack, FT reports https://ift.tt/2TZPx4K Hegseth's broker attempted to make defense investments before Iran war: Financial Times https://ift.tt/aM5K8YT: "All of those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. You'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore, just like you weren't there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! President DJT" https://x.com/atrupar/status/2038954530327392410[clip] Karoline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed" https://ift.tt/ZJts8uL refused Israel use of its air space to transfer US weapons for Iran war - sources - Reuters.com https://ift.tt/iFE0wh6 warns UK 'US won't be there to help you anymore' in extraordinary tirade over Iran war backing - Uk.news.yahoo.com https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1s8lnr7/trump_warns_uk_us_wont_be_there_to_help_you/"Go Get Your Own Oil": Trump's Message To UK, Other Countries On Hormuz Strait - Ndtv.com https://ift.tt/qE9UaT4 says will target US firms in West Asia starting Apr 1; Microsoft, Google, Apple on list of 18: 'Expect destruction' - Hindustantimes.com https://ift.tt/D96Bxzn House: Reopening Strait of Hormuz Not Vital to Ending Iran War - Time.com https://ift.tt/EbqNFzQ Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1 / Iran says it will target Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others. - Gizmodo.com https://ift.tt/IR0y2Xl United States has struck a major ammunition depot in the Iranian city of Isfahan using 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs - M.economictimes.com https://ift.tt/hspt0x2 sets giant oil tanker ablaze off Dubai after Trump warnings - Reuters.com https://ift.tt/qrptB4Z war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps and EVs - Euronews.com https://ift.tt/kNYbA3l Says U.S. Will 'Negotiate With Bombs' Until Iran Cease-Fire Deal Is Reached - Time.com https://ift.tt/0iXbwA2 oil tanker off Dubai hit by Iranian strike after Trump's latest threats - Reuters.com https://ift.tt/flS7RZM and Pakistan present new Iran deal: Ceasefire for opening Hormuz - Axios.com https://ift.tt/xJ20reA pharmaceutical company specializing in cancer medication was destroyed in US-Israeli strikes https://ift.tt/cAKwpaM to help open Strait of Hormuz as part of Gulf weapons deals, Zelensky says - Kyivindependent.com https://ift.tt/oQvmgFO tanker hit by Iranian drone attack in Dubai port - Theguardian.com https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1s8hp4o/kuwaiti_tanker_hit_by_iranian_drone_attack_in/[ Removed by moderator ] - Themirror.com https://ift.tt/s2mElur Confirms Kash Patel Email Hack as US Offers $10M Reward for Hackers - Securityweek.com https://ift.tt/FEZoYdt Denies US Aircraft Access to Military Base, Corriere Says - Bloomberg.com https://ift.tt/zqQZEy5 asked Poland for Patriot batteries. The defense minister gave a firm respons [They are used to protect Polish airspace] - Rp.pl https://ift.tt/2P4Lgy5 says 'no' to sending Patriot missile launcher to help US fight Iran - Tvpworld.com https://ift.tt/9jgIRCk discussion [officials and otherwise]:[clip] I'm no lawyer but "Politicians lying is sufficient justification to kill them" seems like a legal theory that could have some unintended consequences. https://ift.tt/4fFXLud when did lying to the US as a negotiating tactic become a legitimate cause for assassination? https://x.com/lindseyhilsum/status/2038742599113007445"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing...on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen...who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." Mtw 6:5 https://ift.tt/0OlUkGX Murphy - This is insane. It's the equivalent of setting your neighbor's house on fire and then being pissed they didn't stay inside, run the faucets, and fight the blaze from inside. https://ift.tt/NS8wnJy thread https://ift.tt/96MDts4 Passes Law to Hang Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/world/middleeast/israel-death-penalty-palestinians-attacks.html[thread] Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees.Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis. https://ift.tt/i2zHDGo to destroy 'all houses' near Lebanon border, defence minister says - Reuters.com https://ift.tt/WE4hpK5 to destroy 'all houses' near Lebanon border, defence minister says - Ctvnews.ca https://ift.tt/3KwegZA News:[clip] Q: "How are kids doing scholastically in the country?" U.S. Secretary of Education: "We're doing terribly..." https://ift.tt/1T4QY3I narrative isn't true https://ift.tt/K2aFRNO judge orders Trump to halt $400m White House ballroom project https://ift.tt/U1M4oiD controller staffing may have violated procedures on night of collision, document shows - Nbcnews.com https://ift.tt/6TDIHwB TSA wait times soar, the rich find workarounds - Sfgate.com https://ift.tt/LKVqmeu Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets - Gizmodo.com https://ift.tt/5ZoTnrV now lets you change your old email name without deleting account - Dexerto.com https://ift.tt/gqdRfWw blocks executive order to end federal funding for PBS and NPR - Pbs.org https://ift.tt/L6FJTcz blocks Trump order to end funding for National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service - Yahoo.com https://ift.tt/ei7zNhW finds Meta and YouTube negligent in landmark lawsuit on social media safety - Nbcnews.com https://ift.tt/wKnMNAG Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones | No more YouTube or video games on school laptops. Textbooks and pencils are back. Some seventh graders say they prefer learning offline - Nytimes.com https://ift.tt/qnu19xf: 'Many Areas Where People Cannot Get By Without Gas Cars' - Motor1.com https://ift.tt/K8wcb4v Just Hope We Can Bounce Back': GM's Prized EV Truck Factory Goes Dark Again - Insideevs.com https://ift.tt/7lKM8xr gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says - Arstechnica.com https://ift.tt/05OjzFu Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams - Gizmodo.com https://ift.tt/KosJcDf plans 100% native Windows 11 apps in major shift away from web wrappers - Techspot.com https://ift.tt/YLRBhS5 People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree - Nytimes.com https://ift.tt/ydHuogr at his 2025 pardons: huge online drug trafficker (Ulbricht), killer cops who hid evidence (Sutton, Zabavsky), cheating politician (Blagojevich), drug trafficker (Pinkard), cheating politician (Kelsey), Oath Keeper co-conspirator and secret leaker (Caldwell), fraud (Archer), fraud (Milton and others from Nikola), Native tribal fraud (Galanis), tax fraud (Fiore), bribery and wire fraud (Jenkins), drug distribution and fraud (Hoover et al), bribery and drug distribution (Hutchinson), fraudulent foreign agent (Zuberi), fraud and ID theft (Santos), money laundering (Zhao), election fraud (Harshbager Jr), securities fraud (Lewis), wire fraud (Gentile), and huge cocaine trafficking and corruption (Hernandez). Those pardons have cost the actual victims of injustice well over a billion dollars in lost restitution. https://ift.tt/SWYiuKd Court says conversion therapy ban violates counselor's speech rights - Usatoday.com https://ift.tt/woG7Qu1 Court sides with Christian counselor over Colorado on "conversion therapy" for minors - Ms.now https://ift.tt/FnAo0Y2 Court rules against Colorado ban on 'conversion therapy' for LGBTQ kids - Apnews.com https://ift.tt/C2ToItl an 8-1 Supreme Court just ruled in favor of anti-LGBTQ+ "conversion therapy" - Vox.com https://ift.tt/GRSeZmo Court rules against Colorado ban on 'conversion therapy' for LGBTQ kids - Apnews.com https://ift.tt/49X5ro2 passes bill to surveil trans kids, aiming to "close the social transition loophole" - Theneedlenews.com https://ift.tt/lqZN0R9 judge halts Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project for now - Yahoo.com https://ift.tt/AYUvWqI Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration - Propublica.org https://ift.tt/HxDaMmS FCC Chief Says His Censorship Protects the Little Guy. It Really Serves One Powerful Man. - Theintercept.com https://ift.tt/DkYS1dV exempts Gulf of Mexico drillers from protecting endangered species - Reuters.com https://ift.tt/mgsaxzS. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets prison sentence for possessing 'enormous child pornography collection' - Nbcnews.com https://ift.tt/GDRe8bM of preterm births and thousands of infant deaths linked to plastic chemical - Cnn.com https://ift.tt/GM6th0m Governor Vetoes Winter Storm Aid Bill, Accusing Senate of 'Possibly Criminal' Act - Mississippifreepress.org https://ift.tt/BUzTOwM agents fired after investigating Trump file class action suit alleging "retribution campaign" - Apnews.com https://ift.tt/UNFXwcH journalist Shelly Kittleson abducted in Iraq - Al-monitor.com https://ift.tt/3rNFVE5 evidence yet that vaping likely causes cancer. The evidence shows nicotine-based vapes are likely to cause oral and lung cancer. - Theconversation.com https://ift.tt/ZvnmVoL chat logs reveal employees aimed for "viewer addiction" and scrapped safety tools - Dexerto.com https://ift.tt/42uzhoN
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