popular bookmarks generated Sun Mar 8 09:20:08 2026 UTC ----------------------------------------- googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — one command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills. [https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z AIエージェント用にCLIを書き直す必要がある [https://justin.poehnelt.com/posts/rewrite-your-cli-for-ai-agents/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle [https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/workers-who-love-synergizing-paradigms-might-be-bad-their-jobs] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {work communication study} Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog [https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {agentic development} Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity – Terrible Software [https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines | grith [https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying — Acko.net [https://acko.net/blog/the-l-in-llm-stands-for-lying/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {ll} Good software knows when to stop | Olivier Girardot's Ramblings [https://ogirardot.writizzy.com/p/good-software-knows-when-to-stop] “product vision” 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {good software purpose constraint} AlexsJones/llmfit: 94 models. 30 providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware. [https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {llm benchmark} Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence Anthropic [https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {anthropic research work futureofwork automation artificialintelligence} Defuddle — Get the main content of any page as Markdown. [https://defuddle.md/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {markdown url service web} The Brand Age [https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html] > So even in this early example we see an important point about the relationship between brand and design. Branding isn't merely orthogonal to good design, but opposed to it. Branding by definition has to be distinctive. But good design, like math or science, seeks the right answer, and right answers tend to converge. > Branding is centrifugal; design is centripetal. […] > Brand age watches look strange because they have no practical function. Their function is to express brand, and while that is certainly a constraint, it's not the clean kind of constraint that generates good things. The constraints imposed by brand ultimately depend on some of the worst features of human psychology. So when you have a world defined only by brand, it's going to be a weird, bad world. […] > What a golden age feels like, at the time, is just that smart people are working hard on interesting problems and getting results. It would be overfitting to optimize for more than that. > In fact there's a single principle that will both save you from working on things like brand, and also automatically find golden ages for you. Follow the problems. 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {design} superpowers [https://github.com/obra/superpowers] Claude Code superpowers: core skills library 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {github-starred} Over 55.000 car brochures from brands around the world [https://autocatalogarchive.com/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {car brand documentation brochure} Introducing GPT-5.4 | OpenAI [https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {GenAI OpenAI} LibreSprite [https://libresprite.github.io/#!/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z FUBAR: Curated dystopian slop. Updated Daily. [https://www.fubardaily.com/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {retro-web} [ untitled ] [https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {true_dat} LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy [https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/llms-can-unmask-pseudonymous-users-at-scale-with-surprising-accuracy/] Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless. 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z Art Bits from HyperCard [https://archives.somnolescent.net/web/mari_v2/junk/hypercard/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {_dwtp} Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code. [https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {llmCodeDev} Mailbag: URLs as UI – Unsung [https://unsung.aresluna.org/mailbag-urls-as-ui/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {url} Filesystems are having a moment [https://madalitso.me/notes/why-everyone-is-talking-about-filesystems/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {ai filesystem} Building Blocks for DC Energy Systems - Libre Solar [https://libre.solar/] Modular open source hardware to make energy accessible to everyone. 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {solar opensource hardware energy} Qwen3.5 Fine-tuning Guide | Unsloth Documentation [https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5/fine-tune] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {training models} RFC 406i - The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS) [https://406.fail/] "stochastic regurgitation " 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {llm coding snark} this css proves me human · will keleher [https://will-keleher.com/posts/this-css-makes-me-human/] I don't think I can build a fence with these posts... 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {css llm humour} Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code? [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/#atom-everything] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {history predictions internet open-source programming ai llm copyright law computers} Antscan's 3D Scanning Reveals Ant Anatomy - IEEE Spectrum [https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-particle-accelerator-antscan] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {ant data microscope biology electron} KeygraphHQ/shannon: Fully autonomous AI hacker to find actual exploits in your web apps. Shannon has achieved a 96.15% success rate on the hint-free, source-aware XBOW Benchmark. [https://github.com/KeygraphHQ/shannon] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {pentesting security ai llm claude} AI And The Ship of Theseus | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/5/theseus/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {ai law} Look Inside Richard Hell’s East Village Tenement Apartment - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/04/realestate/richard-hell-east-village-apartment-tour.html] Mr. Hell moved to New York at the age of 17 determined to be a poet. But New York “wasn’t the bohemian paradise I’d fantasized it was going to be,” he said. “Everybody was really competitive, even though there was nothing to win.” 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {nyc new york east village tenement apartment poet rent stabilized richard hell nytimes essay} Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum [https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/uta-frith-interview-autism-not-spectrum] The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z We Might All Be AI Engineers Now — Yas [https://yasint.dev/we-might-all-be-ai-engineers-now/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {ai programming} Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details - ArcaneNibble's site [https://arcanenibble.github.io/hardware-hotplug-events-on-linux-the-gory-details.html] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z karpathy/autoresearch: AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically [https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {ai research *} Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester [https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z An Entirely Other Day: Lose Myself [https://www.eod.com/blog/2026/02/lose-myself/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {life ai career programming} We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation [https://gamehistory.org/cookies-bustle/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {game-history cool} How I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More for AWS [https://alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-dropped-our-production-database] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U37Ds3RvyoM] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/uAtq2bJ 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z a grand vision for rust [https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/a-grand-vision-for-rust/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete [https://joelgouveia.substack.com/p/the-death-of-spotify-why-streaming] 'They guard the listener data with their lives because that data is the only moat they have left. If you build your entire career on a platform that actively prevents you from getting an email address or a phone number, you are building a house on rented land. You are an unpaid employee for a Swedish tech company that views your life's work as "content" to fill their pipes.' 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {biz digitalmusic streaming music} Microsoft teases its next Xbox, says ‘Project Helix’ will play PC games too | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/games/890194/microsoft-teases-its-next-xbox-says-project-helix-will-play-pc-games-too] via The Verge https://ift.tt/SPcqdi1 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z Building apps in Rust shouldn't be this hard, so I made Ply. | Ply [https://plyx.iz.rs/blog/introducing-ply/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z xkcd dependency [https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {xkcd open-source heh} list animals until failure [https://rose.systems/animalist/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {fun} My perfect Music app doesn’t exist - Hicks.design [https://hicks.design/journal/my-perfect-music-app-doesnt-exist] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {music player} Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config [https://joshua.hu/firefox-making-right-click-not-suck] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251480 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {firefox productivity tips tutorial learning} First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In: Here's How It Compares the M1 MacBook Air - MacRumors [https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/05/macbook-neo-first-benchmarks/] via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/n9ST1fD 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z What Python's asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state - Inngest Blog [https://www.inngest.com/blog/no-lost-updates-python-asyncio] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256923 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {python async asyncio} A Decade of Docker Containers – Communications of the ACM [https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {docker retrospective} HazeOver - Mac Productivity Aid Application [https://hazeover.com/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {mac:app} Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z Math Notepad [https://mathnotepad.com/]
Math Notepad is a web based editor to do mathematical calculations and plot graphs. It supports real and complex numbers, matrices, and units.
2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {calculator} A Brief History of Domains (Dot Com Press) [https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {internet history issue} Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak [https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z Knuth on Claude [https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf] "I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6" 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {ai mlp claude knuth} US economy unexpectedly sheds 92,000 jobs in February [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd98091g28o] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260228093456.htm] Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out. Designed to exploit cancer’s unique chemistry—its acidity and high hydrogen peroxide levels—the tiny iron-based structure sparks not one but two intense chemical reactions, flooding tumors with cell-damaging oxygen molecules. This dual attack overwhelms cancer cells with oxidative stress while sparing healthy tissue....Advancing Chemodynamic TherapyThe discovery strengthens the growing field of chemodynamic therapy or CDT. This emerging cancer treatment strategy takes advantage of the unique chemical conditions found inside tumors. Compared with normal tissue, cancer cells tend to be more acidic and contain higher levels of hydrogen peroxide.Traditional CDT uses these tumor conditions to spark the formation of hydroxyl radicals, highly reactive molecules made of oxygen and hydrogen that contain an unpaired electron. These reactive oxygen species damage cells through oxidation, stripping electrons from essential components such as lipids, proteins, and DNA.More recent CDT approaches have also succeeded in generating singlet oxygen inside tumors. Singlet oxygen is another reactive oxygen species, named for its single electron spin state rather than the three spin states seen in the more stable oxygen molecules present in the air.Overcoming Limits of Existing CDT Agents"However, existing CDT agents are limited," Oleh Taratula said. "They efficiently generate either radical hydroxyls or singlet oxygen but not both, and they often lack sufficient catalytic activity to sustain robust reactive oxygen species production. Consequently, preclinical studies often only show partial tumor regression and not a durable therapeutic benefit."To address these shortcomings, the team developed a new CDT nanoagent built from an iron-based metal-organic framework or MOF. This structure is capable of producing both hydroxyl radicals and singlet oxygen, increasing its cancer-fighting potential. The MOF demonstrated strong toxicity across multiple cancer cell lines while causing minimal harm to noncancerous cells.Complete Tumor Regression in Mice"When we systemically administered our nanoagent in mice bearing human breast cancer cells, it efficiently accumulated in tumors, robustly generated reactive oxygen species and completely eradicated the cancer without adverse effects," Olena Taratula said. "We saw total tumor regression and long-term prevention of recurrence, all without seeing any systemic toxicity."In these preclinical experiments, tumors disappeared entirely and did not return, and the animals showed no signs of harmful side effects. 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {XDN Tangents} The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do [https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-one-science-reform-we-can-all] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {oa oa-antipatterns} Coruna: The Mysterious Journey of a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit | Google Cloud Blog [https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/coruna-powerful-ios-exploit-kit] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/zqwvURI 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop | PBS News [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/takes-elephant-amount-time-poop] Discover the surprising biological reasons behind the similar defecation times of humans and elephants, exploring digestive efficiency and gut length. Uncover fascinating insights into animal physiology and the science of digestion. 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {to_share digestive-science metabolism-guide mammal-physiology gut-transit animal-biology poop-time} rtk [https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk] CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {github-starred agentic-coding ai-coding anthropic claude-code cli command-line-tool cost-reduction developer-tools llm open-source productivity rust token-optimization} openai/symphony: Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents. [https://github.com/openai/symphony] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {ai orchestrate} Your Partner Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop. [https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-bans-now-someone-in-nairobi-is-watching-you-poop/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {privacy surveillance glasses facebook} T3 Code [https://t3.codes/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {t3 app macos} Payphone Go [https://walzr.com/payphone-go/] (888) 683-6697 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {via:twitter payphones games california phoneart via:rileywalz} A Ternary Chart of Citrus [https://www.jlauf.com/writing/citrus/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {reading} pi.dev [https://pi.dev/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {2026 ai} AI tools can unmask anonymous accounts  | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/889395/ai-agents-unmask-anonymous-online-accounts] via The Verge https://ift.tt/udIOtW1 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252971] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z RE#: how we built the world's fastest regex engine in F# | ian erik varatalu [https://iev.ee/blog/resharp-how-we-built-the-fastest-regex-in-fsharp/] sameAs: https://github.com/ieviev/resharp-dotnet sameAs: https://www.nuget.org/packages/resharp sameAs: https://ieviev.github.io/resharp-webapp/ sameAs: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3704837 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {regex performance state-machines derivatives} Tinnitus Is Somehow Connected to a Crucial Bodily Function : ScienceAlert [https://www.sciencealert.com/tinnitus-is-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function] "many individuals with tinnitus report poor sleep and show poor sleep patterns" 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {health} Design Systems Checklist [https://tylercoderre.com/projects/design-systems-checklist.html] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {checklist design design-systems} Smalltalk’s Browser: Unbeatable, Yet Not Enough [https://blog.lorenzano.eu/smalltalks-browser-unbeatable-yet-not-enough/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {smalltalk} This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/06/uk-death-healthy-life-expectancy-decline-state] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {inequality wealth health UPF} Run prompts on a schedule - Claude Code Docs [https://code.claude.com/docs/en/scheduled-tasks] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/889926/openai-gpt-5-4-model-release-ai-agents] via The Verge https://ift.tt/SPcqdi1 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z The Four Rules for a Good Walk [https://kottke.org/26/03/the-four-rules-for-a-good-walk] The Four Rules for a Good WalkIn 2017, city planner Jeff Speck gave a talk on the four ways to make a city more walkable: In the typical American city, in which most people own cars and the… 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {Articles} The Pro-Human AI Declaration [https://humanstatement.org/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {ai  governance  ethics from-raindrop} vercel-labs/just-bash: Bash for Agents [https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash] A simulated bash environment with an in-memory virtual filesystem, written in TypeScript. Designed for AI agents that need a secure, sandboxed bash environment. Supports optional network access via curl with secure-by-default URL filtering. 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {ai tools security} Why your IQ no longer matters in the era of AI - Big Think [https://bigthink.com/business/why-your-iq-no-longer-matters-in-the-era-of-ai/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {AI leadership} The Case For a Mac Netbook [https://technologizer.com/2008/10/22/the-case-for-a-mac-netbook/index.html] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/uAtq2bJ 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z Never the same game twice – Pathetic Fallacy [https://johnmccoy.org/2026/03/05/never-the-same-game-twice/] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/uAtq2bJ 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z Nintendo is suing the US government for a refund of Trump’s illegal tariffs | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/games/890861/nintendo-lawsuit-tariffs-donald-trump] via The Verge https://ift.tt/8zEDjPy 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z The AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Starting to Feel Real [https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-jobs-apocalypse-feeling-real] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will "upgrade" your M5's CPU to new "super" cores - Ars Technica [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/macos-tahoe-26-3-1-update-will-upgrade-your-m5s-cpu-to-new-super-cores/] In otherwise minor software update, macOS now uses M5’s new nomenclature ... What would have been called “performance” CPU cores are now “super” cores. “Efficiency” cores are still called efficiency cores. And there’s a new, third type of CPU core in between that is labeled a “performance” core. Apple said earlier this week that the “super” name change would retroactively apply to the regular-old Apple M5’s performance cores, too. 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {Apple TechSupport} Intent - Spec-Driven Development App | Augment Code [https://www.augmentcode.com/product/intent] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {llm_coding} jwz: That one XKCD thing, now interactive [https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/03/that-one-xkcd-thing-now-interactive/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z Globalisation is under threat from Iran war – and Britain is uniquely vulnerable | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/globalisation-under-threat-britain-economy-iran-conflict] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {UK future globalisation food climate environment money britain-is-going-down} Styx [https://styx.bearcove.eu/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z How to Audit a Rails Codebase: Legacy App Playbook [https://piechowski.io/post/how-i-audit-a-legacy-rails-codebase/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {#hacking ruby debugging} How I run 4–8 parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs — Manuel Schipper [https://schipper.ai/posts/parallel-coding-agents/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {llmCodeDev llmNow} Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs | PNAS [https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123] Our ancestors weren't stupid - they're just the giants whose shoulders we stand on. This documents a sign system that could be considered proto-writing, from 40,000 years ago. Used across generations for thousands of years to convey meaning. Quite remarkable, yet we should expect this really. 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {history writing} MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple build quality at a substantially lower price - Ars Technica [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/macbook-neo-hands-on-apple-build-quality-at-a-substantially-lower-price/] The laptop’s ports may cause some confusion, for the same reason that any USB-C or Thunderbolt port can cause confusion—the ports look the same but do different things. Either of the laptop’s two USB-C ports can charge the laptop. But only the rear one supports 10 Gbps USB 3 transfer speeds, and it’s also the only one that can drive a display (one 4K screen at up to 60 Hz, down from two higher-resolution external displays for the Air). The port toward the front only supports 480 Mbps USB 2.0 transfer speeds, enough for a keyboard and many other external accessories, but not ideal for external storage. Neither port is marked in any way 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {apple usability} Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’ | Technology | The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/tech-legend-stewart-brand-on-musk-bezos-and-his-extraordinary-life-we-dont-need-to-passively-accept-our-fate] Wars have been won and lost on the strength of maintenance, Brand notes. In the Vietnam war, for example, the US army’s M16 rifle was lighter, more accurate and more precisely machined; the Viet-Cong’s AK-47s were more crudely made but therefore easier to fix and less likely to go wrong. Many American GIs lost their lives as a result of jammed M16s. Similarly, Russia’s attempted full-scale invasion of Ukraine faltered in its first days in part due to poorly maintained tyres on its long-mothballed trucks, which reflected a broader Russian doctrine of “treating equipment and soldiers as expendable”, as opposed to Ukraine’s flexible, Nato-influenced maintenance culture. Surprisingly, perhaps, Brand expresses approval for Elon Musk. “What I find so admirable about Musk is that he keeps pushing the envelope of the possible in manufacturing,” he says. Just as Henry Ford revolutionised car manufacturing in the early 20th century with his Model T (which broke down a lot but was relatively easy to fix), so Musk’s Tesla has been a quantum leap, Brand argues. It catalysed the electric vehicle revolution, which has had an invaluable environmental impact. But Tesla also devised an ingenious way to make the entire underbody of its Model Y cars out of just two pieces of cast aluminium, whereas conventional cars used hundreds of parts that had to be welded, bonded, riveted together. Electric motors also have far fewer parts than internal combustion engines. Fewer parts means less to go wrong, which means less maintenance. This is how technology gets better, he says. 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {best-of-2026} Now I Get It! [https://nowigetit.us/] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z VOTE: Do you prefer daylight time or standard time? | KOMO [https://komonews.com/news/local/western-washington-residents-prefer-daylight-saving-time-or-standard-time-spring-forward-washington-state-lawmakers] If you feel like the weekend is already too short, it’s about to get even shorter. Daylight saving time begins this weekend, with clocks moving forward one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday. Steve Calandrillo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted. 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {!03-05-2026 Calandrillo.Steve regl School:Law KOMO} Current | Terry Godier [https://www.terrygodier.com/current] 2026-03-08T05:47:02Z {rss}