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Dozens of Israeli Air Force jets hit weapons infrastructure, IRGC and Basij across Tehran, also systemically dismantling its ballistic missile infrastructure
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Stephen A. Smith on Olympic Trans Ban: ‘No Excuse' for Men to Compete with Women
[Breitbart] The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) recent ban on men competing in women’s sports has drawn the approval of ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith.

"Biological men should not be competing against biological girls in sports, period," Smith said on Real Time with Bill Maher during a discussion of the Olympic trans ban.

"What about protecting the young ladies? Young ladies going up against biological men — biological men — there is no excuse for that."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2026 02:23 || Comments || Link || [1766 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought he possessed no systemic neural activity. Once again, I was wrong.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2026 6:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Young ladies going up against biological men

Sadly, early exposure will give some a grounding for future encounter choices.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/30/2026 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 - his shtick is bombast, outrage, and flapping his gums. Once in a long while, though, he's not wrong
Posted by: Frank G || 03/30/2026 9:27 Comments || Top||


Great White North
The United States Didn't Just Win – Canada Was Already Losing
[Liberty Nation] It has already been a year and change since President Donald Trump initiated his "51st state" quips, angering 40 million Canadians and causing the formation of another Liberal government. Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that it was time to "elbows up" and push back against Trump’s rhetoric and reaffirm the independence of Canada. Ottawa imposed retaliatory tariffs, provinces dumped American liquor they had already purchased down the drain, and cities vowed to buy domestically.

The reality is that Trump exposed how vulnerable the Great White North was to any pressure implemented by the United States. Suffice it to say, Canada was a lot like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront: "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender, I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am."

The loss was written long before the clash of the North American economies.

Canada Will Have Nunavut

A flurry of recent data painted a grim portrait of the Canadian economy.

In February, the country lost almost 84,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate rose to a higher-than-expected 6.7%. The youth jobless rate is sitting above 14%. Retail sales have fallen short of expectations, manufacturing sales have plunged, and labor productivity has contracted. The country is now halfway to a recession after the Q4 gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.2%.

Across the country, the Grits, New Democrats, Greens, and Bloc Québécois are pinning the blame squarely on Trump and his tariffs. But US trade policy instead merely revealed how the Great White North is not so great after all, and that the Liberal Party has been inept for a decade.

New scandals relating to immigration fraud and officials feigning outrage that the head of Air Canada delivered a message in English only will provide cover for how poor economic conditions have been. However, recent reports have placed a nation rich in resources under the spotlight that are too hard to ignore.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2026 02:31 || Comments || Link || [1764 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Canadian Libs gutted their country while leveraging the productivity and wealth of Alberta and the United States. But for Trump the game would have continued longer, but the crash would also have been more catastrophic.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/30/2026 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  "The Executive Government and Authority of and over Canada is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen."

Canada's CONSTITUTION ACT, 1867

Nuff said. Assists to Justin Castro & Mark Carney.

Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/30/2026 9:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Education Department Downsizes to Save Taxpayer Money
[PJMedia] The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is cutting bureaucratic waste and saving taxpayer money. What a novel idea!

On March 26, ED issued a blurb announcing its removal from the Lyndon B. Johnson headquarters building in Washington, relocating to 500 D Street SW. This will save at least $4.8 million annually in operating costs and stop the waste of space, as the previous headquarters was 70% empty. Instead of using the much-too-large building with higher costs, the ED is downsizing, effective August 2026. But the savings don’t stop there.

The Lyndon B. Johnson building will not go to waste, either, as the U.S. Department of Energy plans to move out of its "outdated" building to assume the lease of the former ED headquarters. That will also save taxpayers money, as it would be $350 million to perform necessary maintenance on the Energy Department's current building, according to the blurb. While the building will therefore still be in use, the hundreds of millions of dollars of maintenance will no longer be necessary, a net gain.

"One year ago, President Trump signed one of the most consequential executive orders of his presidency — to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states," said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon
...business executive, and former professional wrestling performer. She was the 25th administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019. McMahon has been nominated to lead the Department of Education under the second Trump administration. McMahon, along with her husband, Vince McMahon, founded sports entertainment company Titan Sports, Inc. (later World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) where she worked as the president and later CEO from 1980 to 2009. During this time, the company grew from a regional business in the northeast to a large multinational corporation. She made occasional on-screen performances, most notably in a feud with her husband that culminated at WrestleMania X-Seven. In 2009, she left World Wrestling Entertainment to run for a seat in the United States Senate from Connecticut as a Republican, but lost to Richard Blumenthal in the 2010 general election. She was the Republican nominee for Connecticut's other Senate seat in the 2012 race, but lost to Chris Murphy because that's the kind of guy people in Connecticutt like best. ...
. "Thanks to the hard work of so many, we have made unprecedented progress in reducing the federal education footprint, and now we are pleased to give this building to an agency that will benefit far more from its space than the Department of Education. This is an important step in our efforts to forge brighter futures for our nation’s students, honor the taxpayers who invest in their promise, and support the civil servants who keep this vital work moving forward."

The Trump administration has been looking for ways to downsize ED and hand over essential functions to the states, with the goal of eventually eliminating the unconstitutional department altogether. This ED transfer of one headquarters to the Energy Department and the move to a smaller facility is one more step in that direction.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/30/2026 2026-03-30 01:47 || Comments || Link || [1767 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why do we still have a Department of Education to move?
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/30/2026 6:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Should be sole domain of the States and local governments.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2026 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Vouchers if any governmental resources are involved.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/30/2026 7:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Chicago’s empty 'ghost schools' teach us about how the system is failing

Chicago ... who knew?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/30/2026 9:27 Comments || Top||

#5  When I saw "saving taxpayer money", I stopped reading out of utter disgust. Why this "cabinet post" still exists is really something.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/30/2026 9:38 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
How Military AI Is Hiding in Computer Chip Patents
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Text taken from the Telegram channel of darpaandcia

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics

[ColonelCassad] How Military AI Is Hiding in Computer Chip Patents In March 2026, Micron Technology, one of the largest computer memory manufacturers, published a patent titled "Memory Hotspot Identification."

The work was funded by DARPA. The author of the patent is Tony Brewer, a former CTO of a company that created hybrid supercomputers for the military. This doesn't look like a typical IT patent.

According to the patent, the chip monitors which memory cells are being used too frequently, stores this information in a log, and transmits it to a system administrator. The idea is that the administrator will read the log and correct the poorly written code.

The chip's real purpose is entirely different. Here's how it works with a simple example. Imagine a military AI controlling a swarm of thousands of drones. Suddenly, a new target appears. All those thousands of drones are simultaneously trying to update its coordinates at a single point in memory—like a thousand people battering at a single door.

The door jams. The processor freezes for a split second. At the speed of a hypersonic missile (10 Mach = 3400 m/s), even 100 milliseconds of such paralysis means a 340-meter miss.

The patented chip is an automatic controller built directly into the silicon, which automatically resolves the jam in nanoseconds and transfers the "hot" data to a free area of ​​memory—without the involvement of the operating system. What the authors concealed: The patent contains three deliberate omissions: — A secret load balancing algorithm.

If the enemy knew it, they could mathematically "clogg the chip" with junk requests and blind the system right in the middle of combat. — Self-diagnosis speed. Without this parameter, the chip will either overheat and burn itself out, or react too late.

Analysis showed that memory status must be checked at least every 3.75 microseconds. — The final action of the system. The patent "breaks" at the log entry. In reality, the chip automatically transfers overheated data to a cooler area of ​​memory—automatically, instantly, without a command from above. Two vulnerabilities were discovered in the chip architecture: — A "queue overflow" attack.

If an adversary creates a barrage of simultaneous requests, the chip's buffer will overflow, blinding the system. At this point, it is possible to launch a pinpoint attack on the desired memory cells and physically fry the chip. — "Radiation paralysis" in space. A single charged particle from cosmic radiation (or an electromagnetic pulse) can flip a single bit in the chip's memory. This is enough to freeze the entire system in perpetual lockup mode. All formulas and thermal graphs are in the attached technical report.

Download: REVERSE_ENGINEERING_REPORT

Again, regarding the development of technology for the mass swarm use of drones, which I've been writing about for several years now, we're already quite close to the time when the technical problems standing in the way of implementing this idea will be completely resolved. We need to prepare for this now. Swarm drones will inevitably appear on the battlefield.

Posted by: badanov || 03/30/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1842 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I had a long thing about a thing here, but ran out of coffee.
By the time I got back to it I had lost my thread and dropped it into the shitcan, where it should have gone at the start.

Some words on DMA and CPU blocking management <3.75ms.

Some words on the use of 'temperature' as a frequency of occurrence measure. [heat map]

Some words of this addressing a silicon man-in-the-middle attack while resolving the two generals paradox ...

See. Idle words are the devil's workshop.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/30/2026 14:15 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2026-03-30
  Dozens of Israeli Air Force jets hit weapons infrastructure, IRGC and Basij across Tehran, also systemically dismantling its ballistic missile infrastructure
Sun 2026-03-29
  The Houthis launched a second attack on Israel and said they would continue shelling, IDF shot ‘em all down
Sat 2026-03-28
  MWM claim: Israel lost 21 tanks in one day, a 40-year record
Fri 2026-03-27
  Brother-sister IED terror plot rocks America's Iran war nerve center [fails at MacDill] as disturbing China link emerges
Thu 2026-03-26
  Iran appears to target Israeli power plant in missile attack, but misses
Wed 2026-03-25
  3 injured as fragments of Iranian missile fall in unrecognized Bedouin village
Tue 2026-03-24
  The IRGC announced a new wave of strikes on US bases in the Middle East.
Mon 2026-03-23
  Three strikes target Iraqi fighters south of Baghdad, 8 overnight attacks target US base near Baghdad Airport
Sun 2026-03-22
  IDF hit Tehran university site used to develop components for nuclear weapons and missile production sites while Americans hit Nantanz enrichment facility after 8000 mil targets airstruck
Sat 2026-03-21
  IRGC ‘Main Propagandist' Spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini Killed in Overnight Airstrike, and 3 more IRGC big shots eliminated
Fri 2026-03-20
  Gulf states say responding to missile, drone attacks as Eid holiday begins
Wed 2026-03-18
  Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets at north, hitting home but no injuries; IDF pounds Lebanon
Tue 2026-03-17
  Iran's Revolutionary Guards warn US companies will be attacked as they issue list of 15 targets with employees urged to evacuate across Middle East
Mon 2026-03-16
  Sa’ar denies reports of talks with Lebanon as Hezbollah keeps up fire on Israel


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