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Trump Administration Seeks to Remove Cuba’s President From Power During Negotiations - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/trump-cuba-president-diaz-canel.html? 🌮 is gonna make lil Marco eat 💩 "The United States so far is not pushing for any action against Castro family members, who remain the country’s top power brokers, two of the people said. "

No H.I.V. Aid Without More Access to Minerals: U.S. Ponders ‘Sticks’ Against Zambia - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/health/zambia-hiv-aid-minerals-trump.html? Evil f*cks.

Trump predicts US will have ‘honour of taking Cuba’ amid power blackout https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/donald-trump-can-take-cuba-oil Here we go again with the rapey talk.

Top Architecture Firm Won’t Design More ICE Prisons After Employees Revolt https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ice-dlr-group-detention-corecivic-contract-worker-resistance-trump/

Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/16/turns-out-the-doge-bros-who-killed-humanities-grants-are-kinda-sensitive-about-it/

A little oopsie from Wired

Elon Musk Just Made a Small Change That Speaks Volumes About His Desperation https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-change-grok-desperation "Starting last week, Grok stopped taking questions that free users asked in posts on Musk’s social media site, X, where the chatbot is integrated. Instead, it now states that “Ask Grok” is only available to Premium and Premium+ subscribers, paid tiers that the site heavily pushes."

AI Mistake Throws Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Nearly Six Months https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-grandmother-jail-mistake

Good point

Netflix Buys Startup That Modifies Footage Using AI https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/netflix-buys-ai-startup-ben-afleck

MAHAspital - SNL - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBVuvstPCs If you watched the Pitt, this will ring a bell.

The greater blue-eared starling, one of the most beautiful #birds. https://imgur.com/gallery/euDJqaG

Weekend Update: Tucker Carlson on Liberal Politics and the 2026 Oscars - SNL - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cssPptEqVWE

Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/jurgen-habermas-german-philosopher-and-sociologist-dies-aged-96

Yup

Yup