Bookmarks 2026-03-02T18:24:35.828Z
by Owen Kibel
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Bookmarks for 2026-03-02T18:24:35.828Z
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If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit? | Hacker News
Added: Mar 2, 2026If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit? | Hacker News
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GitHub - mandel-macaque/memento: Keep track of you codex sessions per commit · GitHub
Added: Mar 2, 2026GitHub - mandel-macaque/memento: Keep track of you codex sessions per commit
Site: GitHub
Keep track of you codex sessions per commit. Contribute to mandel-macaque/memento development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Big cats, bigger protections: Santa Cruz County mountain lions now listed as threatened - Lookout Santa Cruz
Added: Mar 2, 2026Big cats, bigger protections: Santa Cruz County mountain lions now listed as threatened
Site: Lookout Santa Cruz
Mountain lions in Santa Cruz County recently gained new protections under the California Endangered Species Act after years as candidates for listing. Protecting six distinct puma populations around the state is a win for many dedicated researchers, but the move heightens the concerns about potential land-use and livestock impacts for developers, ranchers and farmers.
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A Hidden African Carbon Vault Is Starting to Leak Added: Mar 2, 2026
A Hidden African Carbon Vault Is Starting to Leak
Site: SciTechDaily
A vast African peatland once thought stable is now leaking carbon thousands of years old.
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Some Alleged Polymarket Insiders Made a Fortune on U.S. Strikes on Iran Added: Mar 2, 2026
Some Alleged Polymarket Insiders Made a Fortune on U.S. Strikes on Iran
Site: Gizmodo
One user made roughly half a million in one day.
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Prediction markets surge as US strikes Iran, targets regime change Added: Mar 2, 2026
War is the new get-rich-quick play on prediction markets as US strikes Iran
Site: Axios
Major world events have created new get-rich-quick moments.
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How wild turkeys ended up everywhere in the Bay Area Added: Mar 2, 2026
How wild turkeys ended up everywhere in the Bay Area
Site: SFGATE
For some residents, it's a spectacle. For others, it's intimidation.
Along the sloping banks of the San Lorenzo Creek in Hayward, steps from the oldest Japanese garden in California, chaos unfolds. The creek is a favorite gathering spot for the Bay Area’s wild turkeys. A few dozen congregate near the stream and in the parking lot, the vibrant males puffed up, their grand tails fanned out as they shriek and strut around. It’s mating season, and they’re showing off. Another noticeable change occurs this time of year, according to Eric Bergquist, a gardener at the Hayward Japanese Garden. “They get the blue and red on their faces and look more turkey-ish,” he said during a phone call with SFGATE. Similar scenes are playing out across the East Bay as spring approaches: flocks crossing residential streets and lingering in busy intersections in Albany, clustering in Fremont, climbing roofs in Oakland. For some residents, it’s a spectacle. For others, it’s intimidation. The tension came to a boiling point last December when an Alameda man was charged with felony animal cruelty after he allegedly shot and killed a turkey on the former naval air station grounds. So what’s behind the surge in the turkey sightings? Are the animals really becoming more aggressive, or are they simply becoming more visible? How California got so many turkeys Turkeys are not native to California. Due to overhunting and habitat loss, the species nearly went extinct at the start of the 20th century in the United States. Various efforts were made to revive their numbers, but it was a 1959 attempt by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife that finally took hold, said Christina Tarr of the Golden Gate Bird Alliance during a call with SFGATE. Two subspecies reside in the state: the Merriman’s turkey, which lives mostly in mountain regions, and the far more prevalent Rio Grande subspecies, Tarr said. The wild turkey population has grown dramatically since the 1970s, and current estimates peg their statewide numbers at around a quarter million birds today. As a flocking species, family groups often merge into large gatherings. Spring breeding season, which lasts from late February until about May, is the peak time for flashy male displays, according to Melanie Piazza, the director of animal care and hospital operations at WildCare, a San Rafael wildlife hospital and education center. “All of this springtime is happening,” she said during a phone call with SFGATE. “Hormones are happening now, so as soon as the babies start going or start hatching, that is when these animals will start defending their territories.” The University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program, or UC IPM, which provides science-based pest prevention guidance, points out that wild turkeys thrive in suburban environments where food, water and landscaped areas create ideal living conditions for the birds. This is similar to the resort-like amenities that made Foster City a poopy paradise for hundreds of Canada geese. Pecking order and human behavior In areas where turkeys have become accustomed to people, they may begin to see humans as part of their flock — and therefore part of their pecking order, according to UC IPM. If a human is perceived as dominant, the turkey may act passively. “Viewed as a subordinate, a human might be bullied,” UC IPM writes. This dynamic can explain reports of birds following, confronting or posturing at local residents. All of these activities escalate in the springtime, which is also when turkeys may attack vehicles. “That is because they can see themselves in the reflection and think they are seeing a male competitor,” Piazza said. Cars with shiny chrome may be especially at risk, UC IPM notes. According to Piazza, wildlife typically act aggressively for two main reasons: protecting young or being fed by humans. “Resist the urge to feed wildlife, because they will get used to humans and come up to them for food,” she said. “And if they approach people who are not friendly towards them, it could result in injury to them.” The simplest solution when encountering a territorial bird? Walk away and avoid the area temporarily if possible. Piazza also advises slowing down while driving in areas with known turkey populations and for dog owners to leash their pets — the 100 to 150 turkeys WildCare treats annually are mostly brought in as a result of those two reasons. If anyone finds a fluffy baby turkey, known as a poult, she urges people to bring it to an animal hospital immediately. “They won’t survive on their own,” she said. Coexisting with turkeys Eric Bergquist has worked as a groundskeeper at Hayward’s Japanese Garden for about a year, and to him, the wild turkeys are just neighbors. The birds roost in trees by San Lorenzo Creek and walk along the roof of the senior center next to the garden in the mornings. According to Bergquist, despite their numbers, the birds are skittish. He’s never witnessed a skirmish, even with as many as 30 males strutting around and displaying in the parking lot at once. “I have to say they were very gentlemanly,” he said of their peaceful parade. “I was very impressed.” The turkeys can be messy, scattering leaves while digging for grubs in the soil, but Bergquist characterizes their chaos as cartoonish, not harmful. At the garden, they’re considered an unofficial mascot. Piazza considers the birds to be an ecological asset. “They perform free, natural pest control as their favorite foods include insects and snails,” she wrote. The turkeys also help disperse seeds, aerate soil by foraging and clean yards by gobbling up acorns. “They are a good food source for various predators that people love such as bobcats and coyotes,” she added. By early summer, the strutting will subside, but the birds will remain. Some people will continue seeing them as menaces, but for others like Bergquist, they’ll continue just being part of the landscape. — Deadly avian flu detected in California marine mammals for the first time— Red Bull's F1 showcase in the Marina was utter chaos— A wealthy Bay Area town passed an Airbnb ban. It might not even work.— Cult favorite Bay Area grocery store to open new local outpost Get SFGATE's top stories sent to your inbox by signing up for The Daily newsletter here.
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Trump Buries the 20th Century - POLITICO Added: Mar 2, 2026
Trump Buries the 20th Century
Site: POLITICO
Donald Trump's legacy became clearer than ever with the attack on Iran's regime, the latest 20th century artifact to crumble in the Trump era.
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8 Linux commands so good, they feel like cheating
Added: Mar 2, 20268 Linux commands so good, they feel like cheating
Site: How-To Geek
Replacements for common Linux commands that are so good, you'll wonder how you did without them.
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Link between cannabis and anxiety, depression has 'strengthened over time' Added: Mar 2, 2026
Link between cannabis and anxiety, depression has ‘strengthened over time’: new study
Site: New York Post
A new study has found a growing connection between cannabis use and detrimental effects on mental health.
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Waking Up at 5am Could Make You More Productive, But There's a Catch : ScienceAlert
Added: Mar 2, 2026Waking Up at 5am Could Make You More Productive, But There's a Catch
Site: ScienceAlert
At 5 am, social media fills with proof that the early risers have already won the day.
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Anthropic vs. White House puts $60 billion at risk
Site: Axios
Anthropic has been at the heart of America's business narrative this year, but now it's under siege from its own government.
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Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated? Added: Mar 2, 2026
Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated?
Site: The Conversation
An anthropologist’s new book lays out the formula for human innovation, from stone tools to supercomputers. Depending on developments in the next few years, AI could hit the gas or the brakes.
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Trump says war against Iran moving "substantially ahead" of schedule
Site: Axios
He said the initial U.S. military plan called for four to five weeks of combat operations.
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Borne By You | YouTube Music Added: Mar 2, 2026
Borne By You
Site: YouTube Music
The Paper Kites
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Morning Gum
Site: YouTube Music
The Paper Kites
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Toward the Sky
Site: YouTube Music
Serkmusic
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Trump says Iran 'tried twice' to kill him but he took out Khamenei instead | Fox News Added: Mar 2, 2026
Trump says Iran 'tried twice' to kill him but he took out Khamenei instead | Fox News
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Car Song - SNL - YouTube Added: Mar 2, 2026
Car Song - SNL
Site: YouTube
In this Cut for Time sketch, two women (Jane Wickline, Veronika Slowikowska) perform a song about treating themselves to an Uber after a night out.Saturday N...
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THEY'RE TARGETING KIDS
Site: YouTube
BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO SUPPORT THE SHOW - https://castbrew.com/Become A Member And Protect Our Work at http://www.timcast.comHost:Tate Brown @realTateBrown ...
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America Begins War With Iran, with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rich Lowry, Charles Cooke & Sohrab Ahmari
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly discusses the bombing of Iran over the weekend, four U.S. service members who have already lost their lives, why she's skeptical and concerned ab...
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The Future of Democrats: A Call for Party Rebirth Added: Mar 2, 2026
Will Democrats ever learn their lesson?
Site: The Hill
The Democratic Party must recognize the role of the far-left wing of their party in their loss to Trump and take steps to remove the faction that allowed Trump to paint everyone on the left as more…
I remember precisely the moment during the 2016 election cycle when I knew Hillary Clinton was going to lose. It came that June, in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, when she reacted to it by giving a speech about “Islamophobia.” President Trump had a very different reaction. You can say what you like — that he played on people’s fears, even that he dog-whistled to genuine racists — but his reaction was more in touch, more in tune with the prevailing sentiment. He spoke frankly and thought plainly, like the average citizen, his finger on the pulse of America. A college student at the time, I penned an op-ed after the election, blaming so-called liberals for not recognizing the opportunity Trump had clearly seen. Then as now, Democrats' biggest weakness was the far-left wing of their own party. It had handed Trump the White House, I wrote, because people were "sick of being told how to think, tired of being scared to speak their mind without feeling the sharp blade of social justice stab them in the back.” Trump capitalized on far-left foolishness then, and he did it again in 2024. The liberal media and those in charge of the Democratic Party couldn’t — seemingly still don’t — see what the majority of Americans take to be common sense, what a mere student recognized nearly a decade ago. In 2020, following President Joe Biden’s victory over Trump, I believed that Trumpism had not been truly repudiated. Despite polling that presaged an overwhelming Biden victory, Trump had received massive turnout and performed well with demographic groups that defied identity politics. Yet, four years later, the Democrats somehow saw fit to run Kamala Harris. Despite Biden's own role in causing this disaster, the real mystery is how the establishment — former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) — thought it made sense to bypass the democratic process and nominate a gaffe-prone and unpopular vice president from California who had never won a single primary. They tried to take someone Biden had hidden during his administration and magically turn her into the candidate of joy, loved by all. It didn't work. Clinton — one of the most seasoned and skilled politicians to ever run for president — had not beaten Trump in Pennsylvania. How was Harris expected to do so, especially with her past comments on fracking, which she never adequately addressed, and after passing on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) as her running-mate? The writing was always on the wall. Democrats lost, and they will keep losing national elections until they consciously choose a rebirth for their party. They need to remove from power within the party the faction that allowed Trump to paint everyone on the left as more deranged than his own unhinged brand of populism. The “woke mind virus” that pushed Elon Musk and Joe Rogan into Trump’s camp, bringing with them the next generation of young men who feel disenfranchised within the Democratic Party, is real. The far left made enemies and deserted its friends, chasing some distorted version of idealism. Why continue to entertain their unpopular, polarizing and misguided ideas? They’re not the Democratic base — they are its fringe, and arguably a tumor poisoning the rest of the body. In Vermont (my home state), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is on to something when he says that Democrats have abandoned the working class. But he still doesn’t fully get it, because he blames this purely on economics, neglecting the role of culture. It is the cultural issues on which the Democratic Party has fallen most out of touch with America. Trump now has less than three years to make America “great” again according to his own vision — an imperfect immune response to the virus. If enough Democrats recognize that Trumpism thrives only as an antagonist to the far left, then the party isn’t a complete lost cause. It still has a chance to neuter Trump where he stands by taking back the Congress later this year. Our democratic institutions will still need to withstand an aspiring tyrant, but just as crucially this election cycle, the Democratic Party needs to survive the far left and its blindly sanctimonious pursuit of ideological conformity if it intends to win the White House in 2028. Philip Finkelstein is an independent journalist and writer from Vermont, with an MS in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His debut novel about American cultural polarization and geopolitical tensions is in the process of getting published.
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Iran's Basij Militia Deploys on Motorcycles to Crush Protests Amid U.S.-Israeli Strikes / X Added: Mar 2, 2026
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“The US Is Winning the War” in Iran: The World Was “Publicly Against It… Now Everybody Is for It!”
Site: YouTube
Full Episode: https://youtube.com/live/kjczzVPdtSIFollow us: https://twitter.com/2waytvapphttps://www.2Way.TVYou can now listen to this episode on Apple, Spo...
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“Trump Should Be on Mount Rushmore”: “He Had the Cajones To Do What His Predecessors” Never Could
Site: YouTube
Full Episode: https://youtube.com/live/kjczzVPdtSIFollow us: https://twitter.com/2waytvapphttps://www.2Way.TVYou can now listen to this episode on Apple, Spo...
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Trump Says He'll Do "Whatever It Takes" To Stop Iran From Having Ballistic Missiles, Navy, Nukes
Site: YouTube
Mark’s featured guests this evening include John Fowler and Helen Zhang of the International Intrigue newsletter, GOP strategist Matt Whitlock and Democratic...
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Victor Davis Hanson: You Can’t Negotiate With The ‘Fanatic Ideologues’ in Iran
Site: YouTube
“I think their strategy, to tell you, was kind of a Muhammad Ali ‘Rope-a-Dope’ where they were going to ride it out. And then Trump would be gone in three ye...
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Trump delivers Iran messaging through exclusive interview spree
Site: Axios
Trump is communicating his Iran intentions when, how and to whom he wants.
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I used the new Linux Terminal on Android and I'm impressed
Added: Mar 2, 2026
I used the new Linux Terminal on Android and I'm impressed
Site: MUO
Android now has a real Linux terminal—and it’s legit.
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SpaceX Rolls Out Starship V3: What's New Added: Mar 2, 2026
SpaceX Rolls Out Starship V3: What's New
Site: Not a Tesla App
SpaceX rolled out its first Starship V3 vehicle for ground testing. Elon Musk is confident in its reusability, but outlined strict rules for catching it.
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🍌 Nano Banana 2 in ComfyUI Added: Mar 2, 2026
🍌 Nano Banana 2 in ComfyUI
Nano Banana 2 is now available in ComfyUI through Partner Nodes!
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Washington Post faces backlash over describing Khamenei as having 'easy smile' | Fox News
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1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT. If You Cancel, Make Sure You Do This First Added: Mar 2, 2026
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Barry Collins (@bazzacollins.bsky.social) — Bluesky
Added: Mar 2, 2026Barry Collins (@bazzacollins.bsky.social)
Site: Bluesky Social
Journalist, editor, little ray of sunshine for Forbes, PC Pro and others.
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You Can't Feel Wet
Site: YouTube
Put on a glove and dip your hand into icy water. You'll notice it still feels wet? But the glove is waterproof, how does this work?That's because wet isn't a...
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President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting, Mar. 3, 2026
Site: YouTube
The White House
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THE WAR IRAN JUST GOT WORSE
Site: YouTube
There are no easy answers, the escalation has begun. Israel has invaded Lebanon, Iran launches strikes against US bases, and Trump says the big wave has not ...
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The flame of Liberty and Independence still burns in the hearts of EVERY American Patriot
Site: YouTube
250 years of America
