Daily News Stuff 23 March 2026

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Elon Musk has announced TeraFab, a Tesla-SpaceX joint venture to bring the various companies' (including xAI and I guess Twitter) chip manufacturing together under one very large roof. (Tom's Hardware)

$20 billion buys a lot of roof.

Primarily it will be producing local AI chips for robots - vision processing and similar systems, and large scale general purpose AI chips for orbital datacenters.

This is the 21st century I asked for. Certainly more so than anything OpenAI has delivered.

Tech News

Trapped in a closet self-driving taxi with Vanna White a screaming homicidal leftist lunatic outside. (Seattle Times)

Don't go to San Francisco, and if you do, don't use self-driving taxis, and if you do, pack a nuclear-powered flamethrower.
Corsair is offering a 25% discount on some DDR5 memory kits. (Tom's Hardware)

So they're only at a 200% over the past six months rather than 300%.
An extremely awkward workaround for the Crimson Desert's extremely awkward inventory system. (WCCFTech)

Or you can just wait a month while they fix this and other issues.
Cursor's new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI's Kimi. (Tech Crunch)

Who?

Musical Interlude

Song is Dancing on the Ceiling sung by Dodie Stevens. Video is from... Something.

Disclaimer: Probably.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Morning all

Posted by: Tuna at March 23, 2026 04:02 AM (lJ0H4)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at March 23, 2026 04:02 AM (7lOC+)

3 otters called.

Posted by: clarence at March 23, 2026 04:03 AM (7lOC+)

4 BOING!

And incoming.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 23, 2026 04:04 AM (1o8D5)

5 Don't go to San Francisco, and if you do, don use self-driving taxis, and if you do, pack a nuclear-powered flamethrower.
-

I forgot what it was but years ago in S. Africa they came up with some external weapon to ward off from the comfort of the car's interior potential carjackers.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 23, 2026 04:11 AM (1o8D5)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 23, 2026 04:16 AM (sAmhv)

7 American in Paris.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at March 23, 2026 04:21 AM (79W4W)

8 Flame thrower...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 23, 2026 04:30 AM (/HDaX)

9 G'Day everyone
It was pouring down a short while ago

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

10 Down Under, I guess they get used to dancing on the ceiling.

Posted by: Miklos, Antipodean but in reverse at March 23, 2026 04:36 AM (Al4HM)

11 Batmobile, the one that auto covers the exterior with armor. That should keep carjackers at bay. The EV version of course.

Posted by: Colin at March 23, 2026 04:39 AM (e8qy3)

12 There were Dragoons in the video but she never danced on the ceiling really

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2026 04:40 AM (Ia/+0)

13 Batmobile, the one that auto covers the exterior with armor. That should keep carjackers at bay. The EV version of course.
Posted by: Colin

And ejector seat for the passenger side

Posted by: Miklos, Miklos Bond at March 23, 2026 04:40 AM (Al4HM)

14 Musk is building stuff for humanity.
AI is a surveillance tool.
The chip shortage is designed to create an ecosystem where your company is part of it and lives or you die.
Anyways.

Posted by: Accomack at March 23, 2026 05:00 AM (/Chlc)

15 Evening, and morning, depending on your location on the globe spanned by the AoSHQ Empire!

Monday. Okay, it's Monday. But one must remember:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 23, 2026 05:06 AM (wzUl9)

16 Mornin' Horde.

Re Elon Musk/Terafab: Produce memory chips, Elon. Lots and lots of memory chips. Then assemble them onto DDR4 and DDR5 modules, and sell them direct to the consumer market.

And the left would still seethe and hate him.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 23, 2026 05:09 AM (O7YUW)

17 Dodie Stevens had her one big hit, "Pink Shoelaces," in the late Fifties.

"He wears tan shoes with pink shoelaces, a polka-dot vest -- and man, oh, man --
He wears tan shoes with pink shoelaces and a big Panama with a purple hat band!"

When I worked at a small-town radio station in 1977, they had a huge library of albums and 45s, sorted by category -- Pop, Rock 'n' Roll, Country. For some reason they had filed "Pink Shoelaces" in what they called the "Race" category, along with songs by black artists like Otis Redding and Chubby Checker. Don't ask me why.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 23, 2026 05:13 AM (wzUl9)

18 w00t

Posted by: m at March 23, 2026 05:14 AM (+YA9H)

19
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 23, 2026 05:14 AM (tljrc)

20 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 23, 2026 05:15 AM (2Ez/1)

21
And ejector seat for the passenger side
Posted by: Miklos, Miklos Bond at March 23, 2026

***
"Oh, go ahead, eject me. See if I care."
( -- M to Bond as they flee London in his Aston Martin, in Skyfall)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 23, 2026 05:17 AM (wzUl9)

22 Good morning! Kinda cool out on the patio this morning and it wont get out of the 70s today or the 80s this week. A perfect week for gardening and golf. And the capable garden assistants slept over last night so we're off to the garden center later today for accent plants and bird food.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 23, 2026 05:19 AM (3Ope8)

23 >>>Don't go to San Francisco, and if you do

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

Posted by: m at March 23, 2026 05:20 AM (+YA9H)

24 'Tis 64 F. this am, high humidity, but almost no wind. Nice workout conditions. I'll walk/trot a couple miles after I feed the monsters, get cleaned up, then feed me.

I can't really blame Stirling for waking me up this morning. (Well, I *could*, but I won't.) He trilled and leaped up on the bed, but not across me and didn't kick me for once. But I swear that cat has a secret clock or watch he consults; almost every morning he does this at 3:45 am.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 23, 2026 05:21 AM (wzUl9)

25 Happy Monday everyone! So the morning got started with insomnia 2 hours before my normal wakeup time. But I did get a membership at a nearby gym and I will start today. Hopefully that balances things out.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 23, 2026 05:32 AM (OPGS/)

26 The 3,834 and counting replies at the pinned @PopBase 𝕏 post:

What is your favorite tweet of all time?

are really very funny!

Posted by: m at March 23, 2026 05:34 AM (+YA9H)

27 So people that live in SF get mad when a tech company provides a bus for its workers to commute to the job, they get mad when a self driving car is in the area.

That place needs aerial spraying of Thorazine at this point. Or sweet cleansing fire. Either one is acceptable.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 23, 2026 05:35 AM (OPGS/)

28 @24/Wolfus: I think it's a cat conspiracy. I remember ours doing much the same sort of thing at about that time in the morning. Mine would trill and lick my nose until I woke up enough to pet her. At least she'd zoom off and be happy with that and I could usually get back to sleep for a while.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 23, 2026 05:36 AM (O7YUW)

29 Might I suggest a nice soothing mix of phosgene and fentanyl?

Posted by: Accomack at March 23, 2026 05:37 AM (T8bqm)

30 I appreciated the "Upper Room" devotional for the day where a man from South Africa. writes on Isaiah 40:27-31, ""Give me strength" and which has a prayer focus underneath the devotional which says "Those struggling with low energy":

https://tinyurl.com/3dvda6hy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2026 05:38 AM (ix8EF)

31 Wolfus: I think it's a cat conspiracy. I remember ours doing much the same sort of thing at about that time in the morning. Mine would trill and lick my nose until I woke up enough to pet her. At least she'd zoom off and be happy with that and I could usually get back to sleep for a while.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 23, 2026

***
If only mine would be content with a little petting!

Stirling is four years old, which is twenty in human terms, so he's energetic and lively. I'm hoping he will outgrow this soon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 23, 2026 05:41 AM (wzUl9)

32 Video is from the movie "An American in Paris" with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron... it was on TMC yesterday.

Posted by: Pimp Daddy Welfare at March 23, 2026 05:47 AM (m/Ywp)

33 24>> I think the dogs know that shortly after the patio lights come on the dining room opens, so they're typically waiting for me to get up.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 23, 2026 05:48 AM (3Ope8)

34 https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/03/22/ robot-goes-bezerk-in- california-restaurant-until-restrained-by-staff/

Posted by: Desinex at March 23, 2026 05:49 AM (jrgJz)

35 Why do I think Pink Shoelaces will just show up sometime on my YouTube?

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2026 05:52 AM (Ia/+0)

36 I am very disappointed I can't get TCM anymore, think it was my most watched station.

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2026 05:53 AM (Ia/+0)

37 Last night Miss Linda brought over an issue of Cats, the long-ago magazine that became Cat Fancy and then Catster before fading away in '23. This issue was, brace yourself, from 2002. A slew of vendors and breeders had websites on *Geocities*, and back then phone numbers were more prominent in ads than web addresses. To subscribe, you mailed in one of those little postcards fastened into the binding of the magazine.

Breeds? Proliferating even then. Yes, Siberians were around in this country then. A full-page ad listing various breeders displayed an address for a Siberian breeder in Russia -- by the name, the one my late Tatiana's mother came from.

I have a 1989 Cat Fancy issue -- Halloween, with a black cat on the cover. $2.50 was the cover price, and of course there were no email or web addresses.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 23, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

38 A lively quartet "Living stones" sings "Redeemed" a hymn by Fanny Crosby who for those are familiar with old time hymns-wrote "Blessed Assurance":
Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/y64yctz5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2026 05:57 AM (PFs9e)

39 In California, no matter what a robot does, even kills someone, a judge wouldn't charge it.

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2026 05:57 AM (Ia/+0)

40 I am very disappointed I can't get TCM anymore, think it was my most watched station.
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2026

***
Skip, can you get the Movies! Channel? It's 24-hour, and over-the-air. You can enter your zip code here to see if any stations are in your area:

https://moviestvnetwork.com/wheretowatch/

They have a wide range of films, classics and more recent films. They have ads, but I think they try to run the films uncut, as they don't shoehorn them into a two-hour block; if the film runs longer, they don't start the next until it's over. And, you know, *free*!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 23, 2026 06:00 AM (wzUl9)

41 Here's a good one
@PopBase

@simonholland
I like having conversations with kids. Grownups never ask me what my third favorite reptile is.

Posted by: m at March 23, 2026 06:01 AM (+YA9H)

42 “ He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.”

John 1:7

Posted by: Marcus T at March 23, 2026 06:02 AM (MJOSJ)

43 *If only mine would be content with a little petting!*

+++++

We're talking about cats, right?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 23, 2026 06:04 AM (2Ez/1)

44 I get Movies as its not HD, TCM has a HD channel so have to pay extra, it still has a non HD but tv won't go to it because there is a HD channel for it which I can't get.
Quite a Catch 22

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2026 06:05 AM (Ia/+0)

45 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 23, 2026 06:07 AM (bQ4nt)

46 Man spends several nights at zoo to help and protect animals during a blizzard-" Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/ndkccruu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2026 06:07 AM (uA11f)

47 Komodo Dragon has to be in the top five.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 23, 2026 06:07 AM (2Ez/1)

48 On Tubi watched 1944, thought a very good WWII movie about Estonians.

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2026 06:10 AM (Ia/+0)

49 Still light rain
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2026 06:16 AM (Ia/+0)

50 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Nevertheless.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 23, 2026 06:23 AM (O5YOP)

51 I was wondering if anyone else remembered Dodie Stevens and "Pink shoelaces". Of course, I dimly remember its original 1959 form. I don't think I'll be around when Tesla's AI chips and robots take over as Skynet.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 23, 2026 06:26 AM (2r5uy)

52 my third favorite reptile
****

May be time for a nap. I read that as 'relative' the first time.

Posted by: clarence at March 23, 2026 06:32 AM (7lOC+)

53 If you own an iPhone, update it when it's available on you're phone.

Hacking tools named "Coruna" and "Dark Sword" that have been used used by governments and law enforcement have escaped out in the wild and are being used by Russian hackers, and now international criminals, to place spyware on your phone in order to download all kinds of data.

It can be downloaded, and your phone compromised, just by visiting the wrong website. No user interaction (hitting a link, downloading a file, etc.) is necessary for the hack to work.

Apple says the new security update should prevent this hack from working.

iPhone spyware is everyone's problem now
https://tinyurl.com/4be38hxn
(Axios)

or

https://archive.is/h9OYm
(same article)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 23, 2026 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

54 @34/Desinex: Please put long URLs through tinyurl.com and paste the shortened link here. Trying to find the spaces in a long url to remove them in the browser line so that the link actually works isn't kind to these old eyes.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 23, 2026 06:33 AM (O7YUW)

55 We need to always remember - Sometimes, we tend to forget our memory isn’t what it once was.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 23, 2026 06:41 AM (HpBvd)

56 Too Soon: Bruce Willis spotted on runway, waving a flaming jacket and shouting "Holly!"

If that fire truck driver is named Mo, it will be a long week.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 23, 2026 06:47 AM (zdLoL)

57 Shortened robot in restaurant link. https://tinyurl.com/eum6dvac

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 23, 2026 06:49 AM (0KeBN)

58 From Governor Newsom's wife:

“I turned the lens on boys and men and looked at the boy crisis in America and how we were failing our boys and men with this sort of rigid notion of toxic masculinity,”

So the majority of teachers are women, boys are constantly treated as defective girls and society doesn't support men but somehow masculinity is the problem.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 23, 2026 06:56 AM (OPGS/)

59 Don't go to San Francisco, and if you do, don't use self-driving taxis, and if you do, pack a nuclear-powered flamethrower.

Hope you enjoyed the ride!

Posted by: Johnny Cab at March 23, 2026 06:56 AM (RCbrd)

60 It did occur to me that the truck driver may have done it intentionally.

Posted by: no one of any consquence at March 23, 2026 06:57 AM (qFwJc)

61 Obedience to God leads to joy. Saint Paul

Posted by: kingsman at March 23, 2026 07:01 AM (ehY6c)

62 We need Elon Musk and DOGE back and something soon. Musk and his DOGE will ensure we have enough missiles for the Middle East and build us an AI that we can use to guide our armaments. I don't trust any other AI company; they are too liberal!

Posted by: Diabeetus at March 23, 2026 07:01 AM (+9A0s)

63 I fotgot what it was but years ago in S. Africa they came up with some external weapon to ward off from the comfort of the car's interior potential carjackers.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 23, 2026 04:11 AM (1o8D5)

------

Would love to send a a couple of hundred volts through the car's metal skin, but I suppose that might cause problems in the car

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 23, 2026 07:04 AM (ZjdZN)

64 heh another good one
@PopBase

@caesararum
Jesus spent his time among the mentally ill, the poor and unemployed, the prostitutes
So, in a way, by being on twitter, we're like Jesus

Posted by: m at March 23, 2026 07:06 AM (+YA9H)

65 among the best
@PopBase

Piers Morgan
@piersmorgan • Dec 3, 2012
The 2nd amendment was devised with muskets in mind, not high-powered handguns & assault
rifles. Fact.

Carol Roth
@caroljsroth
It was devised 4 people 2b able 2 protect themselves w same type of weaponry used by those from whom they might need
protection

Piers Morgan
@piersmorgan
Where exactly does it say that in
the Constitution - must have missed it?

L Carol Roth
@caroljsroth
right next to the word "muskets"

Posted by: m at March 23, 2026 07:15 AM (+YA9H)

66

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 23, 2026 07:15 AM (DDJSl)

67 Nood…

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 23, 2026 07:16 AM (ewuvP)

68 Happy new week, Pixy!

Posted by: m at March 23, 2026 07:42 AM (+YA9H)

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