March 23, 2026

YOU DON’T SAY: Ads Are Popping Up on the Fridge and It Isn’t Going Over Well.

Walking into his kitchen, Tim Yoder recoiled at a message on his refrigerator door: “Shop Samsung water filters.”

Yoder, a supply-chain manager in Chicago, owns a Samsung Electronics Family Hub fridge. He paid $1,400 for an appliance that came with a 32-inch screen on the door that allows him to control other Samsung gadgets, pull up recipes or stream music.

But since last fall, it’s been intermittently serving up ads, part of a pilot program being tested on some of Samsung’s smart fridges sold in the U.S. The response? Not warm.

“I guess this is another place for somebody to shove an ad in your face,” said the 47-year-old Yoder, recalling the first time he noticed one.

Americans have learned to live with ads on smartphones and other devices as a necessary trade-off of connectivity. They’ve also gotten used to growing intrusions in the physical world, where everything from bathroom stalls to taxicab seats have become fair game for marketers. But the kitchen remained largely off-limits.

If you don’t want ads on a thing, don’t buy a thing with a screen and connectivity.

Exit question: Who needs a fridge that streams music? I can’t imagine the audio quality is any good. It’s also just one more damn thing on an expensive appliance that might break.

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green

CBS REPORTER WHO RESIGNED OVER BARI WEISS JOINS LEFT-WING PROPAGANDA OUTLET:

As you can see, MacFarlane has found his natural home after leaving CBS. He can now rest assured that no one in top management will influence his reporting by demanding that he shape his political reporting.

See? Bari Weiss really IS destroying CBS News. Without nonpartisan, totally fair and unbiased reporting from excellent journalists like Scott MacFarlane, how will CBS News viewers learn about how Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler?

Or Barry Goldwater.

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

GREAT CATCH:

“Because the organizations that pay people to be domestic terrorists on the streets of Minneapolis and other blue cities can’t create those astroturfed violent mobs inside an airport.”

Posted at 2:29 pm by Stephen Green

OOF:

Posted at 1:28 pm by Stephen Green

BELMONT CLUB: Cracking The Mosaic Defense. “The key concept of Defa-e Mozaiki is to avoid relying on a single vulnerable ‘brain.’ Mosaic, as the term visually suggests, is designed so that decapitation strikes (killing top leaders, bombing Tehran, severing communications) do not collapse the system. It relies on extreme decentralization of command and control to achieve this. Authority is pushed down to roughly 31 semi-autonomous operational zones in Iran. Each of these zones has four ways of continuing a fight, each separate from the other, which can act independently or coordinate when needed.”

Posted at 1:13 pm by Stephen Green

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

Posted at 12:57 pm by Stephen Green

VERTICAL INTEGRATION: Elon Musk launches TERAFAB: The $25B Tesla-SpaceXAI chip factory that will rewire the AI industry.

Elon Musk took the stage over the weekend at the defunct Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Texas, to officially unveil TERAFAB, a $20-25 billion joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI that he described as “the most epic chip building exercise in history by far.” The announcement marks the most ambitious infrastructure bet Musk has made since Gigafactory 1 in Sparks, Nevada, and it fuses three of his companies into a single, vertically integrated AI hardware machine for the first time.

TERAFAB is designed to consolidate every stage of semiconductor production under one roof, including chip design, lithography, fabrication, memory production, advanced packaging, and testing. At full capacity, the facility would scale to roughly 70% of the global output from the current world’s largest semiconductor foundry from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).

Elon Musk’s stated goal is one terawatt of computing power annually, split between Tesla’s AI5 inference chips for vehicles and Optimus robots, and D3 chips built specifically for SpaceXAI’s orbital satellite constellation.

I once showed my wife a video of an Optimus robot in action — just performing household tasks on voice commands — and she immediately said, “We’ll sell one of the cars.”

The point is, there’s no way foundries like TSMC can fulfill SpaceX/xAI’s chip needs — certainly not at a reasonable cost — so in typical fashion, Elon will make his own.

Posted at 12:42 pm by Stephen Green

THE DESIRE NAMED STREETCAR:

From the leftist politicians’ point of view, it really was money well spent. As I wrote last year, when the DC streetcar was first announced as being phased out, why didn’t DC simply program a bus route right from the start? Because of the enormous amount of graft that a streetcar system can generate compared to busses: “A transit agency that expands its bus fleet gets the support of the transit operators union. But an agency that builds a rail line gets the support of construction companies, construction unions, banks and bond dealers, railcar manufacturers, electric power companies (if the railcars are electric powered), downtown property owners, and other real estate interests. Rail may be a negative-sum game for the region as a whole, but those concentrated interests stand to gain a lot at a relatively small expense to everyone else.”

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

HEH:

Posted at 12:26 pm by Stephen Green

WEIRD HOW NO “MAINSTREAM” #JOURNALISTS HAVE TRIED THIS FOR A STORY:

Posted at 12:16 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHEN A TERRORIST STATE WAGES STATE-LEVEL WARFARE:

More:

🇸🇦 Ras Al-Khair Desalination → LARGEST in the world → millions lose water
🇸🇦 Shuqaiq Power Plant → southern Saudi grid GONE
🇶🇦 Al Kharsaah Power Plant → Qatar grid hit
🇶🇦 Ras Laffan C Power + Water → Qatar’s lifeline GONE
🇦🇪 Taweelah Desalination → one of Gulf’s biggest → UAE water supply hit
🇦🇪 Barakah Power Plant → UAE’s NUCLEAR plant → strike = fallout risk
🇧🇭 Al Dur Power + Water → Bahrain’s PRIMARY water source → 60% dependent
🇰🇼 North Zour Power Plant → Kuwait’s largest → 90% desalination dependent
🇯🇴 Aqaba Thermal → Jordan’s south grid
🇯🇴 Samra Power Plant → 40% of Jordan’s total electricity

💀 12 named facilities
💀 6 countries
💀 ZERO military bases on the list
💀 100% civilian infrastructure — water and power

Every target on this list keeps people alive. Not soldiers. CIVILIANS.

If this is how the IRGC wants to go, I can’t imagine it will go well for them.

UPDATE: “Account Suspended.” Your guess is as good as mine.

Posted at 11:55 am by Stephen Green