24 February 2026

Tuesday Links - 24 February

The Register starts us off with a cautionary tale of AI. Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

Amazon's cloud platform suffered a 13-hour disruption affecting one service after resident engineers allowed Kiro to make changes, according to four sources who spoke to the Financial Times.

My Daily Kona - The Risk of Unrealized Tax Gain.

The "Cloud People" as I call them, don't want us owning anything, just resting and leasing. "You will own nothing and be happy" was something that Mao said as did Lenin and Marx. Of course they WILL own stuff.

Samizdata - The news has reached the Guardian

I am truly, non-sarcastically impressed that Ms Hinsliff and a few other left-wing commenters are now willing to admit that “there are likely to be consequences” to increasing the minimum wage. Hearing that word, “consequences”, enter left-wing discussions of workers’ pay is like a glimpse of a little mammalian form scurrying through the dust kicked up by a brontosaurus.

Echo Chamberlain - Progressive White Women Are Losing Cultural Capital

We had empowered girl boss characters on screen - and it didn’t work. The result wasn’t a brave new world in entertainment, but tedious Mary Sues, declining viewership and cultural fatigue.

The Other McCain - ‘Zizian’ Cult Member Gets Bailed Out

This isn’t too surprising During their initial hearing in Allegany County District Court last year, Blank’s case for release was clearly the most sympathetic.

Ed Driscoll at Instapundit - NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND AND/OR IN STOLEN CARS!

Car thefts for thee, but not for me. Exit quote: “It is remarkable how quickly the traditional law enforcement model becomes essential when crime crosses the threshold of City Hall.”

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Was The Climate Scam A Massive Financial Scam?

Well, yeah. It was never about saving the climate, it was about spreading money around and implementing authoritarian government

Again from Ed Driscoll at Instapundit - WAS IT OVER WHEN JOHANNES VERMEER BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?

Senator Blutarsky approves this message!

OldAFSarge at Chant du Départ - To Fly, Or Not To Fly ...

It is, dear reader, almost time to head south again. The Missus Herself is off to California to visit LUSH for a fortnight leaving me, Your Humble Scribe, to once again fend for himself. As the invitation to visit The Nuke is always open, I decided to go there for a week, or so, rather than entertain myself at Chez Sarge.

Meep at STUMP - The Week in Meep: Shoveling Snow in New York, First Sunday of Lent, IKEA!

Warming up for the next snow dump, while some of the prior snow remains on the ground:

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Still Winning

Well, that went better than I thought it would. We played the Daytraders last Sunday and took two games out of three; we lost the opener to Vida Blue but won game 2 in extra innings on an RBI single by Tom Grieve, and in game three we pounded Larry Gura for 12 runs while holding the Daytraders scoreless.

Lone Star Parson - El Mencho Down

And dear punters, all three of you, have you cancelled your timeshares in Jalisco, walked back that all inclusive? Hope so, if not, shelter in place and hope the good guys catch up with you.

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