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EPISODE · Mar 7, 2026 · 12 MIN

Your RAM Is Lying to You, Tech Jobs in Freefall, and Corporate Jargon Lovers Are Bad at Their Jobs

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A Firefox engineer reveals that 10% of browser crashes are caused by hardware bit-flips in consumer RAM, economist Joseph Politano shows tech employment losses now worse than 2008 or 2020 with the only comparison being the dot-com bust, Anthropic partners with Mozilla and Claude finds 14 high-severity zero-day Firefox vulnerabilities in two weeks, System76 takes a stand against age verification laws as privacy-destroying folly, Anthropic shifts to a conciliatory public tone with the Department of War after yesterday's fiery leaked memo, Cornell researchers create a Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale proving jargon lovers are worse at decision-making, and 406.fail becomes the standard rejection page for AI-generated pull request spam.

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