Jón Frímann

Ukraine war latest: Russia blames UK for Storm Shadow strike on military plant, threatens 'new level' escalation Key developments on March 11: * Russia blames UK for Storm Shadow strike on military plant, threatens 'new level' escalation, destruction * Ukraine hits Russian depots, air defenses in occupied ter...

Moscow threatened "a fundamentally new level of destruction and human casualties" after Ukraine struck a military-linked plant in Bryansk; Ukraine said it carried out a series of strikes across Russian-occupied territories, targeting air defense systems and other military infrastructure; and more.

He was a Texan dad who had never left America. Then he got deported to Laos Trump’s crackdown is sending people to a homeland they’ve never seen before

For every one of these profiles that makes the news, so many thousands more suffering in silence.

oh, so the official tech bro term for stealing people's work in order to make AI sludge is apparently "surfacing". noted for the future

Utility shutoffs in occupied Mariupol used to facilitate property confiscation, Ukraine says Ukraine says Russian occupation authorities in Mariupol are cutting off utilities to apartments as part of a process to identify and seize homes.

Russian occupation authorities in Mariupol are disconnecting apartments from utilities as part of a process to identify and confiscate housing, Ukraine's National Resistance Center said on March 11.

"Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla’s investment agreement with xAI. Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard/mouse actions. Grok is like a much more advanced and sophisticated version of turn-by-turn navigation software. You can think of it as Digital Optimus AI being System 1 (instinctive part of the mind) and Grok being System 2. (thinking part of the mind). This will run very competitively on the super low cost Tesla AI4 ($650) paired with relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. And it will be the only real-time smart AI system. This is a big deal. In principle, it is capable of emulating the function of entire companies. That is why the program is called MACROHARD, a funny reference to Microsoft. No other company can yet do this."

as Tesla unravels Elon Musk will be forced to be increasingly incoherent with his vaporware hype slop until he's just left screaming incoherent strings of non sequiturs about GLORMS and interdimensional portals

This is so so upsetting. So Grammerly is violating the memory of bell hooks AND making AI versions of the rest of us before we're even dead. Someone tell me who to sue, not even joking.

4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.

An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.

It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.

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FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert The warning came in a bulletin that was reviewed by ABC News.

This sounds like fear mongering, if not straight up lies. Closest point of travel between Teheran, Iran and Los Angeles, United States is 12,249 km. That requires a flight over Kazakhstan, Russia, Greenland (Denmark), Canada. Route with the equator is even longer.

abcnews.com/US/fbi-warns...

Oh wow, Britain is removing hereditary Lords from Parliament AND arrested Prince Andrew?

We need reparations for ICE victims.

Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

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"We realized we were making ourselves deeply vulnerable to a class action suit that absolutely would have wiped us out financially so we're going to find a way to do this without actual human names attached."

From the europe community on Reddit: New drone pic of "Orbán’s Versailles" near his home village of Hatvanpuszta. Authorities are not interested in where his pensioner dad (official owner) got the fun... Explore this post and more from the europe community

I am sure he is crying in russian money bills.

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Are those Ukrainians in the room with you right now, Viktor?

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was warned that Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein posed a “general reputational risk” ahead of his appointment as Britain’s ambassador to the US, according to a trove of files released Wednesday by the British government. https://cnn.it/4rqZSt8

The racist and xenophobe Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch PVV, was booed and chased out of the city of Groningen last Saturday because many people are fed up with his tirades against immigrants. As a result, he had to stop handing out flyers.

In this video, you can see and hear what happened.

This guy cares about authoritarianism, suppression, and censorship so much that he forgot to talk about the genocide that the US & Israel is committing in Palestine. Awesome 👍 Always the same with these people. They hear "genocide in gaza", silence. They hear "China" & they're human rights defenders

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Fails to Deliver Jobs for US-Born Workers One year into President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, there’s little evidence that closed borders are boosting employment for US-born workers.

Who could have guessed www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

again, if you put this into a work of fictional satire about the Presidency, people would think you're laying it on a little too thick

and yet

Home heating oil theft leaves family home 'a biohazard' as prices keep rising "Absolute travesty" for families targeted by thieves, as oil price rises - and reports of price gouging - prompt watchdog to act.

Home heating oil theft leaves family home 'a biohazard' as prices keep rising

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, Calif., previously listed as believed to be deceased, has been positively identified by the medical examiner. CWO3 Marzan was killed in action during an unmanned aircraft system attack on March 1, 2026, in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.

Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Elementary School in Iran A U.S. military “targeting error” triggered the killing of at least 175 at a school in Iran, the highest civilian death toll in Trump’s war.

Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Attacked Elementary School in Iran

Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.

theintercept.com/2026/03/11/i...

Dependence on fossil fuels, not on the United States, is Europe’s worry The US has replaced Russia to a great extent as an energy supplier to the European Union, but this has not so far created a new vulnerability

The full piece, written with my colleagues @keliauskaite.bsky.social and @gzachmann.bsky.social via @bruegel.org is available here:

www.bruegel.org/analysis/dep...

Funding for this essential birth control and repro health program expires on April 1. But HHS hasn't even sent out the GUIDANCE that groups need in order to apply for the next round. That was supposed to happen by the end of 2025 👀

The timeline will get dumber.

Bæði lánin hjá henni eru verðtryggð. Höfuðstólinn mun hækka þangað til að lokagjaldaga er náð ásamt greiðslunni. Bæði framleiðir verðtryggingin peninga sem eiga ekki að vera í hagkerfinu og einnig stendur ekki nokkur maður undir þessu til lengri tíma nema með stöðugum launahækkunum.

These far-right conspiracists are pushing Trump to take control of voting Election deniers are lobbying the president to declare a national emergency.

These far-right conspiracists are pushing Trump to take control of voting

“epstein class is iranian propaganda” is definitely something i’d expect the epstein class to say

Iranian drones struck oil storage tanks at the Port of Salalah in Oman, setting them ablaze, the Oman News Agency reported. #Iran