@exhaustdata 2 months ago Ten thousand dissertations all called “the American novel since 1945” reduced to a single sentence @chillextremist 3 months ago When I'm in the suburbs for too long I start to think about dying
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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March 14, 1926: A seaplane carrying the radical American editor Max Eastman is forced to land at sea off the French Riviera because of an engine fire. The pilot releases a messenger pigeon and a French navy ship comes to the rescue of the crippled plane after 10 hours.
Remember how people claimed we were ridiculous and hysterical for saying there was a plan for authoritarian takeover? They’re out here proudly proclaiming it less than 2 years later.
An FAA rule proposed during the Biden administration would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to safely remove spacecraft from orbit within 25 years of launch.
The Trump administration recently killed the rule.
Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
This moment from Feb 2025 may go down as one of the most prescient exchanges in modern diplomatic history. Zelenskyy warned Trump that while the United States may feel protected by an ocean today, a time could come when America would need help in war. Trump scolded him instead.
But it IS why the Swiss Government turned down Palantir on the basis it would be a national security risk.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A 2nd source, who has a background in intelligence, said Palantir probably has “a complete profile on the whole UK population. They have visibility into wildly different focus areas, yet their data is all condensed into one foreign supplier’s control/visibility.“
Palantir has MASSIVE databases
It‘s expert at data scraping & aggregation
It is closely linked to 🇺🇸 CIA & Defence …and now a corrupt 🇺🇸 gov
“Palantir does not need to own the data or even have stewardship. They can extract, transform and exploit the metadata to build their own rich picture.”
"Palantir, the US AI surveillance and security firm with hundreds of millions of pounds in UK government contracts, poses 'a national security threat to the UK', according to two anonymous high-level sources working with the Ministry of Defence."
So I have been using Claude Code pretty extensively for work and side projects for the last few months, and I’m pretty certain this tool won’t go away but equally certain the damage it will do to the tech industry is going to reach its maximum pretty soon.
the best thread I‘ve read on AI and jobs maybe ever
At Davos - Steve Wiktoff & Mark Rutter from NATO convinced everyone they were about to strike peace with Putin. Kyiv has just been plunged into more bitter cold and missile attacks. That’s what you get when you pursue ‘peace’ with a war criminal. Shameless
I thought at first it was an expression I didn’t know, from geometry or the like.
Ukraine is sending thousands of these drone interceptors to protect US air bases in the Gulf.
The country once told to “say thank you” is now exporting the future of air defense.
Turns out Ukraine had the cards all along.
Zelenskyy: Russian parts found in Iranian Shahed drones. "This is the biggest risk the world has faced in recent years — this could be the Third World War." Interview with Irish blogger Caolan Robertson.
euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/11/z...
In the US the DC Beltway legacy media, in large part, failed its responsibilities over the past decade and bear considerable responsibility for the implosion of America’s democracy and press freedoms.
I once worked in legacy media and defended it.
But it’s time now for journalists like Caolan.
Journalists are banned from the White House for asking Trump tough questions.
Meanwhile in Kyiv I interviewed President Zelenskyy with zero restrictions.
Funny how the “dictatorship” still lets reporters ask anything.
(Strait?)
Sometimes soon Hegseth will decide that Iran can't keep building drones if they run out of money and that comes from selling oil.
So US will finally bomb Kharg Island and the rest of the Iranian petro export infrastructure.
At which point Iran decides there's no point in NOT closing the Straight.
This is what woke stole from us!
Looking ahead to the next Republican economic disaster, here are a few random financial tips that may or may not apply to you. Remember everyone’s in a different place so this is definitely a pick and choose kind of thing.
Whoopsie daisy
Epstein saying if Trump is “cornered like a rat he could begin bombing Iran”
“You guys need to understand that he is psychotic,” Epstein warned handlers.
I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader
TED LIEU: "The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children." A sitting congressman said this on the record.
TED LIEU: "The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children."
A sitting congressman said this on the record.
#TheAlliedForces
On a per diem basis, this is the most expensive war America has ever fought (and that's not counting the bill for Israel's arms, which US taxpayers are footing as well).
war seems to be going to plan!
Wrote about Thaddeus Mosley, the self-taught sculptor who worked nights at a post office, carving wood by day, before finding international fame at 92.
“Mr. Mosley holds up an example that’s so critical for artists of all generations — to keep going.”
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
