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Trump's gift to Putin to get his own ass out of the sling is both a huge concession to Russia and an unmistakeable admission that the elective war in Iran is having acute downstream political effects on Trump and Republicans in an election year.
A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.
wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it
Look who has some cards:
* SAUDI ARAMCO IN TALKS TO BUY UKRAINIAN DRONES TO PROTECT OIL FIELDS -- WSJ
* ARAMCO IS TALKING TO UKRAINIAN COMPANIES SKYFALL AND WILD HORNETS -- WSJ
@reuters.com
Borderline Personality Trump and the Uses of Press Myopia talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/borde...
Dire Straits tho
Today, Father Pierre Al-Rai was killed by Israeli army artillery shelling.
Great, a nepo baby fight
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
Each of these data companies touts its stable of pedigreed experts. Mercor says around 30,000 professionals work on its platform each week, while Scale AI claims to have more than 700,000 “M.A.’s, Ph.D.’s, and college graduates.” Surge AI advertises its Supreme Court litigators, McKinsey principals, and platinum recording artists. These companies are hiring people with experience in law, finance, and coding, all areas where AI is making rapid inroads. But they’re also hiring people to produce data for practically any job you can imagine. Job listings seek chefs, management consultants, wildlife-conservation scientists, archivists, private investigators, police sergeants, reporters, teachers, and rental-counter clerks. One recent job ad called for experts in “North American early to mid-teen humor” who can, among other requirements, “explain humor using clear, logical language, including references to North American slang, trends, and social norms.” It is, as one industry veteran put it, the largest harvesting of human expertise ever attempted.
"It is, as one industry veteran put it, the largest harvesting of human expertise ever attempted."
We need to mercilessly, brutally, viciously cull every single person in tech who does not understand what "garbage in, garbage out" means.
They simply can't coexist with human society. They need to go fuck off into the deep forest.
Nutrition influencers are such fucking liars “this vegan curry has 5 calories and 90 grams of protein per serving”and it’s mostly chickpeas and tomato paste lmao fuck you shut up
What I Was Prepared to Tell CNN About Drone Warfare (And What Actually Made Air)
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(Guardian) — Iran has spurned two messages from Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, seeking a ceasefire as its leaders sense it is not losing the war and the US president is at the minimum feeling the political pressure.
@theguardian.com
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A digital illustration of a black crowned night heron in profile looking right, with a prominent bright red eye making them look especially expectant. Standing on a rock with green river-like swirly colors behind. The drawing is framed by a simple line, and under the frame lettering reads, 'Maybe it will happen today'.
"We will deliver adjectives to the objective with unyielding fury."
I went back over the nonlinearity line several times, before I just shook my head and moved on
1. Major news out of San Jose State University.
The University has REJECTED Trump's demands to ban trans people from bathrooms, dorms, and other facilities.
This comes after Trump threatened them for once having a trans student athlete.
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Release the Epstein Files
This morning: “We’re gonna blow the hell outta these people.”
Tonight: “Please be careful.”
republicans have literally made everything worse and harder and more terrible over the course of my entire life and somehow* they keep coming back to power bc of our feckless corporate press and a weak willed opposition 😒
*sob
Oregon
Thread 🧵: Food Assistance By State/Territory
The document below lists previously established food assistance programs, searchable by state.
Each state and territory is also listed alphabetically in the thread comments.
Help will come and go, so pls use this thread to update info for your state:
Required reading. And that's a gift link:
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Yes they do
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
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Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings
