11.03.2026 08:14
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What a lovely fellow!
Not that you give a fuck but here He Is
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Kulturkampfminister @taz.de
A quick reminder that whilst Saudi Arabia can divert oil away from the Strait of Hormuz via a pipeline, you CANNOT pipe food or fertiliser.
I’m not sure the scale of all this is fully grasped yet.
"In his second term, Trump knew exactly what he wanted and who could give it to him. In many cases, that meant not just a weak choice but literally the worst possible choice, the person guaranteed to do maximal harm. In short, we have never seen quite this collection of clowns, cranks, and crooks."
Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal. But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material. 3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war. 5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
Dem. Senator Murphy from a closed briefing about the Iran war:
No regime change goal
No destruction of nuclear program goal
No long term plan
No plan for the Strait of Hormuz
The “forgetting” is not a passive process btw.
It’s active.
Promotion of “return to normal”… a fairy tale ending that is just as realistic as you’d expect.
#COVID19
«Stop, or I'll kill you.»
It's probably smart to heckle the country that funded and helped execute the deadliest terrorist attack on US soil in history
Trump promised these Navy escorts "if needed." He promised this ... yesterday. youtu.be/ed2xOwmHZl0?...
The New York Times trying to get people to say that AI writes better than Cormac McCarthy is such a repulsive act of literary evil it’s impossible to comprehend.
We should care if things have meaning. Or if they’re good or bad.
This is so deranged.
A Bluesky thread. Daniel Radosh writes: Took my kid to a college fair for small liberal arts schools and asked each one, "how are you thinking about Al?" (hard to find a neutral way to phrase that so they didn't just say what I want to hear). Only one gushed about how they're integrating it into the curriculum (crossed it off the list) The most common response was a cautious "right now we leave it up to individual profs but it's not going away so we've begun an investigation into whether to formally allow it or adopt it, and how to engage with it critically." But one school said, "We believe in a human-centered education and Al is at odds with that. Honor code rules about plagiarism cover Al but we also don't waste effort cracking down on it. Instead we make it clear that using it is cheating yourself out of the education you presumably signed up for" I told the rep, "That's the best answer I've heard all day, now I need to ask about Leon Botstein," and she just deflated.
Look, you win some, you lose some @radosh.bsky.social
Critical thinking is under serious threat from large language models/AI. Uni administrators are too prone to accept tech hype! (plus it can be wrong, steals IP, has devasting environment/energy impacts). @jessicacalarco.com made a great one-pager I share with students (plus effective model of comms)
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣
Von der Leyen redet gerade von einer "Renaissance der Kernenergie". Die Realität: In der gesamten EU ist EIN Reaktor im Bau. Baubeginn: 1985.
Das ist keine Renaissance, sondern Archäologie
Excess mortality (65+) in Switzerland, data until March 1st.
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🚨🚨Major story of today: Nearly seven months ago, #Ukraine tried to sell the US their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made attack drones but #Trump admin dismissed the Ukrainians, only to reverse course last week because of heavy drone strikes from #Iran.🧵
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Who would have thunk?
dear men,
it's okay to masturbate.
I guess it depends what they mean by Number Two
A photograph of Roger Daltrey, on his 54,000 acre estate in the Home Counties.
OMG I just love horses so so much.
