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Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

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yup

I have maintained for a while that the reason everything around the world (funded by petro-states and carbon oligarchs) is happening rn is because the most powerful industry to ever exist on the face of the Earth has no future. And so it must wipe the future out of our imaginations.

i still need to design a seawater intake vent tattoo...

I think it is fun that like, while space elevators certainly *could* take the 'massive space-tower' form often shown in SF, the modern literature on the subject tends to converge on the best initial design being more 'god's own tape measure' - a ~5cm ribbon that is widened by construction robots.

if you like the plot but struggle with reading dense text, i hear the audiobook is pretty good and it makes a decent amount of diegetic sense!

it's incredibly frustrating seeing blindsight, and even moreso rifters, become less mind blowing to the people i recommend them to over the years. what i would give to have been able to read the conversation with the neural net in the late nineties...

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Types of mass driver to Earth-Moon L2 trajectory:
- the bwoop
- the nyoop
- the squiggle

An AH-56 Cheyenne attack helicopter with a belly turret and missiles mounted on the wings

Such an interesting beast, she was the fastest attack helicopter ever built, could fire opposite directions at the same time and the gunner seat rotated like a Star Wars turret. Flew before the first moon landing.

even absent infiltration by a stranger - people flip. they betray each other. they leak info by checking their phone on a bus, getting MITM'd, getting drunk, dating a shitbag. if your organization is dependent on perfect security you don't have an organization (even a resistance cell)

Blindsight predicted LLMs

Accelerando predicted owl numbers and Roon

pray we don't find out what Echopraxia got right

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

there are too many posts on here about "world events" and "AI" and not nearly enough about "Mitsibushi Delica"

reminds me (minus the mechsploitation) of the thread about vekllei's Navy Without Guns: bsky.app/profile/mill...

always love these cool worldbuilding facts of yours ^^

good taste

what's the deal with the exposed skin on the honor guard? presumably connected to the blood transfusion kit?

the conformal fuel tanks still look so good

An infographic cutaway of a fictional alien windmill

On the milling of bluestick in the valley of Two-Sky River.

Part of the Birrin project.

#art #illustration #scifi

the first passage on psychogenesis is some truly incredible writing, and particularly enjoyable after reading peter watts led me to seeking out some of dennett's writings on consciousness. thank you very much for the recommendation, and i'd gladly hear any more!

just finished Diaspora. what a uniquely mind-expanding book. gave me a much more intuitive understanding of higher-dimensional geometry, entirely apart from being probably the best piece of digital-sentience fiction i've read. sticks the tricky landing far better than most novels on these scales.

loved mars express, guess i've got to check out eclipse phase?

poster for the film, Mars Express, which whips ass

hey, do you like cyberpunk but want it to be, like...good?

are you sick of stories going, "Are machines...people???" for 90 minuets and want a movie that goes, "yes" 5 minutes in and then spends the rest of the runtime exploring actually interesting questions?

Do you like ECLIPSE PHASE?

Watch!

the 'phoenix moons' hypothesis of martian satellites drifting past the roche limit, breaking up, and reforming at smaller sizes is one of those stories that has been well-supported for a while now but makes 'news' every few years anyways. extremely cool to actually have some new evidence this time!

i think this was kind of the peak of interplanetary vehicle designs, when we had just pulled off a complex system like the shuttle and thought we'd take that experience further. the multi-mission Nautilus-X was the first design to really light a fire in me, ambitious but seemingly achievable.

An 1871 newspaper drawing of a woman in uniform holding a rifle

An 1871 newspaper drawing of a Communard woman in uniform holding a rifle

Daniel Vierge's 1871 drawings of female Communards in Paris for Le Monde illustré, it must have been pretty unsettling to the European powers to see women under arms with red scarves and black flags.

peak yuri

link to the article? 👀

macro lens experiments with the orb weaver spider in the window :3