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Freelance slacker geek who should probably get a real job. Sometimes on a boat. I will fav your cat pic

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Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."

11.03.2026 15:28 👍 1641 🔁 586 💬 357 📌 418
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10.03.2026 21:11 👍 3134 🔁 310 💬 28 📌 11

this is the most Not Fucking Around anything has ever been. I can’t wait to see it, but I ALREADY agree that crypto is a massive scam, so I also can’t wait until the people this movie is trying to convince also see it and at least some of them hopefully rethink everything about themselves

10.03.2026 20:45 👍 389 🔁 82 💬 2 📌 0
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New falling cat paper just dropped! So I’m now known as the falling cat physics guy, thanks to writing a popular science book on the history of scientists studying how cats land on their feet (“cat turning”) that yo…

Since I've had journalists asking me about the recent falling cat science paper that just dropped, here's the blog post I wrote about it recently. 🧪 skullsinthestars.com/2026/03/07/n...

10.03.2026 01:20 👍 75 🔁 19 💬 6 📌 0
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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

08.03.2026 17:30 👍 7912 🔁 3362 💬 93 📌 168
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I'm out of words here

08.03.2026 12:44 👍 3203 🔁 1235 💬 95 📌 143

A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.

Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.

Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.

NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

08.03.2026 04:45 👍 372 🔁 174 💬 12 📌 5

Every lengthy write-up on "lessons learned" after someone lets an AI process delete their database or all their emails reads like this to me

06.03.2026 22:26 👍 1365 🔁 541 💬 6 📌 0

I’m so sorry, Jeffrey. They’re family, it’s really tough 💖

06.03.2026 20:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

06.03.2026 08:53 👍 1541 🔁 882 💬 12 📌 131
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Exclusive: US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on February 28 but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation reut.rs/40b19JN

06.03.2026 03:10 👍 351 🔁 192 💬 33 📌 39
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Iran school and nearby military base struck multiple times, satellite image reveals Iranian authorities say the attack, which took place on Saturday, killed 168 people.

BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

05.03.2026 19:14 👍 554 🔁 369 💬 14 📌 31
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

05.03.2026 20:39 👍 2488 🔁 1410 💬 91 📌 339
An image of the “Skinner Out of Touch” meme, with the top frame saying, “I was unlikely to win the case in Delaware because the facts were extremely biased against me?” and the bottom frame saying, “No, it’s the judge who was extremely biased”

An image of the “Skinner Out of Touch” meme, with the top frame saying, “I was unlikely to win the case in Delaware because the facts were extremely biased against me?” and the bottom frame saying, “No, it’s the judge who was extremely biased”

05.03.2026 02:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
STFU

Have you seen this fun little webapp? Apparently when someone’s annoying noise is recorded and played back with a delay, it’s disorienting enough to make them turn it down. Not sure if I’d be brave enough to try it, but maybe?
stfu.pankajtanwar.in

Source and backstory:
github.com/Pankajtanwar...

05.03.2026 01:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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03.03.2026 22:00 👍 2927 🔁 361 💬 22 📌 19

"Hey Manus, can you give me suggestions on what to name my new product? It should make people think of buttholes every time they use it."

03.03.2026 16:32 👍 148 🔁 23 💬 15 📌 4

@katie0martin.ft.com This is about as grim as you’d expect from the spy glasses:
“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips…
Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex and other intimate moments.”

03.03.2026 16:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

Meta absolutely cannot be trusted not to spy on anything you see if you wear their smart glasses
www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

03.03.2026 16:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

humming charli xcx’s party 4 u while i throw handfuls of unshelled peanuts to the corvids in the back garden

03.03.2026 15:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Has Trump Thought Through the Endgame in Iran? The country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed by U.S. and Israeli strikes, but the conflict is far from over, and has convulsed the Middle East in a spasm of interstate violence.

Easiest “Betteridge’s Law” headline ever @ianbetteridge.com
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

03.03.2026 13:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh man. Mind your sources, folks, until you have confirmation. Goodnight.

03.03.2026 03:36 👍 60 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0

respectfully, really, am i supposed to just believe news from a substack screenshot

03.03.2026 03:42 👍 59 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0

vishnu i just read this and now i want falafel

03.03.2026 03:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

when the podcast ends with someone saying “no generative AI was used in the writing or production of this podcast” 🙏😤🙂‍↕️👏

03.03.2026 02:50 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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02.03.2026 12:06 👍 3925 🔁 464 💬 29 📌 25
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‘Viruses don’t know borders’: US anti-vaccine rhetoric could impact global measles crisis Experts say global measles vaccination rates are falling as Trump officials signal a deprioritization of the virus

The Trump administration’s global havoc is unending.

My latest story is about how the Trump admin is amplifying anti vaxx conspiracies just as measles outbreaks are spreading across the globe; many countries have just lost elimination status, and others are on the brink.

28.02.2026 23:06 👍 256 🔁 138 💬 7 📌 11

bsky.app/profile/3r1n...

01.03.2026 02:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shortly after the first set of explosions, Iranians received bursts of notifications on their phones, not from the government advising caution, but from a prayer timing app called ‘BadeSaba Calendar’ which has been downloaded 5 million times from the Google Play Store.

The messages arrived in quick succession over a period of 30 minutes, starting with the phrase ‘Help Has Arrived’ at 9:52 am Tehran time. No party has claimed responsibility for the hacks.

Screenshots shared with WIRED Middle East show messages urging Iranian military personnel to surrender their weapons with the promise of amnesty. It also urged army personnel to join “the forces of liberation” and to “defend your brothers.”

Shortly after the first set of explosions, Iranians received bursts of notifications on their phones, not from the government advising caution, but from a prayer timing app called ‘BadeSaba Calendar’ which has been downloaded 5 million times from the Google Play Store. The messages arrived in quick succession over a period of 30 minutes, starting with the phrase ‘Help Has Arrived’ at 9:52 am Tehran time. No party has claimed responsibility for the hacks. Screenshots shared with WIRED Middle East show messages urging Iranian military personnel to surrender their weapons with the promise of amnesty. It also urged army personnel to join “the forces of liberation” and to “defend your brothers.”

Airborne leaflet propaganda in 2026: hacked push alerts from a prayer timing app

www.wired.me/story/hacked...

28.02.2026 21:48 👍 196 🔁 87 💬 5 📌 11