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:
Conscription is already locked in, as evidenced by mass firings of staff at VA medical centers, the ongoing reductions in disability benefits for veterans, and the diversion of funds appropriated for repairs to military housing.
Conscription eliminates the need for any of those expenditures.
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The Strait of Hormuz is open on the EMD for a strategy and simulation game developer.
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There is a public misconception that a draftee can adopt conscientious objector (CO) status at the drop of a hat.
To increase one's chances of being recognized as a CO, however, someone needs to create a body of evidence of being an actual, committed CO long before that.
Doomsday Clock says that it is now 85 second to midnight, as determined by the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Researched consumer trends today at one of the best places to do so:
A transfer station for household trash and recyclables.
Looked at material flows and interviewed employees about what changes, if any, they've seen over the last 30 days.
The big one: more wine bottles turning up.
The Strait of Hormuz .com logo from the landing page.
Authoritarian regimes are awful at governance & military strategy, thanks to an unwillingness to consider consequences & alternatives.
US mil strategy now resembles our national budgeting process, where budgeting is completed only after the fact.
Hoped to see games modeling escalation paths using:
I subscribe so I'm gifting this. It's an important article about new AI scams hitting authors:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...
Local grocery, recently bought by a PE corporation, stopped selling full loaves of their house brand of bread. Instead, their half loaves are now priced like full size ones.
Bread prices can trigger people.
Not me, Iโm too busy enjoying this knock-off brand that's cheaper but also terrible.
I'm something of a supply chain risk myself
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
ChatGPT appealing to scientists on Christopher Street and 7th Ave.
New graffiti on the Avenue of the Americas. This artist's best work is alongside some old railroad tracks in da Bronx.
The New York Artists' Memorial Garden in Jackson Park can be a great place to sit in the shade and read during the summer. The fountain is well maintained.
Mamdani declares a state of emergency.
No metaphor.
All vehicles barred from the roads.
Large ad on side of San Francisco Financial District building reads "Arize: Ship Agents that actually work." Transamerica Pyramid in background.
Seems like a low bar.
Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people.
Me: Ok. May I talk to a person?
Corporation: No. Never again.
Draft lottery machine in action in the US, 1969
The all-voluntary U.S. military is coming to an end.
Conscription is baked in.
At the top, it's seen that there is therefore no continuing need for livable housing for servicemembers, adequate cost-of-living adjustments, or veterans' healthcare. The list goes on.
It's over.
Williams Syndrome is the best way to characterize a lot of AI writing:
Great amounts of grammatically correct, large vocabulary speech of a trite and meaningless nature.
In a rushed and closed process, the Trump administration is moving to reduce or eliminate disability compensation for veterans who take medications related to their disabilities.
Along with other cuts to VA medical care, this signals a likely return to conscription.
www.dav.org/learn-more/n...
Alex from Love is Blind telling Ashley that he is a cool lit bro who reads the Stoics, except he gets the author of Letters to a Stoic wrong
Seneca, dumbass
Incredible to me that the current US administration has looked at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded that the real problem with the US military is that its officers weren't good enough at killing stuff but knew too much history, anthropology, theology and international relations.
@jelenawoehr.bsky.social
Video about conservation efforts in China to bring back a wild population of Przewalski's horses:
english.news.cn/20260214/691...
Meta to add facial recognition to its smart glasses. An internal memo said:
โWe will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.โ
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Google expands tools to let users remove sensitive data about themselves from Search.
You can access the tool in the Google app by tapping your Google account photo and selecting โResults about you.โ
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
U.S. Army deploying 200 soldiers to Nigeria on a training mission.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
The Juggler (The Magician) by Remedios Varo, 1956, at Moma in a gallery where other works have been removed so as not to cause offense.
F-111 by James Rosenquist, 1964-5, "flying through the flak of consumer society to question the collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising."
Pop art repurposes images and objects from mass media, often as a means of social critique.
American Illiad at Moma
Portable Person, 1973.
Can you figure it out?
At Moma.
Untitled, Martin Kippenberger, German, 1981, at Moma
Finally found an affordable office
