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From a cave to a city to a permanent party

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I knew Trump would take Russia side. Silly of me to not anticipate that he’d take Russia’s side to fund a war against the United States.

06.03.2026 23:55 👍 31 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0
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Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran The president’s private comments have not focused on a large-scale ground invasion of Iran, but rather on the idea of a small contingent of U.S. troops that would be used for specific strategic purpos...

I read this as POTUS wanting to apply the VZ model to Iran, complete with the spectacular SOF raid.

What could go wrong?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

06.03.2026 23:39 👍 33 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 2
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Un clásico y algo nuevo

06.03.2026 22:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pardon the pedantry, but if we are decimating Iran, we are killing one in every ten Iranians. That's what decimating means and that's 9 million people. Assuming this administration is just tossing words and not intent on that much butchery, but given the reality of Trump/Hegseth, one can't be sure.

06.03.2026 22:23 👍 131 🔁 27 💬 15 📌 1
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Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read this The narrative is dramatic. The sourcing is thin. And skepticism matters, especially on something this serious.

I agree with a lot of this, worth reading:

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you...

06.03.2026 22:23 👍 377 🔁 82 💬 28 📌 15
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A new U.S. military investigation has revealed Trump and Pete Hegseth were likely responsible for the bombing of an Iranian girls' elementary school, killing 175 people.

06.03.2026 16:21 👍 330 🔁 125 💬 20 📌 11
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06.03.2026 17:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There are no good guys in wqrhammer 40k

06.03.2026 17:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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american century of humiliation incoming

06.03.2026 17:39 👍 2123 🔁 247 💬 55 📌 61

A ver. Que han hundido una fragata DESARMADA (se sabe porque era requisito indispensable para participar en unos ejercicios navales en la India, de los que volvía)

Han asesinado a sangre fría a 80 personas y dejado a unos 30 a su suerte (otro crimen de guerra)

Y LUEGO HAN SALIDO A PRESUMIR DE ELLO

06.03.2026 17:00 👍 58 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 0
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Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command.
It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards.
Automated snapshots were gone too.
In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again.
If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

Tweet Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing

06.03.2026 16:54 👍 1571 🔁 221 💬 58 📌 105
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Crude oil is now up 49.65% so far this year.

@cnbc.com

06.03.2026 13:37 👍 610 🔁 219 💬 50 📌 67
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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

06.03.2026 08:57 👍 12925 🔁 4169 💬 352 📌 254
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As we now hear about the US LUCAS drone/loitering ammunition, which has been based on the Iranian Shahed, I will bring a thread over from Twitter I did on the German DAR - which is linked to the Israeli Harop - which is again linked to the Shahed.

06.03.2026 09:00 👍 136 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 6
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Scoop: Anthropic CEO apologizes for leaked memo criticizing Trump Amodei won a legion of fans after his initial strong stance in a dispute over how AI could be used by the military.

The Pentagon today formally designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, as CEO Dario Amodei apologized for a leaked memo criticizing the Trump administration.

06.03.2026 01:55 👍 27 🔁 6 💬 8 📌 1

you can genuinely watch the news anchor not compute in real time

05.03.2026 23:05 👍 737 🔁 143 💬 9 📌 6
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Florida legislators advance a bill authorizing government surveillance based on 'views' or 'opinions' Civil liberties advocates warn a proposed Florida law could allow investigations based on speech deemed a threat to state interests.

Florida Legislators Advance a Bill Authorizing Government Surveillance Based on 'Views' or 'Opinions'

06.03.2026 00:33 👍 107 🔁 46 💬 10 📌 4
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'Stand your butt up': GOP Sen. Mullin challenges Teamsters boss to fight at Senate hearing
'Stand your butt up': GOP Sen. Mullin challenges Teamsters boss to fight at Senate hearing YouTube video by CNBC Television

That time when new DHS Secretary, current Sen. Mullin challenged a witness to a fight during a hearing
youtu.be/x0ae-Mhz1AI?...

05.03.2026 22:25 👍 251 🔁 114 💬 28 📌 24
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The Spire has finally reawakened. ⚔️

Slay the Spire 2 is out now in Steam Early Access!!

New characters, enemies, environments, a co-op mode & more await you in this sequel to the iconic roguelike deckbuilder. Join the journey now to be a part of the Spire's next evolution!

05.03.2026 17:53 👍 692 🔁 241 💬 28 📌 101
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Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less

via sethackerman.substack.com

05.03.2026 19:10 👍 354 🔁 140 💬 10 📌 16

Sep, se queda en rotación fijo

05.03.2026 19:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bill Callahan - My Days of 58 Listen to My Days of 58 on TIDAL

Vale, Callahan no sorprende. Pero este disco le ha salido mejor que de costumbre

tidal.com/album/468933...

05.03.2026 18:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Merz should seize the opportunity to push back against Trump Unlike his predecessors, Germany’s chancellor does not define himself by constraints

Merz should seize the opportunity to push back against Trump ft.trib.al/wyU3eU7 | opinion

05.03.2026 16:41 👍 42 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 0
“The president approved ahead of time you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently?” Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Noem during Tuesday’s hearing.
“Yes sir, we went through the legal processes–” Noem said.
“Did the president know you were gonna do this?” Kennedy interjected.
Noem answered again in the affirmative multiple times. “I’m not saying you’re not telling the truth. It’s just hard for me to believe, knowing the president, as I do, that you said, ‘Mr. President, here’s some ads I’ve cut, and I’m going to spend $220 million running them,’ that he would have agreed to that,” Kennedy said. “I don’t think Russ Vought” at the Office of Management and Budget “would have agreed to that,” he added.
These frustrations have prompted the president to privately express his openness to replacing her, according to a person familiar with the matter. One name he has begun floating this week as a potential replacement: Oklahoma’s junior U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin.

“The president approved ahead of time you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently?” Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Noem during Tuesday’s hearing. “Yes sir, we went through the legal processes–” Noem said. “Did the president know you were gonna do this?” Kennedy interjected. Noem answered again in the affirmative multiple times. “I’m not saying you’re not telling the truth. It’s just hard for me to believe, knowing the president, as I do, that you said, ‘Mr. President, here’s some ads I’ve cut, and I’m going to spend $220 million running them,’ that he would have agreed to that,” Kennedy said. “I don’t think Russ Vought” at the Office of Management and Budget “would have agreed to that,” he added. These frustrations have prompted the president to privately express his openness to replacing her, according to a person familiar with the matter. One name he has begun floating this week as a potential replacement: Oklahoma’s junior U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin.

Of all the bad looks from this week's hearings with Kristi Noem, it is not that she's NOT deporting the worst of the worst, that her fuck bunny signs contracts, OR that she has tanked his polling on most popular issue. It's that she claims he knew of her corrupt propaganda contract.

05.03.2026 14:11 👍 844 🔁 269 💬 57 📌 21
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“ChatGPT, hazme un cartel ni machista ni feminista estilo Pixar para el 8M, con un hombre en el medio y una mujer negra y una niña ciega discapacitada en los extremos. Que parezca el Día del Domund y lo puedan poner hasta en el colegio de “Los domingos”.

05.03.2026 09:18 👍 913 🔁 190 💬 98 📌 24

Migration is part of what makes this country great.

We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.

The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

05.03.2026 08:29 👍 2779 🔁 539 💬 58 📌 51
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Informa The Guardian que al menos tres ministros del gabinete de Starmer, en Reino Unido, se niegan aa que se usen sus bases para atacar Irán.

05.03.2026 10:11 👍 184 🔁 88 💬 5 📌 2
LANTERNS Official Trailer (2026) Green Lantern
LANTERNS Official Trailer (2026) Green Lantern YouTube video by ONE Media

Gunn es listísimo. Pena que vaya a ser el 2o que despidan tras John Oliver

youtu.be/THq3riWv9bk

05.03.2026 10:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0