SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Moai head says, "More!"
AI data centers are like modern Moai heads. Except the AI system can talk and be used to convince us to build more of them.
Kinda convincing myself that this is the AI scenario that's actually happening
I hate the conversation about “productivity” because no one ever explains what it actually means or what they are talking about.
This is a fantastic explainer.
I take my kiddo to school right down the street from where the Eaton Fire started, and a few of his classmates lost their homes. I have nowhere near the amount of skin in this as those classmates' families do, but … No. F–– off with this, it's ghoulish.
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...
No one made Israel bomb and kill civilians. Of course Hamas are horrible. Most people in Gaza also hated them before the latest war but they couldn't do anything about it
![This figure shows the percentage of respondents in 35 countries across the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and the Integrated Values Survey (IVS) who rate “hard work” as more important than structural factors for getting ahead in life. Dark blue diamonds (IVS) and dark green circles (ISSP) represent survey year averages. Light blue and light green lines plot the trend in meritocratic beliefs across the five-year cohorts, on the basis of locally weighted least squares regressions on the cohort-country means (light blue diamonds [IVS] and light green circles [ISSP]). IVS data show whether respondents rate hard work (1) or luck and connections (0) as the more important factor for achieving a better life. ISSP data show the share of respondents who rate hard work as more important than “knowing the right people” and “coming from a wealthy family” for getting ahead in life.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ndvutufhi4t2mbjmmod2xe4e/bafkreie5twmfrtznixh33w3b567m5s5kk22wzdrlxycmjifnnplcb3rosi)
This figure shows the percentage of respondents in 35 countries across the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and the Integrated Values Survey (IVS) who rate “hard work” as more important than structural factors for getting ahead in life. Dark blue diamonds (IVS) and dark green circles (ISSP) represent survey year averages. Light blue and light green lines plot the trend in meritocratic beliefs across the five-year cohorts, on the basis of locally weighted least squares regressions on the cohort-country means (light blue diamonds [IVS] and light green circles [ISSP]). IVS data show whether respondents rate hard work (1) or luck and connections (0) as the more important factor for achieving a better life. ISSP data show the share of respondents who rate hard work as more important than “knowing the right people” and “coming from a wealthy family” for getting ahead in life.
The figure shows annualized change scores (subtracting the earliest from the latest value and standardizing by the number of years/cohorts). This figure is only included in the supplementary material.
How has the public belief in meritocracy changed over time? We address this question in our new Data Viz (@sociusjournal.bsky.social) by examining trends in popular beliefs across cohorts and periods in 35 countries, based on two datasets.
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231261425841
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"Subway station"
#photooftheday #photography
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🇪🇺🚨Final negotiations on Chat Control 2.0 just started between the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the EU.
What is good:
✅ Encryption will not be broken
What is bad:
❌ Commission & Council want #IDchecks
Satellite images from NASA Worldview on March 5 reveal the extent of the blackout in Cuba. A failure at the most important power plant, combined with the US blockade on fuel shipments in the country has left nearly 70% of the island's inhabitants without power.
MAGNUM PHOTOS: Witches & Bitches: Decades of Women’s Defiance Through the Magnum Archive www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture... @magnumphotos.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
The Iran war is driving up energy prices. These companies are profiting. #Climate
Well you know what they say, "You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but...."
They also said they were taking out Hamas by bombing hospitals and water desalination plants, not to mention hundreds of thousands of houses in Gaza.
I think it is safe to say they are bombing civilians for the sake of bombing civilians.
www.un.org/unispal/docu...
Everyone saying this is just a cover for anti-lgbtq censorship is right BUT
It's also a way to prevent new entrants into online social media as only large incumbent companies can afford to comply with these onerous rules. It's anticompetitive.
You can use this tool to contact your lawmakers: badinternetbills.com
Horrible. It looks to me like they are punishing civilians for the existence of Hezbollah (which most in Lebanon don't like but can't really do anything about).
The Israeli military said it was pounding Hezbollah targets in the densely populated southern outskirts of Beirut while also striking Tehran, after the U.S. military said its campaign was sharply degrading Iran’s ability to retaliate.
Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.
A man with a giant backpack hiking across a stony precipice.
Yeah, I've never been there but those mountains are no joke.
There is some great (and dangerous) work done by Ebrahim Alipoor documenting how difficult it is to cross them.
ebrahimalipoor.com
NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”
⚡️Reversing its position, US allows India to buy Russian oil.
"To enable oil to keep flowing into the global market, the Treasury Department is issuing a temporary 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil," U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on March 5.
NEW @npr.org: The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
But 37 pages of records are still not public.
More:
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
#HardBoiled #4KRestoration #Film #Review – #JohnWoo ’s outrageously explosive 1992 cop thriller is pure action mayhem
#ChowYun-fat and #TonyLeung face off in a wildly inventive film whose hospital shootout remains one of cinema’s most irresistible set pieces
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
Trump's press secretary blatantly lying about Spain after Trump threatened to cut off trade
It's a pattern, and it's to benefit big business at our expense.
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
