Count Melancholia

The competing economic superpower offers are now as follows: From the US you get forced into trade deals promising a future of burning fossil fuels whose price is subject to wildly destructive US adventurism. From China you get reliably cheap EVs and green tech to generate renewables.

Even Grok is fed up with Ketamine Elmo. 🤣

griffins improved grapes, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1905

griffins improved grapes, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1905

All of our living presidents who still have a sense of decency gathered to honor Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Respect recognizes respect.

Tilli’s on landscaping duty for Aardvark Week! 🐾
When it comes to digging, our aardvark has the ultimate built-in rototiller. With powerful claws and a nose for adventure, Tilli can turn over soil in no time while searching for tasty insects. 🐜

📹: Animal care staff Erica

Well, maybe William Gibson, who I have met a few times. Do writers count, or does it have to be someone like Erdos or Feynman?

fuck this world

Strategy is fundamentally all about developing a sophisticated theory of the mind of one’s opponent.

With MAGA’s Iran Adventure, guess we’re going to see what a modern war almost totally devoid of anything we’d call “strategy” looks like.

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

I don't think I've ever met a genius, of any particular gender.

I always say, “I never met a genius who wasn’t also a dumbass,” but I ran into my friend Laurie earlier today, who is several kinds of very quiet, very understated genius and not any kind of dumbass, so I think I’ll change it to “I never met a MALE genius who wasn’t also a dumbass.”

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

2026, man

www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

Meanwhile, Japan removed nude statues (the public response was mixed).
www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...

It's very practical, if you think about it. Her personal version of all those ICE agents and their face masks.

Liverpool - Nov 2018

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke:
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.

Cheebus, whatta jerk!

If only they would recall that Ford in Ontario...and his nephew.

I am remembering that time when JT explained how quantum computing works...we do get some good leaders!

Prime Minister Mark Carney surprises the Japanese PM by speaking Japanese #Canada #Japan

Canada’s Top General of Defence clarifies the Middle East defence with Canada’s military #Canada

An amazing collection of the silliest-looking chairs I've ever seen!

Storage Is the New Status Symbol Why tuck away a $1 million car or six-figure Birkin bag when you can stage it like art?

"The design firm HollandGreen created a car gallery outside a large home in the Cotswolds for a client to store his collection."

So builders who could be constructing housing for the homeless are doing this instead: unsustainable #inequality in action
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazing poll for the Welsh Greens and Plaid. The union is finished.

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Meet ‘Tous’ — an entirely new genus of mammal we identified. Here’s why it’s so exciting A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

A huge #biodiversity "discovery" (scare quotes because indigenous people always knew it was there).

You know what comes next: "lowland forests are under pressure from logging and agricultural expansion"

theconversation.com/meet-tous-an...

The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work.

Here's a 🎁gift link to this charming article:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/a...

M is for mud, and murder, and millions of fish resting with their eyes open in the darkness of the bottom of a lake. Moments of sadness lying in wait on the sea floor. Moments listening to the interminable rain of silt. Moments you won't talk about.

@hutchinsondave.bsky.social It's quite thrilling to see this! www.imdb.com/title/tt1480...

Gen AI ys coole yf you reallye fuckinge hate water

Great to see the Greens in England and Wales continuing to cause the establishment such apoplectic rage.

Help Scotland do our bit by joining at Greens.scot/join