I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.
This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.
Scientists discovered a caterpillar that murders insects and stitches their dismembered body parts onto its back as armor
Youβre welcome. Happy day! π
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
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kΔkΔpΕ chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
I'm currently in the strange situation of living in Tokyo as a JSPS fellow to do my research on Anglo-Saxon law. Why? Well, just look here! ingridfiv.github.io/ingridsblog/...
If they can divide and conquer, they don't need to occupy.
Food is not the most immediate concern, water is.
A few strategic bombings by Iran on desalination plants, and most of Saudia Arabia will literally die of thirst within a week
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
About 100 million people live in the countries belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council β Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman β all now under Iranian attack. Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE are, for all practical purposes, completely dependent on the desalination plants, particularly for metropolises such as Dubai. Saudi Arabia, and especially its capital, Riyadh, also relies heavily on them. Water Desalination in the Middle East Saudi Arabia is home to most of the water desalination plants in the region, where they are key to supply the capital, Riyadh 3 5 7 9M cubic meters per day Sources: Bloomberg Opinion and Nature Under international law, the desalination plants are protected. But I have seen enough Middle Eastern wars to know the weight of the Geneva Conventions when missiles and bombs start flying. And they are: Iran has attacked a power station in Fujairah, UAE that keeps one of the worldβs largest desalination plants running. In Kuwait, debris from a drone interception caused a fire in one of the countryβs plants. The risk is enormous. Take the Jubail desalination plant, located on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia. It supplies Riyadh, via a roughly 500-kilometer-long pipeline system, with more than 90% of its drinking water. βRiyadh would have to evacuate within a week if the plant, its pipelines, or associated power infrastructure were seriously damaged or destroyed,β according to a 2008 memo from the US embassy in the kingdom released by Wikileaks. βThe current structure of the Saudi government could not exist without the Jubail desalinization plant,β the memo stated. Since the cable became public, the Saudis have reinforced their water network. Other countries have also built up redundancy. Still, all the water plants are equally vulnerable β and all of them are within range of the Iranian missiles. The good news is that water is so strategic β and so human β that any Iranian direct attack on them would be considerβ¦
For those who can't bypass the paywall, the Obama administration, CIA determined that a single strike on a single Saudi water desalination plant would require evacuation of Riyadh and collapse its government.
The Saudis have beefed up their infrastructure since, but I would rather not find out.
US leaders regret allowing China to escape poverty and get on a plausible path to prosperity and they intend not to repeat that mistake anywhere else. US national security requires that the global south stay poor and weak forever www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Your periodic reminder that much of the US hinterland is (even more) economically unviable without low gas and diesel prices.
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
News you can use
Primary them all!
I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:
Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspendedβand so were my wife's.
So we are going to arm the Kurds to the teeth and then abandon them in 6 months time. Once again. Gottit.
Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, no less.
Ayatollah Ali Khameneiβs Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor If Mojtaba Khamenei is chosen by Iranβs senior clerics, it may signal a victory for hard-liners, an analyst said.
Now I realize this sounds pretty bad, but could it be a lot worse.
It could happen in the US.
Nothing to see, just very powerful pattern matching. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.
This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been βinundatedβ with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesusβ¦
hop in boys weβre doing a crusade
Cards (front and back) for Seoul, Paris and Osaka.
Updated prototype cards for alternate Shinjuku maps: Seoul, Paris and Osaka.
Plan is to playtest with people unfamiliar with these city maps and see if the cards are more readable than the earlier ones.
The US has fewer counterintelligence officers who have experience with Iran because a few years ago those US officers did their jobs properly and assisted with a judge-signed search warrant regarding a criminal theft of US defense secrets, which the search found a lot of evidence of.
Seriously.
Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joeβs Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.
Ugh. The Armageddonites are in charge.
Thereβs a movement to draft Barron Trump, but I think a campaign such as this would be more effective if it impacted someone Donald Trump knew personally.
