Avi Rappoport

I was sad to lose my 30-year-old Reverewarew, but it was worth it. Much improved air quality. The oven doesn’t need fancy features.

Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com

Yes, this is an excellent piece of investigation, narration, and accountability, by Mike Baker and Steven Rich in @nytimes.com Very much worth going back to read.

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

From a different angle, I was surprised at how worried his face looks

States could do us all a big favor and write product liability laws that make car companies liable for self-driving accidents no matter how many "waivers" they make customers sign.

If car companies don't like it, they can keep their products off the market until they are actually safe.

Haha war crime

Q: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it?


TRUMP: You could say both

I keep doing it too, I only occasionally want to save. I bet their developers have big phones.

Berkeley people: Buffy Wicks is very active in Internet age limit legislation. We need to start pressuring her!

This story has everything, a focus on desal that led to overlooking other water sources, a city manager making $400K/yr saying don’t panic, a former water system manager saying residents should absolutely panic, and magical thinking: “The last hope to avert disaster was a 20- to 30-inch rainfall.”

“It is becoming increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place.”

"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people.

If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.

I admire someone who changes their mind based on evidence!

I would like a different version of Hamnet where Agnes—devastated by grief—attends As You Like It and giggles the whole way through

The astonishing number of the rioters who already had convictions for domestic violence was never publicized enough. There’s a reason so many partners, spouses, children, other family members turned them in as rioters faster than the FBI could process them all.

The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own) | The British Army The Royal Lancers are an armoured cavalry regiment in 3 Deep Strike Reconnaissance Strike Brigade Combat Team. Its famous skull and crossbones cap badge, referred to as The Motto, is one of the most r...

The badge comes from the 17th Lancers in 1759. The page in wikipedia is not very clear.

www.army.mod.uk/learn-and-ex...

Also Newsom

Sometimes he gives good soundbite

It!’s easy to criticize but much harder to govern

"Maybe if I hold it next to my head I will absorb the knowledge."

BL Add 15275; Gratian, Decretum; Spain (Barcelona); 14th century; f.141r

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

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.

Incompetence at all levels, disgusting

Exactly why I like it!

My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"

Or even the news in the last 1-20 years? The Kurdish rebels in Turkey JUST reached an agreement to disarm after literal decades of insurgency. This is among the most ignorant and dangerous paths this “administration” could take in its already illegal and immoral war of aggression

both the msm and too many liberals ignore the fact that religious black voters, particularly regular churchgoing black women, are the core of the democratic party. without that demo, the democratic party literally ceases to exist.

Another failed effort to get through a Chotiner interview unscathed.

All the way through, what nonsense: “I would love to get back to a place where we do trust our Commander-in-Chief.”

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.