omg, nailed
07.03.2026 22:58
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omg, nailed
Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
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saw this on tv at the gym, luckily there was a punching bag close by to hit
trump has numbed me to a lot of things but the lack of fucking respect will never stop galling me
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.
You know, once you get past the oligarchs and racists, normal humans are actually pretty good.
The Secret Agent has the Mad Men thing of the backdrop sometimes being distractingly awesome and you find yourself losing track of the political intrigue and being like "fuck that's a nice looking shelf of lps, I wish I could lounge around in that chair, in that shirt, in Brazil in 1977"
recently watched The Penguin Lessons, set in Argentina 1976, and had exactly this thought - apart from the murderous dictatorship, how beautiful the daily life..
soundtrack in my head,
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Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
In a savvy move, Trump undoes sanctions on Russia after Russia helps Iran target Americans.
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Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.
Tweet from Abbas Araghchi reads: The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran.
US-Israeli targets include schools, health care infrastructure, Tehran’s airport, and now, if what Iran’s foreign minister says is accurate, a desalination plant providing water to 30 villages.
What a precedent to set, hitting desalination plants around the Gulf which so heavily relies on them.
For twenty years I've heard the same reframe and for the same twenty years I've had a fairly popular ocean science blog that tracks how long readers spend on each page and the long wonky pieces have the best retention and are still read years later.
BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon
At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.
NYC friends, please go to MoMA to see EIGHT BRIDGES and spend eighty minutes sitting quietly looking at bridges across the US in the new James Benning doc. www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
Four panel b&w Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. In panels 1-3, Calvin has a watering can and addressing himself to a few flowers in the ground, with increasing stridency: “SO YOU WANT SOME WATER, HUH? WELL, IVE GOT A BIG CAN OF IT HERE.” “ITS UP TO ME TO DECIDE IF YOU GET WATER OR NOT! I CONTROL YOUR FATE! YOUR VERY LIVES ARE IN MY HANDS!” “WITHOUT ME YOU'RE AS GOOD AS DEAD! WITHOUT ME, YOU DON'T....” In the fourth panel, it is pouring rain. Calvin looks nonplussed.
Came across this old Calvin and Hobbes cartoon today and immediately thought about the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
*glances at headlines*
No, no reason.
I was unsuccessfully trying to be silly. I’m a hedge fund manager who has known many of these management teams for 3 decades or so. I fully understand their naïveté :-)
But not Costco, the are actually very very smart. Ron started driving a forklift, not sitting in HBS lecture halls.
Right. I was happy to pay extra for a better employer and nicer/more comfortable stores.
I'm really not interested in expensive Walmart.
I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.
I worked in restaurants for 10 years and knew a dozen charismatic dirtbag bartenders with severe personality issues and the state of Maine is acting like this guy is a unicorn
Iran: check this shit out, I drew a fake tunnel entrance. and labelled it Secret Bunker. The American AI burned a quarter of their remaining ammunition trying to destroy it.
The US: claude, give me bunkers hot in Asian land war visible nipples right altitude big tiddies not fooled by black paint
Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will be for The Trans Continental Pipeline, helping trans folks leave hostile states (ahem, Kansas) for Colorado.
As Rachel points out on her Instagram, notice that the guy at the front has a Totenkopf on his quarter zip.
That's why Maine Democrats should not let anyone displaying Nazi symbols near the United States Senate
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
The agreement would let the data center pull between 2-8 million gallons per day from the area’s primary source for drinking water. And if usage goes over estimates, it would accelerate the need for a new drinking source by decades.
This is not good.
Asking an LLM to provide step by step instructions on how to disable the LLM is one of only a few legitimate use cases.
