Respectfully, eat shit. Those kids were expelled, arrested, and targeted relentlessly by their school administrations with the specific goal of preventing further protest. Eighteen year old kids were held down and maced by campus security, hit point blank with tear gas canisters by riot cops.
The killing of schoolchildren should shock our conscience and cause us to recoil in horror. A nation whose leaders can so easily shrug off the death of children, no matter the cause, is in need of moral repair. There must be accountability and lessons learned from this tragedy. And we must never forget that Iranian children, too, are children of God. 7:08 PM · Mar 12, 2026 · 7,179 Views
Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator
Here's the news item from Reuters, which makes no bones about the fact that "for executives and early investors, that deeper liquidity could reduce the market impact of large sell orders once lockup periods expire"
insiders cash out, retirees get left with the bag
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OPINION: I asked a former Trump official to justify this war
So the case for Congress is, once we have gone to war, if they don’t like it, they can remove the money? Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war. Congress has a role in cutting off funds for wars, which it has threatened to do. And the president doesn’t have to get permission. But yes, you can debate, you can decide. That’s his choice in how he wants to do it. I mean, here I will quote the Constitution: “The Congress shall have power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.”
Behold the intellectual might of the conservative legal movement
Taking advantage of people’s desperation to have them train their own destruction. Can’t believe this is the glorious future that was advertised to us.
Maybe true, maybe not. Makes no difference to the question of responsibility. If you abdicate decisions to an inhuman mechanism that you have no good reason to assume is reliable, you are responsible for the results. And this is one particular war crime within the context of unprovoked aggression.
The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago
AI is not inevitable. Nothing in human societies is inevitable because we design them. Healthcare can be free for the public. Books can be bought instead of bombs. Universities can be free for students, and they can even receive a stipend to live off. Don't let companies dictate the future.
I’m sorry but this is erasure of essentially everything that came before Intel got out of the memory business.
Tech and defense have always been tight. The consumer tech boom (regardless of where you believe it begins) was the detour.
Parlay Of Chicago Fire Winning And Over 2 American Deaths In The War In Iran Hits For Man On MLS Official Betting App
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This is @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social’s structures of permission again. (See replies.) Such a useful concept for understanding why people are so passionate about AI.
ai is a rhetorical technology.
when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
"We're going to hold ourselves accountable as well," Hegseth said in the video. "As a final message to our warriors, the Ivy League faculty lounges may loathe you, the so-called elite of academia may mock your patriotism and disdain your sacrifice, but never forget that we the War Department have your back."
Fuck you, Pete. I’ve taught social theory to career officers whose shoes you aren’t fit to shine.
The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command.
The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.
Iranians, real everyday folks who are among the kindest and most hospitable you will ever meet, do not need war. I’m no geopolitical expert, just a guy who knows an above-average amount about Iran for an American. But this seems very obvious.
In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
The cuts to existing programs and graduate research fellowships have a pattern: the Trump Administration is dismantling our ability to study ecology, biodiversity science, and climate research:
They’re putting Silicon Valley billionaires above studying Earth’s life support system.
"Package Managers à la Carte, A Formal Model of Dependency Resolution" preprint out today: a new package calculus to describe the cambrian explosion of systems that exist today arxiv.org/pdf/2602.18602 lead by @ryan.freumh.org
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
nobody ever asks if we already have enough software or if maybe we should take a break and fix what we have instead of vibe coding more shovelware
I recall when W declared the goal was now Mars, there was a general reaction of “Well, shit.” at NASA. An under/unfunded mandate turns into one that cannibalizes other programs that are working, causing everything to fail.
…so then you can turn to Trusted Private Partners.
Historian here President Abraham Lincoln opposed the Mexican War as a land grab for slavery when he was a first term Congressman from Illinois.
Documents show RFK Jr lied to Congress about his agenda in Samoa—he did indeed go to spread anti-scientific doubts about vaccines. He was ultimately successful in getting an outbreak going there that killed 83 people, mostly babies and young children.
I mean, it’s not even that “landmark”, it’s in-line with all previous research.
Same as before: Sports’ governing bodies should set policies based on good science and a spirit of inclusion, not the opinions of lunatics who only care about sport as a wedge issue to bully trans people out of society
The GOP has offered nothing this century except for catastrophic wars. No healthcare plan; no re-industrialization. Now they're losing their only issue, immigration, as people see the violence and havoc that comes with mass deportations.
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
fwiw I don't think it is possible to build genAI in such a way that it benefits workers rather than capital because it is fundamentally based on non consensual extraction of labour to get going. what would it actually mean for the workers to own the means of production here
