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Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
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"US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say"
My guy
Rob Crank says: Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MixedPairs, photos with pairs of different bird species, the Alt theme is #Finches, any of the Finch species.
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited
A Great Blue Heron and a female Wood Duck size comparison!
Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose
The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week
Here's our interview:
UMass Dartmouth student newspaper calls out administration for using AI slop ... to advertise an art event 🤦
If he sticks to his guns…ugh please
This new cycle of violence was all too predictable. For months, Israeli officials had signalled an escalation of their campaign against Hezbollah. Despite a ceasefire that ended a devastating 13-month war in 2024, Israel had continued with its bombing of Lebanon almost every day, saying the group was trying to rebuild its capabilities. Hezbollah, however, had remained quiet, aware that any move would inevitably be met with a powerful retaliation.
Interesting admission by BBC
The AirTrain fare is apparently now $8.75, up a quarter as of today-ish I guess. What a racket.
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"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com
Sam Altman kills children.
‘If you disagree with an illegal war you must support the ayatollah’s regime’ is the new ‘do you condemn Ham*s?’.
'tis the season for extremely high energy bills 😓 if you're looking at your utility statement in NYC and shedding a tear, here's why:
This shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being taken and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.
Smoky jungle frog, Guyana
It's hard to get a sense of scale from this, but the smoky jungle frog is the largest amphibian I've ever seen. We first saw it in Ecuador 20 years ago (my wife still refers to it simply as the "Hypnotoad"), and I had a chance to nab this photo this January in Guyana.
(Guinea pig-sized, I'd say.)
Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.
some shit is about to go down
Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
A useful moniker has emerged to describe the global network of elites whose power and privilege continue to protect them from accountability: the Epstein Class.
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
like how starmer, fresh off of domestic failure, is now like "i want to be trump's poodle like blair was for bush, what could go wrong"
Hannibal Lecter is delivering this unwary cop a dose of tough medicine—in his usual blunt style
❗️READ: Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate www.propublica.org/article/trum...
A brown squirrel in a plum tree stretching up to nibble on some pink blossoms. The background is washed out and mostly white.
Squirrel nibbling on plum blossoms
#photography #squirrel #flowers #nature 📷
NEW: Anchorage Daily News staff becomes the first newsroom in Alaska to unionize and win a union contract!
Congratulations to the @pacnwguild.bsky.social for this historic win ✊
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Black-and-white photograph of Nagoya Castle, viewed from a low angle, showing its tiered tiled roofs with ornate curved eaves rising above a massive stone foundation, silhouetted against dark, dramatic clouds in the sky.
Nagoya Castle (re-edit) - #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic #photo #photography #nikon #nikonz5 #Japan #Nagoya #Japanpic
whatever else we do
we need to make it illegal for chatbots to call themselves "i," "me," and otherwise pretend to be people
it's not innate to llms -- it's part of the interface layer between the user and the statistical model
and it can be gotten rid of
It's taken almost ten years to get the whole thing any real investment, but Zohran Mamdani is proposing to spend $25 million on secure bike parking, finally letting the city join backwaters like London and Paris in offering the common sense amenity nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/05/l...
Ten pages into @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social’s AI Con and already finding it immensely clarifying.