Joseph Kohlmann

That is a “Mark Hamill’s Joker” level of wordplay right there

An adviser to a Gulf government said the prospect of an investment review by the wealthy states had caught the White House’s attention. They manage some of the world’s largest and most active sovereign wealth funds, and Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar last year pledged to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the US after President Donald Trump visited the region. They are also big backers of sporting events around the world and have all been investing heavily domestically to develop their nations and diversify their economies. Any move that affects investments in the US or other western states may raise the pressure on Trump to seek a diplomatic strategy to bring the war to an end."

Interesting.

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Introducing the <Low Poly Rat Jam>!

Team up or go it alone - submissions open 6 - 22 March.

No ranks, no prizes, only a promise: I will play and review EVERY RAT GAME.

itch.io/jam/low-poly... #ratjam #gamedev #lowpoly #lowpolyratday

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reache...

"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!

NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

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:

AI Slop Staff Artist: Caitlyn Harrington Email: charrington5@umassd.edu

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

From the OMNY community on Reddit: JFK AirTrain price increase March 2026 Explore this post and more from the OMNY community

The AirTrain fare is apparently now $8.75, up a quarter as of today-ish I guess. What a racket.

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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"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?’.

Big Energy Bill? Usage and Costs Climb During New York’s Rough Winter Gas and electric prices are both up as New Yorkers have cranked up the thermostat this season.

'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:

chardet 7.0: ground-up MIT-licensed rewrite by dan-blanchard · Pull Request #322 · chardet/chardet · GitHub Summary This PR is for a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. It maintains API compatibility with chardet 5.x and 6.x, but with 27x improvements to detection speed, and highly accurate suppo...

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

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

The Epstein Class Are the Warped Elites They Pretend to Hate For years, MAGA has attacked minority groups in the name of “protecting women and children.” It turns out the real abusers are the wealthy and powerful.

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.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

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

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

❗️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 📷

Anchorage Daily News staff becomes the first newsroom in Alaska to unionize and win a union contract | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA Unionized Journalists at the Anchorage Daily news have ratified a 2 year first contract, marking the first union contract at an Alaska news publication.

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