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This morning in Tehran. It's presently raining oil, per CNN

From where I'm standing, it looks like Israel wants to do to Tehran and every other Iranian city what they did to Gaza - destroy it. And it Iran fights back and continues to disrupt oil production across the Middle East, then things will stay ugly for a long time

The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury.
See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...

Trump rejects settling Iran war, raises prospect of killing all its potential leaders U.S. President Donald Trump said he is not interested in negotiating with Iran and raised the possibility that the Iran war would only end once Tehran no longer has a functioning military or any ​rema...

"Trump rejects settling Iran war, raises prospect of killing all its potential leaders" www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Whilst browsing in my local Maxi supermarket here in Montreal this evening I noticed they sell... horse meat.

It was in the freezer section next to wild boar and rabbit.

I don't recall ever seeing horse meat for sale in Toronto grocery stores.

My controversial opinion is we shouldn't eat horses.

Israel and America are bombing one of the grandest architectural sites in Iran. Iran is the oldest civilisation on earth.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Pixar’s Pete Docter Says Queer ‘Elio’ Storyline Was Axed Because “We’re Making A Movie, Not Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Of Therapy” Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter explained the animation company's decision to ax a queer storyline in last year's Elio.

If you're a powerful creative person, a moment will always arrive when you can do something a little brave that will help people, or refuse to. The book I'm working on right now is in part a history of who did what. All I'll say about this is, it never gets forgotten. deadline.com/2026/03/pixa...

A report out today said that Russia's war on Ukraine has emitted over 400 million metric tons of CO2, which is roughly equivalent to all diesel engines on earth running nonstop for a year.

Multiple reports this week suggest the carbon emissions of our war on Iran will be significantly higher.

Probably wasn't a good idea for the American electorate to elevate a squirming bundle of ravening blood demons bursting the seams of a Trump-shaped skinsuit to the position of most powerful being on Earth for the second time.

Seems bad.

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This quote isnt just out of touch or disappointing, its fucking dark. Gay people are not a conversation parents need to have with their kids? Knowing gay people exist doesnt require therapy??

Any parents who thinks that way needs to have their kids removed ASAP. Get in a volcano, Pete.

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

The Inflation Reduction Act - especially around solar power generation and distribution - was so effective it caused a series of legitimate diplomatic incidents because European allies weren't used to American governments investing in energy resilience so aggressively.

Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters Let's be honest about the roots, costs and consequences of the Iran War

We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest.
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Iran condemns US attack on Iranian desalination plant, issues a veiled threat - Türkiye Today Iran strikes US naval base in Bahrain's Jufair in retaliation for US attack on a desalination plant on Iran, as Tehran warns US set a precedent

Across the Persian Gulf coastline from Iran sit more than 400 desalination plants operated by Gulf Cooperation Council states.
In Kuwait, approximately 90% of drinking water comes from desalination; in Oman the figure is 86%, in Saudi Arabia 70%, and in the UAE 42 %.

Trump is thirsty for karma.

About 100 million people live in the countries belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — all now under Iranian attack. Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE are, for all practical purposes, completely dependent on the desalination plants, particularly for metropolises such as Dubai. Saudi Arabia, and especially its capital, Riyadh, also relies heavily on them. Water Desalination in the Middle East Saudi Arabia is home to most of the water desalination plants in the region, where they are key to supply the capital, Riyadh 3 5 7 9M cubic meters per day Sources: Bloomberg Opinion and Nature Under international law, the desalination plants are protected. But I have seen enough Middle Eastern wars to know the weight of the Geneva Conventions when missiles and bombs start flying. And they are: Iran has attacked a power station in Fujairah, UAE that keeps one of the world’s largest desalination plants running. In Kuwait, debris from a drone interception caused a fire in one of the country’s plants. The risk is enormous. Take the Jubail desalination plant, located on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia. It supplies Riyadh, via a roughly 500-kilometer-long pipeline system, with more than 90% of its drinking water. “Riyadh would have to evacuate within a week if the plant, its pipelines, or associated power infrastructure were seriously damaged or destroyed,” according to a 2008 memo from the US embassy in the kingdom released by Wikileaks. “The current structure of the Saudi government could not exist without the Jubail desalinization plant,” the memo stated. Since the cable became public, the Saudis have reinforced their water network. Other countries have also built up redundancy. Still, all the water plants are equally vulnerable — and all of them are within range of the Iranian missiles. The good news is that water is so strategic — and so human — that any Iranian direct attack on them would be consider…

For those who can't bypass the paywall, the Obama administration, CIA determined that a single strike on a single Saudi water desalination plant would require evacuation of Riyadh and collapse its government.

The Saudis have beefed up their infrastructure since, but I would rather not find out.

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.

Riyadh gets 90% of its fresh water from one desalination plant. About 85% of Israel’s domestic fresh water consumption comes from five major desalination plants. Teheran is already in severe drought. Let’s hope cooler heads prevail. A water war would be absolutely catastrophic.

If they start targeting each other’s water desalination plants, the region may end up with tens of millions of thirsty refugees. Trump is playing a game of Mutual Assured Destruction with a culture that glorifies martyrdom. What could possibly go wrong? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The US Navy could soon be escorting water tankers instead of oil tankers. People can live without oil, but they won’t last long without fresh water. If they start targeting each other’s water desalination plants, it’s all over for life as we’ve known it in the region.

To clarify this: the context is college sports. Trump is saying that Russia helping Iran target Americans in a war is less important than the pay structure for athletes.

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Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

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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Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

"I didn't see a single building standing the entire time I was in Gaza. I didn't see one building intact or standing.

Everything was flattened. And when I mean flattened, it was hard to even tell that they were buildings there before."

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