If you were reading a history of the Gilded Age and encountered a tycoon who kept pushing insane conspiracy theories about declining white birth rates and who used his vast influence to kill off nearly a million people in Africa, you'd very easily conclude that person was a white supremacist.

“we’re planning a heist of FORT KNOX” “sick, what’s the plan for our ill-gotten gains?” “it is, at long last, time for INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK”

Mépris total indeed.

So much shit happens these days that I feel a bit desensitized to the world, but this bit of news made me a very specific combination of horrified and infuriated and sad. Free Palestine. I don't even know what else to say.

Fascinating framing www.ft.com/content/aeb1...

I have a new favorite account on here and it’s @owls-in-towels.bsky.social

👀 Also, the experience related in the comments suggests it’s not so easy to avoid.

They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.

Aaaahhhh.

There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.

Hva tenkte de egentlig da de dimensjonerte sykkelparkering utenfor R5? At den bare skulle være til pynt?

What are we even doing here.

NO LONGER CORRECTING TYPOS - THEY ARE ARTISINAL PROOF OF HUMANITY.

Wow, is this worth three minutes of your time.

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment “Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.”

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

🧵Jeg hadde booket et møterom for 16 personer, men la til 18 inviterte i møteinvitasjonen. Siden matematikken ikke gikk opp, fant Copilot ut at den skulle løse det automatisk for meg. Det gjorde den ved å booke tre andre møterom i stedet. Tre møterom som hver hadde kapasitet til 6 personer.

The DMZ between South and North Korea is "open for transit" too, by this measure.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

EU free movement law can be a liberal constraint in interesting ways, and allows you to “take rights home with you” once you’ve moved in Europe. I’ve written about family reunification in the past, here it’s your gender identity 🏳️‍⚧️

Just stumbling around trying to figure out how the world works.

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Le Gorafi is a kind of French The Onion, and yeah, they go hard.

They paved paradise / and put up a data center.

«Diktanalyse» (dvs. grundig lesning av tekst) blir stadig viktigere

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

This is what ecocide looks like.

wait so am i supposed to set my clocks forward an hour or a few seconds closer to midnight

Spending my Sunday morning reading up on IHL rules about water infrastructure and screaming into the void. blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...

While strategic petroleum reserves can cushion against immediate impacts of the US/Israeli war against Iran, people really have not prepared for fertiliser shortages and what that may mean for food cycles in the coming year: (Source: Bloomberg newsletter 6 March)

I somehow watched the whole season and this is all I have to say about it, really.

Ah, Kristi Noem. You may be gone for now, but you'll always have a place in the human rights abuse commission in my heart.

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Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.

nightmare fuel: rather than new generations of living scholars, an LLM will produce the illusion of venerated (but dead) scholars reading and commenting on your work.

Trump went from an obviously fake “No More Forever Wars” to “No! More Forever Wars” pretty fast

I don't want a city on Mars. I don't want AI in every app. I don't want data centres in space. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want bees to survive.

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Omg no, you’re not going to make Anthropic into “resistance tech.” Nope nope nope

NRK skriver randoné og Aftenposten skriver randonee. Når det først er et fransk lånord, hvorfor er det ingen som faktisk skriver det sånn det skal være? (Altså randonnée?)

The most letter to the LRB letter to the LRB that I have ever read.

Ikke det verste som foregår her, by any means, men som oppdragsforsker som konkurrerer om relativt sett småpenger fra blant annet UD, blir jeg så matt av at de tilsynelatende kaster millioner til IPI, Rhipto og andre dypt suspekte outfits.

New publication!

Buss for tog er en slags årelang running joke med venninna mi (buss for angst, som vi stort sett kaller det), men altså dette tar kaka. «Det er for mange som reiser på den strekningen så vi kan ikke få tak i nok busser så derfor lar vi det være».

With this regime anything is possible…

A poem for our times, by Hayley DeRoche