I just signed european.social as well. Regardless of whether you think EU governments are too prone to weaken privacy protections or not, it's clear that - monopolistic, authoritarian #SocialMedia platforms are a problem #europe

The imposing of a travel ban on Israel’s most far-right ministers must be only the beginning of Ireland’s actions to sanction Netanyahu’s rogue government. It’s time the Taoiseach stops announcing the bare minimum. @patriciastephenson.bsky.social

I visited Scotland's most expensive hotel because, well, someone had to 😶‍🌫️ A very special place, honestly. And the price (doubles from £1550 a night) is of course v high as commenters are noting but does include food I would pay a lot for, booze & all activities/equipment as.ft.com/r/5e0bc764-0...

NEW: Amazon just achieved a significant breakthrough in data center networking. It's very nerdy, but very relevant. And, while data centers are a big point of contention for *reasons* these days, this new approach to networking does appear to save energy www.wired.com/story/amazon...

After clearing the committee review last week, a package of targeted zoning changes is headed to the Seattle City Council on June 2. The proposal seeks to spur the construction of towers, affordable housing, and mass timber and passive house buildings. Story: www.theurbanist.org/seattle-adva...

One of my 2026 goals is to start writing more, so over the holidays I resurrected my old blog and plopped out a post about silly coding interview problems in the Lean theorem prover dijkstracula.github.io/posts/provin...

These by-elections have been monumental for the Social Democrats. From gaining another seat in Dublin Central, to seeing our best ever result in Galway West, we've got real momentum. It's clear that people want an alternative – why not join us and be part of it? www.socialdemocrats.ie/join/

For @wired.com's Backchannel newsletter this week, I wrote about shrinking benefits in the corporate world and what this signals about power shifts in the workforce. It's maddening—but so is the rising cost of healthcare and the total lack of social safety net in the US www.wired.com/story/compan...

I highly recommend reading this. Also the author provided a gift link so no excuse not to!

I meant to hold out for an ebook edition - our current place is too small for a proper library - but I think it's meant to be @jasoncorcoran.bsky.social

My "The US denied a report by Iranian media on Monday that the country had struck an American naval vessel with missiles" tshirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Oh crap, it's one of those odd things when I have specific knowledge. Back in 2000, Iran received a collection of former Soviet military dolphins from the Ukraine Navy. We have no idea how many of those dolphins are still around or if Iran continued the program.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

“For hundreds of years Germany was good enough to receive these elements, although they possessed nothing except infectious political and physical diseases”. -Hitler, speaking of the Jewish population in a speech to the Reichstag, January 30, 1930.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

In retrospect the time when he was merely threatening to end NATO to annex Greenland was a sort of golden age of rational foreign policy.

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

cc: @nytimes.com

Congress should force every single federal employee who was present at this meeting to testify about it.

DHS says US could stop processing international travelers at some airports in 'sanctuary cities'

I'm worried. I sat with things for a bit today to try and see through the immediate fears, but I still land largely here: there's no obvious offramp, and the men behind it are not of a caliber which allows for humiliation. Does that automatically mean nuclear use? No, but… we should be serious. 1/x

Reminiscing about my time living in DC. If you've lived in DC or spent time there, especially in the Cap Hill area, let's look at some of the places you could be killed for being in range of the blast radius of a Mk 84 2000lb bomb dropped by the USAF or Israeli Air Force on a legitimate target

Trump is asking Congress for a $1.5 TRILLION military budget in fiscal year 2027. A massive increase. Pentagon funding hit $1 trillion last year between appropriations and party-line reconciliation legislation. The military has failed to pass an audit for eight straight years.

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

Of course. Trip Gabriel, NYT

Driscoll’s inclusion as being part of refusing is interesting

As it turns out, things you say on Bluesky can make it into the global media. I’m delighted to be quoted along with Rob Malley in this insightful piece from @rstait.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

jesus christ

What's making me happy right now is thinking of Trump sitting/sleeping there, with ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how hard he's losing.

BREAKING: Trump’s speech tonight will be broadcast live across all four major networks — CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox — beginning at 9 p.m. ET, interrupting several popular TV shows, including the two-hour season finale of The Masked Singer and a two-hour special episode of Survivor.

Today with @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/aBcPKrw...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

McCormick: "We were horrible in Vietnam until we did Rolling Thunder Two, then we won. As soon as we do half-measures, we lose. The faster we get this over the better. If we seize Kharg island, it could be done almost flawlessly. If we have enough firepower, it would be very easy to defend."

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today they voted to bring it back — exclusively for Palestinians.

If you're wondering how things are going, we just took ownership of an arcade cabinet running a DOOM mod where you battle mecha-spider Margaret Thatcher so

say what you will about Hasan, I know I have, but he has pulled a lot of younger people to the left in a streaming sphere lousy with nazis, and he has educated a ton of people on palestine. attacking him is an attempt to buckle the american left, because the center sees us as a threat

Simultaneously: - Microsoft bragging that 90% of the code its devs ship is AI generated - Microsoft demanding that its devs burn 10x fewer tokens because it's getting too expensive - Every week brings new and exciting emergency security patches for Windows 11

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I threw a Martha-Stewart-inspired Midnight Omelette Party, managed to get 30 people to come along, was allowed to write 2700 words about it by the brilliant @harrietfl.ft.com and it somehow ended up on the front cover of FT Weekend. READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE as.ft.com/r/96e10343-7... (gift link 🍳)

I'm stoked to see @jemima.bsky.social's columns are getting the type of illustrations they rightfully deserve. www.ft.com/content/f9e5...

Russia failed to defeat Ukraine for six months before it started targeting civilian electricity generation in an effort to get Ukraine to capitulate. It didn’t work.

My anecdote I heard this week is that Anhydrous Ammonia shortages are looking so severe that power plants that use it for NOx emission control are scrambling for supply. This use is one of the "first in line" customers who pay a significant premium for binding contracts. It's not good!

BREAKING: The blackout in Spain and Portugal in April 2025 did NOT happen because of renewables. The final ENTSO-E report on last year's Iberian blackout is out — and it's essential reading for anyone working on the energy transition. www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

The 10y10y forward Treasury yield (red) is rising towards its historical highs. If only we'd brought our deficit under control after COVID, then we'd now have more gas in the tank for emergency spending. But we didn't. Reckless fiscal policy has costs... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-lurkin...

Bloomberg analysts on the likely consequences of Ras Laffan being damaged.

in slightly-early honour of St Patricks Day, I will once again remind the world of the time Amazon united Ireland (and apologized for the Troubles), still one of my favourite moments on twitter

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4