Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defence minister says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spain-closes-airspace-us-planes-involved-iran-war-defence-minister-says

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

TIL Diego Garcia is the same distance from Iran as London www.ft.com/content/5c38...

Iran's maritime blockade has left a fleet of stranded tankers and forty thousand sailors facing a crossfire of drones and electronic jamming. Read more: bloom.bg/4bQv3t7 📷: Divyakant Solanki/EPA/Shutterstock

a hill I will die on is that when we talk about what tech does to our psychic and interior lives, the need to permanently soundtrack every moment of the day and the resulting discomfort with silence should be on par with questions around screen time

*breathing into a paper bag*

Fred Moten to speak at Conway Hall in London for the Stuart Hall Foundation Keynote, 23 May 2026. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/a...

oh hell yes, had kalshi getting charged before april on polymarket at +2500

87/ interview of Former White House energy adviser Bob McNally on CBS 60 minutes: "There are no policy solutions to a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Government tools like escorts, oil reserve releases, or gas tax cuts are marginal… symbolic… sideshows." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

may i suggest the chant: 'whose strait? our strait!' for both pro- and anti-war protesters

Personally, my favorite allied-country expression of naval non-commitment is “intensively looking”. What’s yours?

The oil cargo is worth like $130m tho, and I’m not sure that’s even taking into account current price hikes

The convo between myself and Melinda Cooper is now online 👇

seated for @quinnslobodian.com 👑

this means it is not open for transit

The Israelis bombed a bridge over the Litani river. They are actively cutting off South Lebanon from the rest of the country.

"Maersk is so concerned about bunker availability that it will be ‘moving fuel around the globe so we have the right amount in the right place at the right time’" if you thought this was only about the ships attempting to cross the strait, think again

On political economy, look up the work of Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (he has been publishing in LRB) and Arang Keshavarzian (he just published in NY Review), plus this astonishingly good piece by Iman Ganji and Bahar Nourizadeh that I learned a tonne from: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

64/ Day by day, this war is becoming a ecological catastrophe. on land and sea, fuel depots, oil fields, petrocehmical refineries, oil and gas tankers, are burning, billowing toxic smoke into the lungs of people and animals and sludge into marine life. ceobs.org/how-does-war...

it really is unfortunately this simple - we elected the stupidest narcissists absolutely convinced that they could just go and "assert warfighter dominance" or whatever, those pussy liberals didn't wanna FIGHT!!!, and are just now shocked that the enemy gets a vote too

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said." When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

according to Lloyd’s, even if (and it’s a big if) the US and the EU did begin escorting ships through the strait, tanker traffic would barely reach 10% normal daily transits

PHOTO OF THE DAY: The view from a cargo ship at the port of Salalah in Oman this evening. It is surrounded by burning port facilities after a reported drone strike by Iran. (📸 OSINT Technical)

Great example of how the US military industrial complex is a machine for turning tactical victories into strategic blunders: they thought they were buying missile defense, but they were actually buying a very costly illusion of invulnerability.

Not an original insight, but one of the major problems with "maximum pressure" is that Trump doesn't really have any levers left at his disposal and indeed he's spent a decade helping Iran insulate itself from the impact its war strategy is going to have on the global economy...

apparently the four minesweepers the US had in the Gulf just arrived back in Philadelphia yesterday to be decommissioned and scrapped, whoops

39/ Coz Strait of Hormuz is not US pvt property! There are few such oil chokepoints ..."5 keys lock up the world" -Malacca, Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, Suez, Dardanelles, Panama You can read my ESCAPING THE PERMANENT SUEZ for history of geopolitics of energy. www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/u...

Marcus Rediker, Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea – @versobooks.bsky.social, March 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.

Júlia Nueno Guitart's work on the target factory is indispensable for cutting through the whitewashing of war crimes that mainstream media will try to shove down our throats through the legitimising narrative of AI bringing "unprecedented precision" to warfare:

I'm out of words here

“What are we pretending not to know today?” —Toni Cade Bambara

“The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.” Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

jfc

they want it to be conscious but not in a way that means they don't own it. hmmm

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

"Seafarers already within the designated area are entitled to additional compensation and to request repatriation, noting the current, significant operational difficulties, while those instructed to enter it have the right to refuse to sail and request repatriation at the company’s expense."

Tankers are transiting Hormuz, but only small ones, raising fear that producers will have to cut production. As for the ships crossing Hormuz, "since March 3, half of transits in either direction were made by sanctioned or shadow fleet ships." www.lloydslist.com/LL1156546/No...

How to survive in the 21st century

Verso will be joined by Afshin Matin-Asgari, Golnar Nikpour, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, and Ervand Abrahamian for an urgent discussion this Tuesday, March 10, at 1pm EST / 6pm UK www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social #iran

THE SPICE MUST FLOW The Trump bailout for the Oil tankers is here, reports FT "US Development Finance Corporation to create $20bn reinsurance facility for Gulf shipping" www.ft.com/content/d1d6...

if quantitative social science is automatable, it's because many of the fields in question have already reorganized their research in such a way to be indistinguishable from machine output, and already optimized for machine measurement.

We were just watching and they literally went from pentagon to doha to ramallah to teheran to galle in the south of sri lanka to the turkish iranian border - a western network COULD NEVER

Lloyd's reports Trump posting that the US Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz asap, with "political risk insurance and guarantees" provided "at a very reasonable price". Never seen a better fit for the opening of Tilly's War Making and State Making as Organized Crime:

ai is a rhetorical technology. when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...