I swear I can be good.

Not to beat a very dead horse, but it should would be nice if GD would get their act together the same way. It's not like Russia actually thinks Georgia is a valid partner despite whatever fawning. civil.ge/archives/732...

Once again, sending "the Kurds" to fight a proxy war presupposes a political entity called "the Kurds." (Never mind that this is Iraq; Iran and Syria have similar schisms and let's not get started on Turkey.) www.rudaw.net/english/kurd...

The Georgian Ministry of Highway Construction in Tbilisi, Georgia. r/brutalism

On an old QAA episode, @derekberes.bsky.social and @matthewremski.bsky.social mentioned a 2011 paper that argued there are three core beliefs that connect "new age" communities and conspiracy communities: 1. Everything is connected. 2. Everything happens for a reason. 3. Nothing is as it seems.

Photos spreading online appear to match a photo of a California teacher whose name matches a name spreading online as the correspondents dinner shooter

There was no reason to attend in the first place. The press corps isn’t allowed to commit journalism or they risk being banned. Unfortunately, anyone attending was complicit. It’s hard, and possibly inappropriate, to sympathize under those circumstances.

This is all so fucking fake. Even if it's real, it's fake.

But the program is resuming?!??!?!?

Anyway, I think this might hit a new record for a combination of pretentiousness, wheel reinvention, and unintentional hilarity. Come for an obligatory walk through the 'greatest hits' of stylized 'grand strategy' history. Stay for paragraphs like these 👇

While I'm taking joy from seeing Carter Hart sit under .700, I'm definitely not comfortable with Utah just not generating offense in the third against a team known for third period comebacks.

It’s Gritty. No context needed.

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

The basic insight here is obvious but the background and analysis is still quite good. warsight.com/2026/04/24/w...

This is quite neat. Go play with it!

This is a fake video produced by Russia's Matryoshka disinformation campaign. I'd be interested to know where you first encountered it.

well well well

Back in September, I wrote about Ukraine's long-range drones. Now that they are regularly and accurately striking Russian refineries and oil infrastructure, I think it's worth reading again, for those who missed it. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

(2 of 2) There’s a deluge of these things now, pretending not only to be from contemporary authors but dead ones as well: James Joyce, Agatha Christie etc. (And bad actors are also posing as publishing executives, btw.) Please repost to help spread the word!

(1 of 2) WARNING: SCAM EMAILS PRETENDING TO BE FROM ME. They offer very specific feedback on writing in progress/posted or self-published works, then propose an offline conversation. They are coming from this address: [email protected].

Why Indiana, Copilot? Note that I am not in Indiana. I have not been in Indiana for almost two decades and even then I was just driving through. I have no family in Indiana. AI search results are absolute trash.

Originalism is the "IvE dOnE mY oWn ReSeArCh" meme brought to life.

Truer words never spoken. (For anyone who hasn’t had the pleasure, carne adovada is the food of the gods and should best be sampled from random diners on the Santa Fe-Taos road.)

I SEE

Not to be a broken record, but this is the same category error as assuming Kurds will act in alignment with US/Western interests. That’s not how any of this works. Manichean thinking doesn’t capture reality.

Reddit (feminist portions; they do exist) is having the same issue. Any discussion of how it's not really that many people and the number is misleading is treated as minimizing the scope of the problem or ignoring how widespread it may be outside this group.

Modest proposal: anyone who has ever purchased, owned, tried on, or worked on smart glasses be exiled permanently to Kamchatka on pain of immediate execution.

I’m partial to Banazîr, the people’s collective designed for the same purpose. In fact, I’m fine if Banazîr is Ilúvatar’s union.

Murc's Law mentioned in the wild(ish).

Ottawa color guy (radio) already mumbling something about "purgatory" and here I am hoping for another two periods.

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté "I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved."

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re; VGK’s starting goaltender tonight: If you are able, I recommend channeling the feelings of hopelessness and anger into donations to organizations like Signs of HOPE Nevada or other orgs supporting sexual assault survivors in the Las Vegas area. sohlv.org

Nations That Might Build Nuclear Weapons

Definitely a sunning yourself day. (Cattle dog does not notice turtles. Just as well.)

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

The Other Place is evil, and yet good things can yet be found there.

DOJ seeks to vacate insurrectionists’ convictions, while going after a former CIA Director: If Trump can make convictions disappear for allies while prosecuting critics, the damage isn’t just theoretical. Once that line is crossed, it doesn’t easily uncross itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Hey wait it’s Caturday.

As noted earlier, Iran operates with two distinct power centers, and the one that truly matters is the faction that controls the military. The U.S. is almost certainly not talking to that group.

It's an abbey with a bunch of mice who make cheese and no one will convince me otherwise.

Gift link so that anyone can find an access The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

And Georgia is suddenly one step further from EU accession.

Weird to bury the lede: the firm behind this is TOP Agency. They deserve to be named and shamed for this.

I am Shiba!

and i'm not just talking about my own institution. it's a trend across higher ed. and i'm really worried about what that will mean for helping all of us understand (and escape) this current moment.

If you've already had a Grand Slam, would the trickster god of teleporting people to Waffle House make you eat another? Is this a valid loophole?