Every time this happens, some people insist that the man can't be held accountable because he's a special miracle who cannot be replaced and, uh, nope. Nope nope nope.

"Thanks to the closure of the strait, helium prices have spiked, suppliers are declaring force majeure, and businesses are scrambling to deal with looming shortages. (For many years the US government maintained a strategic helium reserve, but this was sold off in 2024.)"

not so friendly reminder that it's impossible to understand the Trump administration without religion HIRE RELIGION REPORTERS AND TALK TO SCHOLARS OF RELIGION PLEASE

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Please understand that for a lot of evangelicals, Armageddon is a desired outcome, and many believe that Trump was 'chosen' to lead the world into that. Mike Johnson (who has framed this war in religeous terms) will not reconvene the house during the break.

Dude, you can open carry in this state, but if you do maybe don't lean across the customer service counter, get up in the reps face, and start making demands. It's not a good look. I don't know what the bat-signal was, but within 30 seconds there was a pack of managers and emplyees around him.

If anyone looked right beneath the surface, they’d be able to see that Red Lobster’s real downfall was not offering endless shrimp — it was private equity’s endless greed.

This is Pye, who likes to sit like a human. He lounges like this for long periods of time.

Re: the rescued pilot. █████ said "What he said on the radio sounded like something a Muslim would say" What did he say? "God is good".

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Could the POTUS cabinet changes be a premptive move to avoid a 25th amendment invocation? That would be on-brand.

PIs that already know how to read and digest and write might make use of tools that potentially save *them* time. These tools would short circuit skill development in the untrained and inexperienced

Meanwhile, Don't miss this . . .

FFS.

I'm sure spiking diesel prices will fix this problem. 🤨

"In the most extreme case, our model achieved the top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images." Well this isn't good 😮 arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687

1/It is wild to me Renee Good’s death and the failure to federally investigate her death has occured when the shooter called her a “fucking bitch.” Gender discrimination does not exist as a category if someone calls a woman a “bitch” as she dies from your gunshot wound.

Trump has denied most disaster aid requests from Democratic-led states.

Go figure.

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

Took 40-odd years but Bruce has finally allowed "Born in the USA" to be used in a commercial. By the ACLU. Supporting birthright citizenship. Yeah.

Rutile included quartz. Only a dozen found in a pocket Tanzania. We sold this natural beauty. www.goldenhourminerals.com/shop

And here we are.

Who knew this song would be so fitting after so many years 😒

"You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right." Goddamn, Melville could really cook.

I understand why people feel icky about it, but having been through it personally, colonoscopy is freaking awesome: it's diagnostic, therapeutic, and lifesaving, all while you take a nap prevention is the best medicine if you're 45 or over, do the prep and get scoped

"Raw Farm has been associated with over a dozen other outbreaks and many recalls in the last 20 years, according to Bill Marler, a personal injury lawyer specializing in food poisoning outbreaks who has kept a record of the company’s outbreaks."

More on "Zorro Ranch" . . . The entire series is good reporting. alisav.substack.com/p/they-all-k...

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Just let people live and give them what they need to live sustainably, free and healthy. Radical fucking position, I know. NYT will doubtless both sides it if ever called upon to do so.

Officials are normally presented with ceremonial swords or paintings or whatever. But these guys are so fucking stupid that foreign intelligence agencies can literally give them an "Honorary Electronic Communications Device for a Very Special Boi" and they fall for it every time.

If defunding NASA could end war or pay the national debt, then we should do that. But it won’t. Great societies do many things at once. 🧪🔭🌎🛰️

Obligatory meme.

Commodity analyst Paul Sankey on CNBC, with an unnerving analogy: "Some of us are looking at this a bit like what we saw with Covid, where the market seemed to be 'air-walking', regardless of what was clearly a very bad situation -- and then, suddenly, you know, collapsed when it all came home."

New level of hell: just learned through local networks that visitors to the Delaney Hall concentration camp in Newark NJ are being turned away due to "dress code violations." A teen whose mom has been detained there for five months was turned away last week for wearing a top with spaghetti straps.

people liken LLMs to 'junior engineers' they are far more akin to distinguished engineers that have alzheimers and cant remember what happened 5 minutes ago but know what a bloom filter is

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

10/10 take. no notes

Prediction: If there's a "settlement" or payback of tarriffs, then it'll take the form that tobacco settlements did - paid to the states to use primarily as general budget slush funds.

tired: "no plan" wired: "accelerationist"

Every paragraph is informative.

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This is a quick read, and worth it.

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

So the "plan" now is to declare victory in time for the midterms? Good luck with that.