What Israel is doing in Lebanon is obscene. What they’re doing on every front is obscene. A country that will fall apart if they stop being in perpetual war.

Brutal.

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

Corruption & elite capture was always going to be the US' undoing; this admin simply supercharged it. Trump is only a symptom; dangers of propaganda as media, accelerating wealth inequality, unchecked techno-fascism pose far bigger challenges. And political opposition seem completely unprepared.

Any Dem 28 nominee that does not pledge to fully prosecute every single admin member for war crimes and corruption should not deserve a single vote in the Primary. And incompetent seat warmers - including Jeffries and Schumer - must be forced to resign or retire.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

there wasn't a lot left to ruin but my brain is currently fully broken that people with power let a man hold the entire world hostage for like 9 hours with an existential threat. insane country. broken.

I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

americans have absolutely no idea how badly the war is going for the united states, all thanks to the gutless, witless journalists who refuse to cover the facts of the situation

Now that at least one U.S. air crew member is alive on the ground in Iran, it's worth revisiting Pete Hegseth's commitment to "no quarter, no mercy for our enemies." This is the scenario he was warned about.

A single data point for y'all: Before the war, we were toying with the idea of a hybrid to replace our 15-year oldToyota. Now, we've reconsidered the decision to only focus on EVs. No solution other than a full break from consuming oil will insulate us from the wars of mad men.

🚨🚨Breaking news: #EUenergy commissioner Dan Jorgensen has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the #Gulf. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Call me naive but I don't buy into the hype that AI can make human-led research obsolete. Not because AI isn't capable. But because great scientific advances isn't simply borne out of brute force hypothesis testing, but rare sparks of curiosity influenced by our lived human experience.

Is this even a meaningful threat? US exports >60% of its LNG to Europe. The US needs Europe's demand as much or even more than EU needs US LNG. Following through with this threat will have a cascading issue within the O&G sector in the US. Not like others are lining up to sign long-term deals.

This facility was opened by Obama. I say that not to downplay what’s happening now but to emphasize that family detention was horrific from the moment it began.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Somewhat related to this - I know there are many capacity expansion models for long-term planning in the electricity sector but is there a high time resolution model with process/generator-level detail that could model blackout risks like the one happened in Spain?

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

It is insane that all legal pathways to removing a President have been rendered impotent. These clowns will not stop until global economy implodes. 1) We can kiss goodbye to any talk of LNG oversupply 2) Clean energy switch might accelerate (China will benefit) 3) EU yet again thrown into misery

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

As I've posted, it's baffling the confidence with which establishment finance and political types dismiss me when I've expressed concern about the dollar being replaced as the global reserve currency. People lack imagination I guess. But maybe not the Iranians: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-war-de...

Never fund DHS again. Abolish it completely. If someone wants to moan about "but but we have to ____" yeah fine we can discuss a new department, but *this* department has to go.

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

It is really worth your time to read this @propublica.org story on how the Trump administration gutted the office responsible for trying to minimize civilian casualties. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Trump White House is providing us with both precedent and a blueprint for excising X, Grok, SpaceX, Palantir and other fascist companies from the government once the next Democratic administration assumes power

Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?

The only beneficiary of this illegal and unnecessary war is Russia that is now selling oil to India at over $90/bbl. Literally everyone else - Ukraine, EU, Gulf states, and the US - is paying the price for the reckless behavior of the Trump admin. Makes you wonder why Trump is doing this.

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

Unconscionable. Congress needs to aggressively reassert its authority. Stop this illegal war from becoming even more deadly. Now we know it was likely a U.S. bomb that caused mass casualties at the girls' school in Iran. No more of our taxpayer dollars funding this savagery.

This is utterly shameful. Starting an illegal war that is enveloping the entire middle east *and* not having a plan to safely evacuate or even warn Americans in the region should be grounds for impeachment and trials. Rubio must be impeached and tried for the conduct of the State Dept.

The emerging “Claude killed the kids” frame on this story shows just how easily anti-AI counterhype can end up doing the government’s work for it. If you use a computer to choose targets—esp. but not only if you give it bad data to work with—and it chooses poorly, that‘s on you, not the computer!

Every single individual involved in this should be criminally tried and put behind bars for the rest of their lives.

What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

So let’s think about this. A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands. The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

I think much of the next administration will be spend repairing relationships with allies and begging them to engage with us again through apologies/incentives. Given how moronic and anti-America the current administration is, it is likely our relationships have been damaged beyond repair.

All this manufactured debate about X vs Bluesky, and yet no one talks about the most important aspect of social media: Saying nothing is free and fabulous.

What's even more important here is that 40% of solar and 53% of batteries will come online just in Texas. It would be pretty silly to dispute that Texas is the clean energy leader in the US. Lot of states talk about clean energy. Texas deploys them.

This thread shows a deliberate defunding of U.S. science, engineering, social science, innovation, and education excellence. It’s a U.S. national security, competitiveness, and economic disaster.

Sometimes all you have to hold on to is that you're not the only one feeling this way.

There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.

One thing politicians don’t convey clearly on climate action is that emissions mitigation is a benefit to future generations - specifically, children and grandchildren of current voters. It’s in service of humanity’s moral imperative that we give more to our children that we ourselves had. 1/

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...