It's far from the most important takeaway from this excellent reporting, but first thing I notice: zero medals. Mister big important Major managed to skate through multiple wars with no sand on his boots.

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If they start touring in Sarajevo I'll be very upset

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Toxic narcissism, cocaine, and not washing your butt sure makes you act fucked up.

I guess people mean well but these policy prescriptions that assume the private sector’s good faith and interest in “job creation” feels especially cruel given our political moment. What are we even talking about here??? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

The harder fact is that those who made livings of it before were constantly hustling. Even perceiving the idea of critic/media writer as career path wasn't something that really existed until what, the twenties? Maybe the teens? Survivorship bias really kicked in (as for authors, etc.)

That you wanted to return to the dark ages? The danger is entirely indirect, resulting from the sudden, total loss of the technological infrastructure upon which human life depends.

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Seeing as we seem to be running headlong into the most avoidable global conflagration since WW I. What do you think an EMP from atmospheric detonation of nuclear weapons does to all those data centres the AI giants are threatening to build?

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If there’s anyone around to write the history of the 21st century, unpacking how the wealthiest and for a time most technologically advanced, and among the best educated countries in history, chose this path, against all alternatives.

It’s especially bizarre because we’re living in what seems more and more like a post-capitalist economy. Mercantilism and rent-seeking which seem like our lives now, are distinctly not Capitalism. They’re worse.

The Western Standard was once Ezra Levant’s personal organ. Now amplifying the views of a loud and sad man whose public fantasies include rounding up people at gunpoint, raping the leader of the opposition’s wife, and unsurprisingly, Holocaust denial AND Holocaust enthusiasm. Seems on brand.

Okay, actually doing this now. Because with the sun setting on the second full day after the nazis came after me in person, I’m realizing no mainstream media cares to cover it and no press freedom cares to condemn it. I don’t want to spend too much time with that realization and its implications!

AI being pushed as a treatment or accessibility feature for ADHD is dishonest. Mostly because LLMs don't help with ADHD and the things that are marketed as "AI" only started being marketed that way a couple years ago when AI took off, and are not LLMs.

But if one of them LLMs tried to do it FOR me? Absolutely not, because I've seen where it fucks up so now I gotta go back and make sure it's doing it right which just adds time for me.

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I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here. I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!

Kind of crazy that a journalist has been threatened by Nazis for doing journalism and we’re not seeing widespread condemnation!

I haven’t cried yet but oh man, this one is getting me close :( Sorry if that’s too negative or needy or something lol but wow. Feels very lonely, professionally speaking

Seeing that no press freedom orgs have rushed to defend and help @rachelgilmore.bsky.social makes me ask, for the millionth time, what do CJFE, PEN, etc even do? Why exist at all when you do fuck all to fight censorship and intimidation?

Maybe these dummies who think their computer has grown a soul would be impressed if Claude or whatever program said: "How about you don't start another forever war?" Instead of just people saying it.

When influence runs on outrage, clarity disappears fast. Systems built on amplification of confusion don’t just misinform - they normalize distortion until it feels like truth.

One of the biggest lessons I’m trying to instill in my sons is that, although they have the right to feel their emotions, and it’s important to name and be honest about their emotions, what they do with those emotions AFTERWARD is what matters most.

Okay this is pretty awesome.

Outside of Netanyahu’s Bunker, Victor Orban’s offices and the troll caves AfD call home this seems like the consensus position for the people who live under what until recently was Merka’s political and economic hegemony.

I want you to understand that I LOVED THE FUCK out of both Harry Potter, and both of the creators being trash ass people was disappointing. So I moved on. However I recognize how nostalgia is used to push bigotry, and being that I remember the bigotry of that time.... nah, I'm good.

Leah sure is not alone. Use of tactical nuclear weapons seems more likely right now than impeachment or removal under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.

I will just say it out loud: I am very concerned Trump will use a tactical nuclear weapon in his quest for a quick victory over Iran. I am reminded of the story from 2016, when Trump reportedly asked three times in a single briefing why nuclear weapons couldn’t be used:

Guys have built multi decade careers as wrestling heels simply by pretending to be Pete Hegseth

none of this word salad makes sense so if you want to be "trusted", David, you have a very long and very personal journey ahead and it doesn't end with you running a media network

If we learned nothing else from 2025, it’s that we shouldn’t take for granted that what we love will continue to be funded If people and libraries don’t buy a certain kind of book, publishers will stop investing in them That’s also one reason the library book bans are so scary

i love how everyone is just perfectly comfortable asserting as truth what is ultimately a conspiracy theory without a shred of substantive evidence to support it, particularly when it has jews at the center of it.

Most of us using our brains the way we did to avoid getting eaten by sabretooth tigers and not the way did to invent beer.

"A fair fight is one you didn't plan properly." WWII fighter ace of aces Eric Hartmann.

Yes exactly; this is exactly why I point this shit out. There's no fairness, sportsmanship or anything but cold blooded murder in war. War itself is the crime, the individual acts of normal war are symptomatic.

The Beaverton doesn’t miss.

Vibe coding, vibe work, vibe jobs. All sounds very masturbatory to me. Which is the best thing I can say about it.

LLM’s without guardrails used in warfare are “high tech carpet bombing” and “used to avoid accountability” Front Burner with Jayme Poisson: Iran and AI on the battlefield www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

People are mad that the #StarfleetAcademy season finale has - mild spoiler - apocalyptic stakes. uh yah. It‘s a YA „genre“ show. Do you remember being 15? Do you remember Buffy Anne „She Saved the World a Lot“ Summers? Never mind streaming TV is now expected to keep up with movies.

If anyone other than professional weirdo Tom Cotton wrote that, I’d assume it was anti-war satire.

I understand what these words mean when these words get put together but I don't understand how these words could possibly be together.

"An Iranian woman documented the moment US and Israel struck civilian areas in Iran. Their favorite target, children, women and civilians..."

I haven’t seen any mention of the fact that the Iranian ship sunk in international waters was completely defenseless as it returned from an international exercise that required it to offload all ammo. The US backed out of the exercise at the last minute, and waited. No honor in this at all.

Everyone needs to know the extent of what the U.S did. An unarmed Iranian ship invited to a joint Indian naval exercise paraded its sailors before the president alongside other participants, including the U.S. At the last minute, the U.S. withdrew from the exercise and torpedoed the Iranian vessel

If Jesus doesn’t show up are they just gonna Armageddon harder?