Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

Potentially hyper-cheap sodium batteries are becoming commercially available and are getting LFP battery specs. This is nuts! This could lead to *incredibly* cheap batteries! electrek.co/2026/04/27/c...

What it all boils down to is whether we can get to Nuremberg this time without passing through Hiroshima and Auschwitz. It's really that simple.

I'm worried. I sat with things for a bit today to try and see through the immediate fears, but I still land largely here: there's no obvious offramp, and the men behind it are not of a caliber which allows for humiliation. Does that automatically mean nuclear use? No, but… we should be serious. 1/x

I don’t have anything profound to add the discourse, but I am begging this country to take the loss today to prevent greater strategic defeat and, most importantly, preserve life tomorrow. There is simply no justification for this president to remain in office and for this war to continue.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

the vibe

The leaders of the free world - leading liberal democracies - have a moral responsibility to organize a world wide boycott of #FIFA #WorldCup games in the U.S. and demand all matches be moved to Mexico and Canada. Same consideration should be in play for #Olympics in LA.

If I was a member of the cabinet or Congress. I would be asking myself what I would say to my grandchildren when they asked, “what did you do when the president of the United States threatened to destroy a whole civilization?”

The President of the United States is unfit for office and should resign or be removed via the 25th Amendment or impeachment.

Trump should've been impeached at 12:01 PM Jan 20 2017, when he refused to divest himself of his interests before taking the oath of office. Everything since then is just another line on the ledger.

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Riyadh gets 90% of its fresh water from one desalination plant. About 85% of Israel’s domestic fresh water consumption comes from five major desalination plants. Teheran is already in severe drought. Let’s hope cooler heads prevail. A water war would be absolutely catastrophic.

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Nice to know that they’ve got my address for the Anthropic settlement. But they didn’t really need to send me 4 copies of the same legal notice (plus 3 more to a coauthor who does not live here)

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

How about it @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social ?

A must watch.

What the hell is wrong with you @repricklarsen.bsky.social?

@repricklarsen.bsky.social please follow AOC’s lead here

On the one hand, the evisceration of our security and intelligence gathering apparatus is probably creating a huge opening for adversaries to exploit. On the other hand, what harms could adversaries inflict on us that our leaders aren’t already inflicting?

🚨 NIH sent out another data call, this time for projects "related to any form of censorship at all or directing people to believe one idea over another related to health outcomes… e,g., any contracts to promote COVID vaccine uptake," I'm told. These data calls have recently preceded terminations.

Legal residents getting kidnapped by plain clothes agents of the state for expressing their political opinions isn't something that happens in democratic countries.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

@scalzi.com I just finished a fun read of The Android’s Dream and then saw this quote from Moldbug which seems based on the setup in your book! I’ve never seen such a clear example of the Torment Nexus phenomenon

Referring to other human beings as 'NPCs' is the worlds shortest sociopathy test.

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time

Disappeared: Mahmood Khalil Disappeared count: 1 Khalil was a Columbia University graduate student, US permanent resident, and husband of a US citizen detained by order of the White House on 3/9/2025. He spoke out against the Israeli government, which is believed to be the reason he was targeted.

This is both immoral and a method for creating terrorists.

ah yes, another day of my remaining time on this earth, spent thinking about elon musk and donald trump

@matthewdgreen.bsky.social have you seen this impersonator?

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

This is weak @nytimes.com

Since you are the sole source of cricket takes for much if Bluesky @nameshiv.bsky.social would you care to give us the play-by-play on this saga?

sometimes it's a bit hard to put into words seeing people hailing a spam filter run in reverse as the next revolution in programming even if 80% of people who responded to marketing surveys believe it makes them smarter at their job

This is worth reading in view of the power these two will shortly enjoy. They have clearly hired lawyers who know something about the legal framework under which the federal government works. I am not an expert on this, and I'm sure those who are will write soon. Three things leapt out, though.

Anyway, if you haven't seen it, watch this video by Tressie on the forces behind the 180 degree university pivot from being worried about AI to fully embracing it for all things. www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...

I firmly believe we can culturally make it *incredibly fucking embarrassing* to admit you asked ChatGPT something because actually using your brain to find real information was just too hard

@wandrme.paxex.aero I keep seeing duplicate posts from your Seattle bot. Known bug?

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