1/7 - The New START treaty - last remaining nuclear arms limitation treaty - expired today. Russia and the United States have so far failed to prepare a replacement treaty. At best, the two may agree voluntarily not to exceed the limits for a while.

Anthropomorphizing language conceals the limitations of AI, promoting misplaced trust. @emilymbender.bsky.social & @nannainie.bsky.social suggest focusing on a system’s functionalities: instead of saying a model is “good at” something, say what it is “good for." www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t...

I’ve been badly neglecting this platform for some time, for a variety of reasons. Thanks to @awarnes.bsky.social for the encouragement to rectify that. From last Friday’s march in Minneapolis, prior to ICE’s murder of Alex Pretti.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

"nearly all the mainstream liberal pundits sounding the alarm about white supremacy, jingoism, xenophobia, and political violence failed to connect these things to U.S. imperial violence"

ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have proven themselves incapable of obeying the law, let alone enforcing it for others; unable to self-soothe, let alone keep the peace. Why must ordinary people be asked to stay calm and not upset them? www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

If you read just one thing this week … read about the hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending Congress passed. inkstick.substack.com/p/critical-s...

Wow. Anduril’s planned autonomous weapons factory in rural Ohio is projected to destroy/reroute wetlands and waterways - so the Ohio EPA went ahead and approved a “lowering of water quality” for the area. In order to protect “economic considerations” sciotovalleyguardian.com/2026/01/16/o...

"Trump and his allies are tapping into a grim American tradition whose history predates and inspires modern iterations of both the white genocide myth and the great replacement theory. For some two centuries, invasion rhetoric has fueled nativist vigilantism and anti-immigrant state violence."

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/

Waiting for the ship to arrive... #b3d Made in Blender with some ChuckCG assets, LensSim camera, and graded in Resolve.

some work in progress concept art from sketch to kit to initial blockout. All part of @learnsquared.com Interior Concept Design course by Nick Stath. #blender #conceptart

"Despite the ceasefire, east of the ‘yellow line’ destruction is continuing. The Israeli military is demolishing residential blocks and clearing the land, threatening to transform temporary dispossession into the permanent displacement of Palestinians from more than half of Gaza’s land."

Records show that Raytheon was able to claim tax refunds for jobs it didn’t create and bypass public comment for new grants in North Carolina. inkstickmedia.com/special-trea...

Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow

@wslafoy.bsky.social fwiw I also didn't know the word "venal". Great episode. Have you guys ever discussed the Norwegian miniseries "The Heavy Water War"? It's based on the efforts to sabotage Nazi heavy water production in occupied Norway.

Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 5.0! ACES, Adaptive Subdivision, HDR, Storyboarding, Geometry Nodes, 588 bugs fixed, and so much more. 📖 Changelog & Download: blender.org/download/rel... 📺 Video Recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wEq... #b3d

Want to make visuals that don’t just inform — but resonate? Join us on Nov 11 for Art + science: Blending creativity and analysis in data visualization, and learn how experts balance clarity, creativity, and collaboration. 🎙️@shirleywu.studio 🎙️@tanyashapiro.bsky.social 🎙️Kelsey Nanan

Today our teams across the #GazaStrip were treating severely wounded patients in attacks by Israeli forces, causing alarming civilian casualties. We have seen injured patients in Al Aqsa, Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals.

Israel's military said the ceasefire in Gaza resumed after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials. n.pr/48SFSKo

Leqaa Kordia—not a Columbia student but “a simple Palestinian girl,” as she describes herself—is the last remaining campus protester still in detention from the Trump Administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S.

New from me @thenation.com: the farce at Sharm El-Sheikh displays the delusion that led to October 7 and the genocide Israel pursued after it — that the U.S. regional coalition can pursue normalization over the heads of the Palestinians, who are supposed to accept permanent subjugation.

Made a mini doc telling the story of my friends' hobby-turned-business. It was a labor of love and my first experience wearing three hats (film/edit/grade). Enjoy! youtu.be/9QNEFdlwJCY?... #art

This is an absolutely brilliant piece and well worth the read - "'I think the visual lexicon of open-source investigation is something that the Israelis have co-opted as a way to try to delegitimize [those investigations] and confuse,' said Elizabeth Breiner..."

I joke because haha vibe work AND the history of labor automation being applied to justify paying the workers subject to it less/treating them poorly is clear and consistent and not up for debate. So I'm also serious.

Super fun and immediately installed. Always love a good PWA game 🌐 (I still play Proxx @jakearchibald.com and @surma.dev and even got my 7 year old into it!)

Aaaand my #BCON25 #b3d talk is already online! It was (and is) an amazing experience. Thank you so much @blender.org OTOY Render-Nnetwork and of course the amazing audience for having me 🥰 Hopefully you can take something away from it 🧑‍🎓 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCia...

So good. "To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”"

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide. The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.

For my latest Weekly Chart at @datawrapper.de I tried a different way of mapping destruction in Gaza using OSM buildings. www.datawrapper.de/blog/mapping...

Anderson Japanese Gardens (August, 2025) Shot on: - Kodak Pro Image 100 - Minolta XD w/ Rokkor 35mm lens #photography #kodak #shotonfilm

This week, our co-founder Gregor helps us make sense, or at least get a clearer picture, of the scale of destruction in the streets of Gaza. 🗺️ www.datawrapper.de/blog/mapping...

1800+ film workers are boycotting Israeli film institutions implicated in the genocide & apartheid of Palestinians. Signers include: Aimee Lou Wood, Ava DuVernay, Ayo Edebiri, Brian Cox, Josh O'Connor, Mark Ruffalo, Olivia Colman, Tilda Swinton, Yorgos Lanthimos, Javier Bardem

Svelte's easing fns re-applied to control erosion of gravitational strength over distance in threlte 🚀 Add static gravity sources (suns?) or dynamic bodes (comets?) with their own ~random gravity. Try it out: stackblitz.com/edit/n-body-... #svelte #threlte #threejs #threebodyproblem #stackblitz

updated the app to include a standalone SWU calculator after seeing this graphic from @worldnuclear.bsky.social (thank you to @aminal.bsky.social for sharing) Also updated rounding logic for more precision and added WNA to the resources page 🧵⤵️ #nukesky enrichment-calc.netlify.app

Wu-Tang cloud spotted at the park today

Time to learn some Unreal with @gamedevtv.bsky.social! Navigation is so different from Blender and will take some getting used to, blueprints are exciting, and there's a lot built in that is extremely convenient. After lesson one I made this awesome and totally safe teeter-totter 😂 #UE5

80 years ago, on August 6, 1945, a single shutter clicked in Hiroshima and recorded what no camera had captured before, and none has again: the immediate aftermath of a city annihilated by nuclear weapons. "Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima's nuclear toll."

What AI-based "vibe coding" feels like:

"In November, 2024, a report by the Community Training Center for Crisis Management found that ninety-six per cent of children living through this war feel that their death is imminent, and nearly half said that they want to die."

Views from a morning hike up Grassi Lakes trail near Canmore, Alberta (June, 2025) 📷 Lumix S5IIX 🔍 Panasonic S 85mm #photography #banff #mountains

Sunrise at Lake Louise in Banff National Park (June, 2025) 📷 Lumix S5IIX 🔍 Panasonic S 85mm #photography #banff

So you're saying there's a two year "sunset clause" on the effect of strikes and they lead to decreased transparency? I guess a multilateral agreement w/ increased monitoring & verification wherein some requirements would expire over varying 5, 10, 15+ year timelines is just not as cool. #nukesky

An administration that claims to be obsessed with eliminating waste should look no further than the Sentinel ICBM program. @mknight.bsky.social and I have done a deep dive into the system; we explore why the program is so behind schedule, over-budget, and poorly managed. 👇 fas.org/publication/...

Clips from a recent trip to Canmore and Banff. Went up to the waterfalls around Grassi Lakes and a road trip up to lakes Louise, Hector, Herbert, and Peyto. 🏔️ Shot on: - Lumix S5IIX - Panasonic S 85mm f/1.8 - Minolta MC W.Rokkor-HG 35mm f/2.8 youtu.be/ScmufEj3nhw #photography #nature #lumix

im pickiest about salads but in my defense i grew up in the midwest and that is the land of wack ass salads

🚨 What are the radiological risks of striking Fordow, Natanz, Isfahan—and other Iranian nuclear facilities. I assessed the risks yesterday for @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/06/the-... #Fordow #Natanz #Isfahan #Esfahan #Iran #nuclearweapons #JCPOA #NPT

Sunset in Wisconsin (May 2025) 🎞️ Kodak Pro Image 100 35mm film 📷 Minolta XD with Helios 44M #filmphotography #photography

Olbrich Botanical Gardens (May 2025) 🎞️ Kodak Pro Image 100 35mm film 📷 Minolta XD with Helios 44M #film #photography