this is a good blog for those of us interested in the enshittification of media sites: thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...

ordering the trevor powers themed drink in front of trevor powers

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

YEAAAH CONGRATS TO SINNERS

"To achieve this, we implemented a WebAssembly interpreter inside the transformer weights." sentences with terrifying aura

I'm always saying this

This is what it looks like to be an "electrostate"; politics flow from what energy infrastructures will allow.

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant. If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination. timesofoman.com/article/1691...

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

weeks where decades happen etc., but I am swamped by the weight of a quarter century in which my country fails to hold its leaders accountable for needless wars

When I went to Tehran in 2018 for a game conference I hung out with game nerds, music weirdos, and queer folks with tattoos and colored hair, just like I do here. We got vegetarian food and watched goofy uncles play basketball in the park. I sure hope they can live to see a better day.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

House numbers designed by Reinoud Oudshoorn, Amsterdam. reinoudoudshoorn.nl/assignment/ www.kaderdesign.com/available/p/... Image source instagram.com/p/BHiKap1gGy-/

So Markdown is getting a glow-up right now, thanks to (wait for it) AI. But I think it could end up being great for the Web even if you don’t care about AI. tedium.co/2026/02/17/m... new @tedium.co

I would like to share one of my favorite things we found in CDMX, specifically the beautiful typeface used within the palacio del bellas artes

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

last day in CDMX

working on a typology here

We are going to court to seek justice and demand accountability after the unconstitutional, military-style operation in Wilder, Idaho on October 19. No one is above the law.

it is pretty here

Yavapai Point, Grand Canyon National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #GrandCanyonNationalPark

Katherine Cross's writing is consistently great, and this piece is extremely timely. I feel so much admiration for the courage being shown in MN, and (as Cross details) it's nonviolent, unignorable, and having real impacts www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-buy-a-g...

This hit so fucking hard today.

“I grab my keys, I grab a coat, and drive over,” Knutson told me. “I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?’”

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people

a herd of remorseless wild pirates and inhuman atheistical devils were infernally cheering him on with their curses

This is a lot to take in. But the underpinning thesis of the speech is that we have shifted from a relatively open world with low trade frictions but weak/asymmetric governance, to one that can only be open to the extent that governance binds.

'Torii at Itsukushima' from the series ' Views of the Famous Sights of Japan' - Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1896. #ToriiTuesday #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

PCA is one of those techniques that sounds unreasonable (yeah sure we all want to fit a p-dimensional ellipsoid to our data) but turns out to be a reasonable solution to a wide range of problems. Also: I do hope stackexchange has been archived, because it is my gen's library of alexandria

This beautifully written piece by my pal @adambonica.bsky.social is worth your time today. A bit of light amid the darkness. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

january again

thankfully things are looking a bit more normal up there

Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets. Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party. This is non negotiable. You cannot support the continued existence of this fascist murderous secret police.

No, don't do it. I did it and it has seriously fucked me up. The important part is that it exists, not that you've personally witnessed it. A digital hairshirt does nothing but hurt you.

posting birds so we don't get fined

Welcome to the Public Domain, ARCTIC ANTICS (1930) ❄️ 🐧 Another 10 Silly Symphony shorts join the public domain. No rattling bones like last year's THE SKELETON DANCE, but we do get up to some Arctic Antics 🐻❄️ Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

good morning, this is one of the worst comparisons I've ever seen

it’s interesting to see the start date different people attach to this condition of existential american embarrassment. ten years ago, twenty, sixty. everyone’s sort of right

I know it's hard to believe, but this may be the most illegal thing he's done, save a few impoundment things.

I think this administration has vastly overestimated the rest of the world's willingness to put up with imperial oil war bullshit right now. I don't think this ends well. No war.