The audacity! Henry Kissinger did not live a full century & die peacefully in his Connecticut mansion, only to have his sanctification as patron saint to genocidaires undermined & his name & legacy maligned by a milquetoast centrist like Anne Applebaum. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

It's really hard to get even a well-tailored suit to look "good" on me,¹ but this (kinda²) works? 🤔

A friend made a joke about Vaporeon. I assumed it was something wholesome like the trans affection for Sylveon because of its colour scheme. I was very wrong and now feel strongly that amoebae deserve their shot at building a better world after a nuclear winter.¹

finally got to this today, and just so grateful for Kelly's words. I think a lot about how my own father might see me in this moment, and how I'd communicate my actions in this moment to him

Literally one of the few things AI is semi-decent for, if you don't obsess over little details like consistency in the placement of persons. It is interesting, though, that it was virtually impossible to get Nethanyahu and Trump to switch places or make him look the proper way, despite reference.

Two memes I felt compelled to make earlier today. Presented without further comment. 🤷

I feel typecast, if in an entirely fair manner: sent a friend a photo from my father's wake and she replied with "You chose that watch and pen because they're matte black, didn't you?" Well... yes. :S

The source code for the TM SGNL apps (basically a backdoored version of Signal used by Trump officials) is public! Since it's open source, I've pushed it to github for easier research micahflee.com/heres-the-so...

I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...

Revenge of the Sith is kind of funny in a meta sense now because grown adults look at focus group tested slop and are like “this shit is too political, unlike the movies of my childhood where Darth Vader choked his wife then looked at the camera and directly quoted George W. Bush.”

I was 28 in 2016 and this is an insane characterization of what growing up as a white man in my cohort was like. Demonstrative of how out-of-touch the cultural right is with actual American life www.theredneckintellectual.com/p/right-wing...

This is something I've also lamented. I understand perfectly why it turned out like this, but we genuinely, desperately, need more authoritative words on the questions of compliance and consequences for breach.

My father just passed away.

that single sentence is going to drive me insane

I feel like the very clear two word answer to this should be "posse comitatus"? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A match made in idiot pundit hell.

Well, to the surprise of absolutely no one... 😮‍💨

That’s some really bad public relations work by the ICC. How is a laymen supposed to understand this press release on the Netanyahu/Gallant/Israel/Palestine issue? I meant, even I don’t really understand it without further research and I do this for a living. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

It's rather interesting to see the Israeli nationalist PR playbook copied this closely by the Hindutva movement. The Hindutva have done this before, but this is a particularly striking example based on "lessons learned" and the recent post October 2023 Israeli Hasbara playbook.

1/ Trump is basically ordering that the US government stop enforcing the Civil Rights Act anywhere it relies on disparate-impact. In other words, anywhere the outcome of a policy is discriminatory, but you can't prove racist intent.

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

Take a break from the news and watch Swedish moose spring migration live instead !

Ah yes. There it is. No, you couldn't. And even if you could, in good faith, do so, explaining operational constraints and structural reasons doesn't relativise. It explains. *smh* German radicalisation/extremism and MENA studies is so f'ed.

I genuinely hate how easy it is to troll me. I've been sort of mentally gridlocked on this tweet for more than 24 hours now. The person is in ME/extremism research at University of Heidelberg, so I'm genuinely trying to see their point. However, this is either trivially true or dangerous nonsense.

It says a lot about society that the New York Times just casually finishes a paragraph like that and doesn't even deign to elaborate. They're like "yeah, that's just a thing that happens to normal people there, like cardiovascular disease or neoplasms". www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...

They're not mistakes, BBC. You should really stay on message here: they're happy little accidents. 🤮 I literally can't anymore with this coverage. www.bbc.com/news/article...

we've heard your bluster all the way to Big Ben we have no lobby no trade reps no factories only krill and guano so much krill and guano we did not mean to win so bigly at trade by merely existing forgive us for being too cool for your economy

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This is the way.

We're going to put you into the fucking system buddy and it's going to adjudicate ur ass beyond reproach ur fukin done fam it's over

And to prove that it doesn't have to be: I felt quite okay (not to say rather flattered) with its comparison in my case (Alan Turing). 🤷🏼‍♂️

This is incredible. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Renaming all my Signal Chats Involving Friends.

Tired: You have lost the Mandate of Heaven Inspired: You have lost the Mandate of Hell

POV: You lose the guy who wrote the 2002 memos justifying extraordinary rendition and torture on the treatment of aliens.

FINALLY! REVENGE! breakingdefense.com/2025/03/boei...

I mean, sure, you could put it that way. I actually respect Shor, but quality of political analyses in this year & age is just fascinating. As someone who has pointed to this development since the late 2000s, & more so after 2013-6, I just feel tired by this point www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

"No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested." #GNUTerryPratchett

*Of course* someone has sampled MRI sounds for electronic music, and none less than Charlotte Gainsbourg: youtu.be/D-ihfLPD6S8?...

Hello oxycodone my... not actually all that old friend. 😮‍💨 Appointment with neurosurgeon tomorrow, let's hope that gets us somewhere.

So, it may just be because this isn't usually the time to have a non-emergency fMRI scan, or it may just be because of the purple-blue mood lighting in the room, or maybe I'm just hearing things, but has anyone ever sampled fMRI gradient coil noise for EDM music? 🤔

German election results in one picture.

Not the last day, but the last time things seemed like they might change.

We live on the dumbest timeline. Probably one of the most depressing, too.

Something I love to hate about my ADHD meds: I sleep a lot better after taking them. Like, I took them a little earlier and immediately fell asleep within 30 minutes and slept really well for five hours, which I normally never do — and it's far from the first time I notice this. 😅