Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.

Good as time as any to note that Greg Landsman's primary opponent is Damon Lynch IV. He also has one of the most gorgeous campaign sites I've ever seen and a platform that is incredibly aware of the times we're living in. The primary is on May 5th.

“ISRAEL SAYS IRAN SUPREME LEADER KHAMENEI IS DEAD” 2/28/26 … 1/ www.axios.com/2026/02/28/i...

This is so spectacularly spot on by @naomioreskes.bsky.social Federal funding provides RELIABLE STABILITY void of the WHIMS of philanthropy and billionaires. That stability + freedom to explore = innovation and discovery at scale. $250B in R&D every year isn’t going to happen by Big Phil.

Part of a special issue of Philosophy and the Mind Sciences @phimisci.bsky.social on Representations in the Neurosciences and AI philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... - with a host of interesting papers!

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

I think the truly damning thing about the Dem comms response is that they had months to prepare for today and there's zero coordination, no unified message. Just every D leader responding like they quickly hammered out a statement in a panic at 6 am this morning

Trump has launched an illegal regime change war. As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos. When we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction.

Jonatan, a queer community member here in baltimore was kidnapped by ICE. He was here seeking asylum from el salvador. Please donate, share and call your congress members to demand they contact him and try to help get him released! www.gofundme.com/f/help-free-...

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

From our team in the Middle East: As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, millions of Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way”, promising amnesty if they surrender. wrd.cm/4l0QScB

fully doing the meme

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both congresscalllist.com

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

After strikes were launched on Iran by the US and Israel, Iran appears to be striking US targets in several countries at once, with blasts heard from the beaches of Dubai to the streets of Doha. CNN's Bijan Hosseini reports from Doha. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4bg6HsA

Super-cool singer/dancer/bouffant-wearer Cindy Wilson of the B-52s turns 69 today. I think her party may be down some dirty back road.

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.

This is known as a "reverse Jose Martí"

It’s looking more and more like Trump squeezing Anthropic was just in service of the other tech oligarchs Sam Altman and Elon Musk

Time for the JSON creator to do the funniest thing ever www.json.org/license.html

Does anybody with a connection to Radiohead want to check if they'll record a No Kings/Fuck ICE song?

so… the whole thing was a play by Altman to shiv Amodei and destroy his company? that’s sort of what I’m getting here

Barba with a Bee Gee? I was afraid it would sound like Yacht Rock: the Musical but it kind of works? youtu.be/Phh9B1-4EYs?... I think Feist should cover this while album unironically

rapid onset dark ages

dan simmons, author of multiple, deeply contemptible works of racism fiction, has died. congratulations, and no, hyperion was not as good as the obituaries will say it was

dude sounds like Mike Diamond's cousin Gerald

People often ask me "what's the best rap track about an MSI Suprim RTX 5090 teardown?" and I always send them this youtube.com/shorts/s5fdA...

After some tinkering, I have confirmed that NumExpr is, in fact, VERY GOOD at optimizing small expressions over n>100k arrays. I did manage to outrun it with a hand-tuned implementation in Rust, but I needed rayon AND chunked hardware-accelerated fns to do it. Starred github.com/pydata/numexpr

Democratic elites are obsessed with the idea that the party is viewed as "extreme," but the evidence is always inconclusive on that score. What's not inconclusive is that voters think Democrats are weak. Because Schumer and the rest are.

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

CBP hard at work defending us from infamous narco gang Globo de Fiesta

That’s not what this says. This was a new incident around Fort Hancock, 50 miles from El Paso that did not disrupt commercial air travel. The El Paso incident two weeks ago was CBP shooting at a balloon and they didn’t even hit it.

Why I am a card-carrying member

"At one point, a patient in hospice care with terminal cancer requested to listen to music. The staff played one of Apollon’s tracks, and the patient, upon hearing it, said 'beautiful' and passed away. Can there be a greater honor than this?" www.fondsound.com/interview-ke...

Below is the response to my question. The funny part of his response is that my research needed a control arm. My study actually did have a control arm (about 80% of the sample never reported discrimination). So the answer itself makes me even more confused.

In what world is it even helpful to treat this guy like he's not a vicious, churning, petty, malignant, Internet-rotted psychopath

I especially appreciate that they invited @michaeldgreen.phd to share how grant terminations under Bhattacharya's leadership are driving early career researchers out of science. I have not aware of another instance Bhattacharya has had to face this directly. bsky.app/profile/mich...

And to be clear, everyone was very aware that this was illegal, but Trump officials and DOGE didi it anyway. Multiple IRS acting commissioners were removed when they raised concerns. Pretty much the entire C-suite resigned. From last year: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

That’s 10 out of 24 warehouses they’ve purchased: - 3 of 8 “large scale” warehouse detention centers which will hold 7,000-10,000 people for weeks/months - 7 of 16 “regional processing centers” which will hold people for days before transfer to a “large scale” warehouse. Read more from me here:

Vibe coding ~ "dark flow" of gambling 🎰 No clear signal; losses can feel like wins 🎰 Unclear match b/t challenge & skill 🎰 False sense of control Sums it up perfectly IMO When I hear senior devs say "Claude fixed this, built that" feels like they are in that space (see quotes from @mitsuhiko.at)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthropic CEO says AI company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands to allow wider use of its tech.