the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

Above all, there are no winners, only losers. Iran is left with a brutal state, a traumatized population, a decimated infrastructure and worse economy. Lebanon's best chance at a viable state in a decade is obliterated, with yet another generation of rebuilt infrastructure bombed to rubble.

Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

neal stephenson also dislikes the pervert glasses www.theverge.com/tech/899797/...

Isaac Newton discovering Pink Floyd (1660)

This is literally the only thing i have the bandwidth to read about today

On Palantir: “The Miami-based company embedded its technology in the NHS in 2023, the police in 2024 and the military in 2025.“ What could possibly go wrong… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Heron of Disapproval would like a word with you.

Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz:

Brilliant analysis of the far right freakout about replacing Winston Churchill with wildlife on British banknotes. Personally I think it's poetic that a man who called Indians a "beastly people with a beastly religion" would be replaced with animals.

Luna logic sharding youtube.com/watch?v=4PeF... #synth #eurorack #music #slaying #newcastle

Good morning! Yes, this is he

Note how Schank also takes credit for his former PhD student's brilliance, saying "she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do." This is the logic that allows men to justify exploiting women's intellectual labor for their own gain.

Is this bad

Tracey Emin, Hate and Power Can be a Terrible Thing, 2004 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133303

The Olympics media team support the Very Good Dog

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Everybody doing work to protect people on tech platforms, in fields like trust & safety, or trying to make sure systems were more responsible or accountable, often by taking on the most thankless and soul-wrenching work — that's who has borne the brunt of these layoffs. Which were executed cruelly.

"when you remove artificial barriers to human agency, people act. They pursue education, start businesses, care for their families, and build better lives." johnlevendis.substack.com/p/saudi-wome...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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There's SO many good reasons to NEVER use Amazon, here's just the most recent one!

I really hate when I hit a paywall for MY OWN FUCKING ARTICLE WHICH I WROTE

Board of Peace - Season 1

Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."

Shabana Mahmood: "I recently watched this excellent film and thought, you know, Philip K. Dick had the right idea with Minority Report"

Considering no one has given me a best research prize, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely about research quality.

We love to see it! Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️ github.com/zoicware/Rem...

Reading through the FT at the moment is a strange experience: revolution, war, disaster, brutal autocratic oppression, mad dictator shit....and then "markets continue to thrive"; "record profits".

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

I wrote this only last week, after saying that Trump seems about to wage war on Venezuela. It seems pretty relevant to what transpired today. UK and Europe *must* reduce our dependence on America and its technologies as rapidly as we can. christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...

So much for 2026. 💥

dreams empty of trees by The void machines #synth #eurorack #newcastle thevoidmachines.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...

#Alphabetchallenge #ThemesWeek Words Words on Signs, Words on Floors, Words in Graffiti and Words above Doors

Trickle down economics

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

Breaking news: Architect Frank Gehry, whose provocatively adventurous buildings helped liberate modernist architecture from its conventions and won him wide admiration, has died at 96.

A New York single mom, career-driven, tax-paying, politically savvy. NYC women run councils, agencies, whole neighborhoods. We’re not taking advice from a “CEO” who inherited the title through her husband. Erika, babe, you’re a single mom. #Pink #Momsky

Great to see that @sheffielduni.bsky.social's response to the EHRC nonsense has been to increase universal toilet provision across campus. Really shows there are inclusive ways to response to the anti-trans climate. Bravo.

Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho #WomensArt

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Virgin Media fined £24m for disconnecting vulnerable customers

There’s growing evidence about how to run hybrid working well – but some organisations still worry about opportunities to collaborate.