For those of you who care about MerShips, this is your reminder that Tuesday, 5 May was "Project Freedom" and there was a breathless announcement of two ships transiting SOH: Alliance Fairfax 9303546 and CS Anthem 9785691. It is early Friday, and still no sign on various AIS sites.

Still wondering what happened to those two merships that transited the SOH during "Project Freedom"? It's been a few days and Alliance Fairfax is still not visible on AIS sites. Very curious if anybody knows the name of the second ship?

Peak May 4th content.

If two "US flagged" vessels have passed through the SOH, then name the vessels.

Docker... will you ever finish??

Please read this from Capt. Alexandros Lignos. I have included the link to the full article. I have included screenshot in case you don't have LinkedIn: "Navigation Manuals or Body bags?" www.linkedin.com/posts/captai...

I swear these sessions are sometimes akin to asking a teenager to clean her room.

I propose that there are "lies, damned lies and AI lies"

ANGER IS NOT AN EMOTION!!! IT'S WARRIOR ETHOS!!! *shrieks and flings feces at people*

Not wild about the new github

INTERNACIONAL JIMMY KIMMEL SE DEFIENDE DE MELANIA Y DONALD TRUMP El presentador y humorista Jimmy Kimmel ha respondido este martes a las peticiones de Donald Trump y Melania Trump para que Disney y ABC le despidan tras una broma sobre la primera dama de Estados Uni...👇

another fascinating ChatGPT conversation

Pretty much a perfect metaphor for everything that is wrong in the world today. Preening selfie after supposed horrific violence. The world has lost all empathy. And, as much as it would be a relief to blame Trump, I think there is something much more insidious happening.

WHAT DID THEY KNOW 9 MONTHS AGO

In a nutshell. 😊

"The new See ’N Say Friend or Foe Threat Classifier. 'The cow says: HOSTILE. The duck says: NEUTRALIZED. The sheep says: COORDINATES CONFIRMED. The horse says: REDACTED.'"

Back to my day job in the morning. How can it compare to a quality weekend w/a rented excavator?

The weekend has arrived.

"In lieu of learning outcomes, we now ask whether students have a warm sense of what learning might feel like and whether they can recall, with confidence, that they took 'chemistry.' If so, we mark that as 'exceeds expectations.'"

Trumps America...Only If...

“We’ve got more coming in” is carrying a lotta weight there

I see a tanker from Basrah made it to Long Beach this week (New Corolla 9900679). Wondering when that will happen again?

Step 1: Work at the spark factory and do whatever the boss tells you to do for not very much money. Step 2: Dream about being a soldier. Step 3: nod along while the peptide addled podcaster tells you that women are the naturally submissive gender.

I had to drive a few hundred miles tonight and part of the trip included a survey of AM radio content. OMFG, that stuff will lift your ponytail. I am truly amazed that after the last week there are still voices squealing for tariffs and the Iranian excursion. The fight is far from over.

Every credulous buffoon in Tech Journalism:

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

New Iran thread. Starting with a Lest We Forget: Hillary Clinton, 9 years ago: “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”

I don't think Kamala Harris would've threatened to commit genocide in Iran on a random Tuesday morning a month after starting an unwinnable war with them for no reason

The best part about being deployed for whatever crises is that I didn't have to read anything but INTSUM about the crises.

This is absolutely fantastic. ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social

Now that a US pilot is on the ground in Iran... do you think Kegsbreath might care about the "code of conduct" a little?

Back from run, what did I miss?

‘I’ve renamed it the Trump Kennedy Space Center’

Someone needs to work this into a briefing slide. www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/deta...

I have a heeler puppy that can fart like a 20 year old in a small SCIF. If I could capture this stuff, I could sell it over the web to other SCIF dwellers. OMFG, this is vile.

The famously easygoing Xi Jianping

“Now that he’s blundered into this Middle East conflagration he’s also destroying the US as a world power. Vietnam was an exercise in humiliation for a nation that thought it could simply flex its huge military muscles and win. This is by degrees worse.”

"It's RP2350s all the way down!"

This is a great example of why a strong Presidential Records Act is essential for accountability. Want to read the notes or the telcons (telephone conversations) between Trump and MBS re Iran? Then you need an enforceable PRA that doesn’t let Trump get away w/not keeping or destroying records.

Solid man.

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