Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

Grifters gotta grift

"Birds are our place-makers, memory-keepers, calendars and clocks. They stitch the world's parts together: earth to sky, river to woodland, mountain to sea, country to country, hemisphere to hemisphere. Without them, things start to fall apart." Writing doesn’t get much better than this book.

Of course he did on both counts

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Oh wow

Let’s talk performative ignorance. I’d assume Smith knows exactly what the treaty obligations are yet she is choosing to ignore. Keep pushing falsehoods until you make it so.

The best

Zhaopin: Chinese graduates returning home from abroad rose 12% YoY in 2025, fueling Beijing's plans to take on Silicon Valley; China is offering big incentives (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Anduril, the defense tech company that makes artificial-intelligence-backed weapons, said that it had raised $5 billion in new funding, as modernizing the U.S. military has become a priority for the Trump administration.

Every once in a while he tells the truth.

The Trump regime actually let two guys with zero government experience use ChatGPT to cancel $100M in grants—including Holocaust education. A federal judge just humiliated them, called it unconstitutional, and reversed every single cut. Read how she did it: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

What is this? Cat TV?

This speaks volumes. And Russia knows it.

Toronto’s McLaughlin Planetarium Now. Then. 🫣🥺😢 I was last there for a Laser Zeppelin Show in the 80s.

So weird.

Two of Europe's most influential energy think tanks are merging. Agora + RAP = close to 300 staff working on energy and climate policy. I spent a decade at RAP, latterly as VP. So this one is personal. Good luck to everyone involved. The work matters more than ever. www.euractiv.com/news/europes...

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

Whoa

Wow. So many relieved folks

#ShinyHunters is an international #cybercrime ring responsible for “pay or leak” #extortion schemes against companies such as Google, Workday, Louis Vuitton, and AT&T (which reportedly paid $370K in bitcoin). theconversation.com/what-are-shi...

#fuckai #aiisfascist

So exciting

Where gas sets prices, prices are higher. r = 0.91 across European electricity markets in 2025. Italy & UK: gas sets prices 75-80% of hours, avg €90-115/MWh. Finland: 15% of hours, €42/MWh. More in my next Substack newsletter on whether renewables mean lower prices: janrosenow.substack.com

Oh wow. If I was visiting the states, I’d go.

Beautiful. Love this.

LOVE this app by Kyle Macdonald - Apocalypse Early Warning System, tracking billionaire jets globally. Premise: jets suddenly fleeing city centers could be an early warning signal ews.kylemcdonald.net

APPLAUDING!

Starting the day here 🖤💗🖤💗🖤

What’s up Bluesky?? Loving my good news feed this am

Boss move 😹

Always….

So good 💓💓💓

Ah…

♥️ ♥️ "a near-total takeover of the 🇺🇸 economic, social & cognitive lives by tools engineered by 5 co., run by 5 particular people, several of whom are widely described as sociopaths. A list so short that you may know most of them by 1st name: Sam, Dario, Elon & Mark" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/m...

Good people doing good things ❤️❤️

Well well.

Meta / Zuck's very bad day. Week. Month. Spring. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

Doing a Happy Dance! "The state wants a court to order an immediate stop to the conduct." www.cbsnews.com/news/pennsyl...

Even if 2 ships exited the Straights of Hormuz, the number of ships trapped is clear & calamitous. Check out VesselFinder .com for real time data including which ships are sanctioned. Iran’s blockade is working. The war continues.

Late. Shitposting. Histories most embarrassing dangerous tyrant wannabe.

Trump is 30 minutes and counting late to a White House event -- he's so late the jazz group warming up for him ran out of tunes and stopped playing -- but as I type this he is posting Fox News clips on Truth Social, so we at least know he's still among the living.

Wow. Potentially trap women in unwanted pregnancies.

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We fought. We won. Others can too. www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...

Wild. Love it! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/c...

Checking VesselFinder .com right now for the Straights of Hormuz. Tankers are orange. Cargo are yellow. A lot of trapped vessels

⚡️ UAE reports intercepting missiles, drones from Iran for first time since ceasefire. A fire broke out at an oil facility in the Fujairah emirate after it was hit by a drone launched from Iran, local authorities said.