BREAKING: Microsoft has blocked the Israeli military from some cloud and AI services. The block comes after The Guardian revealed last month that Microsoft’s services were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/785733/...

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Good morning! Just a reminder that if you're feeling stressed / down / apprehensive, you can call the hotline 707-873-7862 to get words of encouragement from kindergartners in rural Sonoma County.

Lots to love if this holds for CA crops: -utility-scale solar that doesn't require wrecking desert habitat -less water use, probably less dust -more options for siting close to existing transmission -on-site generation for switching diesel pumps to electric and cleaning up the air

They'll say the public outrage and subscription cancellations had nothing to do with this. That's what they *always say.* Power's top communications priority is always to deny the existence of any collective agency outside the existing circles of power. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

So the stock market hit record highs. Because NVIDIA is giving buckets of money to OpenAI. So that OpenAI can buy buckets of hardware. From NVIDIA. The AI economy is like a fictitous capital perpetual motion machine. 🙃

Man I really *really* don't want the Hayward fault to pop while Donald Trump is in charge of FEMA.

I see we've gone from "it would be uncivilized to make these wayward men languish in prison for mere white-collar crime" to "it would be unjust to make them pay back the money they took through fraud." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Things you can do with a rental registry: turn 53k housing units back into housing. share.google/jgBNYPsqr31r...

Florida has an anti-SLAPP statue, what lawyer would sign off on filing this as a libel suit?

Visceral closeup videos of Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck were everywhere on social media. A lot of parents were not pleased that mainstream social apps’ algorithms showed it to their kids. Story today by @tatumhunter.bsky.social & me (gift link): wapo.st/4n6oBSi

NEW: Our report on the arrest of a suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk, including docs reviewed by @wired.com that show the FBI flagged Kirk's events as having the potential to "lead to political violence." @dell.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/charli...

What if when you hit, say, $100m in net worth you got a certificate that says "congratulations, you won capitalism!" Like, you can keep playing for fun, but since you've maxed out your marginal utility we've got better uses for anything you accumulate past that point. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/b...

Not to belabor the obvious but: a country that assassinates ceasefire negotiators is definitively not interested in peace. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

NEW: Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers say www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

abundance doesn't do this. it punches left while waving right. it completely ignores a long history of racist land use policies - going as far as lamenting environmental regs ensuring renters who literally live on highways can breathe - instead of, say, eliminating the highway

In Paris, where they build pedestrian infra different

Oh good there's a tracker istrumpdeadyet.com

People say there's no path for genAI revenues to justify these capital outlays but hear me out: what if they plugged in adtech and your chatbot agent became the world's most insidious salesman? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/b...

Hi! Everything is awful. And also: today we walked through a place where ~500,000 people died on a front of a senseless war. Today it's a national park. On our way in and out we'll cross two international borders where they no longer check passports. And it looks like this. Kranjska Gora => Trenta

The Miccosukee Tribe helped stop Alligator Alcatraz, being constructed on their land! Late yesterday, a federal judge ruled Miccosukee citizens must be able to “access to the site consistent with the access they enjoyed before the erection of the detention camp.” thehill.com/regulation/c...

The New York Times publishes "news analysis." But to what end?

Mercedez-Benz, welcome to the war on cars

RN Tesla is in a trial that could suspend its ability to sell cars in California AT THE PRECISE MOMENT consumers are scrambling to buy EVs before tax credits disappear, and these extremely detailed threads on the proceedings are feeding my English major soul.

In this home, we share everything.

Wholesome, low-effort streaming for a sick day. Go.

Quick thread on what this recission of public media subsidies means, in practice. TLDR: less information reaching poor, rural (and largely Republican) parts of the country -- AND ALSO less consideration of those audiences by national outlets 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

First year we've enjoyed a trade surplus with our electric utility.

The problem with pivoting to this campaign strategy is it requires the candidate to be charming and likeable, and Cuomo built his governing praxis on being feared and transactional.

This is so surreal. Like they're expecting to give chase after an immigrant bolts out from between two blades of grass.

I actually think it's probably good for Mamdani that the NYT front-ran Chris Rufo, but the way they framed and wrote the article is just embarrassing for them.

Shout out to everyone in my neighborhood already celebrating the 4th of July, America's longest holiday.

And just like that, Johnny Depp's filming a new movie, Neil Gaiman's got a second season of Sandman, Andrew Cuomo's back on the ballot, and Donald Trump's back in the White House. I think we can bury the phrase "cancel culture" (unless we're talking about Pro-Palestinian academics).

Does caving in to Netanyahu count as a TACO development because that would make this TACO Tuesday.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY

I once got my hair cut in Brendan Fraser's makeup trailer. During a break in filming, he advised me lose my beard and keep a soul patch.

Just spent my mid-life crisis getting our home off fossil fuels, AMA.

Senator Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. "Hands off!," Padilla can be heard yelling. Never seen a US senator handled this way. Gonna be covering LA closely, join my newsletter for updates: kenklippenstein.com/subscribe

Here's a blow-by-blow of or a small-city action that surrounded and blocked ICE deportation buses, so detailed it describes how participants' disagreements over tactitcs played out over the course of the action: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

But some Very Smart People said these protests wouldn't move polls the rightway unless everybody stayed on the sidewalk waving American flags and saluting every police officer in sight.

There's a very justified fear of the regime using soldiers on protesters, but also: the most unhinged assaults in LA right now are being carried out by police armed, financed, and overseen by Democratic elected officials who *could be making different choices* prospect.org/politics/202...

So the thing to keep in mind: this is an expert *advisory* panel. He didn't have to follow their advice. He just apparently couldn't abide the *existence* of their expert advice.

I get power from the largest electric utility in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. To update their website, they *took themselves offline for an entire weekend* then re-launched this morning with something that is almost comically broken.

(I'm just consuming LA news from 600 miles away, but the footage reaching me suggests the National Guardsmen are behaving much better than the police.)

(This was a core finding of the Kerner Commission report almost 57 years ago -- that almost all incidences of urban unrest were triggered by police actions)

the idea of fingerwagging your way into protest discipline is deeply delusional for a number of reasons, chief among which is that the cops' decisions are among the biggest determinants of how protests ago. it's like being perplexed at people for using umbrellas while ignoring the weather

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.