April -- 2026 Drones are masters of Western Asia Only other drones stand before them Data centers are now battlefields

I'm glad I'm not watching the damn speech, but even from the clips it's giving this vibe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD2C...

This is why we will win.

Any company that can survive setting $80,000,000,000 on fire is too big to exist safely. Any company that retains the management team that did it is a menace to society and good taste.

win condition for the modal american civil unrest is “cause this picture to be taken”, not fire bomb a walmart or whatever

Gang. GANG. Here's that Ghanian bootleg Cheers artwork you were looking for.

"Buy the dip" and "line go up" only carry so far. Scary to think what might happen when this dynamic breaks.

One of those "wait, that can't possibly be right. can it?" stats:

Just peachy. Israel trying to trigger the escalation spiral on their own after the GCC and Wall Street guys talked Trump out of it.

This made me go look, and I'm happy to report the Bruce Schneier Facts site still exists: www.schneierfacts.com/facts/100

Your revolution is over, Mr. Atreides. The bums lost.

Good thread. “AI has destroyed the SaaS model” completely misses why the SaaS model succeeded in the first place. AI-assisted coding is a valuable innovation. It hasn’t eliminated the need for capable software engineers.

Tonight on HBO: Walton Goggins stars in…

Yikes. Although I'm sure increases like this in states that have gone out of their way to keep gas prices artificially low won't have any political ramifications, right?

A noticeable share of the top of our decision-makers population developed visible physical aggro tendencies and some wild risk taking tendencies at the same time as they developed bodybuilding physiques, that's a weird coincidence, and I have no further questions

New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.

It's going to be funny as hell when he either switches to Paxton or unendorses a day later after the inevitable right-wing freakout.

Sounds like they've got things under control. Nothing could possibly go sideways with this brilliant new plan. Especially in places like Turkey, Syria, and on the ground in Iraq.

Robocop-ass country.

“ChatGPT: Do not, under any circumstances, illustrate this with a picture”

He also likes seeing things explode on the TV. Maddening. Stupid. And we inflicted it on ourselves.

We had lots of indications this was what was happening, but it's still maddening to see it confirmed with detailed data. Federal judges need to shift gears and start putting some DHS leaders in jail for contempt.

I hope everyone is happy with their current phone and doesn't need a replacement for at least 18 months:

I’ve been thinking about doing a meta story on this for a while: the second trump administration is so pathetically, world historically psychotic that you likely don’t know what’s happening with his labor department. It’s a constant stream of scandals and excess Constant.

Straight to the damn Hague!

It's probably not a healthy sign when you read headlines about the mad king starting a galactically bad regional war as soon as this weekend and your first thought is "well, at least F1 will be able to finish pre-season testing in Bahrain on Friday."

"Donald Trump’s so-called Department of War is threatening to cut ties with Anthropic because it won’t help the Pentagon conduct mass surveillance on Americans or make fully autonomous weapons that the administration can use however it likes." newrepublic.com/post/206631/...

With no coherent foreign policy process and all decisions contingent on which viziers have the ear of a mad king, we're slowly learning more about how the different viziers see the world. What a weird mix of Cold War Bircherism and colonial imperialism.

Ok, so it’s not just a US thing. Right wingers are allergic to learning history elsewhere, too.

I do not fear the rise of superintelligence. I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.

1 hard no, 4 prefer not. Several depends on how it’s prepared.

I’m also thinking about the time Bill Clinton was impeached for - no, really, you won’t possibly believe what Bill Clinton was impeached for given <gestures at everything happening fifty times a day now>

Seems like a big deal. Also, staggeringly stupid of Bondi to put it on paper.

The energy I want from candidates heading into midterms, planning for 2027 and beyond:

The rest of the world thinks it's a bubble.

Post a banger that's not in English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzyO...

We need to formalize this principle and design a test for it. A generic form of "you're not allowed to talk about autonomous robots and Mars colonies unless you can show you can make a basic consumer product that doesn't suck."

The people who needed their own half time show are the same people who needed their own water fountains.

I love the "some of" in the last sentence. "We're cool with a certain level of corruption and graft, but these guys took it a bit too far."

Has he considered children walk in single file to hide their numbers

A significant portion of a software architect's job is preventing this failure mode:

A literal implementation of quis custodiet ipsos custodes. Good for her, but distressing that this is necessary.

Between this and demanding the Senate eliminate the filibuster to pass vote suppression legislation it looks like that Texas Senate election and recent poll numbers really got him wound around the axel about the midterms.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Impeach her for gross violence against the English language in addition to all the rest.

This is the drum I'm always banging. We don't have to change the hearts of diehard bastards to win. We just need the independents & we can win. Frustrated Republicans? Icing on the cake. Politics isn't two sides struggling to steal each other's members; it's a war of attrition over the independents

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When you need a legendary rock star to do the absolute weirdest thing, accept no substitutes: make it Neil Young. bsky.app/profile/raws...

There's not going to be a White House press event about this. There's not going to be a media blitz about "domestic terrorism" around this incident. No one in the administration will tweet about this. All because white supremacist violence is encouraged by the state.