NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post. Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6. If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.

“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps. Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war. Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war. The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane

Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.

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the Democrats need to announce that anyone who drops a bomb on Iranian civilian infrastructure will die in prison

Inside Trump's daily video montage briefing on the Iran war The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president’s allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war.

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call me old fashioned but I don’t think anyone should have to trade for “no deporting US citizens”

we should get that one for free you know

Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award | Quanta Magazine Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.

It's not often that I do breaking news! Today, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard received the Turing Award for helping lay the foundations of quantum information science. Read more in @quantamagazine.bsky.social!

We didn't go to war for any reason we can articulate, we didn't plan for the most obvious Iranian countermeasures that have been predicted for half a century, and we forgot an exit strategy for if the thing dragged on more than ONE WEEK.

It was literally "Trump wants to do Venezuela everywhere."

everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

White House In Turmoil: Trump Just Fired The Cloaked Man He Appointed To Secretary Of The Hook

And the sequel — truly one of the better story arcs of Trump's first term:

"Special Envoy for the Shield" as a job title sounds approximately as plausible as "Secretary of the Hook:"

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

The debate was about what to do about the scenario described in Arunachaleswaran et al. There really is disagreement about that! I'm not going to get into a protracted argument here. Suffice it to say I was reporting the perspectives of the researchers I talked to, not creating anything.

How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? | Quanta Magazine Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others.

Did you know that infinity comes in different "sizes"? "Bigger" and "smaller" descriptions of infinity exist!

Seems paradoxical, right? How can an endless concept ever have a defined size?

I helped visualize a story describing this. Check it out here!

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In my recent story about failure modes of algorithmic pricing, I quoted @jasonhartline.bsky.social arguing that the specific example I focused on shouldn't count as algorithmic collusion. Here's a blog post in which he makes that argument in more detail, for those who are curious about this debate:

Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.

A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age | Quanta Magazine Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

How can we make sense of computational problems that we don’t even have the language to describe? I spoke to @henryyuen.bsky.social about what’s missing from the standard approach to quantum complexity theory — read more in @quantamagazine.bsky.social!

My favorite is:

There once was a man from Paree
Whose limericks stopped at line three.
When asked why this was

IMO much better than the better known "stopped at line two" version. So viscerally frustrating!

This is a scheduled pogrom

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Why There’s No Single Best Way To Store Information | Quanta Magazine The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory.

What can computer science can tell us about the best way to store stuff? A partial answer in this short explainer about data structures — my latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social

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indeed, hence the gauge invariance! But also this:

A joke Magic: the Gathering card called "Honda of Infinite Range," using the art of the real card "Honden of Infinite Rage" with a red Honda Fit edited in. The flavor text is a quantum field theory joke about infinite range being the result of gauge invariance.

While I'm on the subject, I just rediscovered this thing I made shortly after buying my Fit in 2017. Is there an audience for Honda Fit x MTG x Quantum Field Theory content? We will find out!

Me in 2017, seated in the back of a red Honda fit with the back seats down.

Living in NYC now I no longer drive, so Little Buddy now lives with my brother in LA. But before that, he ferried me across the country five times!

(and yes, that is another red Honda Fit to the right)

I love how local resistance to ICE thugs has highlighted (among many other more important things) that the Honda Fit is the best car of all time.

ICE are thug scum.

one very obvious best-practice for living with people who are different from you is: do not shoot them in the face