21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.

These points stand out:

I have clients who are in the state hospital for less than this if I’m gonna keep it a buck

#TheLensNola🔍 The seven additional new Entergy plants will power Meta’s mammoth AI site in Richland Parish, which is the size of 2.700 football fields.

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#TheLensNola🔍 Gulf Coast LNG companies win big, as Russia bombs Ukraine.

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Do the ‘green’ startups headed to old Navy Base signal innovation—or a cover for Big Oil? | The Lens Experts warn that some of the startup businesses in Newlab, the new Navy Base innovation hub, focus on "false solutions" like carbon capture.

Wrote about what's coming to the old Navy base in the Bywater: greenwashing and a former Israeli weapons developer

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My guy I need you to sound more optimistic about this whole thing

On a flight about to take off after severe weather and tell me why our pilot is standing at the top of the aisle gravely telling us it's been rough but "I'll do my best" ????

my editor told me that people were calling Trump’s foreign policy the Jolene doctrine bc he’s taking things “just because he can” and I said it was unfair to Jolene to name a doctrine after a motivation a third party projected on her and he got annoyed and said I should “go tweet that”

The Morrill Fire in Nebraska has killed 1 and consumed 549,000 acres with 0% containment. This is more than 10% of the entire area burned by U.S. wildfires in 2025, and makes it one of the 20 largest fires in U.S. history. Sunday forecast is grim: High Wind Warning, 25-35 mph winds, gusting to 50.

I am not a money scientist but fellas, this seems bad

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

This is what ecocide looks like.

Deadly bombing of Iran primary school ‘a grave violation of humanitarian law’: UNESCO The UN education agency, UNESCO, says that the bombing of a primary school during the US and Israeli military attacks on Iran on Saturday constitutes a grave violation of humanitarian law.

The US-Israel missile strike on a girls' primary school in Iran has killed 150, "including numerous students. The killing of pupils in a place dedicated to learning constitutes a grave violation of the protection afforded to schools under international humanitarian law."

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"Definitely NOT gonna be doing another pointless, interminable occupation, FOR SURE," Pentagon says, winking

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

The SFF Librarian Reviews: January 2026 SFF Librarian Reviews Jeremy Brett As a voracious reader, and as someone for whom science fiction and fantasy are part of my daily job as a science fiction librarian, I come across a lot of wonderf…

The SFF Librarian Reviews: Jeremy Brett looks at Rambo's RUMOR HAS IT (@torbooks.bsky.social), Cooney's SAINT DEATH'S HERALD (@solarisbooks.bsky.social), Nolan's HAPPY BAD (Astra House), and THE ESSENTIAL AKUTAGAWA, tr. Medhurst (@tuttlepublishing.bsky.social):

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"Flores came to Louisiana decades ago, to help rebuild after Hurricane Katrina."

“Immigrant labor has literally developed Louisiana’s seafood industry,” Green said, referring to the Croatian, Isleño, Acadian and Vietnamese immigrants who settled the state’s coast.

The Coast Guard is now conducting immigration raids and demending proof of citizenship from deckhand in Louisiana.

In departure from norm, Coast Guard demands immigration papers on Louisiana docks • Louisiana Illuminator Seafood workers say that the Coast Guard, in a departure from the norm, has conducted about seven sweeps since early November, resulting in multiple arrests.

In departure from norm, Coast Guard demands immigration papers on Louisiana docks

In St. Bernard Parish, fishing deckhands fear death and detention amid regular immigration sweeps – not by ICE, but the Coast Guard

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“astrology for men” was too generous

Jeffrey Epstein And His Network Of Rich Freaks Were Obsessed With The Chiropractor | Defector As the number of powerful, wealthy people revealed to have associated with Jeffrey Epstein increases, so too does the coherence of their collective excuse: They only knew Epstein as a genius of math a...

The feeling of having known something to be true, deep within your very being, only to have it confirmed as such. There's just nothing like it: defector.com/jeffrey-epst...

[personally driving a bulldozer through an unhoused person’s worldly possessions] we must support mutual aid

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#TheLensNola🔍 In St. Bernard Parish, fishing deckhands fear death and detention amid regular immigration sweeps - not by ICE, but the Coast Guard. Critics say the Trump administration is undermining the Coast Guard’s other missions...

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In departure from norm, Coast Guard demands immigration papers on Louisiana docks | The Lens In St. Bernard Parish, fishing deckhands fear death and detention amid regular immigration sweeps - not by ICE, but the Coast Guard. Critics say the Trump administration is undermining the Coast Guard...

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I wonder what the Broad Street stingray is doing right now

📚💙 Starting today: climate disaster novel Happy Bad by Delaney Nolan.
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(4/4)

And only 1/3 through but digging my last novel of 2025–
Happy Bad, Delaney Nolan