While we're doing maps, look at how much of Lebanon's farmland sits in the "Forward Defense Zone" which was also subject to this white phosphorus use.

Name your fav Futurama quote.

I just remembered he had very tinted windows, too. So many things wrong with him and his car. Terrifying when you really think about how many cars and drivers like him are out there. Car culture is extremely selfish

a cyclist or pedestrian can be missed. There was even a car behind me that he could see, so something didn’t add up. I have no fuckin clue. Venting because the night was going so well and then a dude thinks I’m arguing with him by suggesting his cameras are busted if he can’t see me with lights

well illuminated, and I was like 20ish feet behind him. I said maybe something is wrong with your cameras then, and he took that as me arguing. Like no, I believe that he couldn’t see me, but that to me seems like a tech issue and not my problem. So are car rear cameras that bad? Pretty worried if

Coooool interaction during a bike ride home where a driver started backing up wrong way down a one way while I was behind him. I stopped, called out “where are you going?” So he stopped and said he couldn’t see me in his rear cameras. Sure, it’s night, but I have a bright front light, the area is

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

U.S. Navy destroyer repeatedly warned an Iranian-flagged cargo ship to stop over a six-hour period on Sunday before firing on the ship's engine room, disabling the Iran-bound vessel to allow helicopter-borne Marines to board and seize it, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. When the crew of the Touska, the Iranian ship, ignored the American warnings, a destroyer fired its MK 45 gun into the cargo ship's engine room, Central Command said. On Sunday, Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit were conducting a search of the vessel, which is now in American custody. 1 hour ago

One of the most blatant examples of sane-washing I've ever seen from the NYT.

This was an unarmed cargo vessel in international waters, crewed by noncombatants!

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

some people think gogurt is just yogurt. it's not! yogurt, the fermented dairy product, doesn't contain squirt. gogurt does!

And what’s wild is that a lot of Dem pols have changed their stance on Israel, including Booker, but did he acknowledge why that happened? Israel is part of the fascism problem, but instead of having a conversation about that which would be coalition building, pols like Booker punch left.

Have any Dem pols who’ve changed their stance on Israel really talked about why that’s changed? I feel like that would be such a remarkable thing to happen, but maybe I missed it. And wouldn’t that be better at building an anti-fascist coalition than punching left? Opinions changed! Acknowledge why!

culpability in the genocide during Biden's term, they punch left and try to sweep things under the rug. Does that sound like coalition building to you? I voted for Harris, but the Dem Party has let our party lurch further and further to the right for too long. Israel is part of the fascism problem.

Have you noticed that there's been a sea change in opinion on Israel among the Dem base and politicians where people no longer want our tax dollars going to genocide and war crimes? Cuz that's the 10% he's talking about. Yet instead of pols who've changed their stance acknowledging their

Like... I'm sorry, but to win future elections, you need a good chunk of the people who sat out in 2016 or 2024 to vote for you, and I just don't think that sneering at them and saying it's their fault that things are the way they are right now is going to win them over, even if you truly believe it

A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted.

Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more.
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A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Also we should just note how insane it is that a highly militaristic tech company is openly advocating for changing entire countries to better fit their militaristic model

And Labour decided to give these fuckers our data

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Maybe tonight’s the night 🤞

Jail sentence is winter hibernation

Act up activism is actually an amazing model for social change, in your face direct action, inside outside organizing, science led policy platforms, no monopoly on action, incredibly savvy media strategy, etc. and what a legacy to have been affiliated with this movement

Illustration of a person riding a bicycle on an overpass over a highway with cars bumper-to-bumper in a traffic jam. Everything's drawn in red except the cyclist, who's drawn in black.

🎨John Bosley

Conservatives' brains are so broken. Thomas is one of the most powerful people in the country and he lives like a billionaire, vacationing on private yachts and private ranches.

But he is still filled with resentment over "liberals" making his life miserable back when he was a baby in 1948? Wut?

Detail of a teapot featuring Earthset over the Moon's cratered landscape.

Plate featuring Earthset over the Moon's cratered surface.

Planter with violet flowers wrapping around the side featuring Earth amongst the stars.

Pair of cups featuring Earth and the Moon.

Artemis II Restock preview is up!

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#sciart #bsnm

Just a little reminder that security experts routinely say that biometrics are actually do very poorly as a security measure.

Not just for technical reasons, either.

Imagine a password that you can't change after being informed it was compromised in a hack on a company that forgot to encrypt shit.

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

Wholesome footage of people from south Lebanon returning home www.instagram.com/reel/DXPvSyb...