Not good news for Hegseth’s future
drinking plans. Extrajudicial killing is not beyond government assignments.

It is!

Pox Americana and The Contagion of Liberty are fascinating books about the great smallpox epidemic, early signs of American public health tied to wealth and the “inoculation for liberty”.

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The Delusion of ‘AI Justice’ As AI seeps deeper into our judicial system, boosters insist it will bring both fairness and efficiency. But can we really trust Judge Grok?

Here's my print feature piece in @thenation.com about the rise of AI-justice. Judges are already relying on AI, more than you probably think, and with some countries *replacing* human judges with bots, we will soon have to ask: Would you rather Justice Alito or Justice Mech-Hitler?

Just a friendly Earth Day reminder: Once upon a time the US appeared to be concerned about human rights, the collapse of global industrial civilization and the sixth great extinction.

Ahh, you see, they don’t like that people may still believe their lying eyes.

It will be the law of the jungle.

Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South.

Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

Colonists moving throughout New Spain then spread it across North America, w cases cropping up among Hudson's Bay Company traders in Canada. If they had handled it with consistent inoculation (that Washington eventually did) before the 1796 vaccine, fewer people
would have died horrendously alone.

Great book about the history of the Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-1782, which overran the American Revolution and presented the first example of public health responses on the continent (right or wrong)

Smallpox was reversed; British troops & German mercenaries had immunity, while American troops & Native American tribes were shattered. See Pox Americana by Fenn.

That pox epidemic probably came from infected material or people from New Orleans started in Mexico City in 1779, likely by a colonist.

If only the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was some kind of a lesson we could draw on, where the very name told us something about its impact on military readiness. Oh well!

Crazy how his words at presser were misread/interpreted. He invited N for 1956 commemoration as customary but also informed that while Orban started ICC exit, it’ll be stopped, which means if N comes HU will adhere the warrant & should arrest him accordingly.
Aka don’t visit, Orban’s ways are over.

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote.

Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California.

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Like, AI literacy in any form will not protect black and disabled folks from the algorithmic bias, and the violence that emerges from it, of spicy autocomplete. Full stop. No amount of AI literacy can protect us in the deployment of the system because it is tracking the wrong problem.

"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
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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.

a man wearing a yellow and black striped vest and tie is sitting at a table Alt: James Twelvetrees of You Rang Mylord, looking dismayed

That's about €19,4 million.

According to the game supervising Szerencsejáték Zrt. (an Inc. that was routinely used as a payout wallet for Fidesz minions): The results of the lottery events cannot be influenced in any way”.

Sure, sure. Mere coincidence.

A funny coincidence happened this week in Hungary, a few days after PM Orbán lost his 5TH election bid.

Somehow, 4 out of 4 national lottery games found a winning ticket.

That's about 7 billion HUF out of a state-owned company.

The chances for this to happen is 1 in 10^21.

That's right: theft.

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

Discussing new models for cognitive warfare at Cambridge University April 7- warning that this will likely cause headaches and possibly insomnia

I recommend subscribing, if possible, since Le Monde is great.
If not feasible, archived links exist.

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Clearly, this disqualifies Palentir as a business partner for any other country than the U.S., not just in defense and security related sector but ANY sector — as information is power.

European countries should not just start new collaboration with Palentir, they should divest it ASAP!

The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

Last month, the UK head of Palantir attacked the company's critics as "ideological groups." This month, the company's global CEO has published a call for US tech companies to recognise a moral responsibility to support American fascism.

Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

If you ask Christian nationalists to choose between Christianity and nationalism, guess what they’ll pick? A final word on Trump vs. Pope Leo.

"From where we sit in 2026, I’ll be surprised if most Trumpist Catholics end up choosing Catholicism in such a showdown."

Trump hates Pope Leo because he sees himself as the real vicar of Christ The president is trying to rebuild Christianity in his own image, but the first American pope is standing in the way

🧵Trump's war against Pope Leo is about something far larger than his foreign wars, it's actually a struggle for control of American Christianity.

This thread will summarize the main points of my latest essay about how Trumpism is a replacement Christianity. Continue or click through:

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The scale of independent infrastructure matters, I think. Political cartoonists are losing ground rapidly in the US.
Over the past 10 yrs under Orbán, mainstream comedy died. Sure, sure, low or non-political jokes remained, while pure satire, political cartoonist quality, had lost space & gigs.

TRUANT, France 🇫🇷 @truant-cartoons.bsky.social

status with plinth labeled Viktor Orban. Broken bits next to it of arm with swastika armband

Lots of cartoons today! When you get to the end, click on Read 1 more reply.

If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle.

Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile.

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