This is real

Yes, alarmism is bad but if we want to revive the constituency for nuclear arms control I think we need a better response to people concerned about nuclear use than “it’s not going to happen and your fears are misplaced, you ignorant rube”

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life imitates castlevania

A reliable metric for a losing war: notice how often a combatant describes inputs (ordinance dropped, resources committed, duration of operation) as a substitute for outputs (effects a military operation is intending to produce).

The 30 Rockification of real life is nearing completion

All of this. Showing how models can *perform* interiority via mech interp tools is a very,very long way from being able to claim they have phenomenal experience. Particularly when purely mechanical explanations (training data) so far suffice.

DHS Launches Massive “Less Lethal” Chemical Weapons Buying Spree Federal agents’ indiscriminate use of tear gases and “less-lethal” projectiles has become a mainstay of protest crackdowns.

I found CBP's anti-protest weaponry shopping list: Hundreds of thousands of rounds over over 100 different kinds of tear gas, grenades, flashbangs, tear gas-infused bullets that can shoot through walls, and more theintercept.com/2026/04/03/l...

he looks like Captain Hook now

DHS Launches Massive “Less Lethal” Chemical Weapons Buying Spree Federal agents’ indiscriminate use of tear gases and “less-lethal” projectiles has become a mainstay of protest crackdowns.

I found CBP's anti-protest weaponry shopping list: Hundreds of thousands of rounds over over 100 different kinds of tear gas, grenades, flashbangs, tear gas-infused bullets that can shoot through walls, and more theintercept.com/2026/04/03/l...

you're a doctor?

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

In the US-Iran war, data centers are a target. Iran has struck several Amazon facilities, including another one just this week in Bahrain.

This week @sambiddle.com joins @parismarx.com to dig into why data centers are a target and how the military uses AI.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/322_...

“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts.

EXCLUSIVE: “Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Casualties Under Trump in the Middle East

The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or injured during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts.

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What Would We All Say If Iran Razed MIT Because of Military-Related Research? Israel and the U.S. are destroying universities in Iran that have ties to military research, but scores of U.S. and Israeli schools do it.

Asymmetric warfare offers powerful aggressors the privilege of hypocrisy... The U.S. and Israel’s own stated justifications for the Iranian university strikes de facto legitimize strikes against an MIT or a Tel Aviv University... latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/03/30/i...

Beware the chilling effects of corporate accountability!

What is the actually point of this supposed to be? Journalists shouldn't report on internal corporate deliberation? People shouldn't sue tech companies because it might lead to discovery?

No

Nothing beats the first "O" of the season at Camden Yards

I am in no way suggesting people shouldn't be allowed to consume total horse shit if they want to

I have a FB account I use only to message people for work, no friends or follows or anything, and my feed is 100% AI houses that don't exist and AI images of Keanu Reeves selling t-shirts. I'd rather watch paint dry!

Have you looked at a Facebook feed lately? Meta has essentially succeeded in getting people to spend hours and hours infinitely scrolling through the content equivalent of paint drying.

I agree with that. I'm not sure that juicing engagement for the sake of pure engagement, regardless of why the button is being clicked, is an editorial decision or form of speech.

I personally don't find this persuasive at all.

Something I've noticed about all of these "This is a slippery slope that's going to wreck the open internet!" arguments is that they take as a given that the "open internet" of 2026 is good or a status quo we should want to preserve.

book for children

A map pinpointing all of ICE holding facilities in the U.S. Headline reads “California’s Shadowy ICE Holding Rooms Detained at Least 17,351 People Last Year”

During the first year of the Trump administration's second term, at least 140,000 people nationwide were detained in these rooms—a steep jump from the 80,000 people held from September 2023 to the end of Biden's term.

The full story: lataco.com/california-h...

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