Trying to parse this headline and I feel like I'm having a stroke

"doing X" and "invading a whole country so you can do X" are quite different tasks actually

This is sort of like calling a recreational skydiving trip a "similar operation" to Operation Market Garden

"similar operation" is doing just an insane amount of work in this sentence

Importantly, Sapphire was done with knowledge and cooperation of the host government (Kazakhstan). It took a month. It was not done under fire in enemy territory

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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This passive voice (“something has happened”; politics “has changed”), both sides, and abbreviated overview of political history offers a good example of how trying to appear fair-minded can be deeply misleading, as it shifts agency to universities by not mentioning the scope of the GOP attack.

I’ve be involved in various capacities in counter disinformation and counter hate speech activity on Irish online spaces for over 8 years.

I have never witness anything as bad as the abuse directed at Senator Eileen Flynn… it’s gamergate levels of targeted & coordinated harassment.

Threads post saying Ireland has just declared his independence from England. This should be interesting. With a screenshot of RTÉ News showing an Irish army officer reading the Proclamation.

If you're ever bored by the bland sensibility of Bluesky have a look at threads for some of that social media derangement.

Here's a yank thinking the reading of the 1916 Proclamation on Easter Monday is Ireland declaring itself independent from England today....

IT professionals have been warning against creating huge personal data repositories for decades!

It's a dangerous notion that keeps resurrecting again & again.

No safer now than it was in the 80's, 90's etc or now!

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Do you mean who drove such a change? It's not clear that it was any particular administration, let alone one person, it was more of a broader cultural shift in the Pentagon. It's been used in official DoD settings since at least as far back as the late 80s: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4339

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

Interesting. Thank you!

Also "organised crime cartel" is such bad writing

an obvious problem with decapitating Iran's entire civilian leadership is now, both externally and internally, it's not obvious who is in a position to negotiate and ensure promises are kept

Terrible opsec

Frankly I didn't know Ireland even had an extradition treaty with the UAE. Isn't that part of the point of Dubai

BBC News says that "[Daniel Kinahan] and other members of his family were identified as leaders of the Kinahan organised crime cartel". I guess that makes sense!

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.

That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.

(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

For many years I was a tall ship guy and I still am but I am these days as much or more of a 20th century battleship guy

Big changes happening in my life (changed my desktop background which had been a painting of the Battle of the Chesapeake for about 6 years and is now a painting of the Battle of Jutland)

In which case we get into the absurd situation that the German government are proposing that the ability to exercise one's speech & assembly rights depends on signing up to the German government’s list of which countries are naughty and which are nice.

Well, imagine an African American who lives in Berlin. Say his whole life in the USA he experienced racism; perhaps he even knew someone who was murdered by the police. Is he allowed to “hate” the USA?

Or someone from Western Sahara, could they “hate” Morocco for its occupation?

2) The repeated invocation of the bogeyman of "anti Israel" protests or "hatred" of Israel is also interesting.

Should one be allowed to “hate” Israel and still enjoy free assembly and expression in Germany?

e.g, in explaining general parameters in German constitutional law under which th right to free assembly may be restricted, they write:
"Restrictions are e.g. possible when criminal law is violated, assemblies call for violence, hate or incitement, or challenge in any form Israel’s right to exist."