But they have also argued that it was President Trump’s decision to attack Iran that entangled their country in a destructive conflict whose effects may not be over, some of the officials said. Emirati officials told the U.S. officials that if the U.A.E. runs short of dollars, it may be forced to use Chinese yuan or other countries’ currencies for oil sales and other transactions, some of the officials said.

Emiratis are threatening to use petroyuans.

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just a reminder to my friendly leftists & liberals on here: if you’re going to speculate about future AI-caused layoffs etc please do so on a human level, your comrades aren’t merely job numbers

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.

If there's one thing the gentry hate it's the very idea they may ever face consequences for their actions.

If this weren't so horrifying, the idea of the Palantir dweebs as the standard-bearers for a "culture producing vital advances" would be beyond fucking hilarious

the more i think about this, the more i think about how i have not heard this phrasing just about anywhere and i'm a prison abolitionist, the more i feel that part of what happens here is a think tank group just TELLS these guys that (phrase) is everywhere, out of control, and they go "oh shit!"

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

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

Corporations & the government are turning the US into one giant "sacrifice zone." It’s staggering how many working-class people I've spoken to @therealnews.com in towns/cities who are being poisoned by toxic explosions, train derailments, data centers, industrial runoff, etc...this is a major crisis

nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

google reader before google ruined it and ultimately destroyed it.

Justice Department settles with IBM over alleged DEI practices After the modest $17 million agreement with the company, officials say they expect it to be the first of many such settlements.

IBM, specifically, represents arc of corporate diversity post CRM. IBM was once a case study for “racially progressive” capitalism. Their march from Black Company Man to diversity apologia asks a Q: what is diversity in a post liberal state?

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Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack - Topic

Reposted it from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social earlier, but here it is again:

AP Exclusive: Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head warns The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that Europe has about six weeks of jet fuel left.

Ah well no one flies over summer anyway

learning that Israel is one of the main suppliers of the fluoride that gets added to our water supply is like the Super Bowl for conspiracy theorists

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

The initial reports of damage from Super Typhoon Sinlaku in Saipan are catastrophic.

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Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

They just did a fly-by because the moon greased itself up so they couldn't climb on it

hey I wonder why Chappell Roan ended up the target of a hate campaign when she fired her management company because its founder Casey Wasserman turned out to be close, personal friends with noted human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

weird. what a coincidence.

an mq-4 finishing a patrol over the strait of hormuz and then … descending into the sea

kinda wild you can just watch a couple hundred million dollar drone get rinsed on a flight tracker

When you attempt to scale the beneficent effects of tutoring, those effects go away.

Feels like this would be pretty obvious to anybody who has ever been or had a tutor.

The 1-to-1 instructor to student ratio is definitional.

Florida doctor indicted after allegedly removing patient's liver instead of spleen in fatal surgery Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky was indicted by a grand jury with second-degree manslaughter in the August 2024 death of a 70-year-old Alabama man.

Dude do you know how off you have to be to take out a liver when you were looking for a spleen www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It's me, the no-nonsense progressive who gets shit done. I think the people making pennies picking strawberries while they flee from the gestapo are getting a little too greedy.

free speech is when you're free to shut up and sit there while i give a speech

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

Hell yeah make him take the test live on tv, have every cosponsor do it till he does