Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ships in the region, with experts warning of an impending environmental catastrophe. https://cnn.it/3Ovxzwk
This is what data centers & Gigafactory (TX) are doing to water & who says they clean if before dumping it in our water supply?
Child sitting in front of razor wire reading a book with IDF soldiers in the background.
Palestinian children in the West Bank were prevented from going to school by Israeli security forces who closed a road in the middle of the night and set up razor wire.
The children tried to cross through the razor wire and were reportedly tear-gassed.
Photo by @the_andrey_x
Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.
Kash Lego figure with big eyes
I can’t look at him and not see his Lego image now.
NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles.
theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...
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.
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.
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.
ne consequence of GPUs being networked together and operated synchronously is that their workloads, and therefore their power consumption, are also synchronised. During AI model training and use, there are typically periods of intense computation, followed by periods of less computationally intensive data exchange and periods of computational downtime. Because computation requires power, this variability leads to large swings in IT power demand. These swings occur across timeframes ranging from microseconds to seconds to several minutes. As the power density of AI hardware increases, the absolute size of these swings also increases. Software-based mitigation strategies can help smooth these swings, but they may result in more wasteful electricity consumption. Depending on how data centres of this kind are configured and connected to the grid, these swingsin power use may have implications for grid stability, potentially leading to voltage instability and harmonic distortion on local grids. Figure 4.1 ⊳ Power envelope of GPU workload and power density of data centres by first operational year
We are definitely not talking anywhere near enough about the risk of data centre induced blackouts, which is a very real and material risk if this isn't managed properly
A lighting arrestor failed on a 230 kV transmission line on July 10, 2024. It caused a series of faults that the system was able to quickly correct.
60 data centers with 1500 MW of combined load disconnected from the grid simultaneously, raising grid frequency and nearly causing cascading outages
“Their main goal is not to scare us away. They're shooting to kill”
Palestinian villager, Akram Abu Ali, who lives in the occupied West Bank witnessed Israeli settlers shoot and kill a boy who was trying to save his friend from being beaten.
Read Theia Chatelle’s report: zeteo.com/p/israeli-se...
We blew a hole in a cargo ship's engine room - Holy Shit!
If you want to sink a ship... put the engine under water! Sink a tanker (this is a cargo ship, reportedly) and you've got a massive environmental disaster.
"Ms. Ross-Mahé, age 86, was greeted at the airport by her three adult children. She was still dressed in her prison wear — orange shoes, sweatpants and a gray sweater — covered in stains and holes...
"She was in a state of physical shock...
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.
The attempt by the Khayyats to influence foreign policy while discussions are underway about potential Trump family deals is an increasingly common feature of the president’s second term
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
"The United Nations estimates that 50,000 women & girls were killed by intimate partners or family members in 2024, which breaks down to about 1 every 10 minutes..., so I know that prioritizing men's hurt feelings over our use of the term, "patriarchy" will only result in more [of our] deaths..."💔💔💔
According to the complaint, agents laughed at Rahman, accused her of lying about her needs and forced her to walk once inside the building after she had asked for a cane or a wheelchair.
📸 Israeli soldier smashing a Jesus statue’s head in southern Lebanon.
Patel fired the FBI's Iran counterintelligence unit.
Then, we went to war with Iran.
He fired them because they'd worked on the Mar-a-Lago documents case.
Revenge. That's the whole answer.
Everyone's talking about the drinking.
Nobody's talking about this.
Until now ↓
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
Kash Patel has a drinking problem. This is far worse than not being able to hold his liquor. This is being a danger to himself and to others.
And he's the director of the FBI.
Let that sink in.
The director.
Of the FBI.
In need of an intervention.
Or a few days in a drunk tank.
Holy hell!
A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.
Gaza genocide, the broligarchy, corruption, ICE, forever wars..
The DNC's leaders and donors will not change or adapt, folks. They're not made for this moment. They are too ideologically committed to restoring the old ways.
They must be culled and replaced with better leaders.
The most dangerous time is when a woman is finally leaving a domestic violence situation.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
“You have 3 different scenes, [a] shooting occurred just down the road here, the 300 block of West 79th…There’s also another shooting related to this on Harrison St, & then there’s an adjacent residence on West 79 where one of the victims ran to after the shooting.”
10 shot, 8 dead, by 1 angry man.
Peak mainstreaming:
A so-called festival of philosophy with all the most reactionary speakers the UK has to offer fooling some left-wing speakers into thinking this is a debate rather than a way to make their extreme ideas seem part of the conversation...
howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/ha...
First reported by Beth LeBlanc of @detroitnews.com,
U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, who is running for U.S. Senate, was loudly and prolongedly booed at the Michigan Democratic Party convention.
Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
