Trump now ordering naval blockade of Vatican City, also unaware that it is landlocked.

“Pandemic-era stresses increased churn as doctors and nurses resigned, or retired early... Burnout remains high... In Britain the share of nurses with less than one year of experience has doubled since 2015”

Like reefs, healthcare systems are becoming (probably irretrievably) depleted #complexity

[there’s] an argument for a different kind of designer — one who understands that fitness is not the same as truth, that surviving designs are not necessarily the right ones, and that graceful approximation requires a human eye precisely because no algorithm has a stake in getting it honest

Design Darwinism On fitness, truth and what Darwin can teach us about design failure

There is no shortcut out of #complexity; complex problems … cannot be solved … they morph and change, and hence they can only be managed. And managing them requires something that neither a process nor a platform can provide: sustained, situated ownership of the problem itself.

Fredrik Scheider

Is Iran Winning? | The Ezra Klein Show YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

Latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

Is Iran Winning?

With Suzanne Maloney, director of the Brookings Institution’s foreign policy program.
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Why Iran Believes It Has the Upper Hand

Discussion with Suzanne Moloney exploring the background to and state of the current intervention in Iran. Summary: the US has probably lost.

The regime’s treatment of Iran’s people has been awful and the potential impact on the global economy is massive but I can’t help my sense of schadenfreude

I like that the Economist posts here. Their social media folks have a knack of picking stuff that I’d miss leafing (and latterly, scrolling) through the magazine

This is excellent. Follow Heather.

“But it was not your fault but mine
And it was your heart on the line
I really fucked it up this time
Didn’t I, my dear?”

Mumford and Sons and Donald Trump

Proceeding by experiment…

The Trouble With Seizing Kharg Island The Trump administration is contemplating a move that could end or escalate the Iran war.

Kharg, a small, rocky island just off the Iranian coast, could be the Trump administration’s key to victory—or its undoing—in the Iran war, @brynntannehill.bsky.social argues.

Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial A woman has been awarded $3m in a verdict that could have implications for hundreds of other cases in the US.

Here’s a good thing… drug cartels getting busted

Less than 48 hours till our debut album #hollowchapters drops! Music video is on our Youtube channel at 9.00pm UK - "Hollow Chapters" (Official Music Video) - by The Marsh Family
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Literal lunacy.

Am wondering if they will be taking dogs to bark at it

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards won’t defend the regime to the last man Mohsen Sazegara, one of the force’s founders, believes its various units are more divided than they appear

The “prevailing sentiment” among a large portion of the IRGC is that their duty is not to defend a particular individual or system, but rather the security of Iran and its people, argues one of its founders

One launch gig’s now sold out, but if you haven’t got plans yet for Sat 11th April, then come along & see us live at The Garlinge Theatre in Chartham. Use code #TOOLATE to get tickets for a tenner: marshfamilylaunch.eventbrite.co.uk (livestream tickets at: themarshfamilylivestream.eventbrite.co.uk)

"You really can't (trust AI). Not without strong legal safeguards. Right now there's almost no legal accountability. Companies can collect your data, use it however they want and face minimal consequences if things go wrong" -- Claude

#AI

513. Inside Iran: The Country Trump Cannot Control? (Question Time) Spotify video

Analysis of the war with Iran by Karim Sadjadpour - also absolutely excellent

#TheRestIsPolitics

What Trump Didn’t Know About Iran

Story of Iran over the last 50 years - Ali Vaez is absolutely excellent

#iran #ezraklein

Trump latterly discovering the Straits is like when Truss latterly discovered gilt yields.

Welcome to the Garyneum, the 13 day period between the birthdays of Gary Numan and Gary Oldman.

Yes

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential age restrictions on social media and other services such as ga...

One more fundamentally broken way we do things. Much discussion in the press of banning social media for under 16s. The government does its usual thing of putting out a consultation to ask the country about this and, of course, almost no-one knows it exists.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

UK social media ban for under 16s consultation begins Discussions over what measures to implement to protect children's wellbeing will last for three months.

Another close to pointless government consultation that would be much better handled by citizens’ assembly

#CitizensAssembly

AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the same Today's hottest bots have yet to learn that, when it comes to global thermonuclear war, the only way to win is not to play. So please don't hand them the codes. …

FYI: AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

Anthropic CEO Says AI Company 'Cannot In Good Conscience Accede' To Pentagon's Demands Anthropic's CEO says the AI company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology.

Yay?

How four years of war on Ukraine have changed Russia. YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg

“For Russia, the consequences of its war on Ukraine are now harder to ignore.” We drive 350km from Moscow to see how four years of war have changed Russia.