Straight up milking the market

Oh, hell yes, I would totally buy this as well. I want the scribbles and secrets.

Jokes aside, I would buy that. Not for the naked Wolverine, but for the ability to see what could have been canon. Scrapped art. Scrapped stories. Interviews. I think it would make for an interesting DC one-shot too. Make it a yearly magazine.

The lab has a 100-yr record of helping farmers--it just ID'd a new viral bee pest responsible for a lot of hive collapses. The facilities are indeed old, but they should be renovated, not eliminated.

Due to the conflict in the Middle East, the U.S. government has requested all satellite imagery providers voluntarily implement an indefinite withhold of imagery in the designated Area of Interest (AOI). Effective retroactively from March 9, 2026, Planet is moving to a managed access model, extending the publication delay for all new imagery within the designated AOl, and releasing imagery on a case-by-case basis and for urgent, mission-critical requirements or in the public interest. For the media, this model is in line with the media policies of other remote sensing companies. We expect this policy to last through the end of the conflict. Access to imagery for the rest of the world is unaffected. These are extraordinary circumstances, and we are doing all we can to balance the needs of all our stakeholders. We will continue to monitor the situation and make adjustments as possible to minimize the impact on data availability to our customers. For questions regarding specific projects or to request a policy exception, please contact your Customer Success Manager or support@planet.com. We appreciate your continued partnership as we work to ensure our data remains available for responsible use. Best Regards, Planet Team

NEW: US Government bans satellite imagery of the Middle East.

This seems exactly the kind of thing you would do before you committed widespread atrocities.

In a former life, I worked in the Finance Industry for 12 years (incl. in financial planning), and want to share a short thread on this stupid company's idea as well, with that perspective.

If I was a journo reporting on this company, I would follow the money, cause things don't add up .....

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In which I cite the excellent research of Samantha Seeley, @katemasur.bsky.social Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan, Christopher James Bonner, & of course Don and @pamherd.bsky.social + many journalists to connect history to the present.

Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic. The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.

A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please. You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

neither a garrison state nor an apartheid state, just a normal country, a bastion of democracy even, that happens to subject an ethnically distinct population to a different, militarized legal system complete with capital punishment

Here's my Platner timeline, stretching from 2007 to 2026, which is why I do not trust what comes out of his mouth right now. I'm shocked that so many people and orgs I ordinarily respect are so desperate to ignore this history.

bsky.app/profile/greg...

I think it's pretty clear that, at best, between the tattoo, the Blackwater trolling, the reddit posts, he's an edgelord who went to therapy and decided that qualified him to be a senator.

Transgender women athletes banned from female events at Olympics by IOC Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday

despicable. fuck this.

SUMO is fricking AWESOME and all American sports fall way short in comparison.

Oh, hell yes to that third image alt text. Apparently I need sumo in my life?

optimistically, you could bring all of Qatar's LNG trains back to full speed in 30-45 days, but that's what conventional pre-war wisdom was and right now - given Kuwait's statement today - i'm inclined to inflate those estimates by as much as 50% (and we know at least 17% is just gone)

You have to memorize the mascot of every university and break that knowledge out whenever someone tells you where they’re from.

Zohran and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection commissioner Sam Levine just sat down to announce nearly $2 million being returned to over 750 workers at Taco Bell, Dunkin, and Theory.

They made the announcement over Taco Bell and Dunkin.

"I asked Chat GPT"
Well I asked inside of an old well, sitting overgrown in the forest, bucket welded shut with rust. The surface of water imperceptible in the darkness and yet something moving within - not an animal, not human. But something.

it remains absolutely wild that the energy guys are like OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCK and everyone else is just like "it can only good happen!!"

UHHHHHHHH

Tech when I was a Young: "We're going to connect all of us to a ton of cool communities & info & games & music & hobbies & it's gonna be awesome"
Tech now: "We're going to steal your shit & kill every creative profession & surveil you & help the police state & YOU HAD BETTER LIKE IT you dumb poors"

The Consequences of Bad Labor Law Savage inequality and long TSA lines.

One reaction to six-hour TSA lines and ICE in airports that I would like to see more is: If airline industry unions could strike like normal unions, none of this would be happening.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-conseq...

How foreign investor lawsuits stymie environmental protection New data by the Transnational Institute reveal how an increase in lawsuits by foreign investors is undermining government efforts to protect natural resources and human rights in Latin America and…

Foreign investors are suing Latin American and Caribbean nations for $36.6 billion, often targeting environmental policies.

These legal battles undermine government efforts to protect ecosystems, transition to clean energy, and human rights.

Story by @aimeegabay.bsky.social for #Mongabay.

Billions of people, possibly including you reading this, are alive today because you can run natural gas into a reactor and spit out ammonia (Haber Bosch).

A large % of the installed base for that process is shut in or exploded. It’s northern hemisphere spring.

If you are able, please consider helping this healer and her beautiful family support themselves and their community.

9/ "To see who will really pay the price however, look not to the developed world or big emerging markets like India, but to the weakest links in the chain - the poor, agrarian, smallholder economies of Africa."
Read Tooze on the Fertilizer shock:
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

"The US-Israel war on Iran is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined."

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Trump threatens to send ICE to airports to ease TSA security delays Dems insist they're ready to fund DHS, but Republicans won't play ball.

Trump says he'll unleash his untrained ICE hounds to conduct security at America's airports. They have no training for such things. Wonder how that'll turn out? I wrote about it a bit.

Remember: Octavia Butler wrote we should save seeds to plant, pick up skills like sewing and carpentry, learn how to shoot guns, practice how to fight, and create the futures we need, even as we look to the stars.