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NYT reporter Azmat Khan explains how by American standards of warfare the world trade center was a legitimate military target.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/precision-strikes-iran-civilians/
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Gotta inquire with the NY Fed about hunger in this economizing golden age because the USDA stopped tracking it a year ago.
Food in bellies filches figures from the accounts of the affluent, may the rich never diminish in their glorious raiment nor their elective unregulated hormone replacements.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/americans-going-hungry-new-york-fed-says/
The director of the Pentagon’s new “Economic Defense Unit” helped train four of the Saudi bonesaw operators who dismembered Jamal Khashoggi.
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The monumental manpower manning the tech press -- seemingly the last large labor pool of reporters in the country, are they all on the silicon valley payroll? -- could easily stuff their pages full with tales from revolutions in healthcare and energy but all they ever want to blather about are murderous scammy chatbots that spawn spaghetti code and technical debt, blindly steal the efforts of artists, and flood the courts with endless fabricated citations.
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So America's war on terrorism started out the gate with at least three wedding bombings in its first year, and another cluster in Bush's final year in office, with that one in 2004 sitting in between just to keep young couples' feet cold, and then Obama picked up where he left off bombing at least one in his first year in office and another in his second.
I'd give Biden more credit for bombing the fewest weddings if he hadn't been such a brazen proponent of bombing everything to begin with.
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Tesla's quarterly net income is down 61% from a year ago, in which time frame our savvy investor classes have bid its stock up 9%.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tesla-annual-profit-plunges-lowest-level-pandemic-129651624
Mitch McConnell may or may not be conscious or even alive, nobody knows why his wife is spending his hopsitalization abroad meeting with the vice president of China, but that's nothing compared to the cover up of Joe Biden's age.
perhaps police shouldn't be allowed to stalk random women and threaten their families using the full leverage of state and corporate mass surveillance without an iota of oversight
https://www.404media.co/footage-shows-cop-stalking-woman-he-met-on-a-tv-set-after-surveilling-her-with-a-license-plate-reader
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@BenAveling@infosec.exchange @draNgNon@hachyderm.io @grammargirl@zirk.us
The AI is generating language from some matrix algebra that regurgitates transforms of the test data or mirages of it. Only users can hallucinate and believe the mirages are real while a whirring vortex of vectors can't believe in anything.
Israel is always innovating in its efforts to control collateral damage. For instance consider this week's quadruple-tap strike in Mayfadoun, which managed to murder paramedics from three separate ambulance services as each attempted in turn to rescue the last first responders.
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@cwebber
Weird to adjust historic spending on infrastructure projects by a consumer price index. This is better.
https://x.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044985359281381690/photo/1
"Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence. Those kids are gonna have a chance to go [to one of my wellness farms] and be ‘reparented,'" Robert F Kennedy Jr explained on a podcast without explaining what "reparented" means, letting him off the hook two years later when a congress member asked him to explain it and he could blame his cocktail of toilet seat cocaine, crystal meth, heroin, and DMT.
Self-driving tech going so well I'm seeing billboards advertising at women to get into long haul trucking, a career with year after year 100+% turnover because working conditions are too miserly for the self-driving humans.
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@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net @codinghorror@infosec.exchange
It's pretty funny that the more successful radio operator paying rent to the failure not to broadcast is the optimal market outcome in the original thought experiment, and somebody thought that was a generalizable argument for self-regulation?
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@SeanCasten@mastodon.social
Republicans made Minnesota an open carry state, simply being armed is no pretext.
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@inthehands
Just trying to share some good news in return, haha, well, somewhat less stupid and awful.
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@inthehands
Flint got clean drinking water? I thought Elon Musk bailed on that promise long before he illegally cancelled USAID.
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Taxing foreign pharmaceuticals 100%, decriminalizing domestic fentanyl exchange 50%.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations
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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange
A vast everything-belongs-to-the-cloud conspiracy against private data so they can surveil it into the advertising industry's universal spyware.
On this day in 1983 the world almost ended in nuclear holocaust when the Soviet Air Defence Forces' early warning system detected five incoming ICBMs, potentially triggering retaliatory strikes, but for lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov's critical decisions to await corroborating evidence rather than forward the alerts up the chain of command.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-World/dp/B07DVVKFTW
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@cstross@wandering.shop
Living his best life.
https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/387/house-on-hillside
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The May 2002 American bombing of a wedding party in Mukaradeeb, Iraq was more of a turkey shoot with air support:
"Among the dead were 27 members of the extended Rakat family, their wedding guests and even the band of musicians hired to play at the ceremony, among them Hussein al-Ali from Ramadi, one of the most popular singers in western Iraq."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/21/iraq.rorymccarthy
"I’m beginning to regret having lived so long — because we’re going downhill."
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/stanley-plotkin-profile-godfather-of-vaccines-worried/
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"The benchmark was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, where roughly 2,000 people worked the targeting process for the entire war. During Scarlet Dragon, 20 soldiers using Maven handled the same volume of work. By 2024, the stated goal was 1,000 targeting decisions in an hour. That is 3.6 seconds per decision, or from the individual “targeteer’s” perspective, one decision every 72 seconds. The Maven Smart System is the platform that came out of those exercises."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
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America's bombast at weddings is so memory holed...
A US raid on December 29, 2001 in Qalaye Niazi, Afghanistan, vaporized over 100 attendees at a wedding. No one reported the names of the dearly departed couple, establishing the record of indolent disregard that remains one of the nation's sole realms of categorical consensus.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jan/07/afghanistan.rorycarroll
http://www.rawa.org/100kill.htm
Found myself calling a hotel to make a reservation yesterday when none of the websites could complete one, like the stack of bugs running the industry finally swallowed its servers.
It's kind of funny how much despair people can knot themselves up into without observing the elementary stripping of publishers' liability for promoting harmful speech.
Would this resurgence of orality be so awful if people with terrible things to say weren't being promoted as ubiquitous authorities? The race to the bottom of the discourse has been unhindered by consequence in novel, disregulated ways. It was a choice that Candace Owens became a public health authority.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
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@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net @codinghorror@infosec.exchange
public choice theory is a classic example of psychological projection
An incomplete catalog of Trump's projects to turn Washington DC back into a swamp.
https://www.readtangle.com/the-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-corruption-story/
"The 15 largest hospital systems charged an average of 282 percent more than the Medicare rate, the study found, resulting in $22 million in profit per hospital per year."
https://prospect.org/2026/05/08/corporate-hospitals-bilking-americans-gop-destroys-health-care/
mar-a-lago face is for masking the ideological inbreeding of the master race
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Generating flimsy pretexts for wars from chatbot hallucinations is a more humane way to start them than torturing guys like Ali al-Fakheri until they tell you what you want to hear.
The suffering aside the processes are otherwise indistinguishable.
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America bombed a wedding in Bal Khel, east of Khost, in May 2002.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/us-plane-bombs-afghan-wedding-20020518-gdu7td.html
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@mike805@noc.social @GeraldKutney@noc.social
What about the phrase "while climate change is an important factor affecting wildfires over many parts of the world, it isn’t close to the only factor" sounds like "climate change isn't important" to you?
Why do you think the decline in tree ring widths in regions plaugued by acid rain in the industrial era should be kept in the proxy record?
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"Garlasco... recommended 50 strikes on senior Iraqi leadership... None of the 50 killed its intended target. Two weeks after the invasion, Garlasco left the Pentagon for Human Rights Watch, went to Iraq, and stood in the crater of a strike he had targeted himself. “These aren’t just nameless, faceless targets,” he said later. “This is a place where people are going to feel ramifications for a long time.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
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It is hard to find a copy of Anand Gopal's July 2009 report from Garloch village in Laghman province Afghanistan, but not as hard as it is to find Garloch, which no longer exists after America bombed a wedding party there and the survivors abandoned what was left of their homes for refugee camps.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Uprooting+an+Afghan+Village.-a0201994097
https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghan-civilians-said-killed-us-led-air-raid
"The Trump team said the economy was in a secret recession because it was dependent on health care jobs. Stephen Miran of the CEA and Secretary Bessent argued at the beginning of 2025 that “73% of all jobs created [during the Biden years] were due to government-adjacent sectors like [...] education and health care"... during the first 10 months of their administration... private education and health services were responsible for a comical 255% of all job growth."
https://newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/the-irony-of-a-jobs-pickup-that-ends
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@lerxst@az.social
Looking forward to being reparented by an amateur taxidermist's hood ornament whale carcass this summer, myself.
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Was the July 2002 Urzurgan wedding bombing America's first?
Mukaradeeb in 2004; Haska Meyna and Wech Baghtu in 2008; the Radda wedding convoy bombing in 2013...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruzgan_wedding_bombing