Now the 2026 regime-changey spree. Diplomacy is not the opposite of war, it is also a tool of war. If you threaten war to get what you want, you need to do coercive diplomacy. If you know you want to fight, diplomacy can make war go better for you. Allies, opposition party support, they help! 5/
I think it's pretty important to understand that algorithmically-run platforms have long understood anger and argument drives much more engagement than just showing you stuff you like, and if you find yourself being made to despair at what a platform shows you, that is the system working as intended
I made this quiz a little too hard, but on the other hand, you might learn something even from losing. Which is a good skill to have!
Perhaps you've never enjoyed life in a cult!
AI is supercharging surveillance, and the law has not caught up with it.
this is the imaginary universe of the Sales Pitch and Development Guy
Wow.
"There is no decision that America can make that will be without a price, but for a wrong decision in the present, the future will take its inevitable revenge." — Edward R. Murrow, 1941: continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/you-burned...
Congress and the President have played the “Oh this? This isn’t an actual WAR. Those rules don’t apply,” card my entire life. Yours too if you are younger than ~82.
I know I keep saying this, but I get a perverse sense of relief when things like this happen due to the war because oh hey, reality still exists. It’s not all just content. Cause and effect are still a thing. You haven’t totally lost your fragile grip on sanity.
Now Trump’s press Secretary says that Iran’s complete surrender means that when Trump determines the US has won, that amounts to Iran’s complete surrender. So, just as I thought when he issued the ultimatum, it means nothing.
a set of graphs of US jobs data
NEW US JOBS DATA:
Non-farm Payrolls: -92k
Unemployment Rate: 4.4% (+0.1%)
Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.7% (-0.1%)
Average Hourly Earnings: +0.4%
they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends
How much to you really know about the bizarre history of US broadcasting? How much do you WANT to know? I made a quiz for you. continuouswave.fillout.com/t/emXE39qyjtus
Great new story by @cwarzel.bsky.social detailing the very big problems with prediction markets—"the perfect technology for a low-trust society, simultaneously exploiting and reifying an environment in which believing the motives behind any person or action becomes harder."
One more edit of Christopher D Lutter-Gardella 's Kaleidoscope of Love art production in Powderhorn Park Minneapolis February 28, 2026. The production features 1k people coming together to form a butterfly, then flutter, then transform into the beating heart of love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zclz...
US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying
"You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames that burned it. You laid the dead of London at our doors and we knew the dead were our dead — were all men’s dead — were mankind’s dead — and ours." Archibald MacLeish, Dec. 2, 1941. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/you-burned...
This is some useful historical context:
Alex Pretti should have been 38 years old today.
Five weeks? Five days? What are the objectives? You can read all Trump's pronouncements, you'll have no idea. Neither does he.
could see a status quo developing where great powers don't give a shit about other nation's sovereignty but still rarely actually invade. just bomb, assassinate, do spec ops shit, or raid in force to kill specific people, take specific things, etc.
War ought to be the absolute hardest illegal unconstitutional abuse of power to do and instead it's the easiest
Guys, I'm starting to think that the guy who said he didn't know he had a Nazi tattoo might've been lying.
For some Cold Warriors, the Cold War never ended, the adversary simply got swapped out from Team Red to Team Multicolor Evil Coat
US embassy in Baghdad essentially under siege by Iraqi protestors
