We obtained the first publicly released satellite image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran, after it was struck by Israel/US. There are several destroyed buildings. Current whereabouts of Iran's supreme leader are unknown; compound used as his official residence. 🛰️📸: @airbus.com
12/ This isn’t something that a US as a *conservative* power would do, but a US that sees itself as revolutionary against the previous world order would be happy to roll the dice.
Fotografie von Ossietzky als 26-Jähriger im Jahr 1915. Er trägt das Haar gescheitelt, einen Anzug und Krawatte. Er blickt ernst in die Kamera. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.
Am 28. Februar 1933 wurde Carl von Ossietzky von der Gestapo verhaftet, gefoltert und im Gefängnis Spandau interniert.
"Was er an bösen und häßlichen Instinkten hervorgerufen hat, wird nicht so leicht verwehen und für lange Jahre noch das gesamte öffentliche Leben in Deutschland verpesten. [...]" 🧵
(Bloomberg) -- The global smartphone market will contract 12.9% in 2026 because of the unprecedented memory chip shortage, marking “a crisis like no other,” according to researcher IDC. The new forecast, a dramatic revision down from earlier estimates, gives the latest accounting of the ongoing memory crunch that’s affecting every corner of the electronics industry. The demand for advanced memory to power artificial intelligence tasks has drained global supply until well into next year and now jeopardizes the business model of many smartphone makers. IDC now sees roughly 1.1 billion mobile shipments in 2026, down from 1.26 billion the prior year and erasing years of gradual gains. Smartphone manufacturers are adapting to the elevated component costs by reining in specifications, eliminating unprofitable entry-level models and pushing consumers to buy more premium devices. “The tariffs and pandemic crisis seem a joke compared to this,” said IDC Senior Research Director Nabila Popal. “The smartphone market will witness a seismic shift by the time this crisis is over — in size, average selling prices and competitive landscape. We don’t expect the situation to ease up until mid-2027, at least.”
No public link for this yet, buy W O O F that's a big number
Why Nvidia’s terrific quarter is getting a tepid reaction $NVDA
sherwood.news/markets/nvid...
Perfect
U.S. Military Deployment in the Middle East in Anticipation of a Possible Military Operation Against Iran - 17 Feb 2026 Created by ®EGYOSINT X Abraham Lincoln CSG Gerald R. Ford CSG On Deployment Turkey Syria Iraq Egypt. Iran UAE USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier USS WinstonS. Churchill USS Bainbridge USS Mahan Air Defense Deployement ed Kuwait Bahrain • Qatar. Saudi Arabia Yemen Oman Arabian Sea Created by BEGYOSINT Approx 160 flights by C-17A (Since 16th Jan) Djibouti Gulf of Aden (Muwaffaq Salti AB) 18x flights by C-5M (KSA, Qatar & Djibouti) 20-22x KC-135 & KC-46 Tankers +24 F-15E (Muwaffaq Salti AB) ★ Numerous Flights by C-130H/J 1x RC-135 SIGINT (Chania, Greece) 30x F-35A fighters (Muwaffaq Salti AB) 4x MC/HC-130J (2x Muwaffaq Salti AB) (2x Diego Garcia NSF) 3x EA-11A BACN (Prince Sultan AB) F-16 deployed at the UAE & KSA WC-135R Nuke Sniffer (Midenhall, UK) 2x E-3 Sentry AWACS (Midenhall, UK) 6x EA-18GA (Muwaffaq Salti AB) + USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier (Arabian Sea) USS Frank E. Petersen (Arabian Sea) USS Spruance (Arabian Sea) USS Michael Murphy (Arabian Sea) Other assets in the ME USS Roosevelt (Mediterranean Sea) USS McFaul (Persian Gulf) USS Mitscher (Persian Gulf) USS Delbert D. Black (Red Sea) Ohio-class (unknown location) THAAD At least one additional battery (KSA or Qatar) MIM-104 Patriot Multiple battaries across the region 土 +99 C-17A & C-5M flights transferring AD Battaries By @TheIntelFrog
This is somewhere between 40-50% of deployable US air power (and it’s still growing). On a scale with the Gulf Wars.
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A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Sad to read this, remember the good times when times are bad
Agreed!
NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
In the context of an EU and its member states rebuilding strategic self-reliance the issue is not expanding capacity, which is happening, but rather time needed to expand it until the US has less leverage and Russia less power
Vance and Putin have a time window of 5-7 years until Europeans close it
The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland.
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
"Similar increases in C-17 activity at the base were observed ahead of U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025."
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/u-s-special-...
George Grosz (German 1893-1959) Prost (Cheers), 1920; watercolor, pen, and ink on paper. Grosz was known for his caricatural drawings and paintings depicting Berlin life in the 1920s and was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity movements during the Weimar Republic.
European Parliament, Council Reach Provisional Agreement On EU-Mercosur Safeguards - Danish Presidency - reports
60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
...as the central bank at the core of the global payments system.
It reflects shutdown-disrupted data, a dual-mandate squeeze, a lame-duck Chair, and the lack of a clear strategic framework from the world’s most powerful central bank, which has been overly data-dependent for a protracted period.
Jarvis Cocker croons, coos and dances his way through this career-spanning Tiny Desk with Pulp. n.pr/4pbIgkn
Wine barrels in the port of Oran (Algeria) in 1912. During most of the 20th century, Algeria was the world's largest wine exporter. #winehistory
Anything 2D will be Open Source within 5 years
And make money
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
Oh God.
Andriy Parubiy, a key Euromaidan revolution figure and former Rada speaker, has been assassinated in Lviv.
29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'
I've mentioned before that the logic of Trump II points toward dissolution of the union. And the three straightest paths to that are ending rule of law, corrupting elections and tanking the dollar.
Trump and MAGA are speedrunning all three.
