The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
Wanna see something fun? They didn’t have a commercial stake in Twitter, but they do with Polymarket.
Framing a story around random twitter posts—>Framing a story around prediction markets. Great job, journalism.
I dare you to make less sense.
Dropkick Murphys lead singer Ken Casey at the Alex Pretti Memorial tonight just prior to their set at a benefit show across the street.
Minneapolis March 6, 2026
Number 1 this week, Icee, is from Fulton county! Icee acts as a courthouse facility dog, providing comfort to individuals, particularly in stressful situations, helping to reduce anxiety.
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This tough guy schtick gets really old really quickly, but given the mixed history of US intelligence, especially re Russia, the cockiness comes off more than a little bit hollow.
Pervert Glasses.
Girl they're gonna look at that one enlistment where you somehow made E5 without earning a single award aside from the ones you got automatically awarded for graduating your initial entry training at the time and say "um, the Army is full, actually"
Some Supreme Court Justices think that viewing the Fourth Amendment as a right to "privacy" is an illegitimate 1960s Warren Court policy invention. But it's not: That language goes back to the beginning, as I showed in this 2022 article. scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Combine this with the Treasury Secretary updating us on military planning, and we can clearly see just what kind of multifaceted Renaissance men currently occupy Trump’s cabinet.
It’s so nice to see Cory Doctorow here in Bluesky, especially since he’s exercising their updated federation capabilities.
Augmenting said offer: Let them go through OCS with the possibility of commissioning afterwards.
Some thoughts:
"I can't assess whether the U.S. undertook ‘all possible measures’ to search for and collect the shipwrecked without having a better idea of what was possible in this situation. But I certainly think the U.S. military needs to explain itself.”
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The food here is awful, but the portions are amazing.
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Related background reading:
nyupress.org/978147980927...
Man, I've love to introduce Trump's definition of "imminent" to Justice Alito's definition of "imminent" re Article III standing.
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It’s Bandcamp Friday! Looking fir some haunted chamber music? Mer Yayanos has you covered.
Welcome to another exciting round of "Is it AI* or is it just another subliterate member of the Trump administration?"
Or, more pithily:
Sigh.
Machines don't have to achieve consciousness when credulous humans are eager to attribute consciousness to anything that can mimic the barest minimum of criteria humans are hard-wired to believe demonstrate consciousness.
The "empathy is a sin" message is especially popular among the tech ideologues.
