Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"

Yeah but good luck getting the ticks to take it

A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme Disease

Your pets can already eat a chewable tablet for tick prevention. Now, a pill that paralyzes and kills ticks has shown positive results in a small human trial.

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Inability to adjust pedagogy against the interests of trillion-dollar corporations, the indifference of key decisionmakers, the hostility of many policymakers, and a fiendishly clever artificial intelligence? Skill issue

The United States of America is an awesome place. When my wife and I where living in the US, we didn't own a car. So we would each rent a car, go to a drive through, very conveniently eat in our seperate cars, while having a dinner conversation over the phone. It's an amazing country.

Jezus, hoe Haagse agenten tekeer gaan tegen kinderen die hun handen al in de lucht hebben of tegen de muur staan. En maar blijven knuppelen.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

#civmilsky: I had an RA come up with a list of the Trump Admin's violations of American norms of civil-military relations. I'd like to get feedback on it and have it serve as a public good. Especially handy when folks say this is not so bad docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 1/

‘No way to detect this.’ Say doctors treating women’s symptoms as anxiety.

an autocrat successfully fragmenting his coercive apparatus to deter coups: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! same autocrat realizing a fragmented coercive apparatus cannot wage war and will instead eat itself: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Props to the WSJ, they managed to pack almost every Trump decision-making pathology into a single story. It’s all here: 1) Short attention span 2) Impulsive behavior 3) Knowledge deficits 4) Gambling for resurrection 5) Belief in the madman theory www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears

The president’s impulsive style has never been tested in a sustained military conflict, and he’s been ruminating on Jimmy Carter’s failure in Iran.

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Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

as @marietjeschaake.bsky.social has been arguing for a long time, the European answer can only be a European techno-infrastructure. However, that must be publicly owned and democratically accountable! Europe cannot simply build its own technofascist counterforce!

“Waarom zo persoonlijk?” Daarom zo persoonlijk. Mooi stuk van @lotfielhamidi.bsky.social. www.groene.nl/artikel/voor...

‘Ik schijn een ‘fanatieke activist’ te zijn, vanwege mijn kritiek op Israël en de verrechtsing in Nederland’

Bij debatten over ‘remigratie’ moet ik als journalist maar niet veronderstellen dat het over migranten als mijn ouders gaat?

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There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame

whomst among us hasn't looked at a pope and thought, hmpf, weak on nuclear weapons

A primer on Hungary’s electoral system. Hungary has a mixed-member pseudo proportional electoral system. 106 elected in first past the post constituencies 93 by proportional representation in closed lists 1/

I love @jdryan08.bsky.social's description of it as the Heroditus Trap

Dr Emma Salisbury@salisbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Delphic Oracle told King Croesus of Lydia that if he attacked Persia "a great empire will fall." He saw this as a prediction of victory and attacked. It was his own great empire that fell.

This is not the rhetoric I expect from a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Living in Hell

War crimes coming: A horrifying update

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I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Extremely evil/cursed take from the WaPo this morning

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Wow, guys, I used Attie to code that edit button that Bluesky has been denying us all this time! You can test it out here: edit-button-production.up.railway.app/jcsalterego....

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

March, 19-21: God is a comedian

A stiff drink is recommended

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This bridge is a primary civilian artery linking southern Lebanon—a main agricultural region—with the rest of the country. Its destruction isolates southern communities and cuts off the flow of goods to the north. Israel plans to annex the southern territory under the auspices of a “buffer zone.”

Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Footage of Israeli aircraft leveling the bridge over the Litani River in Qasmiyeh, Lebanon.

Moscow's had a pretty good week, thanks largely to Trump's Iran misadventure. Oil prices are booming, sanctions are suspended, Iran is hewing even closer to Russia, the US is even more diplomatically isolated from Europe, and now Russian intel + tech are throwing sand in the gears of US war effort

Jason "Red5" Lyall@jaylyall.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Russia Is Sharing Satellite Imagery and Drone Technology With Iran

Oh hi, just a political scientist who studies war, and yes, putting Marines on Kharg Island would, in fact, be "boots on the ground in a combat situation." Thanks for coming to another of my TED talks.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Rep. Pete Sessions: "I believe that what these 2,500 Marines would be is to secure the island. The island is not, in my opinion, boots on the ground in combat circumstances. It's not like inside Iran in the cities."