Wind & solar have been the cheapest energy for over a decade, we have ways to store it for nighttime & calm conditions, & we're still fighting wars over oil.

It is what it is folks

From yesterday’s Laurie Anderson gig:

Justice is love made public

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

It has now been five weeks since the noted noise/drone musician Siavash Amini posted from where he lives in Tehran. Any number of reasons might be why. We do not know. Again, please consider investigating his work.

If you’re born on a ship you’re a citizen of the country the ship is registered in. Maybe the same applies to planes?

almostdeadguy 1 hour ago Seems this got buried from the front page very quickly ronanfarrow 22 minutes ago There is dwindling space for sincere independent accountability reporting on big tech like this to a) be created, since it's incredibly resource-intensive and so many resources flow from Silicon Valley, and b) actually reach people, since more platforms are now owned or otherwise influenced by interested parties. Thank you for looking. Please do spread this kind of reporting in your communities, and subscribe to investigative outlets when you can.

Farrow has commented on the nuking of his New Yorker piece from the Hacker News front page:

"There is dwindling space for sincere independent accountability reporting on big tech like this to a) be created, since it's incredibly resource-intensive and so many resources flow from Silicon Valley..."

The limitations on violence established after World War II were not brought by pacifists or peaceniks but by literal old soldiers. They knew. They had seen.

White House seeks $5.6 billion cut to NASA budget in 2027 The White ​House on ‌Friday proposed a $5.6 billion ​cut ​to NASA's budget ⁠for 2027, ​including a $3.4 ​billion cut to the space ​agency's ​science unit, a 23% ‌cut ⁠as NASA's new chief plans ​an ​array ⁠of new ​missions under ​the ⁠flagship U.S. moon ⁠program.

The White ​House proposed a $5.6 billion ​cut ​to NASA's budget ⁠for 2027, ​including a $3.4 ​billion cut to the space ​agency's ​science unit

TAT: [Attacking science | Hollowing state]

Big, fat asterisk next to everyone's name who is promoted past Major in this period. The wages of racism and misogyny in uniform will be paid this time. There will be no nodding past this and hoping "professionalism" or "honor" sorts things out.

Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader Score one for the fediverse.

Surf combines Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and other content into customizable open feeds on the web. I’ve been using it and love it. Let’s bring back the open web!

btw some jumping spiders will remember the shapes of past predators and pass some of it on genetically but if the predator is too big they just can't register it as a threat because they have to scan their eyes to make one big image, and they run out of literal memory to store it in

I’m going to be there mid May for a few days, is it still going to be on somewhere?

Why?

The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite How the self-styled know-it-alls atop the knowledge economy want to dismantle the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Your customer isn't a million people who use your app or even like other businesses who buy a subscription, it's some plute who will give you a million dollars for a 10% stake so they can say you're now worth 10 million dollars which means you're on a growth trajectory

A common techbro line right now is that nothing matters except building and shipping stuff fast, and this may sound crazy except that it makes perfect sense when you realize that they've never been selling software or even business acumen, they're selling vibes to VCs for the next raise

Idaho governor signs law making transgender bathroom use a felony Gov. Brad Little signed the measure on Transgender Day of Visibility as advocates rallied outside the statehouse.

And in horrifying news, Idaho's governor has signed the felony bathroom ban, with 5 year penalties for second offense bathroom usage, into law.

This is the most significant criminalization of trans people to date.

On trans day of visibility no less.

It will require a new "Do not travel" warning.

The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions 9.12.25

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting mate...

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

The hardest part of a three week war is the first two years.

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage

That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

cssDOOM DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

CSS is DOOMed!

I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

cssdoom.wtf

Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

I know, but I get screwed by the same system because users are mad if I ask for cash up front, and also mad if I offer a trial (because of these apps you’re referring to).

Finns have been watching smoke rise on the horizon from these attacks. They are so close, the targets literally still have Finnish names from when they were still part of Finland

As an indie dev who offers a trial period, it’s literally just me wanting to let people try the app and see if it’s for them or not

Pilot on my flight: “Air travel is not fun right now. Please be nice to each other. I don’t want to be on CNN. Let’s just go home.”

Another reason not to chuck humanities out the window. The lesson is unavoidable if you had any contact with fields that study how humans actually behave (literature included).

What’s noninclusive about “soldier”?

Anyone know when the term “warfighter” became a thing?

Sounds like a badly translated 80s video game