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A major bank closing 300 Trump bank accounts because they were flagged for potential money laundering should be a far bigger story…

How many data center projects are speculative? Specifically, ones being proposed without a contract with Oracle, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft etc to provide services.

"Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the US and more are merging into a mega-war run by robots. They used to call these World Wars. They used to call people on the phone. The most common call I get today is from someone named 'Scam Likely.'" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand

Hope things move in the right direction tonight/tomorrow www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today. Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate. /1

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

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Happy 31st Birthday to the #PHP programming language. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP

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WaPo—“Iran has hit far more U.S. military assets than reported, satellite images show 
Imagery published by Iranian state-affiliated media and verified by The Post shows damage to at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites.”

That’s the main skill a trump employee must have. They answer only to him not the constitution or Congress so they are employees.

i feel like society moved on from these too quickly

Recommended reading: BC Assembly of First Nations open letter to members of the B.C. Legislature www.bcafn.ca/news/open-le... #bcpoli #cdnpoli #dripa

The Iran crisis "is a huge opportunity" to move away from fossil fuels, one leader notes—and it would be "tragic" to waste it.

We need to talk about #BillC22- the largest surveillance bill Canada has ever seen. It would force every messaging app, cloud service, and internet provider we use to build government backdoors into their infrastructure. Permanently. Tell your MP to kill it now 👇 openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

The Deafening Silence Cartoon by Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social

Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.

The President's posts are totally insane -- but also terrifying.   This is exactly why I voted against funding for Trump’s Dept of War. Trump is unhinged and he’s getting worse.   Congress must reconvene immediately, and Republicans need to join us in ending this war NOW.

Today, I issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s threat against Iran that “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

Trump is terrorizing the entire world. He is itching to break the taboo of nuclear weapons and Americans will keep shrugging and being like “oh that’s just Trump being Trump.” Waking up every day to him threatening to nuke an entire country is enough. We can’t all live like this, he’s gone insane.

The United States needs to become a pariah state sanctioned into oblivion even for threatening this, let alone if it’s carried out.

Wow, that's Mare Oriental on the left, a huge impact basin surrounded by mutiple rings of hills (tyocal for big impacts). That's very difficult to see from Earth becaue it's on the lunar far side, but easy enough if you're on the way to the moon and heading around back.

A prolonged Hormuz closure is, in plain terms, a global fuel rationing event. And when fuel gets rationed, poor ppl lose access first — to hospitals,fertilizer,cooking fuels,water pumping, lighting, transportation,refrigeration,and basic economic life energyempirepodcast.substack.com/p/stop-treat...

This seems ominous if you care about the rise of fully autonomous robots used for killing people

#EpsteinFiles

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Why, oh why, did I think it was a good idea to reboot a production system on a Friday?!?

Mars launch today - good luck sticking the barge landing for the first time, Blue Origin! watch live stream: youtube.com/live/WUuH9fw... (images: Blue Origin)

FWIW I wrote this. I wrote it in part as a tool to use in persuasion in my own communities. www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

The debate over the rights of citizens vs. non-citizens entirely misses the point when you look at the actual text of the Constitution and its later amendments. The Founding Fathers already answered this question, and did so in a way that should have spared us all of this wrangling and argument.

”...the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice…." -- MLK Jr

This shit is LITERALLY where the Nazi death camps started. With the disabled and homeless. Folks need to learn some GD history if they don't know already.

This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something

Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Want to help get rid of RFK Jr? Then sign this petition from @standupforscience.bsky.social: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm... 13,000+ signatures so far!

The plaintiffs are asserting products liability, negligence, wrongful death, and finally they’re asserting a violation of California Unfair Competition Law The UCL theory is GPT 4o violated Cal. criminal code by deliberately aiding & encouraging suicide, was practicing unlicensed psychotherapy,

Inflation rose by 22.6% from 2019-2024. In that same period, the 100 lowest-paying corporations paid their CEOs 34.7% more. Worker pay didn't even keep up with the rate of inflation. Those corporate tax breaks will never, ever, ever trickle down. WE ARE BEING SCAMMED.

🚨🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 14! WE ARE LAUNCHING A CAMPAIGN TO IMPEACH AND REMOVE BOBBY “The Quack” JR. 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm... We will hand deliver to Congress in Sept! #31doa #imoeachthequack #signandshare

This is the kind of science NASA interim director Duffy wants to kill. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15466...