putting on my news glasses to prepare for more news (newsworthy)

gonna get ahead of the curve and offer “Automation of the Decision to Kill” as a New War Crime to add to the New War Crime Convention at the New International Diplomatic Organization

seeing Peter Thiel meeting with Takaichi as all this goes on, I’m mentally flashbanged by a WW2-as-Farce scenario with Japan remilitarizing and the NuAxis being US-Israel-Japan with China as the reluctant-to-join power whose hand is forced by Japan to actually take the combative road against those that seek its destruction

not exactly news but added new emotes that are overdue and topical to coverage:

also added an Axis of Resistance category to the picker. gomenasorry for the general emote hiatus it will continue until April probably

It all ah. returnsah. Ahh. to nothing.Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling do—own.
It all ah. returnsah. Ahh. to nothing.Ah—ahhhhhhhhhhh! I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me down…

The false vacuum of the Rules-Based International Order begins to resolve. Welcome back to brinksmanship, chat. For some, the threat of annihilation never really left. The balance of power is made stable such that all men are made equal under the shadow of the bomb.

‘international law’ is not international

consistently bewildered by how increasingly myopic your brain on capitalism becomes. betting on nuclear blasts as if the payout will have value after the MAD taboo breaks and the central organs of the state get vaporized

How likely is an oil price shock to cascade into heightening the contradictions of the AI bubble? The idea feels intuitive to me (surging energy costs=higher operating costs for data centers) so I’m wondering if it has any basis. Are there any safeguards that would prevent it from making transformer models more costly to operate at scale, besides bourgeoisie class solidarity in covering the losses?

actually feral society

Lowkey ending empire to avenge a concert with the worst techno music you have ever heard

seal named seel

editorialized the title because i do not respect axios

realpolitik-wrapped cowardice at best, careerist nihilism at worst. For someone even nominally trying to combat landlordism, this is a move that empowers their greatest baked-in threat. Further emiserating evictees while holding “speak bitterness”-esque hearings is Peak Socdem Behavior.

As a current member of DSA (kinda flirting with PSL tbh atp) they seem to have no recourse to hold their figureheads to the party line. As of now, it’s a launching platform for left-flank liberals to get their feet off the ground in politics. What is their plan after the elections if someone sells out?

^*Enola

Out with The Gay* and the 'Dar

preemptively nominating ed zitron for the slate of 2026’s most vindicated persons. lock it in