James Ryan

But the general idea that signing up to work at that place corrodes your critical capacities is correct.

Unfortunately, I disagree with you. It’s just the smart(er) ones don’t work on Iran.

One of the side-effects of the way we talk about this technology is that human intention and human judgement get drained out of situations we're they still, in fact, decisive.

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

This reporting is frustrating. It's vague on the specifics of how AI is actually used in these contexts and manages to frame human decisions as technological inevitabilities.

US/Israelis have started hitting infrastructure. Reports of 30 reserve oil tankers around Tehran. Videos are horrible. A good friend works at the Tehran refinery. Extremely worried.

Ah, I may have crossed this with something he said to another outlet! Thankfully he’s here @mchrislow.bsky.social and perhaps could answer for us.

My kids are not getting spoonfed Hillary Duff flag waving about dead Iranian schoolgirls. Cold comfort, I know, but it’s progress of a kind.

The difference between then and now is the stupid discourse is even stupider, more racist and mean spirited, and more entrenched in power but, somehow, less prevalent in the broader culture and politics.

More than 400 desalination plants are in the Gulf. More attacks on such plants would be devastating--one of the many worries running through my mind over the last few days as this war widens. 90% of Kuwait's drinking water, for ex, comes from desalination. Low's piece below is a good refresher.

Persian Gulf desalination plants could become military targets in regional war Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.

I trust Chris Low on this more than anyone I know. theconversation.com/persian-gulf...

This is something that worries me a lot — isn’t it the case that most of these plants are attached to oil infrastructure? Hard to disable one without also disabling the other in that case.

Iran and America’s Long War in the Middle East - New Global Politics Washington has been stoking conflict with Tehran for decades. The long-desired war has finally arrived, but there is no endgame. Its permanence is the plan.

“In reality, the point for Trump and for American empire is not to have an exit strategy. From his personal weakness to the imperial war-industrial-complex connected to the Middle East, too much depends on the absence of an end.”

Toby Jones nails it. www.newglobalpolitics.org/iran-and-ame...

IRGC statement clarifies in case there was any confusion: “should the previous hostile actions continue, all military bases and interests of criminal America… on land, at sea, and in the air across the region will be considered primary targets.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

You would think after how many decades of this the US would figure out how taarof works.

So Iran has the power to wreck the world economy, but that’s insufficient to deter the USA. Cool equilibrium

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a blind ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a blind

Nah my choice is Steve Carrell. Make it a dark comedy, a sequel to Three Kings.

Except the guys the UK sent learned a lot more, a lot faster about the places they were ruling. That empire lasted that long for a reason.

So would I! Hell, give me enough money and I’d write it!

The thing about Middle East policy is we don’t actually spend that much money planning around it and this guy was so powerful pretty much because he was the only person with any power in FP who cared.

You could write the history of 21st century US foreign policy disasters in the Middle East as a biography of this one guy.

"A U.S. diplomat who was in the embassy when McGurk arrived found his steady advance astonishing. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”"

Plenty of us out there doing the work. Yet, these neo-imperialist morons get play all the time.

Yeah I would not bet on any of this happening. There a million other stupid and crazy things that are more likely (probable even) to happen before we get there.

I should say, it went the other way for awhile when these guys were seduced into thinking RTE could bring peace between Russia and Ukraine.

Palestinian refugee camps of Burj Barajneh and Sabra and Shatila are being evacuated

These are the people who fled the Nakba and their descendants

The same state, Israel, is the cause of both

www.instagram.com/reel/DVgaM3u...

It is really not difficult to make the case that RTE is a malign regional actor without indulging Islamophobia or hallucinations about RTE’s ambitions or capabilities. And yet, these idiots make it harder.

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

It’s Not Complicated The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."

Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

"Motjaba is not a Hojjat al Islam, they rigged the vote on that. It was the biggest steal since the 9th century when the Abbassids..."

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