Craig Read

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

We don't have to wonder why 77 million people voted for Trump.

A soft-landing manual for the second gilded age By the summer of 1945, West Berlin had been reduced to rubble. Allied bombing, the Soviet ground assault and Hitler's insistence on Götterdämmerung had destroyed roughly a third of the city's buildings and left most of the rest damaged. There was no functioning government, no reliable electricity, no clean water

What matters is how much unnecessary suffering we allow between here and there, and whether the new normal we settle into is one worth living in.

www.joanwestenberg.com/a-soft-land...

It's an affront to our collective intelligence and empathy that indie journalists need to run around proving various bombed schools and hospitals aren't harbouring "terrorists". You should instinctively know that's nonsense and that American and Israeli regimes are FUCKING EVIL

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist.

It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.

Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores Google is changing how it collects fees on the Play Store, and making it easier to use third-party app stores and billing systems.

Epic losing the App Store case against Apple but winning against Google which is technically more open is a great lesson in setting expectations.

Apple never set the expectation it was open while Google claimed to be but actually wasn’t in practice.

I have an immense respect for women. Especially black women.

Y’all be dealing with some bullshit man

The remarkable thing about LinkedIn is that people say some really dumb things despite not being anonymous.

I visited Carrifran Wildwood myself last summer, and the scale of what has been achieved there truly has to be seen to be believed.

At least 400,000 acres is now being rewilded in Scotland: an incredible 2.1% of the whole country, and rapidly increasing all the time.

Come ON, Ireland!!

Kyle and Jackie O’s controversial breakfast radio show taken off air after hosts fall out Australian Radio Network accuses Sandilands of ‘serious misconduct’ after Henderson says she ‘cannot continue to work’ with Kiis FM co-host

It’s kind of astonishing and heartwarming just how universally despised both of these ghouls are.

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A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

Is Trump’s war on Iran legal? That’s up to the US and Israel to decide and they have a great track record on these things | First Dog on the Moon International rules-based order for thee but not for me

An illegal war? In this economy? Surely not. fyi in this cartoon I got to say a swear! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The New York Times U.S. and Israel Attack Iran LIVE Updates What to Know Photos Ma Casts Doubt Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School No Responsibility The New York Times U.S. and Israel Attack Iran LIVE Updates 4m ago What to Know Photo Stated as Fact 9 Killed in Israeli City Near Jerusalem After Iranian Missile Strike Actor Named

Politics of semantics 😏

Imagine an Iranian bomb had slaughtered 165 Israeli school kids.

Imagine the response of the Western media and politicians.

And note the lack of outrage and disgust here.

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

The fact that Trump and his band of fascists still can't get their stories straight as to why they attacked Iran makes it all the more gobsmacking and absolutely pathetic that Albo and Wong jumped in so quickly to support it.

Albanese government rejected advice on Tasmanian salmon farming impact before passing pro-industry laws FoI documents show ministers ignored recommendation for fresh inquiry that could have reduced or paused farming

Albanese government rejected advice on Tasmanian salmon farming impact before passing pro-industry laws

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Things you won’t see/hear in legacy media.
#auspol

In my experience, the vast majority of waste in a software shop is time spent building things nobody wants on top of overly complex architectures that solve problems we don't have. Focus on that. Put solving your customer's actual (not imagined) problems first.
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OF COURSE Iran is fighting back!

OF COURSE the conflict is spreading!

What did they think would happen?

The US is being run by half-wits…

There are three types of knowledge workers. The ones who do the work. The ones who schedule meetings about the work. And the ones who create Notion templates to track the meetings about the work. The third group has the most LinkedIn followers.

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Commonwealth solidarity? Maybe there’s something cooking in the background? I certainly hope so. Canada overall has done a better job than us. Under way more pressure.

The good thing about us atheists is we don’t go around killing our neighbours so we can meet god
I do wish religious people would take note and follow suit

News: Commanders across dozens of U.S. military bases told troops the war on Iran is part of "God's plan" so Trump can bring about "Armageddon"

News: so Trump can bring about "Armageddon." The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has been "inundated" with complaints since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran over the weekend, receiving more than 110 complaints from U.S. military personnel stationed at dozens of sites across the Middle East. Journalist Jonathan Larsen broke the story, sharing specific complaints made by troops. One such complaint made by a noncommissioned officer reported that their commander had "urged us to tell our troops that this was 'all part of God's divine plan' and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ." "He said that 'President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth," the NCO continued. "He had a big grin on his face when he said all of this which made his message seem even more crazy." MRFF told Larsen that over 110 complaints came

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received 110+ complaints from US service members across 30+ sites about commanders using religious rhetoric

Including calling the war with Iran "part of God's plan" and Trump "anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon”

#IdeasAtWork

A month in hospital costs: $30,100
Month in prison: $9,400
Month in shelter: $6,800
Supportive housing per month: $3,800
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"Hey Kurds, it's the United States. Remember us, from all the betrayals? Anyhoo, would love it if you all could march into this thresher for us. Let us know."

Lol, US military commanders are telling their troops they're on a "spiritual mission" to bring about "Armageddon", and the Zionists have been using their old religious books to justify bombing kids in EIGHT fkn countries, and our media is like "IRAN IS AN UNHINGED THEOCRACY"

I don't know why the US can't just admit that they wanted to attack Iran, so did exactly that.

So.....stopping Israel wasn't an option?

Absolutely nuts. I fired up Google Gemini and asked it a bunch of questions about my own field — areas I know really well, that I write and publish in.

Literally the first paper that it told me about had a hallucinated author name