This episode of @techwontsave.us assuaged my fears of androids but the guest had bleak outlooks on care.
Robots for elder care is not it. I can take an educated guess that it wouldn't improve the social isolation epidemic that already exists among older adults.
www.techwontsave.us/episode/316_...
CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.
At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.
04.03.2026 05:12 — 👍 1706 🔁 1044 💬 87 📌 92I see he tempered it slightly today in Sydney but didn't seem to have mentioned some important points ...
04.03.2026 05:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Why is this allowed
04.03.2026 00:25 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy
03.03.2026 23:31 — 👍 1292 🔁 278 💬 12 📌 5The bane of my life, this one
03.03.2026 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"For countries in the Global South..the attack on Iran collapses several anxieties into one moment: energy dependence laid bare, international law treated as optional, and economic power concentrating in fewer, more unaccountable hands. Oil prices may spike, yes. But the deeper shock is political."
03.03.2026 07:29 — 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Wonder which countries will lose their LNG shipments this year
02.03.2026 13:12 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Yep
02.03.2026 12:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Anyone with a battery on a grid with a decent amount of LNG-linked gas is going to make truly indecent sums the next few months. #EnergySky
02.03.2026 12:27 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Front cover of CO2 Newsletter Vol 1 no 4, April 1980
Vol. 1, no.4 of the CO2 Newsletter, first published in April 1980 (that's not a typo) is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles.
1/9
allouryesterdays.info/2026/03/01/t...
The El Niño phenomenon was blamed for a prolonged drought and record heatwave that affected Colombia in 2024
🌎 The warming El Nino weather phenomenon could form later this year, potentially pushing global temperatures to record heights.
➡️ u.afp.com/SuNr
IAEA's Grossi: Iran nuclear sites were largely spared by strikes
02.03.2026 11:27 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Trump says his potential candidates to lead Iran have been killed.….by him.
02.03.2026 03:46 — 👍 21 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 11China’s strategic petroleum reserve is estimated at 1.5bn barrels and they get 4-5m bpd via the strait of Hormuz, so in theory they can last the best part of a year. Of course, price effect hits imports from other sources.
02.03.2026 11:09 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0They tried to make sure she became a 'domestic servant', the forced fate of so many other Aboriginal girls. Her achievements were all won as part of a lifelong, hard fight against ignorant policies, racism and heartless discrimination. An honourable woman.
28.02.2026 05:46 — 👍 214 🔁 62 💬 5 📌 2
5: FT @jamiesmythft.bsky.social says US admin has no plans to utilise the SPR (massive emergency oil reserve that was well used in 2022 Ukraine spike). Baffling - but also,
as story notes, 20% of world supply hard to offset for long
3: we cannot see oil price reaction bcs trade closed until 6pm Sunday NY time
4: OPEC+ has scheduled meeting Sunday… expected to raise quota. But total opec+ spare capacity is maybe 2-3mbpd, still well short of a fifth of ~100mbpd
So, afaict:
1: ships still traversing Hormuz but have fallen away (ie “closed” seems unverified; I’m unclear how it would be confirmed but pretty sure it would splash everywhere if/when)
2: unusually for weekend, ship insurers are cutting coverage to renegotiate and/or hike rates 50%
…
That really is crazy. Bar is almost in hell tbf tho
01.03.2026 00:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Carney speech moment, nice while it lasted…
28.02.2026 23:03 — 👍 140 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 1thread:
28.02.2026 22:10 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Not to take away from this analysis at all, but you could substitute “Iran” or “Greenland” for “Anthropic” and it would still work. These guys can’t coerce their way out of a paper bag.
28.02.2026 01:29 — 👍 180 🔁 34 💬 7 📌 4
15/ Why is Europe getting oppositional towards US and so close to India all of a sudden? Why are middle powers from Brazil to Canada making deals with Modi?
Good FT big read on India's geopolitical positioning: trade, security, tech, energy choices @katemac.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/e803...
Latest short-ish update from me and @70sbachchan.bsky.social -
1/ Iran, energy
2/ India is derisking from the US through diplomatic deals; 3/ Europe tries to do the same but on hard mode
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
Agency makes many people uncomfortable. Having kids in state school in a supposedly progressive area has been very eye opening in that regard
27.02.2026 23:32 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Modi on a state visit to Netanyahu's Israel and will address the Parliament, Knesset.
Good note: "The love affair between Modi and Netanyahu is based on a common passion for human rights violation....
These are two killers bonding over the means of killing civilians and suppressing dissent."
Why disgraceful?
At odds with independent India's commitment to anticolonial struggle
"Yasser Arafat,the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, visits India in 1980. India was the first non-Arab country to recognise the PLO"
Read Caravan's report here: caravanmagazine.in/government/i...
