Amanda Mull

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12."

Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

New York Times: Trump's call for Iran's Revolutionary Guard forces to surrender, with the promise of complete immunity, added a particularly unusual element to the speech. Because the campaign appears to be largely an air operation, there is no one for them to surrender to, no one to take them prisoner or to implement Trump's offer of "total immunity." It may have simply been intended to sow doubt in the ranks if they believed the government was going to collapse.

“Trump's call for Iran's Revolutionary Guard forces to surrender, with the promise of complete immunity, added a particularly unusual element to the speech. Because the campaign appears to be largely an air operation, there is no one for them to surrender to…”

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

This is Trump's former AI adviser

Some AUSA just felt the icy grip of death

There are def places in New York that make weird combos of takeout foods but I think the combo you’re talking about is specifically Atlanta. In NY they’re usually halal places advertised as chicken spots where you can also get, like, Greek food and burritos and ribs and lamb over rice

When you have live coverage of a closed-door event that reporters can’t be in.

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

I’m up partying with Tomorrow England again

I’m in the middle of vacation in Hawaii so this news can’t hurt me

I want you to put the word out there that we back up.

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Gotta point out here that this is another nail in the coffin for treating social media as a proxy for man-on-the-street interviews.

Ya never know where you might go—five years ago if you’d told me I’d be doing this now, I wouldn’t have believed you!

I spontaneously met a sea turtle in the water at Mauna Kea Beach on a previous trip and I felt like a Disney princess

Not gonna lie I’ve been really, really lucky

Whenever the sun sets I think that were some of the last people seeing that one

I think I know who you’re talking about

If you’re up and want to see a video of the mother and baby humpback whales we saw today in Kauna’oa Bay, watch until the end:

Truly could be anybody! Meanwhile I’m doing my last scrolls before bed

Being in Hawaii gives you more of a peek into UK Bluesky than you’d think but the catch is it’s the next day there

tapping the sign

Honestly…I could get into this

Oh yeah? The online rando says. You think every author has to read? Well, maybe you haven’t considered an author who gets caught in a freak basement explosion that lodges a rusty pipe from the boiler into their skull, which after being surgically removed leaves them unable to comprehend written words, and also they have a preexisting ear sensitivity that means they can’t listen to audiobooks with headphones—and before you ask, they live in a crowded home of screaming war orphans so they can’t play audiobooks on speakers—and even if they could still read, they literally do not even have a single free second of the day between work, cooking, cleaning, and posting on social media. Are you saying they can’t still be a writer? Huh? You’re saying a disabled war orphan caregiver with literally no free time because of late capitalism can’t be a novelist? You elitist gatekeeping @&%*#^$*! (As a side note, I’ve never seen a great term to define this common rhetorical move. It is a bit like straw manning, except you’re inventing an imagined exception instead of an imagined argument. And a bit like white knighting, though not on behalf of anyone real. I hereby propose “straw knighting” as the term.)

i always enjoy @thelincoln.bsky.social’s Counter Craft newsletter and i want to flag his coinage of ‘straw knighting’ because i hereby accuse yall of doing it all the damn time lol
countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...

Honestly I think that’s the guy who blew up a car outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs like…last year?

its so much worse than you can imagine! sac state may have been fudging things, but the consulting firm behind these athletics department valuations uses a random linkedin post as the methodology for all their numbers!

I do think something like this is true, there is a petty bullying culture on here that makes the place off putting to many. But I also think it's genuinely odd (as comes out in the replies to this) that Twitter is a preferable alternative cos it has similar things *done by a preponderance of Nazis*.