guy who does buddhism slightly wrong and ends up in nevada after he dies
To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines.
The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback.
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
(Published Nov. 2025)
Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law.
When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
"The Parallels between RFK Jr and Tofrim Lysenko: When Pseudoscience Infects National Leadership"
"And by understanding the history of an unqualified person driving nonscientific decisions in scientific public policy, perhaps we can avoid another disaster."
skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...
Annihilatory rage is a feature of malignant narcissism—and a dangerous one in a man with the capacity to launch nuclear weapons.
I hope the academics in this thread are doing their best to be part of the solution to this problem
my wacky Bluesky fun fact is that I went to high school with Matt
The entire profession needs to stand united against this.
"You can draw a direct line from Hegseth’s disdain for rules of engagement right to his contempt for the role of an adversarial press." @gregsargent.bsky.social
It only attacks you if you strike first.
A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Already wasn’t voting for Porter but now I am not voting for Porter even more.
I was perfectly capable of paying state income tax as a grad student and postdoc making less than that, and I was proud to contribute to what I enjoy in this state. This is not a sensible tax policy. Should taxes on sub-$100k incomes be high? No. But not zero.
I mean, okay, but also this is exactly constitutionally backward. The president DOES NOT have unlimited unilateral authority to attack any country he likes UNLESS Congress specifically says he can't. He's only supposed to be able to initiate war if Congress authorizes it, and can't otherwise.
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This is crucially important point.
1) "No quarter" is indeed specifically war-crime term
2) Under Geneva Conventions, after sinking an enemy ship, the attackers must "take all positive measures" to find and rescue any survivors. Text in next post
No evidence US sub did so after attack, AFAIK
We’re apes who evolved in an ecosystem where we regularly got picked off by large carnivores. We just wear suits now.
A point was made about the higher likelihood of dying by vending machine than by shark
Possibly an underrated factor in conservation law: people fear animate/agentic threats for evolutionary reasons
I have experience with the laboratory science side of this - when I was an undergrad I did research on nociception involving squid. Cephalopods IMO should be covered under animal welfare law. In the EU they’re honorary vertebrates.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I’m no CESA expert but it was probably a “we need to squeak them in somehow and it was easier to squeak them in as legally fish because there’s less will to protect invertebrates”
love how so much of the big throughline of conflict in environmental law is “are we critters that have to exist in balance with everything else as just one part of a huge network of ecosystems or is every non-human entity just potential property for us to do whatever we want with”
I was a predator of some really good grains and beans this morning
The capybara got added to that list.
I’m at an environmental law symposium at UC Davis and this stuff is wild
also beavers were once listed as predators, in OR… of trees
TIL bees are fish under the CA Endangered Species Act
What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have.
This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.
If you watch fash long enough you realize that (while all of them are different) the vast majority of them are misogynists first and foremost.
