Patrick Blaser

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Grid of 12 by 5 small multiple pie charts (with the last row missing the final two charts). It does not do a good job of conveying a trend.

I thought I had found a good use case for some small-multiple pie charts. It turned out, not so much.

who made this

THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s. Stacked bar chart showing annual counts of tanker oil spills from 1970 to 2024, with the vertical axis labeled 0 to 120 spills and the horizontal axis by year. Bars are stacked to show two categories: medium oil spills (7 to 700 tonnes) and large oil spills (greater than 700 tonnes). Only medium and large spills are included; smaller spills are excluded. Key annotations: a callout at 1974 notes 117 oil spills occurred that year, 27 of them large; a callout at 2024 notes 10 oil spills occurred that year, 5 of them large. Overall the chart shows a sharp peak in the early to mid-1970s, followed by a long-term decline in annual spill counts, with much lower and relatively stable numbers from the 2000s onward and a slight uptick toward 2024. Data source in the footer: ITOPF (2025); website OurWorldInData.org/oil-spills. License: CC BY.

Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s—

In the 1970s, oil spills from tankers — container ships transporting oil — were common. Between 70 and 100 spills occurred per year. That’s one or two spills every week.

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.

Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.

A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

“We are falling dangerously behind our competitors.”

ERC President Maria Leptin on the next EU R&I budget:

“Maintaining the Commission proposal is the minimum. Strengthening it would be strategic.”

Listen to the hearing at the European Parliament (9’32’30)
🎥 bit.ly/4scILfc

Six planets due to parade across night sky in rare celestial spectacle Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus will all be visible at same time in curved line across sky

Or we can keep staring at our screens.

How to see six planets in the sky at once in rare celestial alignment Nearly all of the solar system’s planets are about to file across the night sky in a planetary alignment, and it will be visible from anywhere on Earth

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Warner Bros. und damit auch CNN, der letzte große unabhängige Nachrichten-TV-Sender in den USA, geht an Paramount und damit an die Ellisons, Trump-Buddies und aktuell große Profiteure des KI-Investment-Wahns. Das ist nicht gut.

I had a really positive impression of Glasgow. Before visiting, I dreaded the weather. But you can dress for it. The cycle infrastructure wasn’t bad, the people are nice and the food was good. There’s a sense that the city was once great, hit a rough patch, and is on its way back. Would visit again.

KI-Technologie: Anthropic widersetzt sich Forderung von US-Verteidigungsministerium US-Verteidigungsminister Hegseth will Anthropic ohne jede Sicherheitsvorkehrung militärisch nutzen, auch Überwachung von US-Bürgern wäre möglich. Die Firma lehnt das ab.

Das ist bemerkenswert: Anthropic weigert sich, seine KI-Software (u.a. Claude) soweit zu entsichern, dass man damit autonome Kampfsysteme steuern könnte. Damit verzichtet das Unternehmen bewusst auf Milliardenaufträge vom US-Militär, anders als Google, xAi und OpenAI. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Exciting #scicomm news tomorrow at 1000 UK time! 😃

Hitler’s Greenland Obsession After creating an economic mess with ill-advised tariffs, Hitler looked north in pursuit of resources and national security.

"Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental"

Hitler’s Greenland Obsession
After creating an economic mess with ill-advised tariffs, Hitler looked north in pursuit of resources and national security.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Saw them in a ‚Premier‘ supermarket near the main station (Renfield str), but maybe they have stores closer to the conference too

Yeah agreed. New saying: 'That's waaay better than a finger in the eye.'

Bild: Ein Mitglied von Aera Tiret (links), in der Mitte Thomas Laschyk von Volksverpetzer, rechts Edeka-Wollny Besitzer, der Thomas 1500€ überreicht in seinem Laden.

Der Edeka Wollny in Friedberg bei Augsburg, gegen den NIUS derzeit hetzt, weil sie Fck-AfD-Tassen verkaufen, hat auch schon mal ein Benefiz-Konzert für Volksverpetzer veranstaltet. Der Laden freut sich gerade extrem über die unfreiwillige Werbung durch die Rechtsradikalen – und eure lieben Worte.

4 Jahre =48 Monate =208 Wochen= 1460 Tage = 35040 Stunden=2012400 Minuten= 126144000 Sekunden.

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Konservative Politik bedeutet heute den Vorschlag einer Zuckersteuer wegen „grüner Bevormundungspolitik“ abzulehnen und morgen zu fordern, dass Zahnarztbesuche künftig nicht mehr von der Kasse bezahlt werden sollen, damit die Kosten für das Gesundheitssystem nicht weiter steigen🤦‍♂️

A reminder to those at #OSM26, there's an oceanography feed where your stuff could be seen by thousands, even if you have only one follower. Join, pin, like, post, enjoy.

If you're at #OSM26, this town hall is today. Come hear Brandon Jones (President of @agu.org), Margaret Leinen (Director Emeritus of @scrippsocean.bsky.social), Mike Sieracki (Director of Horn Point Lab), Sabrina Speich (Professor at ENS), and Steve Rocliffe (Senior Technical Advisor of ORCA).

New Yorkers: if you can do so safely, take a moment to step outside (even on your front stoop) for a moment and appreciate how quiet the city is right now. ❄️

Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud.

Press | Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 Welcome to the OSM26 Newsroom and Press Center. Here you will find information that will help you cover the meeting and register.

If you're an environmental journalist in the UK or Europe, the biggest gathering of ocean scientists in the world is happening in Glasgow next week, and you should consider coming to cover some of the most important findings about our life support system. #OSM26

Pritzker’s invoice to White House:

(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

For me that means: phone in another room, one browser tab, unfamiliar location, time pressure.

You can't willpower your way past a notification-filled environment.

Stellt euch vor, Stiftung Warentest würde Tipps zum Schwarzfahren geben oder zum bequemen Einkauf von Marihuana auch ohne Arztrezept. Die Law-and-Order-Heuchler stünden mit Fackeln und Mistgabeln vor den Warentestertoren. Einen Falschpark-Rabatt zu ermogeln ist in der Auto-Nation hingegen cool. 🙄