Jack Womack

Thousands - possibly hundreds of thousands - of people around the world are stuck somewhere today because Dubai is the busiest airport in the world.

This is so deeply corrupt

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

Folklore is a living current in perpetual manifestation, perpetual mutation. Each telling – whether in story swapped across pints or carved into a church's wooden bestiary – makes a bridge from then to now and onto tomorrow. Even the smallest oak dragon is transmission. – #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday

Don’t let this ridiculous war keep our government from talking and investigating the investigators who failed the survivors⁉️

An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human. At the 184-year-old Cleveland Plain Dealer, a top editor’s push to let AI draft news articles is boosting traffic — and spooking staffers.

The Plain Dealer has a new byline: “On recent articles about an ice carving festival, a medical research discovery and a roaming pack of chicken-slaying dogs, a reporter’s name is paired with the words ‘Advance Local Express Desk.’ It means: This article was drafted by artificial intelligence.”

I am not going to defend the entirety of the Nonconformist tradition by any means, but at times you really feel the lack of politicians who can speak like they're the guest preacher at the Sedd Fawr in Bethesda Chapel

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Important to remember this was part of one of the wrongest “calm down” series in history

Suppression of journalists, mass arrest & torture of protestors, violent crackdown of protests, “chain murder” of intellectuals & academics, corrupting the country’s educational system, and so many other things. Plus all the humiliation we had to suffer for 37 years. No one will mourn Khamenei.

“The Vista-Dome - California Zephyr - Western Pacific -San Francisco-Oakland to Chicago”, c.1950, designer sadly unknown.

Not to mention the Strait of Hormuz has been entirely shut down - anything that breaches that waterway will be blown straight to the bottom of the sea. That waterway is critical for Europe to get supplies.

US-Israel war on Iran live: Israel launches new wave of attacks ‘in the heart of Tehran’ after death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Sirens in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as Iran retaliates in strikes that also hit across Middle East region

It's time women took control. Men seem to emotional to lead. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Close-up of a hawthorn flower and unfolding leaves.

Hampstead Heath, 08:01

The US has also pulled funding from the Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network which is run by WHO. It helps identify measles cases globally and prevent travel related transmission. Measles is extremely contagious and can easily jump countries via international travel.

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.

"If language models can be extortionate and homicidal...or the cause of widespread employment shocks ...or a handmaiden to psychosis and self-harm (this is already happening), it is not at all unreasonable to ask why we are building them in the first place" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default

“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #StopFascismNow #NoFascistUSA #Resist

“in this holy month, I am praying for your drunk trash ass, may you find the grace to deal with all the shit everyone is one hundred percent talking behind your back, best wishes on the sobriety journey everyone is begging you to start, also your cringe racist joke flopped”

just incredible work

Ilhan from the top rope

Alice Augusta Ball (1892 – 1916) was an African-American chemist whose groundbreaking work produced the first effective treatment for leprosy. She died at age 24 before she could publish her findings, and others took credit for her work, but her legacy has now been acknowledged. #CelebratingWomen

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

As a Jew: thank fucking God for that stroke

Negro Heroes #1 (1947). The cover features George Washington Carver, Charles French, and Matthew Henson.

Negro Heroes #2 (1948). The cover features Jackie Robinson.

Published in 1947, this was the first comic book series entirely devoted to showing real life Black Americans in a positive light. The stories were reprinted from various issues of True Comics, Real Heroes, & Calling All Girls. #BlackHistoryMonth

Professor Jeffrey Sachs on the US strikes on Iran—

“The U.S. has stepped into shit today, if I could put it bluntly.”

It’s honestly alarming how the death of Khamenei has changed coverage. Everyone’s talking about this like it’s over after one day. It’s fucking insane.

‼️ “Objectively, it’s pure mathematics,” explains the chief of staff of the Dovbush Hornets, a drone battalion in the 68th Infantry Brigade. Russia cannot sustain an invasion at this rate.

Gift link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/dc41992bc594457a

There are so many things this could be, alone or in combination, but it will likely be asymmetric in nature.

"that shy-seeming long haired bearded guy in the blues brothers band in the movie played on a billion of the most recognizable songs ever and is one of the most singularly important people in the entire history of American popular music" is just one of those weird things man