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Israel Is Blowing Up Iran's Police State to Clear the Way for a Revolt (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-is-blowing-up-irans-police-state-to-clear-the-way-for-a-revolt-1015b37e?st=Tw9JEp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p15#a260304p15

Iran shot down a US fighter jet
A search is under way for the crew of a US fighter jet that was shot down by Iran, a person familiar with the matter has confirmed.
Iran claimed that it had shot down a US fighter jet, with state media reporting it was an F-35 warplane.
The fate of the crew remains unclear.
It follows reports by Iranian state media that the US military is searching for an American pilot of a downed aircraft in Iran, following earlier reports that Tehran h…

Easy fix: Go home and stop murdering people half-way round the world, you sick fucks.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/fire-on-us-aircraft-carrier-in-middle-east-leaves-over-600-crew-members-without-…

Fire on US aircraft carrier in Middle East leaves over 600 crew members without beds: Report
Blaze on USS Gerald R. Ford took more than 30 hours to put out, with dozens of service members suffering smoke inhalation - Anadolu Ajansı

But what will Greenland do??? @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/pro…

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
Looks like the US military hospital ship, the USNS Mercy, is on its way southward through the Panama Canal and toward the Pacific Ocean, likely headed to the theater in the Middle East:

> "The whole social contract of Dubai involves a wilful blindness to the proximity of suffering and violence. After all, Gaza is geographically close."
I guess "geographically close" is relative, but no-one ever talks about London in the context of it being geographically close to Libya.

Expat influencers sold Dubai to the world and were paid to look the other way. Now the dream is crumbling
The Maseratis are borrowed, the helicopters rented by the hour. But deep down Dubai is a lonely place, built by oppressed people

The contents of the remaining Epstein files must be really bad if you're wiling to start a war in the middle east to distract from them.
That, or you're just a fuckwit.
Could go either way.

Representative Seth Moulton is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee,
but he learned about the U.S. military’s middle-of-the-night capture of Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro the same way many Americans did:
A friend who saw the news on the internet texted him.
“That is not the way Congress is supposed to be notified of operations by the Department of Defense,” Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, told us wryly.
Still, Moulton was surprised nei…

Does Congress Even Exist Anymore?
The fast fade of a co-equal branch of government

*A powerful FLOOF blocks your way*

This was written by an old friend and I found it pretty packed with good info. It’s also an example of using NotebookLM for research and content development. I found this inspiring enough to give it a try. I’ve found that it is a “Centaur" enabling tech that helps one to create on their own the overall content and leaving details to the NotebookLM tooling.
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SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan: A Classification Framework for Thinking About Incidents -Geoff White
"Your SLOs can be green, and your systems can still be falling over. That doesn’t mean SLOs are broken. It means they were never designed to describe every class of risk we encounter in complex systems.
I’ve released version 1.0 of SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan as an open, living framework hosted on GitHub.
This is not a book you read once, and it’s not something you consult in the middle of an outage. It’s a way to think more clearly about incidents—across the incident lifecycle.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/slos-cant-catch-black-swan-classification-framework-thinking-white-ybc0c/?trackingId=ShCzMMVCQTChcTi8xT19tg==

Probably the fastest way to get the full broadside of hate nowadays is to have an option that doesn't fit to an extreme.
Or as a valued colleague once said: being a person of the extreme center / middle.

Seed spike in the snow
#photo #photography #plants #bloomscrolling

A general (shitty) comment on BlueSky
A few days ago I've seen something comparing ex-Twinnera to a privy, and praising #BlueSky.
My dear, don't you see the irony? The way I see it, you've just moved from one of Jack Dorsey's privies into another, after he let Elon and his friends shit in the middle of the floor to get some money from them. And now you're delighted, because obviously the same thing won't happen again.

Today’s rent-free image on YouTube
#jameshoffman #hamesjoffman

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
OPERATOR: Alpha three-three-seven five. C-six-one-two: Leesal, Renor. [It appears.]
OPERATOR: Three-four-one-seven: Deca, Carl. [It appears.]
OPERATOR: Three-five-one-two: Fen, Payter. [It appears.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/271 B7B2

Obvious inflammatory rhetoric.
Also, "because X11 did it that way" is the single stupidest reason possible for deleting a feature that has been standard on *nix platforms since the 1980s.

“Canada supports the United States…..”
these are the only words that matter and I’m sorry what? This is “our” position? No. I reject this!!
Canada has stood for humanitarian law and international peace and security for nearly a century.
We should be a “Middle Power” with values. Right? Wasn’t that the Davos speech?!
But here we are clapping meekly from the sidelines as the country that would love to annex us, now ruled by a Christo-Fascist Regime, and in partnership with a Judeo-Fascist Regime blows up people in a country ruled by a Islamo-Fascist regime.
We are basically back to the Middle Ages but with nukes in our back pocket.
These are the three most dangerous countries in the world all fighting amongst themselves. We should not be taking sides, except for the side of peaceful civilians of all religions in all countries.
This is not the way.
I am shocked at the shallowness, the naïveté and the cowardice of Carney’s foreign policy.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #canada #iran #usa #israel #palestine #war #genocide #fascism

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
GLYND: Leaving him a sole survivor?
VARON: No, and, and a security agent named Tarrant. He says Tarrant organized the massacre.
GLYND: Ah, I can't believe that. Still, it will bear examination.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/343 B7B5

Very proud and excited to vote in the NDP leadership race today!!
This is not the first time I've voted in a Federal leadership race... more on that later but first, my choices! I considered only voting for two people, but I ended up filling in all 5 choices.
#1: Tanille Johnston @…
#2: Avi Lewis @…
#3: Heather McPherson
#4: Tony McQuail
#5: Rob Ashton
Why?
You might ask why I would publicize my choices. I don’t expect others to of course. It is a privilege and a right in Canada to exercise your democratic choice freely and privately, but I also think there is value in knowing how others voted.
#1 why Tanille? #electoralReform and proportional representation myself, I didn't just want to pick my top two. I wanted to make a statement on each of these candidates an influence each one.
To be blunt, Heather is #3 because she is the middle-of-the-road candidate. She is an excellent representative as MP and has gathered the support of other MPs including my own, but while I would be OK with her leadership, I would see her as a continuation of the status quo, and that is not what the NDP needs as a party, nor is it what Canada needs as a country.
We desperately need a vigorous and clear alternative to the Centre-but-mostly-Right Liberals, and the MAGA-wannabe Conservatives. The only way to do that is to catch the attention of Canadians and inspire them. I am not sure that Heather has the ability to do that, and if we continue with the same leadership crew in the NDP, I am not confident that the policy choices will be strong enough to inspire and attract Canadians.
That is why Tanille and Avi are far better options.
#4 Why Tony:

Tony is the real deal. Honestly, I would have loved to rank him higher. He represents the true life blood of rural, socially progressive, environmentally aware, Canadians. You should go check out his platform. I am so glad that he was able to participate fully in the race and we need his voice in the NDP.
#5 Why not Rob?
I have been an active member in my Union for more than 10 years. Unionism is The Way. Rob is representing a division within the union movement that claims that working people can't have jobs if the environment is put first. This is a lie.
We need union leaders that look to the future and speak honestly to people. We need union leaders who are genuinely progressive, not ready to do the bidding of corporate masters to the benefit of a few.
Working people need honesty, and when an industry is on decline, a clear path to new, excellent, union, jobs!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Liberal #CPC #Canada #Democracy #NDP