Opening the straight of Hormuz is left as an exercise for the reader

I’m out of the loop, but last time Iran was launching 100s of missiles for some to get through, but are seeming to land hits with much less effort now. Is that right or have I missed footage of all the decoy drones?

Block(cash app) laying off 4K people. Because AI https://nitter.net/jack/status/2027129697092731343#m

Are there recommended reading leftist/marxist takes on AI? Varoufakis touches on it. Seems quite a lot to analyse there: US is betting the whole economy on it, with big labs hoping to replace half of white collar jobs but how do they maintain a monopoly to extract value with oss Chinese models only 3-6 months behind

I found: “did the US kidnap him because he’s authoritarian, or because they want to plunder the oil? Clearly the latter as Trump literally said it. Criticisms of Maduro are irrelevant as they aren’t why Trump invaded, and support Trumps narrative and give him cover for stealing natural resources from the people of Venezuela”.

Seemed to get through better riding on the anti-trump stuff

https://xcancel.com/abubakerabedw/status/1977554048304992553

Kind of scary when trump forms a coherent statement one in a while

Recent protests at the Vuelta have been good to see. Even ruined israel premier-tech’s result on one stage

Makes that high pop% support for Palestine very obvious

How are GLM, Kimi, qwen coder? They seem on par with Claude sonet at a glance? Still not as good as opus ig? But does that even matter for majority programming workflows?

FBI opens office in NZ https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/568540/fbi-to-open-standalone-office-in-wellington

honestly it’s pretty interesting to see the narratives around automation of programming play out in an industry with such little class-consciousness. But it does feel like it’s really highlighting contradictions and tensions between management and engineers in a way that’s forcing some reckoning. Combined with current economy + trumpism, might be creating some amount of attitude change

Must have been terrifying to be anywhere nearby

Isn’t it good for the US if oil price rises, being a net exporter of oil? (I’m a dumbass so probably wrong)

Death to america

Yeah the AI2027 thing kicked off a lot. Plus some of the newer models like veo3 being good enough to be destroy trust in video

yeah, it fucking sucks

Israel announces failure of assassination operation against al-Ghamari, Chief of Staff of Ansar Allah

Apparently failed from MEO, hopefully true

Wonder if Israel is in the process of blowing a hole in the Rafah border rn to push the Palestinians into Egypt. Seems like they would use the chaos of Iran retaliation to cover their genocidal endgame for Gaza

Yea

Woke mind virus claimed the most loyal slop soldier

Yes amazing! Thank you