Albert Kottke

@MagnusCort @JulienBernard17 @UCI_cycling Way to tarnish the image of cycling!

@JulienBernard17 @UCI_cycling What a joke. I guess I was lucky when they missed me a couple of days ago 😂

Et désolé @UCI_cycling d’avoir porté dommage à l’image du Sport 😅 Mais je veux bien payer 200CHF tous les jours et revivre ce moment 😬

La botte de poireaux! C’est la nouvelle vedette de la caravane du #TourDeFrance 2024 Les secrets de ce « char » pour @BFMTV

@keirp And the persistence to say, "you might not believe me, but I believe in myself"

@GeraintThomas86 @LukeRowe1990 @LeTour So he does own a shirt! 🤣

Not a bad taxi driver to get me to the Tour 😎 Florence here we come @LukeRowe1990 #TDF2024

@timblor I was wondering where she went! I hope you look after her.

@XEng Is this because Elon always clicks "like" on fascists and gets exposed for doing so?

Another shot of the Clovis, NM beast from last night! #nmwx

@timblor Highly clumsy, ungraceful, and who loudly snores… I thought you were describing me for a moment.

WHAT A FLOCK! That is not rain. Doppler radar is detecting massive flocks of migrating birds across Ohio and the Great Lakes region. There is an estimated 340,000,000 birds in migration across the United States tonight!

@nedboulting @neverstraysfar Serves you right for wearing pink socks 😅

Our eyes and cameras weren't the only things viewing last night's #aurora. Here is composite satellite imagery using @NOAASatellites/@JPSSProgram highlighting aurora over North America. Aurora is colored as green, most notable across the northern tier of the US.

@SeismoSue There are worse ideas.

I’m totally staying up all night long

Sniper on the roof of the IMU. Absolutely unhinged response to a nonviolent encampment by a murderous and paranoid police state.

On Iran’s strike: At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government. One lesson he thought that I always remember was this: He asked us: “Say the US decided to attack Iraq with a new stealth jet it hadn’t used before that evaded all radars? The attack was a success. Was it strategic?” Many in the class raised their hands to say “yes, it achieved its goal”. But the professor said: “It may not have been”. Why? “Because now your adversaries know your capabilities and it’s a matter of time before they find ways around them. If this attack could be done with conventional weapons, it’s better to keep your top weapons until you need them. Using them creates a disadvantage.” My analysis is that the scale of Iran’s attack, the diversity of locations it targeted, and weapons it used, forced Israel to uncover the majority of anti-missile technologies the US and it have across the region. The Iranians did not use any weapons Israel didn’t know it had, it just used a lot of them. But the Iranians likely now have almost a full map of what Israel’s missile defence system looks like, as well as where in Jordan and the Gulf the US has installations. It also knows how long it takes to prepare them, how Israeli society responds…etc This is a huge strategic cost to Israel, while Arab regimes now are being blasted by their peoples, particularly the Jordanian monarchy, for not doing anything to protect Gazans but then going all out to protect Israel. Crucially, Iran can now reverse engineer all the intel gathered from this attack to make a much more deadly one credible. While the US and Israel will have to re-design away from their current model which has been compromised. Its success in stopping this choreographed attack is thus still very costly. Moreover, with the threat of a regional war that neither the US nor the Arab regimes want feeling nearer, it’s likely their pressure on Israel to back down will increase, making a ceasefire more feasible. Anyone assuming this is just theatrics is missing the context of how militaries assess strategy versus tactics. Theatre is an important factor, but gathering intelligence of the “enemy’s” posture is more valuable, especially if one believes they’re in a long war of attrition. Netanyahu and the Israel government prefer a quick hot and urgent war where they can pull in America. The Iranians prefer a longer war of attrition that bleeds Israel of its deterrence capabilities and makes it an ally for Arabs and the US that’s too costly to have. Lastly, if you are a person who hates war, if you want peace, the best and only way to get there in the region is to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and dignity. There is no sustainable peace possible as long as Palestinians live under an oppressive system of apartheid.

@Lynn_Henning @NewYorker Exactly.

@NewYorker Great comedy, period.

Larry David’s HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which has now concluded its 12th and final season, deserves a prominent place in the canon of great Jewish comedy, David Remnick writes. nyer.cm/pzrBCkR days ago)

While we didn't see much of the #TotalSolarEclipse2024 here in Hawaii, you can see it on this satellite image as the dark spot heading towards Mexico. For Hawaii, the next partial eclipse will occur on Oct. 2, 2024 but will not been seen from the mainland.

@nedboulting I feel like we all won too 🥹

@DanielleVerdugo @timblor The best part is that he has been looking forward to this for months and Olivine dreading it.

@arkottke @timblor Helping oversee 60 6th graders probably makes most chaperones want to run for hills during camp this week. Triggering an IBS or Crohn’s attack - probably; running for a facelift, not likely.