
TruthAndConjecture
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TruthAndConjecture
@not_conjecture
Scientist. Nerd. Antifascist. Proud union man.


Look, I don’t think it’s appropriate. Wish he hadn’t. But if I have to choose between this and Trans Recognition Day or whatever on Easter, okay.


Reporter: How would it not be a war crime to strike Iran’s bridges and power plants? Trump: They’re animals.


Holy moly: Sam Altman told Axios in a half-hour interview that AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract. - It's on the scale of the Progressive Era in the early 1900s, and the New Deal during the Great Depression. - Altman warns: widespread job loss, cyberattacks, social upheaval, machines man can't control - "soon-to-be-released AI models could enable a world-shaking cyberattack this year. "I think that's totally possible," Altman said. "I suspect in the next year, we will see significant threats we have to mitigate from cyber."



ASKED HOW STRIKING IRANIAN INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD NOT BE A WAR CRIME, TRUMP SAYS: BECAUSE THEY'RE ANIMALS




Trump: Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!


Trump: The entire country could be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.


U.S. HAS ALREADY POURED OVER $42 BILLION INTO TRUMP'S WAR WITH IRAN AT A PACE OF AROUND $11,500 EVERY SECOND.



BREAKING: Republicans are leading net favorability by +5 points ahead of the 2026 midterms, per CNN.


NEWS: Top Senate GOP super PAC lays out its $342 million battle plan to keep the Senate. $236 million in GOP seats: OH, NC, IA, AK, ME ($42 million there prev announced ) $106 million in Dem seats: MI, GA, NH The 8-state breakdown —> nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/…



A tech entrepreneur who recently moved to Florida got upset when he ran into obstacles while trying to build a house that could impact the habitat of Florida's endangered scrub-jay. So now he's suing to strip the bird of its federal protection. orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/01/flo…



Look, I don’t think it’s appropriate. Wish he hadn’t. But if I have to choose between this and Trans Recognition Day or whatever on Easter, okay.




Death is always lurking. We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys. #Easter



BREAKING: US oil prices surge above $114/barrel as US market futures officially reopen after the 3-day weekend.

