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Wow, AI Safety now has some politicians on board
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' AI Data Center Moratorium Act contains a moratorium on all US datacenter upgrading and construction, as well as a ban on the export of all US-origin GPU's. Press conference this afternoon.
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@RealChaosOrder @mattyglesias Rogue One and Andor. The Mandalorian in early seasons.
Star Wars does better tv than Marvel, it’s the movies that are mostly terrible now.
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@mattyglesias What was the last good Star Wars IP? Rebels? KOTOR? Rogue One? Clone Wars cartoon?
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Star Wars: Starfighter is a hilariously bad title.
How did they not spend 30 minutes brainstorming a better idea for their trillion dollar IP?
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@wirraone @mattyglesias Well, after Rogue One, obviously. Nothing is besting that this decade.
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@mattyglesias good chance it will be the best Disney SW movie. for what that's worth.
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@cremieuxrecueil Since this could mean special forces in a single location, it's not a crazy evaluation.
If it's interpreted as full-scale ground invasion, then that's clearly not going to happen under TACO.
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@JeremiahDJohns The kangaroo position is so weird. I could never take a chimp, don't be ridiculous, but the average kangaroo? Sure, most are pretty small.
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Can't decide which is crazier - the guy who thinks he could beat a grizzly bear, or the guy who thinks he'd lose a fight to a rat.
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@SaintHeartwing @BriannaWu It's practically TNG, if you like one you'll like the other.
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Unlike most “Star Trek Fans,” I like Trek that isn’t TOS and TNG. I loved Voyager and Enterprise. I thought Picard and even Discovery had great arcs.
And even I think this show is trash.
It’s moralistic and preachy. It’s cringe. The characters fall flat. It’s a complete betrayal of everything that makes Star Trek good.
Variety@Variety
EXCLUSIVE: “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will end with its upcoming second season. The show failed to find a significant audience, not ranking on Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming viewership charts at any point during its 10-episode first season. wp.me/pc8uak-1lH3kQ
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@Mk13042 @mattyglesias "Iraq on steroids" seems like the obvious guess.
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@mattyglesias It's either glory or ruin I suppose. My guess is there is a lot of middle ground between those 2 options here that we shouldn't dismiss
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WSJ op-ed calls for boots on the ground in Iran, frames the consequences of backing down in semi-apocalyptic terms.
wsj.com/opinion/americ…
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@mattyglesias This seems unwise under even the best of circumstances, and erratic Trump leadership is far from the best of circumstances.
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Japan is still somehow human, while America and China have become two different varieties of posthuman
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@mcreditably @Noahpinion Lower Decks is *amazing*.
Strange New Worlds is perfectlytolerable.
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@Noahpinion There is only one good Star Trek since 2005 and that is the Orville. Which is embarissing but yes the creator of family guy did a better job than all the star trek people combined with their huge budgets.
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I think this is the first Star Trek series that got cancelled before I even had a chance to watch a single episode
Variety@Variety
EXCLUSIVE: “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will end with its upcoming second season. The show failed to find a significant audience, not ranking on Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming viewership charts at any point during its 10-episode first season. wp.me/pc8uak-1lH3kQ
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@proales @cremieuxrecueil Initially, at least. It's *wild* that the U.S. doesn't have it - I was aware of it, but it's still bonkers.
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@proales @cremieuxrecueil You also need several yearly, which complicates matters further.
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The efficacy of America's first–and now, sadly, withdrawn due to unpopularity–Lyme vaccine was about 80%!
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Pfizer says its experimental Lyme disease vaccine was 73% effective against the tick-borne illness
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@jasonbowden1000 It’s not just a slavery thing though—it’s (historically) a society where violence is a lot closer to the surface, including among whites.
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Midwestern Nice derives from centuries of Northern European peasants developing helpful relationships with everyone in the village so they don’t all freeze to death.
Southern politesse is about not accidentally starting a blood feud or a duel.
Nathan White@NPWhite717
Midwesterners are nice. Southerners are polite and may or may not be nice. Many of the most polite southerners I know are decidedly not nice.
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@MattWalshBlog He was a talented sailor, who by pure luck found something completely different than his hare-brained and impossible real project was all about.
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Christopher Columbus is the ultimate IQ test. You immediately know that someone is a retarded halfwit if they start screeching some nonsense about how Columbus was a genocidal maniac or whatever. Intelligent students of history understand that he is one of the great men of western civilization. This is an awesome move by the White House.
New York Post@nypost
White House installs Christopher Columbus statue made from remains of toppled sculpture trib.al/iGX7loN
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@ChrisO_wiki The idea behind madman theory is that your leader isn't *actually* a madman.
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Remember how I said that Trump's usual approach was uniquely unsuited to the demands of running a war? He can get away with this in domestic politics, but you can't bullshit your way through a war.
traurigsten Muthes@mcmansionhell
chat is this good
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@LenarAkhin @ramez @cia_surveilance It’s an obvious move if you want to patch things up with NATO and improve the shattered international image of the U.S. It’s also geopolitically obvious - it’s a very effective way of damaging Russia.
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@Barrowwight @ramez @cia_surveilance I know this EU's plan to wait out Trump.
But I don't think even a Democratic President would want to support Ukraine. Because it wouldn't make sense in 2029.
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There's a real possibility that we've reached the turning point in the Ukraine war. Ukraine is:
1. Taking back territory.
2. Outgunning Russia in deep strikes.
3. Manufacturing it's own Tomahawk-class cruise missiles (with Europe's help).
4. Killing Russian soldiers faster than Putin can replace them.
There is still a lot of war ahead, unfortunately. And factors like the surging price of oil help Putin. But the tide appears to be turning. Ukraine will grow stronger every month as its modern drone and missile capabilities continue to grow.
Putin should sue for peace. The deal he'll be able to get will just get worse and worse from here.
Anton Gerashchenko@Gerashchenko_en
Global attention is focused on the Persian Gulf. But we have news too. March 2026 became the first month when, in terms of deep strikes, Ukraine reached parity with Russia. The average number of long-range kamikaze drones launched by Ukraine has significantly increased, while the average number of Russian strike drones launched against Ukraine has currently dropped to 90–110 per day. Experts offer various possible reasons for this decrease: ▪️ drone production in Russia was not fully localized and partially depended on Iran; ▪️ logistics routes have become longer, and Iran itself now needs drones; ▪️ Ukraine is partially hitting production sites and factories; ▪️ possibly, Russia is stockpiling drones, perhaps for hybrid provocations in other regions; ▪️ it is also likely that Russia has started supplying drones to Iran. By spring, Ukraine has significantly increased strikes on Russia using long-range kamikaze drones. For example: on the night of March 18, Russia officially claimed to have "shot down" 238 drones; however, some of them struck a chemical plant in Stavropol Krai and an electronics facility in Sevastopol. Ukraine has also expanded its operational range: over 1,500 km. Russians have openly expressed concern about the security of military infrastructure in the Urals. Ukraine has increased and continues to increase both the production and variety of drones. Moscow has been declared a target: from March 14 to 17, Russia reported about 250 drones in the Moscow air defense zone. 📹: Ukrainian Defenders destroying Russian air defense systems in Bryansk region of Russia
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@LenarAkhin @ramez @cia_surveilance Hold out to a Democratic president in 2028 - with U.S. support, this can most certainly be accomplished. It *might* be accomplished without it, but that’s much harder.
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@LenarAkhin @ramez @cia_surveilance It’s obviously quite a way off for now. This was about where Russia’s true red lines are in the case of a Ukrainian victory.
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@Barrowwight @ramez @cia_surveilance How can you seriously talk about Crimea looking at the frontline?
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