Mastodawn

f*cking b*tch club 3d ago

J D Vance used to be very worried about ‘cats and dogs’ in Ohio. I wonder if he’s as worried about these in Dubai

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/11/pets-abandoned-dubai-expat-owners-flee-iran-war

#collateraldamage

Thousands of pets being abandoned in Dubai as owners flee over Iran war

RSPCA say animals could become ‘hidden victims’ of conflict as charities in Gulf city report being overwhelmed

The Guardian

Barbara Monaco Mar 2

US flagged tanker hit in Bahrain. One seaman killed, two wounded.
#collateraldamage
#Iran
#bahrain
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-flagged-products-tanker-hit-by-unknown-projectiles-bahrain-port-sources-say-2026-03-02/

Weerasuriya P Mar 2

Out of curiosity… if missile trails replaced airplane contrails over your city’s skyline tomorrow, would you still trust your government’s "peace dividend"? 😳
Gulf allies are waking up to shattered malls and burning runways—attacked not for what they *are*, but who they *host*. When did safe havens become battlegrounds? 💥
#GulfSecurity #IranRetaliation #CollateralDamage

🔗 Full Story: https://www.talknation.site/2026/03/allies-of-us-in-gulf-bear-brunt-of-iran.html

#news #tech #talknation

Script Kiddie Mar 1

#Oil #tankers attacked near Strait of #Hormuz as Iran #conflict disrupts #shipping

source: worldoil.com/news/2026/3/1/oil…

One #incident occurred just north of #Oman with the second further south, #UK Maritime #Trade Operations Centre, said. Oman’s Maritime #Security agency confirmed the Skylight tanker — a small #ship that appears to be sanctioned by the U.S. A second, the MKD Vyom, was struck further south, about 50 miles from the #MiddleEast country’s coast, according to a Norwegian rescue service.

It appears to be shaping up to be a #dirty #war, and by eliminating the #leadership, the US has demonstrated that there will be no #negotiations until the #regime is gone. With its back against the wall, #Iran is now fighting with all means available, and as is always the case in war, many innocent people will #suffer as a result.

#news #crisis #politics #warfare #iran #usa #norway #problem #civilians #collateraldamage #terror #humanrights #oil #economy #israel #persiangulf

Oil tankers attacked near Strait of Hormuz as Iran conflict disrupts shipping

Two oil tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz as Iran-related tensions escalate, raising concerns over potential disruption to a chokepoint that carries roughly 20% of global seaborne crude and LNG flows.

PSiReN-X

Feb 28

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116145442011554405

#DareISayIT...

#ParkThem on the #AngryOrangeWotsit's #Lawn at #MarALago...

#DetonationsOptional... #FriendlyFire | #CollateralDamage

#JustASuggestion...

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🪐🦹🚀🦄🚀🦹🪐

Action Committee for Transit Feb 20

On Sun 2/8/26 1:57 pm a pedestrian (59/M) who was standing in the parking lot of Giant at 8750 Arliss St was hit & injured #CollateralDamage in a crash between a 2015 Toyota Camry driver (28/M) turning left & a 2017 Toyota Sienna driver (36/M). Police (MCP3319004C) found the Camry driver at fault.

Webrocker Feb 12

Webspace Invaders - Matthias Ott

(…) In their hunger for data to train their large language models, companies from all over the world are systematically harvesting every word I’ve ever published, feeding it into their language models to keep them fresh – and the side effect, the collateral damage, is that Kevin in Montreal now can’t read my articles because my hosting provider decided the solution was to block Canada and half the rest of the world.
I sat there staring at those logs for a while. The irony wasn’t lost on me. This is my little corner of the web. My writing. With my weird little style mixer up there in the top right. And now it is simultaneously being strip-mined by AI companies and effectively made inaccessible to actual humans around the world who might want to read it.
This is where we are in 2026. (…) Yes, the AI companies need to do better. They actually should throttle their scraping to reasonable levels. They actually should respect the limited resources of small sites. They actually should develop industry standards that don’t externalize costs onto individuals who are just trying to share their work. (…) matthiasott.com

I can't help but getting really really angry about all this and what it does to the web I used to love.

#ai #aiScrapers #collateraldamage #exploitation #otemporaomores #Web

https://webrocker.de/?p=29765

Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott

There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling their data stores while we watch our access logs fill up.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer