Mastodawn

Operation Epstein Bury forever establishing total dominance

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-war-news-2026

If these trillions invested in AI spaghetti code were going to produce super intelligence it would obviate any need for manned spaceflight until, at the soonest, Mars' terraformation was complete.

Elon Musk still hasn't sent a single rocket to the red planet.

josh buermann 14h ago

Existential Comics 14h ago

I googled how to tell if something is a spider bite and came across this fantastic diagnostic criteria. I've created an illustrated guide in case anyone else needs help.

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josh buermann 15h ago

Quite the headline over the story "there is stilll no evidence that A.I. is disrupting the job market." I am so bored of this shit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/economists-once-dismissed-the-ai-job-threat-but-not-anymore.html

josh buermann 15h ago

Sean Casten 19h ago

Don't pay attention to the noise from the White House. It's very clear that markets and consumers vastly prefer lower cost energy sources that hedge fossil fuel price volatility. 88% of all new generation added in the US last year. https://electrek.co/2026/04/01/ferc-renewables-made-up-88-of-new-us-power-generating-capacity-in-2025/

FERC: Renewables made up 88% of new US power generating capacity in 2025

In 2025, renewables accounted for 88.4% of all new generating capacity, while natural gas added just 11.4%, according to FERC data.

Electrek

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josh buermann 16h ago

"Oil prices rose 60 percent in March, the fastest one-month gain since the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The reserves that some characterized as a global glut in oil have completely dissipated in a matter of weeks... The throttling of the strait in March already produced, as analyst Rory Johnston puts it, "the world’s most severe energy supply crisis in history.""

https://prospect.org/2026/04/02/opening-of-trumps-box-iran-war-strait-hormuz/

The Opening of Trump’s Box

Iran has put a tollgate across the Strait of Hormuz. This fundamentally changes the global economy.

The American Prospect

josh buermann 17h ago

diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱1d ago

The year 2026 in one animation

#year2026

josh buermann 18h ago

Zack Labe 1d ago

Cumulative change in the mass of glaciers from all around the world - preliminary data just updated through 2025 ☹️

Information on methods: https://wgms.ch/products_ref_glaciers/

josh buermann 1d ago

Trump's fixer for Ghislaine Maxwell's vacation in Club Fed is our new attorney general, I guess?

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cd9gjwdw9ygt

US President Donald Trump removes US attorney general Pam Bondi

The US president said Bondi will be moving to a job in the private sector and Todd Blanche will take over.

BBC News

josh buermann 1d ago

I guess Donald figures since he brought drug prices down by 1500% it's no big deal to increase them by 100%.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/trump-pharmaceutical-tariffs-100percent.html

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