Mastodawn

The US is currently being beaten by a country who is using high end RC planes while we have the LARGEST MILITARY BUDGET IN THE WORLD.

Our tax money is being stolen from us in the name of a bunch of people making a fuckton of money on military contracts.

Is this the waste, fraud, and abuse I was hearing so much about last year?

#iran #War #trump #drone

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Angry 1d ago

What a completely useless prime time address. Talked for 20 mins and didn’t say a damn thing

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Research Software Alliance 1d ago

Last week’s Research Software Engineering in the Age of Generative AI workshop worked towards developing a roadmap for producing #researchsoftware in the age of GenAI. Read the brief summary at https://www.researchsoft.org/events/rse-ai-workshop/

@arfon @danielskatz @schmidtsciences

Research Software Engineering in the Age of Generative AI: Building a Community Vision | Research Software Alliance

Research Software Alliance

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Sam Litzinger 1d ago

For example, this NY Times headline conveys nothing of the utter lunacy of the speech. An unsuspecting reader might think it was along the lines of, say, an Obama or a Reagan speech.

It’s LIGHT YEARS away:

“Trump Claims Military Success but Offers No Clear Timeline to End Fighting
In a 19-minute address from the White House, President Trump said the U.S. would hit Iran “extremely hard over the next two to three weeks,” but did not make any revealing announcements.”

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Tiffany Li 1d ago

When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that the Supreme Court took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

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Nicholas Grossman 2d ago

US leaders, a lot of media, and the stock market are acting like Trump can simply walk away from the Iran war, and I really don't think he can.

He's saying the Strait of Hormuz isn't America's problem—maybe think that's a negotiating tactic—but that won't make it go away.

I explore why in @msnownews:

https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-strait-hormuz-iran-war-problem

The Strait of Hormuz is the U.S.’ problem now — whether Trump likes it or not

Nicholas Grossman: There’s no good way out of Iran for Trump, no matter how much he wishes otherwise.

MS NOW

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Angry 2d ago

Trump asked for plans to seize Iran’s uranium. Plans that would require dropping excavators into Iran to move earth, building a runway, and landing cargo planes (likely under fire) in hostile territory. We could probably do it, but holy shit what a dangerous mission.

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JA Westenberg 2d ago

“we’re disrupting X” means we found a cheaper way to do X that externalises all the costs onto someone who can’t afford a lawyer

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Zack Labe 2d ago

"The amount of water stored in western U.S. snowpack is currently the lowest on record for April 1, when it's usually near the annual peak."

See Climate Central's latest Climate Matters on the historic snow drought: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/western-snowpack-drought-2026

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After playing with a couple of AI implementations on a technical matter, I feel like I was dealing with a "sales engineer" back when commission sales people were paired with a technical person. -- accurate information, but nothing that woud contradict my mental frame.

God help us if policy makers are reliant on AI and the self-confirming bias is part of the delivery....