3.2 million internally displaced inside iran.
1 million in lebanon.
158,000 arrivals from lebanon into syria. 43,000 into turkey.
this is the humanitarian cost of war.
a reminder that aside from catastrophic daily news, Humanity has bigger challenges: Breach of 7 planetary boundaries
https://youtu.be/ndPVcg6uSZc?si=d3V7i7vBZKoy4h9C
Official Planetary Health Check 2025 with Johan Rockström
More on Palantir’s AI powered ‘decision compression ‘ used to generate bombing targeting accidents without humans to notice missing data, (identifying a girls school)
“ normally we would have 2,000 intelligence officers, actually trying to do targeting and look at stuff. Now that’s 20 and they’re doing it in rapid succession as well,”.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/palantirs_maven_smart_system_iran/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes
: Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury
How US Military lethal ‘decision compression’ using Palantir Maven and Claude trained with defective image metadata (no ground truth) carelessly bombed Iranian girl’s school
https://the-decoder.com/us-military-uses-anthropics-claude-for-ai-driven-strike-planning-in-iran-war/
US military uses Anthropic's Claude for AI-driven strike planning in Iran war
In the war against Iran, the US military is using generative AI at scale for target selection and strike planning for the first time. Of all models, it's the one from the company Washington just banned.
The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage | Press Watch
The glimpses we’ve gotten justify a lot more reporting
Opinion | What a Baby’s Laugh Actually Tells Us
A kid’s first joke reveals a complex mind.
After years of American leadership, the center of Whole Earth, and Earth Systems sciences is now sround the Baltic, in Potsdam, Stockholm, and Copenhagen:
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/institute/labs/pbscience/pbsciencePlanetary Boundaries Science (PBScience) Lab
The PBScience Lab addresses critical gaps in our understanding and monitoring of the biophysical systems that are essential to life on Earth.
Thanks @eos.org and @agu.org for this resource to understand requirements for reconstruction of American scientific programs
https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Eos-State-of-the-Science.pdf#page=31Trump’s “national security” wind farm freeze? Total sham! Europe’s 30GW offshore giants coexist flawlessly with military radars via software tweaks & curtailments—zero threats. US DoD greenlit 1,000s onshore. Pure political posturing, not necessity!
ian bremmer
Dan Gillmor