Azby Brown

Artist, designer, author. Founder of the KIT Future Design Institute in Tokyo. Lead researcher of SAFECAST. Architecture, art, environment, the hand. Openness.

[Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel]

The last paragraph of this story by Tom, Kat Lonsdorf and myself is well worth a read.

A source tells us that due to Hegseth's decision to cut DoD funding to prevent civilian casualties, military commands were paying out of their own budget for analysts to do the work.

[Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel]

NEW: Preliminary assessment finds U.S. at fault for strike on Iranian girl's school. A source confirmed to @TBowmanNPR that U.S. CENTCOM had only one staffer assigned to mitigating civilian casualties.

https://t.co/YD4zcuHSf7

[tim_hornyak @robotopia]

Azby Brown on: Why Japan’s Old Farmhouses Matter More Than Ever https://t.co/WZvxG0y3Oy #AllAboutJapan via @AllAbout_Japan

[Azby Brown @AzbyB]

@robotopia @AllAbout_Japan Thank you for sharing it!

[Azby Brown @AzbyB]

@Vikspeaks1 @OsintTV Our team at @safecast developed our radiation and air quality map. We do not have realtime radiators sensors on the Indian subcontinent. The data you see was collected by mobile units in past months and years. No colored point doesn’t mean no radiation, it means no data.

[Pavlo Tkachenko @pavlentij]

Monitoring, public monitoring, and once again public radiation monitoring are the foundations of radiation safety.

Just found that we have spiked traffic to @SaveEcoBot an hour ago and located a source in the quoted tweet. @safecast 🫂 @SaveDnipro

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Hegseth and Parnell still having jobs today shows just how weak Trump really is. He’s being humiliated daily by these buffoons and just keeps playing golf and signing whatever is dropped in front of him. The Governor in Blazing Saddles was more competent.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Oyer: Perhaps the most personally upsetting part of the story is the lengths to which the leadership of the department has gone to prevent me from testifying here today. On Friday night, I learned that the Deputy Attorney General’s office had directed the department’s Security and Emergency Planning Service to send two armed Special Deputy U.S. Marshals to my home to serve me with a letter. The letter was to be served between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. that night.

I was in the car with my husband and my parents—who are sitting behind me today—when I got the news that the officers were on their way to my house, where my teenage child was home alone. Fortunately, due to the grace of a very decent person who understood how upsetting this would be, I was able to confirm receipt of the letter via email, and the deputies were called off.

At no point did Mr. Blanche’s staff pick up the phone and call me before they sent armed deputies to my home. The letter was a warning to me about the risks of testifying here today. But I am here, because I will not be bullied into concealing the ongoing corruption and abuse of power at the Department of Justice.

[alain servais @aservais1]

4 radical Japanese photographers you need to know. They embraced experimental techniques and taboo subject matter, testing the limits of their medium. By @AzbyB via @ArtBasel #Photography https://t.co/tfPOqiTID8

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

Folks, there is NO analogy to Chamberlain here. Chamberlain was ill-advised but well-intentioned.

Do not flatter Trump with even that.

The analogy is Molotov-Ribbentrop.

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

I don't really believe in the feasibility of some kind of European peacekeeping force in Ukraine. It's hard to imagine how you could separate the two most powerful armies in Europe after three years of fierce fighting, without a force stronger than both of them. One must understand that for the Russians, in their current state of absolute craze and bloodthirstiness, it would cost them nothing to start killing Europeans—which, in fact, they are already talking about.

[Anastasia Klimash 🇺🇦 @nastasiaKlimash]

Don't believe anyone telling you that the occupation of Crimea went peacefully. Occupation isn't peace. And if you don't hear enough about its victims, it is likely because either you aren't paying attention or the witnesses are silenced.

[Daniel P. Aldrich urbanists.social/web/@dpaldrich @DanielPAldrich]

While Trump has said the moves are an attempt to rein in federal spending that doesn’t comport with its values, he offered no explanation for cuts to non-political research around topics like math, literacy, school attendance and mental health https://t.co/mEDahAYI9z

[Gary Shteyngart @Shteyngart]

Trump during a calamity: "Find me a black person to blame!"

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

🇺🇸🇺🇦 USAID halts all funding for projects in Ukraine following a U.S. State Department order to suspend foreign aid programs for 90 days of auditing. This affects school reconstruction, medical aid, and critical energy repairs in Ukraine.

https://t.co/H85lj6kO2R

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Just as expected, Ukraine’s Veteran Hub support line had to shut down because U.S. foreign aid is frozen. Now, other vital initiatives—school and hospital support, rebuilding, and energy programs—are at risk of being disrupted.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Elon Musk’s X is a weapon currently owned and controlled by a non-state entity. But from January 20, that changes. At that point, we need to understand in the context of information warfare from a hostile nation state.
https://t.co/CA4hv5Vwti

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Remembering those bygone days when you could turn to Twitter for fast and trustworthy information on a rapidly developing story like a catastrophic wildfire.

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

This Tweet is revealing in terms of not naming Russia as the aggressor that invaded Ukraine, as well as the false equivalence of watching what "both sides" are doing. Ukraine is defending itself from a genocidal invader. Russia could stop at any moment.

https://t.co/1FXIUU59K6

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

13 fake electors from 2020 are going to cast real electoral ballots for Donald Trump.

That's a chilling reminder about the failure of institutions to hold them accountable for threatening our democracy.
https://t.co/seJa6ITJan