Albert Kottke

Nevertheless, she persisted.

[Albert Kottke @arkottke]

@MagnusCort @JulienBernard17 @UCI_cycling Way to tarnish the image of cycling!

[Cédric Faiche @cedricfaiche]

La botte de poireaux! C’est la nouvelle vedette de la caravane du #TourDeFrance 2024
Les secrets de ce « char » pour @BFMTV

[Albert Kottke @arkottke]

@keirp And the persistence to say, "you might not believe me, but I believe in myself"

[Albert Kottke @arkottke]

@GeraintThomas86 @LukeRowe1990 @LeTour So he does own a shirt! 🤣

[Albert Kottke @arkottke]

@timblor I was wondering where she went! I hope you look after her.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

@engineering Is this because Elon always clicks "like" on fascists and gets exposed for doing so?

[Roger Hill @rehill57]

Another shot of the Clovis, NM beast from last night! #nmwx

[Albert Kottke @arkottke]

@timblor Highly clumsy, ungraceful, and who loudly snores… I thought you were describing me for a moment.

[Chris Vickers @ChrisWTOL]

WHAT A FLOCK! That is not rain. Doppler radar is detecting massive flocks of migrating birds across Ohio and the Great Lakes region.
There is an estimated 340,000,000 birds in migration across the United States tonight!

[Albert Kottke @arkottke]

@nedboulting @neverstraysfar Serves you right for wearing pink socks 😅

[NWS Grand Forks @NWSGrandForks]

Our eyes and cameras weren't the only things viewing last night's #aurora.

Here is composite satellite imagery using @NOAASatellites/@JPSSProgram highlighting aurora over North America.

Aurora is colored as green, most notable across the northern tier of the US.

[Albert Kottke @arkottke]

@SeismoSue There are worse ideas.

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

Sniper on the roof of the IMU.
Absolutely unhinged response to a nonviolent encampment by a murderous and paranoid police state.

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

On Iran’s strike:

At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government.

One lesson he thought that I always remember was this:

He asked us:

“Say the US decided to attack Iraq with a new stealth jet it hadn’t used before that evaded all radars? The attack was a success. Was it strategic?”

Many in the class raised their hands to say “yes, it achieved its goal”. But the professor said: “It may not have been”.

Why?

“Because now your adversaries know your capabilities and it’s a matter of time before they find ways around them. If this attack could be done with conventional weapons, it’s better to keep your top weapons until you need them. Using them creates a disadvantage.”

My analysis is that the scale of Iran’s attack, the diversity of locations it targeted, and weapons it used, forced Israel to uncover the majority of anti-missile technologies the US and it have across the region.

The Iranians did not use any weapons Israel didn’t know it had, it just used a lot of them. But the Iranians likely now have almost a full map of what Israel’s missile defence system looks like, as well as where in Jordan and the Gulf the US has installations. It also knows how long it takes to prepare them, how Israeli society responds…etc

This is a huge strategic cost to Israel, while Arab regimes now are being blasted by their peoples, particularly the Jordanian monarchy, for not doing anything to protect Gazans but then going all out to protect Israel.

Crucially, Iran can now reverse engineer all the intel gathered from this attack to make a much more deadly one credible. While the US and Israel will have to re-design away from their current model which has been compromised. Its success in stopping this choreographed attack is thus still very costly.

Moreover, with the threat of a regional war that neither the US nor the Arab regimes want feeling nearer, it’s likely their pressure on Israel to back down will increase, making a ceasefire more feasible.

Anyone assuming this is just theatrics is missing the context of how militaries assess strategy versus tactics. Theatre is an important factor, but gathering intelligence of the “enemy’s” posture is more valuable, especially if one believes they’re in a long war of attrition.

Netanyahu and the Israel government prefer a quick hot and urgent war where they can pull in America. The Iranians prefer a longer war of attrition that bleeds Israel of its deterrence capabilities and makes it an ally for Arabs and the US that’s too costly to have.

Lastly, if you are a person who hates war, if you want peace, the best and only way to get there in the region is to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and dignity.

There is no sustainable peace possible as long as Palestinians live under an oppressive system of apartheid.

[Albert Kottke @arkottke]

@Lynn_Henning @NewYorker Exactly.

[NWSHonolulu @NWSHonolulu]

While we didn't see much of the #TotalSolarEclipse2024 here in Hawaii, you can see it on this satellite image as the dark spot heading towards Mexico. For Hawaii, the next partial eclipse will occur on Oct. 2, 2024 but will not been seen from the mainland.

[Albert Kottke @arkottke]

@nedboulting I feel like we all won too 🥹

[Albert Kottke @arkottke]

@DanielleVerdugo @timblor The best part is that he has been looking forward to this for months and Olivine dreading it.