Dennis Dimick

Forensic BS Detector. Spent decades making sense of geography and maps from places like, among others, The Strait of Hormuz. Antifascist since 1951.

[Dennis Dimick @ddimick]

We are all just skating on thin ice now.

[Ian James @ByIanJames]

Starving gray whales are washing up on the Pacific coast in alarming numbers.

“With the continued warming of the oceans, and the ensuing changes in food availability, animals such as gray whales… are dying.” @susrust https://t.co/cZpJ58bzMg

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“As of Friday, the NIFC reported that some 2.4 million acres had burned in wildfires for which it had generated incident reports. That’s almost double the 10-year average for the time of year.” https://t.co/3cqbNGhNJ8

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

even as the risk of flesh-eating bacteria in warming waters is increasing alarmingly, the T***p administration is removing ocean monitors to gauge changes in currents & climate. (see the horrific article in this week's New Yorker, if you can bear to read it.)

[Dennis Dimick @ddimick]

@maxwelltani .@capitalweather was the main reason I kept subscribing to @washingtonpost No sports staff, local news is a joke, no photographers, and an editorial page written like Pravda for hypercapitalists. A shrinking shadow of a once great American newspaper

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Making them pay for it themselves is a nice Soviet touch

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

I don’t think even 5% of the population understands this is really happening

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

The infamous Summer of 1976 beaten by a May heatwave? It's the new reality of our climate changed world!
"That (36C) would be higher than any temperature recorded during the summer of 1976"

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Incredible

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

many will probably disagree but what a thoughtful, nuanced response to AI from a religious leader... it is actually startling when a religious leader gives evidence of caring for the well-being of others & does not merely repeat familiar phrases & injunctions to confirm his own faith & cast aspersion on the faith o others.

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

🚨 do you understand what happened to Stephen Colbert..

24 hours after his final Late Show, Colbert hijacked a tiny public access channel in Monroe, Michigan with Jack White, Eminem, Jeff Daniels and Steve Buscemi.

Now Paramount - the company that just cancelled his show - is mass-blocking every reupload worldwide via Content ID. And the deeper you dig, the worse it looks:

- The finale pulled 6.74M viewers - a weeknight record over 11 years
- Eminem cameoed as "Marshall, the fire marshal" to greenlight torching the set
- The same day Trump posted an AI video of throwing Colbert into a dumpster, Colbert aired footage of himself burning a real one
- Mayday Network and verified journalist Matthew Keys both got blocked globally - for sharing a community access show

Paramount cancelled his show to silence him. Instead they handed him a Streisand-effect comeback 10x bigger than the show ever was.

[Megan K. Stack @Megankstack]

Reading the paper & thinking, for all the raw bits of info & insights I get from this site/others, it would just be noise without reading a couple papers a day (NYT & FT for me) to see how all the parts fit together. We have all this media now, but still no substitute for a paper

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

In other words, the war is over, we're stumbling toward some version of the JCPOA, America is out billions of dollars and lots of weapons that we didn't need to waste, and the United States is now weaker and Iran in a strategically stronger position.
And for what?

[Dennis Dimick @ddimick]

@jimstewartson Set up your camera positions for the train wreck.

[Dan @Fortifyculture]

America's technological elites can't cope with their own civilisational mortality. Nowhere can we see this better than in Silicon Valley today. Wall Street already fell from grace in 2008 but now comes the fall of Silicon Valley.

America will not recover from this final strike

[Beth Pratt @bethpratt]

Traffic to the Yosemite entrance gate backed up to El Portal Market--that is over three miles. Read reports that parking in Yosemite Valley was full this morning, so when these folks arrive in the Valley, there is nowhere to park.

Park leadership is being careless with such a precious place they were entrusted to preserve by allowing this.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

This is the way. The models are extraordinary search engines. And they can do other things very well. But I never take seriously the actual text output.

[Henry Vaughan @silexsc]

Edward Tufte's mother Virginia also wrote this nice book on sentence structure

[Robin Boardman @RobinBoardmanUK]

The Sahel is at record temperatures. India is baking at 45°C. 90 dead in Uttar Pradesh from flooding.

This is not a forecast. This is not a warning. This is now. Every week, another record. Every week, more bodies.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

You know, with other presidents, I just assumed he'd be in the Oval at night during a war. I didn't need a WH flack telling me, every other hour, that the President is, in fact, doing something.
Besides, I already knew he's up at night from the weird tweets.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

It’s almost as if a bunch of operational successes couldn’t produce a strategic outcome.