Dr. Fidelius

Thaumaturge. Pan-sophist. Mountebank. Grandmaster of Full contact chess combat

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

This belongs in the Smithsonian.

[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

Two months ago, tomorrow:

Congratulations to all.
Let the oil flow.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

aaaaaand let's just pop in on america for a sec, see how things are goin over there

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

The reflecting pool debacle is the perfect visual metaphor for the Trump Administration - superficial approaches to complex problems leading to worse outcomes than if he had done nothing.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Some of you were alive when that happened.

[Nic @puckrin]

Anthropic: "The government should have the power to block or deter deployment if it is determined to present risks"

Also Anthropic: "Claude Mythos is so dangerous, it presents cybersecurity risks"

US government: "Your wish is our command"

Anthropic: "Nooo, not like that"

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

HARD RULE: Everything Anthropic says is marketing bullshit.

This is nonsense. They absolutely can’t slow down or they will die. This is a cover story for the models slowing down all by themselves.

They have stolen all the data there is to steal. It’s diminishing returns now.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Russians can’t win on the battlefield so they’re attacking more civilians. What an evil government.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

I haven't seen anyone tracking all of the alleged (or open) Trump corruption, self-dealing, and quid pro quos in one place. For the last 15 months, I've been tracking every single tip+story I can find and organizing it. Today, I published a 6,000 word piece with every example.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Republicans in the House just voted to stop states from protecting pigs from being tortured.

But it's not over yet, the bill must go to the Senate.

That's where the focus needs to be now.

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

"One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.

And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday."

https://t.co/9Hi2v9md4X

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

What. The. Fuck.

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Not anymore. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. https://t.co/fPtaK6YHJC

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

In Angangueo, Michoacán, Mexico, hundreds of devoted participants carry heavy nopales and cacti on their backs during the Procesión del Nopal — a powerful Holy Week tradition held on Good Friday.

As an act of penance and sacrifice, they endure the painful spines digging into their skin to commemorate the suffering and death of Christ, seeking spiritual purification and redemption. ✝️

[kouji 🇯🇵 @yoyonofukuoka]

A post reposted by Japan’s Finance Minister Katayama.

Japan’s major oil company ENEOS has succeeded for the first time in producing synthetic fuel (e-fuel) — made without using petroleum — from CO₂ in the air and water at its facility in Yokohama.

The demonstration plant’s current production scale is still very small at 1 barrel per day (roughly the size of one drum), but the company aims to scale it up to 10,000 barrels per day by 2040.

Although it is still at the experimental stage, this is drawing attention as a new fuel that could reduce dependence on petroleum.

In the timeline we’re currently living in, the move away from oil appears to be beginning at the same time as the move away from the US dollar.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

—John Ruskin

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

Elon, Andreesen, Sacks, Ackman, Chamath, Vivek, on and on, I remember when for all these guys it was critical to elect Trump because our national debt was a crisis and existential threat to the future of America only he would tackle. Don’t hear so much about that anymore.

[French Response @FrenchResponse]

❌ No. 🇫🇷 aircraft carrier and its group staying the eastern Mediterranean. Posture has not changed: defensive it is.

[dinosaur @dinosaurs1969]

not a single cellphone in sight just people enjoying the moment