This totally happened. My Mom says Kubrick would call the house at like 1 or 2 am while my Dad was shooting and she’d be like I’m just here w the toddler and he would get done talking to her for an hr and then talk to me for a while. Legend.
As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
It's called Water Gong 93, also nicknamed Gongzilla.
The sound it emits is so powerful that it resonates like the vibrations of the universe and is said to rebalance the energy of the human body.
do you understand what Google's AI just did to an artist..
His entire Google account got permanently banned. Not just Drive. Gmail.. YouTube.. Every single service..
His appeal was rejected. No human reviewed it. An algorithm decided his life's work was a violation.
He never shared the files publicly. It was a private backup of his own creations. The AI flagged it anyway - probably the filename or art style - and that was enough.
- Google banned a developer's 14-year-old Gmail account over a research dataset that contained no illegal content
- Google expanded its automated ban policy in October 2025 - violations now trigger immediate termination with zero warning period
- No lawsuit against Google for wrongful account termination has ever succeeded in US courts
Your Google account is not yours. You are renting access to your own digital life from a company whose AI can end it in seconds - with no appeal, no human, and no recourse.
The New York Times is reporting that Rubio and Ratcliffe told Trump the idea of regime change was unachievable while General Caine concurred. Vance told Trump that starting an unnecessary, unprovoked and existential regional war with Iran was "a bad idea" but Trump started it anyway.
The next day, U.S. intelligence pushed back sharply. CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the regime-change scenario “farcical,” with Secretary of State Marco Rubio adding: “In other words, it’s bullshit.” Gen. Dan Caine told the president: “This is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed.”
Trump dismissed regime change as “their problem” — but remained focused on targeting Iran’s leadership and military. By Feb. 26, in a final Situation Room meeting, opposition inside the room was clear but fractured. Vice President JD Vance warned the war could spiral and drain U.S. resources, but ultimately said: “You know I think this is a bad idea… but I’ll support you.”
The head of Europe’s central bank just said financial markets don’t understand what they’re in for.
This is Christine Lagarde saying the damage is already done. Most people have absolutely no idea. Here is what she actually said.
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. That chokepoint carries 20% of the world’s oil and gas. Markets shrugged. Investors assumed it would blow over. Lagarde told The Economist that technical experts are not talking about months for recovery. They are talking about years.
Helium travels through the Strait of Hormuz. Helium is not a balloon gas. It is the invisible ingredient inside every advanced microchip on earth. Qatar supplies 35% of the world’s commercial helium. Qatar’s facilities have gone dark. Spot prices have surged past $450 per thousand cubic feet. Most chip fabricators carry less than three months of inventory. The world is building AI data centers at record speed. The raw material that makes the chips possible is now scarce.
Meanwhile Brent crude has hit $99. Earlier spikes passed $120. US gasoline is up 30%. Iraq cut 1.5 million barrels a day. Saudi Arabia paused its largest refinery. Europe is heading into this with gas storage at 30% capacity.
And the ECB is not cutting rates to soften the blow. It is considering hiking them to fight inflation.
Slow economy. Rising prices. Tighter money. All at once.
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@shonkpa55133 That is freaking awesome cool. Your dad is very talented and should absolutely keep creating that sort of moving sculpture. The people dissing him can just fuck right off.
US journalist Abby Martin about Israeli society:
“Israeli society has gone full fucking fascist. It's like Berlin 1930... They know the kids are starving. They agree with it...”
“I'm talking to people from all walks of life. Every single person espoused genocidal rhetoric..”