Favorites September 27th 2022

San Diego, June 2022

Anders Sundell @sundellviz

I fed the lyrics to "Imagine" into an AI and had it come up with new verses, imagining the absence of more mundane things:

The thread goes into more than a dozen variations. And I confirmed myself, you can really get results that good, although you have to limit the output so it doesn't double the length of the song.

Forsvaret @forsvaretdk

Billeder fra F-16 af gaslækage i Østersøen.

Forsvaret @forsvaretdk

Se video og fotos af gaslækagerne på Nord Stream 1 og 2-gasledningerne i Østersøen på https://t.co/pj96CN7CDB: https://t.co/7bgt8TljaH #dkforsvar https://t.co/I1zEPaBLYO

Russia appears to have blown up the Nord Stream pipeline as a threat against the pipeline that was just built between Norway and Poland (they're also threatening other sources of gas in Europe). To give you a sense of scale, my understanding is that the circle in the photo is a kilometer across.

Heptarchy Restorationist @lessdismalsci

Reminder that Pro Family in practice primarily means using state force to destroy families they don’t approve of.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjs_DC

Incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wants to ban same-sex couples from adopting children, and possibly dissolve same-sex couples' legal parentage over the children they've already adopted. Gay parents are considering fleeing the country. https://t.co/lWyuK079uT

The new Italian Prime minister is bad, if you hadn't heard. Noah Smith considers the recent trend of "Mussolinoid" world leaders.

Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien

I think Ukrainian victory is important for Ukraine and important for the world, yet it’s impossible not to feel huge pity for the poor Russian conscripts now being led to their deaths to feed this monstrous ego. https://t.co/wQXAChIrHE

Illia Ponomarenko🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko

The Kremlin is mass-mobilizing unfit men without a single day at training camps to be slaughtered as hopeless expendables, imagine our shock, who could have expected that.

One captured Russian soldier was mobilized just three days earlier. 10K Russians are crossing the border with Georgia per day, the overall numbers of people fleeing are historic in the context of an aggressor nation.

Threads

• Short thread explaining the difference between this Russian mobilization and Vietnam.