Man, the Hossenfelder troll army that floods my comments section is...beyond words. I think the comparison with MAGA works really well. Same anger, same insanity levels,....

This is a good question. To all my followers in Gaza, and more broadly in Palestine, Edward Said thought that Um Kalthoum was absolutely terrible. So the choice is easy. You wouldn't want to disappoint arguably the greatest Palestinian cultural critic of all-time, would you?

"When it comes to the very obscenely rich, I take an aggressive zero-tolerance attitude. Break their monopolies. Seize their estates. Confiscate their wealth. They have built a system by which to steal our freedom and our money. They are criminals. We should treat them as such."

Year after year, this continues to be the best 4th of July fireworks video out there…

The Trump Administration Thinks We’re Imbeciles nationalreview.com/corner/th…

Has this as his profile pic but talking about mental illness 🤣🤣🤣

'Probabilistic' comes from Latin. 'Stochastic' comes from Greek.

JD Vance: “It's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology."

Is this the first Bob Dylan reference in a papal address?

New newsletter: MARKETS AND MORALITY "Gambling and prediction markets are flourishing because they meets the needs of our moment: a low-trust world, where often lonely young people are seeking high-risk opportunities to launch them into wealth and comfort... Americans are pulling away from practically every value that once defined national life—patriotism, religion, community, family. Young people care less than their parents about marriage, children, or faith. But nature, abhorring a vacuum, is filling the moral void left by retreating institutions with the market. Money has become our final virtue. I often find myself thinking about the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who argued in the introduction of After Virtue that modernity had destroyed the shared moral language once supplied by traditions and religion, leaving us with only the language of individual preference. Virtue did not disappear, I think, so much as it died and was reincarnated as the market. It is now the market that tells us what things are worth, what events matter, whose predictions are correct, who is winning, who counts."

James Hetfield, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Kirk Hammet, Joe Perry, Ronnie Wood, Robert Trujillo, Lars Ulrich & more performing "Train Kept A Rollin'" at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2009) So many legends on one stage. Jeff Beck's playing here is outstanding.

🚨🇮🇷 Iran just hit 9 countries in a single night, including 7 of the wealthiest nations on earth This was Tehran's answer to Israel striking the South Pars gas field, the world's largest, earlier today. The most intense retaliatory barrage of the entire war, and Iran is now the only country on the planet simultaneously attacking seven of the richest nations by GDP per capita: 🇮🇱 Israel: Ballistic missiles and cluster munitions over central Israel. Two killed in Ramat Gan. Four Palestinian women killed in the West Bank by an Iranian missile. 🇶🇦 Qatar ($110K GDP per capita): 14 ballistic missiles fired. Ras Laffan LNG hub suffered "extensive damage" confirmed by QatarEnergy. 🇦🇪 UAE ($100K): 13 ballistic missiles and 27 attack drones intercepted. Iran threatening imminent strikes on energy facilities. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia ($35K): Evacuation orders issued for Samref Refinery and Jubail Petrochemical Complex. Waves of missiles intercepted over Riyadh. 🇰🇼 Kuwait ($75K): Ballistic missiles intercepted. U.S. facilities targeted again. 🇧🇭 Bahrain ($65K): U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters under continued assault throughout the war. 🇴🇲 Oman ($32K): Drone strikes on industrial zones. Workers killed. The last neutral Gulf state is now taking fire. 🇯🇴 Jordan: U.S. bases struck as part of the widening multi-front campaign. 🇮🇶 Iraq: U.S. Embassy in Baghdad under nightly drone siege. Combined GDP per capita of the Gulf states under attack: over $417,000. These are some of the most prosperous, developed nations on earth, and Iran is hitting all of them simultaneously while its own economy collapses. This is Operation Madman at full throttle: torch the region's wealth until the world demands the war stops. Source: @rami_hashimi / Reuters / @itswpceo

German Defense Minister on giving Trump help: “There will be no military participation. We have a situation we did not provoke. This war started without any consultations. What does Trump expect in Strait of Hormuz that the mighty US Navy can't manage?" theaustralian.com.au/news/ge…