Julf

https://www.gocomics.com/dinosaur-comics

The old myth about people getting more conservative when they get older seems only be true for people born before 1955. The ones born 1955-1980 seem not to change their view, and people born since 1980 get more liberal as they get older.

I do like the idea of "Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale (CBSR)"

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/workers-who-love-synergizing-paradigms-might-be-bad-their-jobs

The Middle East travel situation is bad enough as it is, but if Georgia, Armenia or Azerbaijan get involved in the currently ongoing conflicts, travel between Europe and Asia could be rather badly disrupted.

“Unfortunately, ease has never been a defining characteristic of learning,” he said. “Learning is effortful, difficult, and oftentimes uncomfortable. But it’s the friction that makes learning deep and transferable into the future.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20260226034525/https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/laptops-tablets-schools-gen-z-less-cognitively-capable-parents-first-time-cellphone-bans-standardized-test-scores/

Remember the 1997 movie "Wag the Dog", where the President of the United States starts a fake war to distract from a sex scandal involving an underage girl? Oh, and the producer dies of "heart attack at home" when he threatens to go public...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/

I am glad they have their priorities right.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/jet-evacuate-trump-dog-walker-5HjdTpZ_2/

"Russia's repeated disregard for international law and the Chemical Weapons Convention is clear."

https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/2756262-2756262

Nice to listen to a coherent, smart and law-abiding president.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw

Why am I not surprised that Jeffrey Epstein and Deepak Chopra were in cahoots?

(Source: https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2026/02/12/inside-epsteins-network)

Tried to share the actual URL (https://icelist.is/) to the site on FB, but got "Your comment couldn't be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards".

ICE List: the small European website exposing US immigration agents

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/ice-list-small-european-website-exposing-us-immigration-agents

Unfortunately I know the MAGA crowd will never get to see this.

I guess is why the tech oligarchy is so busy dismantling traditional newspapers and news outlets.

"while satellite internet has been framed as an alternative during internet shutdowns, the events in Iran reveal a harder truth: that satellite internet operates within physical and technical constraints that states can exploit and abuse."

https://www.techpolicy.press/what-irans-internet-shutdown-reveals-about-starlink/