You call yourself nadir prey, and look like this?

AI is great. So is the fog of war. I tried to google “when does the ceasefire end” and couldn’t get an answer.

The two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire is set to expire on Tuesday evening, April 20, 2026, or Wednesday, April 22, 2026, depending on the specific source, with some reporting 8 p.m. ET Tuesday or by early Wednesday morning. The truce, announced on April 7, is on the brink of collapse due to rising tensions and shipping attacks.

How do they get calendar dates wrong? Wolfram Alpha had that shit figured out decades ago.

It’s strange to see Israelis confirming something obvious instead of denying it.

The part about sunlight intensity was new to me, though. And it’s interesting that men may be more affected than women by changes in weather. I wonder if that’s shown in other studies as well.

I enjoyed the series and really raced through them - they're good pageturners. The first volume is pretty much the Chu-Han Contention with names changed, but events and characters diverge from there. (There's another continent, with "floating cities" that attack the continent in the first book.) Although sometimes the technological developments the characters come up with are a little too timely and convenient, I thought it was a much more interesting approach than giving them magical powers. The main supernatural element is the presence of the gods, who mess with things in the manner of amused spectators.

Definitely a good pick if you're interested in a fantasyish series that's not Western-coded.

Ken Liu’s map for the first book of his “silkpunk” series that’s a fantasy adaptation of the Chu-Han contention: https://kenliu.name/binary/Dara_Map_final.jpg

In this case it’s probably from Revelation:

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

Deleted wrong-thread comments in the news mega get more upbears than any comment in the regular mega. Really makes you think.

I haven’t seen it but I assume that’s the plot of the 1970 film Torah! Torah! Torah!

It's also from 2018, if anyone else got the impression it was more recent.

A contemporary reaction, with some more choice quotations from Democrats:

We know that Israel would prefer to keep the sword of freedom sheathed… [But if war comes] We will stand on the side of our one true ally in the Middle East.

That's then-senator now-prisoner Robert Menendez hitting Trump from the right on Iran.

I have not seen a security situation as immediately threatening as today… … Iran [is] increasingly and aggressively challenging Israel…

When Iran and Russia challenge Israel directly they are also challenging the United States.

That's still-senator Chris [slur filter]s of Delaware.

Hezbollah MP Ibrahim Al-Moussawi told Drop Site, “We will be respecting the ceasefire,” and says the deal is based on the original agreement between the US and Iran that a ceasefire would apply to Lebanon.

Al-Moussawi’s statement that this ceasefire is based on the original Iranian deal reached with the U.S. contradicts claims by Trump and Netanyahu that Lebanon would not be included, and by the U.S. State Department that the Lebanon ceasefire be a wholly separate deal.

"They went back to the same ceasefire agreement that has been reached to in Islamabad by the Iranian initiative,” Al-Moussawi told Drop Site. "We will be respecting the ceasefire and we will deal with it cautiously, actually. And the Israelis have to abide by it completely, comprehensively in all of the Lebanese territories, including the areas bordering Palestine. And it should include total cessation of the hostilities and restraint to the movement of the Israelis to stop their assassinations. And it should hopefully be a beginning of a course of the Israeli withdrawal from our occupied territories."

(Please ping me if I end up needing to change the link; sometimes these UPDATES from Drop Site get spun off into new posts.)

From a billionaire family with Epstein connections, no less.