Qatar seems pissed. @reuters.com

I see the "writer" whose novel just got tanked for being "AI" is blaming it all on an editor who allegedly rewrote substantial portions of the novel using an LLM. So, a) why would you use an "editor" like that, b) I reread reach my novels a dozen times during the pre-pub process, this excuse is bunk

This means it may be too late for That Man to simply declare victory and end it, because even he knows that nobody would believe a word of it and would mock him until the cows come home.

Until his medical license was suspended, cosmetic surgeon Dr. Irwin Blumenfeld left many of his patients with the tragic side effect known as “buffalo nose.”

The most devastating sentence in this piece: "Truly, the only people who could be this dumb are intellectuals." I've long observed that a dismaying number of soi-disant "intellectuals" have a faulty notion of how the real world works.

This is a sharp point and it's very applicable to Rep Adam Smith, who is a genuine moderate in the good senses of the word and cannot now abide by what Trump is doing, which is why he's abandoning the veneer of civility.

TL: DR - the Fpunders recognized the dangers, but were too idealistically trusting in the ability of what Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature" to keep things from the tipping point.

Chuck Norris has passed away at age 86 following his hospitalization after a medical emergency in Hawaii.

The story of the real-life model for Patrick O'Brian's Captain Jack Aubrey. As it turns out, the real Cochrane got up to some adventures that make Aubrey's look positively dull.

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's reaction as Trump says "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour?" Undoubtedly the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history.

Per Trumper leakers, Kent (who accused the FBI of engineering the 1/6 insurrection), is now under investigation for unspecified "leaking." Is it possible he's being investigated for "leaking" that intelligence officers determined Iran was not an imminent threat?

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I was an early adopter on Hackett; I went so far as to place a special order for _The Third World War: August 1985_ when I heard it was coming out at my local Waldenbooks at the end of my sophomore year in high school. That copy has long since been read literally to tatters.

This particular incident, Operation Bøllebank (which translates as "Bully Bashing"), is the subject of a #boardwargame designed by @6xwa.bsky.social : boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41...

Remarkable story from Denmark's nat'l broadcaster. "When Danish soldiers were flown to Greenland in January...they brought explosives so they could destroy, among other things, the runways in Nuuk & Kangerlussuaq [to] prevent US mil aircraft from landing" www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

🇺🇸 Newsweek: According to the latest polls, the US president’s actions are disapproved by 56% of respondents, while only 37% approve. Trump’s net approval rating on the economy has fallen to -29%, even worse than at the peak of COVID-19.

This goes all the way back to Origin's Wing Commander series in the 1990's. LOTS of PC gamers were intensely frustrated at having perfectly serviceable rigs that didn't meet Origin's insanely exacting standards.

Nonproliferation is dead. It was killed first by the failure to prevent North Korea from developing its own bomb, and then by the failure of the Western signatories of the Budapest Memorandum to live up to their commitment to guarantee Ukraine's security in exchange for relinquishing their nukes.

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No more Minute Maid frozen orange juice concentrate. (The article doesn't say whether other producers will follow suit.)

You never ever see the Vatican’s news website putting Trump’s name in a headline. This is a serious, direct statement about Trump and Israel by the Catholic Church.

A lot of the people now telling you that generative AI is the future whether you like it or not and you'd better get onboard or be left behind said the exact same shit about the Metaverse

Nobody likes informers. As Dr. Stephen Maturin once said, "The back of my hand to the informer...Hell is stacked with them six deep."

Well, President Stubb of Finland just proposed a deal, help to the US on the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for Washington's sending aid to Ukraine, so... (Not that there's a hope in hell of that happening, but all the same...)

Idolization of any human being, no matter how much you may support their causes, is dangerous.

English-American actress Lily Collins was born #OnThisDay in 1989. For Emily in Paris, Marylin Fitoussi created this red dress with nine upturned layers of skirts as a tribute to Roberto Cappucci's 1956 Nove Gonne dress. Collins wore it in the season four poster. #fashionhistory

He speaks for me. Doomsters, or as we used to call them on a web forum I used to frequent, "DOOOOOOOOOOOM'ers", are a murrain and, to modify scripture a bit, darken counsel by words without hope.

*GOP spends 20 years agitating for a war with Iran* *Trump withdraws from the JPOAC and assassinates Soleimani* *Trump declares that actually the US has been at war with Iran for a half century* "Shame on the perfidious Zionists for pushing the US into a war with Iran."

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Please read this before praising Joe Kent. He should have never been put in that position to begin with. democrats-homeland.house.gov/news/press-r...

Yes,the emerging line is wily, ruthless Israel tricked poor, trusting, naive Donald Trump into a stupid, reckless war. GMAFB. Israel has absolutely pushed for this but ultimately it’s DONALD TRUMP who decided to take the US to war. He likes war! He likes blowing things up! He literally says it’s fun

Kent’s actual letter goes even a step further to blame Israel for the Iraq war. Which, obviously plenty of blame to go around, but pretty ridiculous to suggest that the Bush administration was simply duped by those duplicitous Jews

This. Even Bush the younger, he of the "Axis of Evil" and the "GWOT", turned the Israelis down flat on this.

If I were Stephen Miller (God be praised I'm not), I'd be starting to get pretty nervous right now about the rising wave of anti-Semitism among people on the far right who are looking for scapegoats to blame for That Man's incessant fiascos and failures.

This idea that Israel controls the US is largley based on anti semetic tropes and is just fucking wrong. The US controlls Israel not the other way around. The US isnt the victim being used here.

Folks, you do NOT have to give credit to the "Jews are the problem" dude who resigned today. He resigned because he sees conspiracies everywhere and he blames Jews for everything. This is someone that Trump put in charge of the NCTC.

I am vaguely open to arguments along the lines of "MTG is making some good points" but under no circumstances do you have to hand it to Joe Kent, whose rehabilitation would have direct electoral consequences and who, again, is a Nazi

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If Tulsi Gabbard had any integrity, she would have resigned with Kent because she feels exactly the same war about the Iran War. But she has no integrity.

Two notable things: this man is a dyed-in-the-wool supporter of That Man, and, very much to my alarm, not-so-well-disguised anti-Semitism is picking up steam on the right.

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As any student or aficionado of Cold War espionage history knows, this fits a longstanding pattern. Soviet consulates in many key regions were notorious for having most of their personnel actually be KGB/GRU officers, and being fitted out with long-range eavesdropping/detection gear.

It was pretty generous of the court, in those circumstances, to extend the filing deadline to March 23rd. It also is inexplicable why someone who presumably knows how things work didn't ask permission to appear pro hac vice or file an appearance, or even have the people who actually do...

...I was under the impression that Sears had gone out of business some time back?

It USED to be funny when people would make up outrageous but realistic-sounding tweets from That Man. Not anymore. That whole practice needs to be ditched, this is one "joke" that can't afford to be perpetuated.

He wrote one of the better early #alternatehistory novels, "SS-GB" (1978), before the genre really became popular.

The Austro-Hungarians, believe it or not, had a fairly sizable navy...and no less a personage than Georg von Trapp (yes, THAT Georg von Trapp, Captain von Trapp of "The Sound of Music") was A-H's top submarine ace of World War I.

The logical corollary is that the way to defeat international drug trafficking is to make it unprofitable for the traffickers...but after nearly a century of rhetoric and sunk-cost fallacy, what it'll take to do that is politically pretty much impossible.

Crucial point: Trump's Iran fiasco is very likely exacerbated by advisers who feed him highly simplified versions of the intelligence, says @mollymckew.bsky.social. "They give him bullet points written in crayon." On the pod Molly breaks down the failures here: newrepublic.com/article/2078...