Zeno's paradox but for Iranian missile launchers: every time you destroy half, half are still left

bluesky is the only website where you get yelled at if you post something incorrect

The liberal Joe Rogan is Brennan Lee Mulligan

NEWS: A second U.S. Air Force combat aircraft has gone down in the Persian Gulf region, per NYT. Officials say an A-10 Warthog crashed near the Strait of Hormuz, with the pilot safely rescued. This comes as an F-15E was shot down over Iran—one crew member recovered, search ongoing for another.

Highlights include a polis being telt he should be chopping potatoes for a living @debasers.bsky.social of course has done it again 🎉 youtu.be/JOY5T03hHbk

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I was precisely one decade ahead :)

Did you know UK fuel duty has been cut 36% since 2010?

First fighter jet downed over Iran earlier today, with one ejection seat having been found on the ground, suggesting at least one survivor, whose status remains unclear. Tons of videos since of U.S. forces engaged in search and rescue operations. No idea if the pilot/gunner is captured/free/alive.

Good god. This person has presumably a conviction for speeding and has attached an apology to other drivers for not being able to speed any more.

I'm just thinking, as a gesture of friendship and to recognise the close cultural ties between our two countries, whether it is worth offering for some Italian players to play for Scotland at the World Cup? If Italy aren't there I think it would represent a touch of class on our part.

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I think it's interesting to watch this in contrast to the relatively sensible interventions from other European leaders and wonder if it's not in part that our politicians and media are still on Twitter.

The other day I sought to prove that Grok has been hard-coded with TERF logic, and this was my first chat with it. As you can see, it is literally incapable of acknowledging that passing trans people exist. That's a common, and absurd, GC/TERF talking point. Grok is literally a propaganda machine

Public Service Announcement: it’s not an “energy transition” until we start phasing out fossil fuels.

Ouch. Jet fuel. www.ft.com/content/7181...

Half makes sense, still underspecified, biased, prejudicial

The Claude leak shows you what you get going all-in on vibe coding, produced by the people best positioned in the world to know how to "use it correctly". No "they're using it wrong" here. Once your code is like this, Claude becomes the _only_ way to continue maintaining and building on top of it.

I don't have any money, but it's hard to imagine losing on brent crude futures at 105 or on BYD shares at any price

It's still weird to me that I used to live in a world where I could type something into a search bar and find what I was looking for pretty immediately and that just isn't really a thing anymore.

It's interesting that Claude code is a heap of shit and it's also interesting that it works anyway

Such an LLM coding thing to do, very funny. The "I don't even write code any more" people are off the deep end.

UK politics now in a bidding war of universal fuel subsidies (sorry, "support") to, per ed davey "keep britain moving". The reality - that consumption must fall - is going to be a nasty surprise

There is nothing as permanent as a temporary fuel duty cut

Today Glasgow's Green councillors will bring a motion to get a solution for Trongate 103 and the arts organisations affected by the rent hike crisis there. I hope all political parties join us and work together for a solution that saves something really special for Glasgow.

Got pretty decent open source coding LLM running on my gaming PC, feels like a nice fuck off to the tech companies

This is a throwback, but back in the day I was very skeptical about US intervention in Syria, not because I have any love for Assad but because I don't trust American or Russian intentions for the countries where they fight their wars. It took a while to work its way through, but I feel vindicated.

This is just the last 50 years of software engineering summed up isn't it?

Well, I think that says it more succinctly and eloquently than I ever could

why the hell would we put windows 11 in space

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

That was just all the same nonsense he's been saying every day for ages

If you can see Everybody to Kenmure Street, do it! The day we kicked a deportation van out of our community. I've never seen a protest documented in quite that way, it's a wonderful film. And very timely. It deserved the awards.

He got elected promising a return to pre-Covid prices and didn't deliver!

The NHS already looked into ADHD and the results were published in November last year (www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...). Wes Streeting didn’t like the results, which is why he commissioned his own review, prejudiced from the beginning by him linking diagnoses to the claiming of benefits.

Kessler 👏👏👏Kessler👏👏👏

This film was everything I hoped it would be www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFF9...

Look if you are Iran you know 1) in peacetime conditions the enemy can probably replenish faster than you 2) the enemy just wants to wait for a more opportune time to have the same war again 3) negotiations have always been fake so far Does any of that sound like peace is on the way?

The other side got a look in on the news! "I'm constantly being forced onto the road or crossing in between parked cars where they shouldn't be and where you've not got visibility of the traffic." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

you: please act normal Ed you need these people to like you people: hello Ed nice to meet you me: since Cornwall is a peninsula, driving from Longwy to Thionville on France’s E411 along the southern border of Luxembourg is the only way to travel by land and pass the duchy on the left hand side.

Some Americans seem a bit confused about this but no you can't unilaterally declare peace

Whoa. "[F]inetuning exclusively on Haruki Murakami's novels unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from over 30 unrelated authors...Our findings offer compelling evidence that model weights store copies of copyrighted works." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Websites should load quickly and, once they've loaded, work 100% of the time

You may not be interested in great power politics but they’re interested in you. You do not get to throw a tantrum and walk away from the chess board, the other players will beat you over the head with the chess board while your back is turned.

There’s some cool recent research on this phenomenon! It turns out vision language models excel at image benchmarks *even when the actual images aren’t provided,* because the answers are implicit in the questions! arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687

"there is no evidence of a reduction in job postings for industries or firms which have higher levels of AI adoption. The overall slowdown in national job postings...does not appear to be driven (even modestly) by AI." AI Adoption & Firms' Job-Posting Behavior by Liu and @dougwebberecon.bsky.social

The US was a racial dictatorship until 1965 and a not small measure of US politics since then has been an attempt, or resistance against the attempt, to return us to being one

This is one of the most insane things ive ever seen (laudible)