I believe in Resist Lib Tom Clancy

I know these guys are all dumber than a sack of hammers, but it is fascinating to see the military decide “logistics are gay” in real time

The humanity!** **the stuff you get here is brewed in Italy

Man, where else in that godforsaken city am I going to drink Labatt 50 and play free pool on a broken table?

"The Electrician" - the Walker Brothers

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

This guy was built up for years as some reclusive magus of the Dark Enlightenment, and it turned out he’s a sort of nihilistic Alan Partridge. I’m almost disappointed.

*forgets to bring phone into the bathroom* i’m off the grid

"Dominatrix who authoritatively states incorrect things about WW2" is a million dollar business model.

Picture probably taken at a meeting of the International Society of People Who Have Had Incredibly Weird Career Paths.

i really wish our law enforcement and media werent telegraphing to mass shooters that messages written on bullets will be breathlessly and uncritically publicized with no further examination

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

I have the same reaction to those who complain that USAID "affirms US hegemony." That's nice, it saves children's lives.

Somebody said JD Vance looks like he wants to segregate a My Chemical Romance concert.

Bourdieu undefeated

big glass of water i brought to Arrakis immediately spilling everywhere when the ornithopter turns on

who could have imagined that liberals would get beyond visual range air combat in the national divorce

My analysis in @justsecurity.org on Trump's asserted license to kill. 2/n www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...

"But Afghanistan is in Asia" The Middle East is whatever CENTCOM's AOR is, I don't make the rules

I do still think "little theory boy who gets literally crushed by the money needed to run the rebellion" is a nasty bit of backhanded commentary, though, especially seeing as he ends up a lot more useful in death to the rebellion than alive.

Great film. I only wish Studio Ghibli would modernise a bit and license more sequels and prequels to expand on the IP, turn it into a franchise.

Anyway, where are we at on the big defence announcements Carney’s been making recently? Any ideas on how Canada might leverage its strengths to improve its diplomatic presence in Latin America? Mentioning any random Dem operative is a party foul.

Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, “but doctor…

CBC's Briar Stewart often makes dispatches from Kyiv that focus on Ukr casualties and discuss how the state is struggling to provide veteran services. Often the reporting focuses on the pain of the grinding and long war. These dispatches subtly help Ru and undermine Ukraine's defense. To a wide...

Friendly dogs Fresh guitar strings (especially 9s) Frosty clean pour of draught Daylight drive on an empty country road Good night out in a new city

weird how no ones reporting one of the shooters ubereats driver logged over 300 hours in bloodborne

It's very tiring to realize we live in Baudrillard's hell. Reality is whatever is shouted the loudest.

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

None of those people have any ideology beyond killing, anything they say is just a hall of mirrors. It's very reminiscent of how Randall Flagg is described at his intro in The Stand.

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

liberalism exists because last time we tried to settle the question of "who are the real Christians" without liberalism the 30 Years War killed a third of everyone living in what is now Germany

Liberalism is good and desirable and we will miss it when it's gone - if we survive its demise.

Thinking, on such days, as I often do, of Don DeLillo. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-plotle...

I don't agree with everything or even the general tone, but I think this part captures very well a trait of the Canadian political and institutional culture.

I was picturing a pin-up lady, not Humbert Humbert Takes Drawing

Peacekeeping Thermonuclear War —————————————————> ? <—- drugs —-> ?

Reposting to read later.

It infuriates me the extent to which being a trans person who says “I think people who hate us for our gender and other identity characteristics mean it and aren’t secretly woke socialists who just need the right bribe” gets me demeaned, and my professional credentials mocked

Good news, everybody!

I was all excited to show the civil war ghost who haunts my house cool shit on youtube like metallica and dragon force, but all he wants to hear is turkey in the straw. this fucking guy loves turkey in the straw

"One Day More" starts playing and Trump clanks out into the East Room in a Dreadnought, knocking over lamps and shaking gold tchotchkes off the walls

Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.

This came to me in a vision

News from Canada: The Toronto Blue Jays have broken their single-game dollar hot-dog sales record.

Toronto stay winning

Realistically speaking you can't "just ban AI" but you can put more friction between the user and the interface which would probably be very effective because the generations (boomers and zoomers) most likely to annihilate their brain with AI have no idea how computers work

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I will not yield to popular opinion, nor be baited by the rabble's curse, though etymology be against me, still I refuse to concede: it is not a priori obvious that Bob the Builder can fix it, his name alone does not settle the matter, and the thoughtless mob's enthusiastic assent will not sway me.

I think the fundamental problem with a lot of pro-AI pitches these days is that they are selling a fantasy where nobody has to understand the process in which an output is generated. This strikes me as problematic because how the hell can we know we’ve reached a fail state before we crash?

I've just had a thought. All the actors who have played androids — sorry, artificial persons — in the Alien series have been terrific and I think that they all owe something to Harold Pinter. Ian Holm, who worked a lot with Pinter, understood the power of a well-timed, awkward pause.