Yet another PSA that these chats are *discoverable*.

Update: I tried playing around with it and it almost immediately asked me to confess to the charges 👍

Right, exactly. It is extremely unfortunate in terms of the battle against antisemitic narratives that a Jewish man with connections in every corner of high society was the ringleader of a cabal of international child molesters, but the truth matters more than defeating pernicious narratives.

There is an old Jewish expression I was once told “don’t act humble, you’re not that great” that I feel applies LRT

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

realizing grimly that while it remains a prime signal of Dirtbag, the cybertruck has a shorter hood and better visibility than any other truck in this parking lot

I think what it probably comes down to is, if you're going to tease the existence of a terrifying monster in a piece of fiction, there's only so often you can conclude the story with "it was all a tragic misunderstanding, the world is a mundane place where magic doesn't exist".

Guy who has built life around the written word cannot conceive a difference between direct experience and description of an experience. A description of the desert to his followers cannot reproduce within them the enlightenment the prophet found in the desert.

the root problem is the tick rewires their brains to wear shorts

It's me, your local "what" dealer

I have a Singaporean uncle by marriage, born not long after the occupation. Hates the PAP, hates war, pretty live-and-let live old guy. The only time he's ever been angry at me - red-faced, cussing in Hokkien - was when I made some offhand comment about the tragedies of Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

As an aside, one thing even Paradox games really struggle with is making *holding* an empire hard. Crusader Kings comes the closest to actually including some degree of entropy and even then I don't find it very forceful - it doesn't feel like an empire is trying to fragment beneath me.

"You're Israelis in Palestine, staking a claim that isn't yours" Sir, this Magic: The Gathering event is fully open to the public

"Hit job." Listen, I think people have to admit the "vote blue, no matter who" thesis has simply been confronted, remarkably fast, with a fatal reductio ad absurdum. The guy who deliberately got a Nazi tattoo and then chose to leave the military rather than cover it up is not the hill to die on.

“But soft” doesn’t mean the light is soft and gauzy or something. It means “shut up you idiot, a light came on while you’re trespassing on the grounds of your family’s enemies.”

Just saw a reel that reminded me of a snobby pet peeve: 90% of Romeo & Juliet productions do “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?” wrong. The vibe is “I’m breaking and entering, gotta be quiet, oh shit, what’s that light?” And THEN he sees it’s Juliet.

Hegseth aligning himself rather directly with the soldiers *defending* the beaches at Normandy, who were, and you might find this surprising, not the Americans or Canadians or British, but rather, and this is interesting, the

Sorry but this is fucked up! You can’t support BDS and then turn around and say this. I mean you can obviously, but I’m gonna narrow my eyes at you in some kinda way about it.

Left the shower tracking water halfway across the house because the cats were howling like they were going to die and thought they were injured, to see them sitting next to their bowls FULL OF FOOD looking at me plaintively.

If there's no other choice, voting for a guy with a Nazi tattoo to replace a politician actively aiding an attempted fascist consolidation is IMHO the right call, but it's understandable that many won't be able to bring themselves to do it, and that's the Bernie camp's fault for backing Platner.

From TinyBaer on IG.

now look, Hunter Biden also hurt his family pretty deeply and cheated on his partners, but if there's one thing we can be absolutely certain of at this stage, roughly 1000 nude videos later, is that he does not have any Nazi tattoos.

I think because everyone on here already assumed Platner lied about the Nazi tattoo, there's a bit of an underreaction to today's news that a witness has confirmed he lied about it.

I don't think it makes her non-credible, but I do think it explains why she waited to drop the oppo until after he'd clinched the Dem nomination.

I'm only like 70% kidding when I say we needed a federally funded Man Scouts program for male journalists to go get badges for learning to fish, pitch a tent, shoot a rifle, etc so they stop begging gruff white dudes for a pat on the head

It seems to me that the fundamental problems with data centers is that unlike other industrial projects on a similar scale, they don't really employ anyone, so it's not as clear why communities should tolerate the data center inflicting a nuisance or competing for energy and/or water.

Slop buries all the remaining engineers who care. More, longer pull requests, most devs are dying of code fatigue. Those who still do manual review don't get rewarded in performance reviews. Many developers are burning out and leaving [Just namedropped me about AI & TLA+] #CraftConf

OpenAI's Agent Builder is effectively abandonware. AWS AI caused a 13-hour interruption. People ship way more hacks than rethink systems properly. Nobody seems to be using AI well enough to get a serious competitive advantage "Everything is broken" — @github.com

Megatrend: token cost is through the roof. Companies are cutting back. Most companies are giving each enigneer a budget a month. Uber is $1500/month. Huge drop in software quality everywhere. For a month, Anthropic would regularly erase what Gergely was typing into the prompt. Anthropic didn't know

The exploit: 1. Change your IP address to the target's geolocation and tell the support you've been hacked, asking them to send a reset to attacker email 2. No step 2. Meta's CISO immediately resigned. Gergely had inside contacts: the code was written by AI, reviewed by AI, while tokenmaxxing

While this is not a surprise to those of us who were paying attention, I really wish this Fifield person had piped up during the Dem nomination phase.

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

happened again, I downloaded enough stuff from a niche dataset that I got a 'so what's your whole deal' email from the people who run it

What distinguishes legit use cases from the forms of AI use that we must kill with fire is the use case's tolerance for error. This use case of Claude is fine if there's no concern about whether the record assembled is complete, and if Claude isn't doing the subsequent statistical measuring.

for dismounted infantry, an armored vehicle is the real world equivalent of a higher-order fantasy monster that will wipe out your whole party www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCfz...

missilebait pilot keeps getting shot down like a slut

I feel like naval officers generally want to know how many warships their enemies are building, which can sometimes trick them into learning about extremely basic strategic considerations like "can my opponent produce ships faster than I can, and does this mean they have a better industrial base?"

This article has the best opening paragraph I've read this year. I am locked in.

Officially the longest article I have written, relying on 300+ pages of contemporaneous operational material, including war diaries, action and after-action reports, deck logs, and intelligence summaries, recreates an account of Task Force 50.3's attacks on Rabaul on November 11, 1943. My latest⬇️

I've come to terms with dying on this hill, and so far I have no regrets. If AI revolutionizes my profession, I'm fine being the last soldier to emerge from the jungle.

he incorrectly predicted that there would be massive famines in the 1980s and advocated directly for maximizing the deaths of the people affected

Sure, it is an honour to be nominated, but winning is so much better!!! I'd like to thank my manager, my agent, thr academy, our editor, our interview subjects, our translators and fixers, our research assistants, those who commented on drafts,...oh, and my co-authors @plagasse.bsky.social and Dave!

I’m also struck by his assumption that “we are all aware of this issue of false quotes and attributions with AI” when the average reader is NOT aware of this problem. When trusted writers use false quotes, it undermines everybody’s work! Now I have to double check every quote I read?

A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate

Tim's failure was not 'failing to check the outputs', it was using a machine that fakes plausible outputs instead of referring to reality It is mid 2026. You cannot plead ignorance about what that software does, anymore It is as bad as sitting down and writing a fake quote with your own hand

This one hurts. I've really enjoyed Tim's work in the past But let's just be totally bloody clear here: every single person using a text fabrication engine to replace their work, research and writing skills: THIS MOMENT IS COMING FOR YOU TOO It is truly just a matter of time. It's inevitable ⏱️