You’ve gotta admire the stupidity of creating a long-burning hostility in the intelligence services of a neighboring country that will hunt your leaders for sport for a generation.

Die hard is a Christmas movie because it is an integral part of a major and widespread Christmas tradition: arguing whether it is a Christmas movie or not

Die Hard is a Christmas Movie in the same manner that Xenophon is a Philosopher.

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the book Not a word was in order, they needed a look; The pages were read by the reader with care, In hopes that St. INDEX soon would be there

will someday in the not too distant future seem just as ridiculous as Erasmus's fearful reaction to the printing press. books.google.com/books?id=wek...

rotating this in my head and trying to figure out if i can write out the "intelligence is compression" thesis at a digestible pop science level

yeah basically you can't really use the site for anything remotely to do with ai unless you're an extremophile. there's a reason why most of the people who talk about ai the most are Combat Posters, anyone who does not thrive on conflict simply stops bothering to post at some point

there are a lot of problems with AI, but one of them is that the vocabulary for what does and does not work is impoverished.

Every so often, AI boosters will say their products are or soon will be capable of “Ph.D-level work” and then it becomes clear that they at a very basic level do not know what Ph.D level work is

His performance truly helped make Generation Kill what it was. I don't think that miniseries works without him.

I sometimes wonder if everyone on social media hates Matt Yglesias because they don't know he is just a poster and has never done anything aside from posting or because they do know he is a poster and has never done anything aside from posting. Ignorance and jealousy are indistinguishable.

The Fremen reclaim all moisture from the mattress.

Mattress liquidators? How much juice are ya’ll getting out of those mattresses?

Bad military theory arguments usually require a more specific historical counterexample than just "WW2."

It was this blockbuster called "Nice Try Cop."

I Robot very much implies that the Three Laws of Robotics were humanities response to some previous atrocities from the era of robotic lawlessness.

This is every submariner's worst nightmare. USS Bonefish, April 1988. You learn about this in training & you have to prove that you can navigate the entire boat with your breathing mask on, finding air ports to plug it into as you go. If you breath without it plugged in, it sucks to your face. 1/

“Please” “Thank you” “Cheers” “Delicious” Numbers 1-10

Blueskystorians or whatever we call you, I need help. I'm trying to come up with a list of US Military History books for my students to pick one from, but I don't really follow mid to late 20th century military scholarship 😬😬 This is my list please add/rip to shreds? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It’s interesting going to ethnic markets that cater to specific regions because they kind of capture a sense of feeding homesickness that you don’t understand if you haven’t lived abroad.

This headline is wrong and misleading, and the brief text below it is not much better. Whatever might constitute a full explanation of the differences between sapiens and other hominins, we remain confident that 'genes' will be central to it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The bar is indeed in Hell - in many ways. Also - if you have gone to war, you know exactly the type of letter you write 5 months into a deployment. The most embarrassing, sopping wet love letters of your life.

Going to laugh when Hunt Housing et al. get the money because its auto-deducted or they sue for it.

ok so maybe I was wrong when I said Putin would never invade. and maybe I was wrong when I said Putin will win in a week and we should not help. But now we’re here, and I'm going to tell you what putin is thinking, and I’m going to do it in the most patronizing way possible

If you are A Troop who is about to receive $1776 maybe please for the love of your NCO just spend it on strippers and alcohol and not drugs. You have a 100% urinalysis test on January 5th.

broke: co-locate datacenters with nuclear power plants bespoke: place datacenters next to an unshielded fusion reactor

Adding to this great list is radiation - you have to radiation harden everything or else you get errors and permanent damage. That's not just putting lead over everything (heavy) because lead will more or less spall with the high energy radiation -- you need different chips and architectures.

First off - NO IT DOESN'T. Your vibes don't make Arlington into Mosul.

wrote this week about a topic there's surprisingly little coverage of in the United States even in think tanks focused on the Chinese military: the everyday lives of Chinese soldiers. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/16/c...

Reintegrating the Russian economy is not a global priority; it’s a priority for Putin, his Oligarchs, and sympathizers. At $2.5T the Russian economy is about the same as the GDP of Texas. The Russian economy could disappear tomorrow and no working American would notice and they would all be safer.

Please avoid this man at all costs. When he isn't harassing women in the military for...well...existing...he's surreptitiously placing his own publications on the MCU campus.

My undiagnosed dyslexia (I assume) almost had me posting about "wonton violence" and that's a different thing entirely.

Fundamentally, no atrocity justifies another atrocity. That path leads directly to the sort of wanton violence and disregard for human life we are witnessing.

this account is doing a deep investigation into whether the murder of civilians on the beach was because one of the guys killed might have had bad politics. fucking sociopathic shit. bsky.app/profile/nort...

Oh. WOW. Wowsers.

if working for ICE is getting you serious pushback in a Kansas City church that I'm guessing is unlikely to be a particularly liberal one, you're losing.

people crying over chomsky on this website are repulsive frankly. he was quite plainly a piece of shit long before anything related to epstein came out

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

Get in, Jamelle. We're drowning Soviet motor rifle battalions in enhanced radiation yield.

I will not be insulted on this platform. the strong merge as they will, the weak swerve as they must

Quite a kicking game from the Giants...

Regardless of the content and your thoughts on crowdfunding aid on this platform, the reply to a deleted, blocked, or unavailable post with your handle is a pretty obnoxious way to create engagement. This happened all the time on Twitter with scams.

Any dentists in Kenosha, WI wanna help out a young autistic girl,?? This child needs 5 root canals due to her autism medicine. Imma trade you a pair of tickets to our show in Chicago with GNR and a meeting next July www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...

Ahmed Al Ahmed is the man who tackled the gunman in Australia. He is a Muslim. He saved lives. My Jewish soul is deeply grateful. And this is what happens when we run towards each other. When we build relationships and coalitions and solidarity. We show up for each other. He showed up. Thank you.

This is actually false. The Taliban movement was organized by the ISI in 1994 to simplify trucking bribes/taxes and to keep India out of their rear area.

Jesus nun-fisting Christ. Straight up “Imperialism is good when communists do it.”