Multiple years to recover the previous export capacity...? Erk. 70s here we come. www.france24.com/en/france-co...

Is this not just theft? Just another good reason to develop your own defence industry and never buy weaponry from the US...

Did Iran do this? The timing seems very coincidental.

ST: Academy's been cancelled, and the most tedious people on the internet are being very tedious about it, and calling everyone who didn't like Kurtzman Trek trolls or reactionaries. It got cancelled because it was bad, expensive to make, ...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

We really need to discover the Universal Vitamin.

IT expert here. This isn't funny... Wannabe SaaS slop suppliers only do this when they're in extreme distress.

Just found out that Nintendo gives out platinum points and gets kids all excited about them... then won't let child accounts order physical rewards from the Nintendo Store. And won't let linked adult accounts order for the child using the child's points. And won't let accounts transfer points.

People do know that Tourette's is involuntary, and that we don't imprison people in asylums unless they're a danger to themselves or others, right?

Note: all this is also why you never push the fat guy in front of the train. The systematic impact of naive utilitarianism is horrific, no matter how justified you think you might be in casually discarding any kind of rule-based framework.

I suddenly want to go to Taiwan

This take is kind of insane. I don't like Iran at all, but basically any nation state that could retaliate would if another country assassinated its head of state. Killing a head of state is on the list of ultimate provocations.

Mini-me has figured out that if you have bone conduction headphones and a box, you can make a speaker

I just want to be clear that we don't want all the Americans who identify as English to return to the ancient motherland under any circumstances. You guys are just too crazy.

I'm really not sure if I'm just being overly cautious or not regarding AI. A lot of management / non-programmers seem to think we're almost at the point where one shot zero review vibe coding will produce reliable operational software.

Why is Taika Waititi the CEO of Palantir?

At least we know why Trump loves Mamdani now? The man has six passions in life I can think of: racist nationalism, tariffs, enriching himself, sex (Epstein *cough*), Broadway, and real estate.

When I was growing up, my aunt died from diabetes complications. She was obese and basically incapable of following any kind of diet or instructions from her doctor.

Salishan linguist Sarah Thomason has updated her site with online publications after twelve years (life as a tenured research academic is WEIRD) https://websites.umich.edu/~thomason/papers/papers.html #linguistics #philology #firstnations

Decided to risk updating to Tahoe 26.2. So far, it's not as bad as the the angry people on Reddit said (nothing catastrophic has happened), but the rounded corners are kind of annoying and liquid glass is a bit ugly. Kind of meh.

Merry Christmas!

Microsoft apparently want to use AI to migrate all their C code to Rust, but they're not going to fix all the new, sluggish Javascript cruft eating GB of RAM. 💀

The problem is that keeping the incumbent in place doesn't really help much if they're useless. If you have someone in charge who isn't capable of managing anything or leading anyone at a time of crisis, not getting rid of them is *worse*.

Chomsky's politics, linguistics and friendships all follow the same pattern: he decides the conclusion first and then works back from there. It doesn't really surprise me that a lifetime of deploying his considerable intellectual behind consistently poor judgement extended to Epstein.

I'm not a huge Times New Roman fan, but on the other hand, Calibri is san-serif. Enough said.

I'm not notably good at investing in stocks and shares, but since Trump is busy hiding all the economic stats and the US economic news is probably getting worse in 2026, I feel like now is the time to move the money in my Vanguard stocks and shares ISA into bond- and cash-like things again.

Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/

political science

Pretty pleased by this slightly ye olde black and white vowel chart created using TikZ, although I have to admit I did get AI to help and then tweaked it, since AI also can't get TikZ right first time, ... #conlang

i will never apologize for a post

I've been hitting the secondhand bookshops again.

Just look at that picture. I'm pretty sure that one of the most popular cars Ford, an American manufacturer, has ever sold in the UK was the Ka. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NᴏAᴅHᴏᴄCᴏɴsᴛʀᴀɪɴᴛs: assign a violation for each ad hoc constraint introduced in this paper

Feeds don't seem to work

I don't know what to do with my stocks and shares ISA to be honest. I don't know whether it's better to have US exposure or to not have such exposure, where might do better, why nothing is shifting much so far and if that will change...

The number of closed syllable roots reconstructed for proto-Tibeto-Burman is kind of crazy. The vast majority are closed...

We're up-to-date on Skeleton Crew now, and Mini-me's still enjoying it. It feels like they have a lot to do in the final episode, though.

This is a reasonably good read. We've been thinking about replacing an almost new second hand car we bought a decade ago for about £12k, and I was a bit shocked when I saw how much prices had gone up.

It's heartwarming that they found each other again after a wizard made her forget who he was.

How on earth did Netflix take Ranma, which ran for 160 episodes, and only remake the first 12 of them? Surely a season should have been at least double that.

Every damned weekday evening.

I just heard my 10 year old son say "don't call me Shirley" while talking with a friend. 😂

I didn't see this until recently and... it's just true? As a mathematician by training long long ago, dark everything just smells like a fudge factor to make an inadequate or incomplete model work.

New mac user experience: I think macOS might not be an always up kind of operating system. After a month of using it, a reboot noticeably made it a little bit nippier. New house rule is reboot once a month.

I'm told control of the passage for shipping is also valuable if more of the ice melts for more of the year.

Help, the dressing the nurse put on the finger I cut open with a knife from the toolbox yesterday is making it very awkward to indulge in my need to thoroughly clean my hands before touching books, laptops or expensive items.

Kind of wild how in Goonies, a kids' movie front the 80s: - they make the fat kid do a belly wobble dance - the older boy uses the mirror of his car to look down a girl's shirt - one of the boys claims he has naked pictures of another kid's mum - there are racist stereotypes everywhere...

Not a woman, but one thing I resent the most about the healthcare system is how often the only way to get gatekeepers who spend 1-5 minutes on your problem to take it seriously is to try to manipulate them. The setup rewards those who can lie and punishes the honest with chronic untreated illness.