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Gideon Marcus tries out a new wargame from SPI, Korea: The Mobile War—1950-51. Its play is quite different from other games, but is it fun? galacticjourney.org/october-4-19...

Nice! Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, was launched 69 years ago today.

it smelled like chatgpt garbage, and lo and behold it's just scaremongering for ai services. get thee gone hallucinatory disinformation machine of fascism, may thermite get poured on your servers

After three years, today is my last day at Anthropic. They found me hiding in their bathroom's ceiling and kicked me out.

i'm actually a little shook by the way that mao and trump seem to be the same Type of Guy.

Why the British heat just feels... Wrong? [🎞️ Globetrots] Original post

We're getting pizza and I'm obsessed with this slightly broken mural that used to be about eating with your hands but now it reads like Saruman's manifesto

Everyone says they want Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism until they learn the Communism will be endless amounts of charts, the Space stuff will be done mostly by robots, the Full Automation will come from AI, and the Gay part will also involve AI making up for the top shortage.

It's the 80th anniversary of Louis Slotin's "Demon core" accident. Stephen has a very nice thread here. Here are just a few things that I've stumbled across that are not very well known...

Fafhrd, a northern barbarian, trying not to misgender the sorcerer Ningauble of the Seven Eyes in Fritz Leiber’s 1939 story The Jewels in the Forest.

"An Israeli Ceasefire" is eventually going to enter the common parlance next to "A Mexican Standoff", but in this case as shorthand for promising an end to hostilities and then just carrying on.

Just for fun, let me tell you about somebody you've probably never heard of, but who was once one of the most famous people in England, a national hero, a disgraced fraudster, and an astonishingly accomplished piratical maniac. He led quite a life. (1/53)

Someone filmed the Iranian suicide drone attack from INSIDE the Bahrain hotel. Extraordinary footage. (🎥 Cradle Media)

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

Hither came Bilbo, the Hobbit, black-haired, sullen-eyed, ring in hand, a burglar, a barrel-rider, a dragon-slayer, with gigantic appetites and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Middle-Earth under his hairy feet.

Currently working on one of my favorite pieces ever: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle. This company is so stupid and Larry Ellison has bet the farm on OpenAI having $300 billion to give it over five years. Larry Ellison is H.R. Geiger’s Jerry Stiller and he’s rigged his company to blow

Rabaaannnn!!! I place you in charge... of Venezuela!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRBP...

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

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happy 2026 🙃🍻

I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

“They had fangs, they were biting people, they had this look in their eyes, totally cold, animal. I think they were Young Republicans.”

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

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A longer video of the collision between PLA Navy destroyer Guilin and a Chinese coast guard ship as they pursued a Philippines coast guard patrol vessel about 10 miles east of Scarborough Shoal

I miss the days when people got their news from reliable newspapers.

From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

In today's EMPOWERED webcomic page from the 2015 one-shot PEW PEW PEW!, Emp springs into action against an obliviously ranting foe: www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/pew-pe...

I've been looking into how UF6 is stored, recently. Natural ratio and depleted UF6 is stored in steel cylinders called 48Y, where 48 is the diameter in inches and 'Y' is a designator for the different models; 48Y is the most common, but there are also 48A, 48X, 48HX, etc with different standards.

1718) Vennbots. Robots that use the power of overlapping circles to tell you when a thing satisfies multiple definitions.

BALDWIN: What is the authority that the administration is using to deploy active duty Marines to California neighborhoods? HEGSETH: The president has constitutional authority BALDWIN: Cite the provision of the Constitution HEGSETH: I'd have to pull up the specific provision

Fascinating interview with a private drone designer for the RU military. His knowledge of UKR & Western drones is limited and should be taken with some skepticism but he still presents a quite candid picture into the current state of unmanned warfare:🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfN...

See if you can figure out what this ad from 1984 is selling before the reveal…

The White House cites an NPR feature that states "banana slugs are hermaphrodites" as a reason to cease public funding of the network. But banana slugs literally are hermaphrodites! Like that is just a scientific fact! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_...

"SPACEPIXIE" 2021 #digitalart

Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it? 1/x

My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.