Huey

UPDATE: I'm not sure if an admission from Trump administration officials counts as "finding out", but...
bsky.app/profile/nycj...

The TV just said "LifeLock now includes protections against scams" and I was skeptical about AI but now I'm starting to wonder if it's developed an understanding of ironic humor...

Happy Friday Afternoon in Melbourne, to all those who celebrate it.

It seems like this is a relatively straightforward math problem, that will depend almost entirely on two things:
1) what is the effective armor class of "innards"?, and
2) what is the attack modifier for "currently being digested"?

(Brian Johnson screaming voice)

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO SUCK

WE
SALUTE
YOU

A while back I saw a posting for a lawnmower with a security clearance at CIA headquarters, and got really upset that my clearance had expired.

It's a decades-old IT joke, but honestly I'd love to be able to say "I mow lawns".

UPDATE: either the Manus pilot is over, I have been randomly moved out of it, or someone noticed that I spent an entire week of posts dragging it (success!) and trying to get it to say "motherfucker" (failure!) and purposefully removed me from it.

In any case, TLDR summary: it sucks, don't use it.

Jeremy Clarkson may be a reprehensible old bastard, but at least he'd have found a comical way to destroy these. Strap rocket engines on the back and launch them from a ramp off the cliffs of Dover, maybe?

are you fucking kidding me oh my god

You'd have to do a deep-dive into the inconsistencies between pictures to find the specific impossible things, but there's no point: it's all impossible because LLMs don't understand the Hollywood concept of continuity as a tool to aid in the suspension of disbelief.

2/2

I would expect a Staff Sergeant to have changed units at least twice, so it makes sense that division patches and unit crests change between pictures. Also, depending on active duty and guard and reserve transitions, that same soldier could have three different occupational specialties.

1/2

Twenty-odd years ago, a photojournalist did a world tour with a photograph of Michael Jordan as a calling card. And he was amazed to learn that everyone -- even people in the sticks who spoke no English and had no television -- knew who Jordan was, and wanted their picture taken with the picture.

You can't fool me, young man! It's turtles all the way down!

This is the first one I saw, and it set off my bullshit detector, so I went looking for more.

Verdict: she's wearing different medals in every fucking picture. The only constants seem to be that she's a Staff Sergeant, and her name is US Army.

How do you tell an LLM "tighten up your shot group"?

If this pattern holds up, any day now we can expect a story about how the FlexSeal guy, like, rapes Muppets or something

These are Tempest-hardened national security bidets.

Franz Ferdinand's US tour has been cancelled, citing visa issues.

I am part of the pilot. My review after a week:

If what you want is an automated system to replace your content with weird clickbait-listicle-style headlines, this is a thing that sometimes does that without lying. Whoever is responsible-
...well, I have never wished a man stabbed in the face...

It's weird because now I really wanna find the other nerds from the high school wargamers club circa 1985 that spent so much time on the "current USAF vs. 1 million Piper Cubs" argument and let them know that we're about to find out.

My little brother in Milwaukee starts his flats under grow-lights in mid-February. By the time the frost risk is over, they're ready to transplant.

It came out a few days ago, the genuinely hardcore gamer nerds have already reached endgame and are now busily grinding world quests and prey events for gear.

"...I mean, have you SEEN him? No way he lives out the year", he added, probably.

(angry goose meme) WHAT CASE, MOTHERFUCKER?

Critics say that Trump's war with Iran could have a lot of blowback. But there is no historical precedent for the United States overthrowing an Iranian government and then facing 50 years of hostility from Iranians.

I swear, it's like they trained it on smarmy clickbait ad copy!

UPDATE: some of the plant monsters are also made out of pork, suggesting the possibility that the some of the food in the 'vegetarian' class may be what we referred to in college as "the McDonalds Sausage McMuffin Exception".

...I have some terrible news about Senator Football Coach.

As an actual 58-year-old American I can assure you that no one here has any idea what the "Groton and Dayton buy election" is, but we have vague suspicions that this is some kind of joke the UK has devised to make fun of us, like "The Monster Raving Loony Party".

(the exception that proves the rule)

Took me a while to realize that my little brother's weird "CHICKS DIG ME!" confidence was almost entirely due to the fact that he's been happily married to the same woman for thirty years.