Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone.
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Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone.
*Has AI ever done me any AI-specific harm, personally (as yet)
*Well, they scraped a bunch of my novels to train the models
*I think this might be classified as "harm I myself personally did to AI," due to blameful science fiction dystopias, etc
Wait, what? No it didn’t. It positioned itself as a libertarian open platform for crypto-bros, and the only reason it’s a progressive space is that the userbase bullied the tech bros off of here and forced the admin into actually doing some good.
The likely fallacy to start is - does letting this Blue Labour group into the coalition really "widen" it?
Who leaves when they and their ideas come in?
Ask the Gorton and Denton voters who chose not to vote Labour this time. There's an answer there that tacking to right narrows not widens Labour
If you're looking to snipe a cheap used EV before an energy shock brings prices roaring back, I couldn't be more thrilled every time I get into my BMW i3.
The tiny size and short range that got it panned by reviews make it ideal for an around-town EV, and it feels special in ways cars don't anymore
filmmaking protip:
if you want your movie to be good, get Tim Blake Nelson to play some sort of old-timey guy 📽️
🚨🚨Big news again on #EU integration: The #Icelandic government has announced that a referendum on continued EU accession negotiations will take place in the country on 29 August, as Reykjavik seek closer ties with Europe. 🧵
www.euractiv.com/news/iceland...
Wow. Too small to be a dangerous rock, but a reminder that we can and will do better detecting asteroids before they hit us.
Financial market participants dragging themselves to the office:
France’s former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has called for sanctions against Israel and the US over their attacks on Iran:
“We say clearly to the United States that their war against Iran is illegal, illegitimate, and dangerous.”
Iran can keep spitting out low cost drones & decimating the global economy in a way America simply can’t keep up with. You don’t need a big fancy runway to launch drones. You need a truck and a field. Iran has plenty of them.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
EU can no longer rely on 'rules-based' system against threats, von der Leyen says reut.rs/4sqZETM
Same for the power sources. Big central *anything vital* is just too easy to hit
bsky.app/profile/aarn...
“A coal power station [is] a large single target that a single missile could take out,” says Jeff Oatham of DTEK, Ukraine’s largest energy company (...) “You would need around 40 missiles to do the equivalent amount of capacity damage at a wind farm.”
#EnergySecurity
e360.yale.edu/features/ukr...
"Future already here," four camouflaged guys in a Ukrainian foxhole with two dozen killer drones and a Starlink
*Just take whatever they're doing and scale it up
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
Hot exhaust pipes that run 24/7 in a fixed location seem like they would be easy to target, unavoidable that they stick out like anything on infrared?
How do you deal with the huge amount of waste heat that a data centre produces when it's in a bunker?
At ground level, do you just see an air intake and a honking great exhaust pipe? (these are also targets (wasn't that the the plot of Star Wars 1st movie?) )
von der Leyen: “We will always defend and uphold the rules-based system that we helped to build with our allies, but we can no longer rely on it as the only way to defend our interests.”
dax tells julian in ds9 that Men are far too emotional to be leaders. she’s not really joking
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Welcome to the Garyneum, the 13 day period between the birthdays of Gary Numan and Gary Oldman.
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
Trump’s Iran Con Put Us in the Covid Before Times Again
Trump started an unwinnable war. We know what comes next. We just haven’t felt it yet—the same way we hadn’t truly felt COVID in early March 2020.
It’s really the little details that are making this season. Like the Trump administration being blindsided by the fact that starting a war in Iran would drive up oil prices. Apparently Claude forgot to tell them that part in amidst picking which schools to bomb. Classic Leo.
It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.
Any Democrat talking about “blockchain-based assets” needs to be disqualified immediately because they're ready to bend us all over for the crypto lobby.
I could start any time, but it's daunting because 1) there's so much of it and 2) my partner has already seen it, and despite that being long ago, is refusing a rewatch.
Yes I should progress to Succession, Industry and other more recent shows. But first Sopranos.
Happy "it's your day" day to all International Women, and also to their partners (a category that I am happily in) and friends, admirers and supporters.
#InternationalWomensDay