Carthaged

Jabba’a son is kinda scary, if I saw a real life Jabba’s son, I’d turn and walk away

I like the combination sigourney weaver/selina Meyers here

I should have written “is that not what Anthropic would like us to believe it is?” but I couldn’t get the combination of words out in time

That’s true too, we kinda called it a day on privacy after everyone in the country got confused about what doing a a HIPAA was

perception: THE COMPANIES CAN BUY EVERY SINGLE BIT ABOUT YOU FROM DATA BROKERS

Reality: this might be that person's email address idk

Ok yeah, you are right about this. And I say that as someone paranoid about the data brokers, some of the paid products are almost comically useless. Often the single “best” result will be a years old election registration, with the email address they last used to sign up for MySpace

Look, there’s a non zero chance the US military somehow manages to use all of its munitions over the next three years. From there it’s quite simple; Canadian ground invasion to unify cascadia, if all goes well, march to Baja. Mega Canada will be a sufficient counterweight to Neo CSA, and keeps peace

Is that not Anthropic?

In this house, we are always pro anything that’s helps with anxiety. And I’m almost ready to acknowledge that for certain things, talking to the AI about certain things is helping with aspects of my anxiety.

It’s just kinda a bummer to feel like another thread of anonymity lost. But mostly I thought it was funny, for being so close to what people imagined was already happening. I want blame True Crime for people believing it, because the trope of reconstructing people’s online history after a thing

LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

You saw this? Struck me as hilarious close to what I was worried about all throughout the tens

arstechnica.com/security/202...

Basically all of the bad economic news this term is because the president deliberately decided to do something moronic. He is much more personally responsible for this than most presidents are for the downturns in their administration.

Hey Ed Zitron was finally right (ish?) two (ish? Maybe more) years late!

I would also like Denzel to play me in a movie, not because we look alike in anyway, but the man is just so gosh darn talented

Always has been

Evil is real, always has been, always will be. I think it’s partially a question of whether you act like other people exist, if you do not, the end result is often evil. That is true in war, it’s true in dv. One is evil when they truly do not care about the external consequences of their actions.

Unless there is age gap discourse, when 18 is not an adult if they are dating anyone more than what, four years?, older than them

If you truly believed Graham Platner is not antisemitic at all, you would be sending him to synagogues in Maine to speak to Jews and reassure them of that. That is what Mamdani did during the NYC mayoral election. The fact they are not doing that is... telling.

I guess I was asking for those in the field if they’d noticed that the lack of prosecution was having an impact on bad actor’s actions (which I assume it must)

Are you seeing more scams?

I was being earnest, I hadn’t heard of your book before and now would like to read it

Well, I’m excited to read it now all the same, sounds fascinating

Rfk jr is a rival for the crown I think, graduating the college that your family owns isn’t really graduating college

For posterity, very few people have stumbled into public life with as obvious failson energy as Graham Platner

Yes

You know, I remembered that fact a half second after I pressed reply and wondered how that might shape your perception of our Gallic friends

It’s cool because AIPAC has been a slur in my mind since 2003 at the latest, and that’s probably because I first became really aware of it in the run up to our last big dumb middle eastern adventure

The rapid turn within the Democratic Party against Israel — especially from several of its prospective presidential candidates — is awfully reminiscent of right-wing Republicans’ growing agitation against Ukraine several years ago during the middle of its ongoing war defending itself from Russian aggression. Both situations involved an activist faction of the party speaking out against a longtime ally, fueled by conspiracy theories and memes floating online. It was propelled by a growing isolationist vibe within both parties that the country should focus on domestic concerns instead of dealing with national security challenges abroad. And it led many politically ambitious elected officials who knew better to spout some of the most poisonous slander against close partners who are (literally) under fire from enemies. In our polarized political landscape, support for Israel and Ukraine are now becoming partisan issues — Republican elected officials and voters are overwhelmingly supportive of Israel, while Democrats are standing by Ukraine. As The Atlantic’s David Frum put it: “The two most militarily capable US allies are Ukraine and Israel. Weird to have a political system where one of the two parties despises the first, and the other is deciding it hates and resents the second. America needs and benefits from both those friendships!”

A wide range of polls have established just how extensive the erosion of US public support for Israel is. The most comprehensive recent survey about this was conducted by The Economist in August 2025. Here’s some of what they found: • Forty-three percent of voters favor decreasing military aid to Israel, with only 13 percent wanting to see an increase in such aid. Among Democrats, the decrease/increase ratio is 58 percent to 4 percent. Among independents, it’s almost the same. • Is Israel committing genocide? Forty-four percent of all voters say “yes” and 28 percent say “no.” Among Democrats, the ratio is 68 percent “yes” and just 8 percent “no.” And among independents, it’s  45 percent to 19 percent.  Other polls show the same thing. Just last week, Gallup reported that, for the first time ever, more Americans say they sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis. And voters are repeatedly affirming that they are more likely to support candidates who advance such positions and less likely to vote for those who defend Israeli policies and want to maintain current levels of military aid to Israel. 

It is funny that this publication still thinks that anti-Israel or Israel-skeptical sentiment is a fringe sentiment put forward by activists alone rather than the overwhelming consensus of the voting base of the party.

See the polling on the right

The U.S. Army abruptly canceled a major training exercise for the 82nd Airborne Division’s headquarters element, fueling speculation within the Pentagon that the unit’s rapid-response force could be deployed to the Middle East, potentially including ground operations.-WaPo