I served, you're absolutely full of shit. The poster or book with forbidden tattoos is older than either of us. And I was a combat medic, saw plenty of infantry with ink and none of it racist symbols. Because they wanted to stay in the military.
She's right. Kind of dismayed to see people still doing this after we just did the whole "Afghan women" thing a few years ago which of course was another lie. We were never there for that. But lies are like music and fashion, the lies repeat because if someone bought it once they'll buy it again.
SE Solutions is an honest name for the kind of firm headquartered in McLean VA; rebranding it to steampunk is a bold act of creative fiction.
The JSOC experience: arrive, murder a member of the armed forces of a nation who we want to be a partner, leave.
The use the language of "clash" but the additional reporting is that a column sent out to investigate what was happening got air striked with no warning.
www.rudaw.net/english/midd...
I imagine that the 148 school girls at an elementary school in Minab were cute, yes
Cass Sunstein was pushing prediction markets as a fairer alternative to deliberation (e.g. committees, juries) back in 2008. (This and "nudging" in lieu of policy.) The quant asshole revolution of the Obama era laid the groundwork for the gambling, scams, and bullshit vibes paradigm of today.
what a stupid violent day in a stupid violent era
Jean luc Picard extending his arm with mouth open in the “what the fuck” meme
If Khamenei is dead - and presumably has been dead potentially all day, the fact that the Iranian military has been continuing to launch strikes (and is reportedly launching more as I type this) should give anyone thinking otherwise pause about how likely his death is to lead to regime collapse.
Let him cook
This is no doubt the outcome of personal and deep-held grudges among leadership in CENTCOM (as was the Solmenani strike).
Goes without saying that personal vendettas make for stupid and immoral policy.
I don't have anything I can say on here except that I want everyone, especially the kids, to be safe and well, and that my heart hurts for so many people I care about who are terrified for their loved ones tonight
what the fuck friday night
The thing about the Taliban is that it's probably best understood as a Pashtun ethnic movement rather than a religious one. The Afghanistan-Pakistan border divides the Pashtun tribal lands almost exactly in half, leaving Pashtuns as ethnic minorities in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Put it in a Gmail draft
They might as well have sent a bell that rang itself and shouted "Shame" game of thrones style.
If I had a giant Totenkopf skull on my chest that I was trying to pass off as a big ol' misunderstanding, I personally would not amplify neo-nazis on social media
If I were trying to dog-whistle my support for white supremacy, on the other hand, this is exactly what I'd do
I am seething with rage. We cannot treat people like this, let alone fucking blind refugees who escaped a literal genocide enabled by US tech companies.
Walked out of the State of the Union because I couldn’t sit through hours of Trump’s lies.
Americans know the truth: he’s spiking prices and wrecking our economy.
We’re a better country than this.
Great opportunity to teach your kid you don’t have to do something just because an authority figure says you have to.
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I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed.
I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.
I feel like this website would be so much better if we all got together and made 300 servings of plov
Norman Rockwell’s “freedom of speech” painting of a man standing up while others look on
“Almost nobody”
Maybe they can use it to heat up an MRE or something after they can't find a restaurant that'll serve them.
If you wanted a deep unpacking of the Anthropic C compiler, it’s hard to beat Chris Lattner
“These flaws are informative rather than surprising, suggesting that current AI systems excel at assembling known techniques and optimizing toward measurable success criteria, while struggling with the open-ended generalization required for production-quality systems”
www.modular.com/blog/the-cla...
The binding in one direction is with atproto signing. In the inverse direction - a phone number or username can't attest cryptographically it assents to this binding. Normally we do this with a user ceremony (2FA code) plus threat of discovery in a public directory.
But the untrusted entity posting a new key, is used daily by people recovering from a lost device (or app deletion) to reconnect without recovering private state.
There's a feature hinted at which is (message this person who was this did/pn, regardless of what the id professes to be in the future)
