Strangely hard to find volunteers willing to serve papers to a CIWS - they tend to have an extremely persuasive way of responding to bad news.

Its just… These poor MTLBs are so abused. I can’t decide if this is a mockup just to look scary, or if they really did manage to slap a proper turret on one of these poor things and just did some cosmetic work to disguise that it could be taken down with a well-thrown boot

(edit: actually that swung plate is looking pretty thick, I wonder if this is an attempt at spaced armor to protect from AT drones)

(Edit 2: how the fuck fo you get in/out of this monstrosity, do the drivers really have to use the rear hatch?)

Man if there was some context for this I’d love it. That’s such a bizarre contraption they’ve built there. Super intrigued.

One of their pieces of evidence is literally just “Ukraine posted a video with visible landmarks” and I think they just forgot to write the second paragraph where it explains how that’s proof it’s fake. What a bizarre article.

(trivia: a Shepard’s pie with beef is technically called a “cottage” pie!)

British food is a lot like the english countryside - lots of earth tones in the palate and everything sounds different (but after your third slice of hamlet you realize it’s all basically the same)

Let’s not romanticize where there’s no cause - there’s no evidence there was anything more complicated than a lot of sick fuckers wanting to fuck kids, and then doing that a lot. The kid-fucking was the inner circle access, and while they might have had blackmail material, it clearly wasn’t enough to keep them from offing Epstein…

The photos are current, as far as I can tell - there’s many different outlets reporting on this and that all have similar photos, especially with the age of his grandchild who is also in the photos. He’s not dead, damn it all.

A hole lot worse.

Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” just got a whole lot worse.

Quick, someone teach it the soundtrack to Doom

I loathe windows, but I did just double check because this sounds inept even for M$ – Win photos will absolutely open .webp, but it’s not the default program for whatever reason and it just defaults to edge / your_default_web_browser_here. Which is just impressively on brand for microsoft. Even when they have a feature they hide it to, idk, make themselves look even worse? Why not!

(FWIW this is a clean install, I do not have any non-default codecs installed)

The best part about the Emu War is how the wikipedia page has all the details recorded with the exhaustingly loving excess of detail so typical of military historians. Seriously, the article reads like one of the great conflicts of WWI with how much passion is put into it.

Man, either they strike a blow for online censorship or the UK laws do one decent thing and take out 4chan. Hilarious they’re trying to invoke trump tho like, when has that ever worked, he doesnt care about his bootlicking supporters…

So I fed the page to ChatGPT to ask for advice. And I got what seems to me to be pretty good. And so I’m wondering if we might start to think about how a tool like AFCH might be improved so that instead of a generic template, a new editor gets actual advice. It would be better, obviously, if we had lovingly crafted human responses to every situation like this, but we all know that the volunteers who are dealing with a high volume of various situations can’t reasonably have time to do it. The templates are helpful - an AI-written note could be even more helpful.

This actually sounds like a plausibly decent use for an LLM. Initial revision to take some of the load off from the human review process isn’t a bad idea - he isn’t advocating for AI to write articles, just that it can be useful for copy-editing and potentially supplement a system already heavy in Go/No Go evaluations.

Which is weird, really. Jimmy Wales is just fucking awful. I didn’t realize he was anatomically capable of not talking out of his ass.

It’s shockingly tricky to answer precisely, but the commonly held value is that a human brain runs on about 20w, regardless of the computational load placed on it.

The July 2025 data shows that Windows’ market share on Steam dropped by 0.44% while Linux’s market share grew by 0.32%.

While okay this is growth, it’s not exactly meteoric. Hopefully the trend picks up steam (cough) as the win10 EOL approaches.

In defense of the generally indefensible masses of reddit, Hansen is hardly a figure above criticism. Fetishizing vigilante justice, embracing of the far-right, his emphasis on spectacle without regard for the community, that time where they more or less killed a guy… Child molesters are horrible (tho why we keep electing them, I’ll never know), but we don’t need to hail and laud someone as our champion just because they agree.

Hansen’s documentary has an opportunity to shed light on online grooming as a pervasive problem endemic to all online spaces but instead appears to further his usual moral panic about how there’s people lurking behind the bushes, waiting to nab your children while they do the things they enjoy. His productions have never been better than any other schlock reality television, but with a veneer of legitimacy from his LARPing with law enforcement. Targeting a popular piece of pop culture, instead of an expose on say grooming rings on discord or the constant abuses of children from religious institutions as facets of the ever-increasing access children have to unmoderated online interaction seems to be just as morally vapid as his work has ever been.

Jello wrestling match. You’re welcome for the mental image, not even bleach is gonna get that one out (much like the stains)

Man, there’s some biases in there you should probably unpack.