@franktaber@mas.to what’s the definition of “offensive combat”? why is Yemen included but Ukraine excluded, for example?

do you value integrations?

when i am part of “undisclosed recipients” i feel like i’m a super spy.

it’s okay if you’re not enjoying yourself. AI can do that for you.

hell is gamified.

@artlung i really do think Elmer's should come out with a cookbook.

@Alon (i thought the longer discussion of the role of infrastructure as simultaneously political and antipolitical factional fait accompli, and then dueling, perhaps impractical, infrastructure schemes of let's-call-it-saudi vs iranian blocs might interest you.)

cc @Alon adamtooze.substack.com/p/chart

"I sometimes think that 'anti-colonialism,' the sort that breeds leadership from Papa Doc to Yahya Sinwar, is the final poisonous fruit of the European colonial project." lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/

powerful interests are dependent upon our society’s pathologies and so defend and entrench them.

if the UK can call snap elections why not Israel?

Unlock a free trial.

i feel like the presidential election is a tontine.

irrefutable proof of extraterrestrial life ht @artcollisions mastodon.gamedev.place/@jupite

does AI output seem so bland because LLMs are uncreative, or because of all the things that are done to render them "safe"?

"Inside New College of Florida’s Counter-Commencement" thenation.com/article/society/

"When you have two peoples both insisting on moonshot strategies rather than trying to maximize their core interests, the result is violence and death." slowboring.com/p/the-failures-

always tired, never sleepy.

@artcollisions (i'm curious what everybody thinks!)

@artcollisions yeah.