Ebay has changed their privacy notice. #fuckai

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Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h ago

Wrote a book about the institutional violence justified by the authoritarian fairy tales in which human nature (ours) needs to be held in check by superior human nature (theirs) in crises. Including stuff about elite panic, a term disaster sociologists coined, because that's often who goes berserk.

Re brown crayons

Is there a commercial hot chocolate which *doesn't* taste like brown crayon?

Another Sherman M4 ARK photo. Taken in the Arno Valley, Italy c. spring 1945 the ARK performs in front of a large crowd on onlooking US troops as another tank uses it to cross the gap. The small fascine on the tank's glacis is an interesting addition. #Tanks #WW2 #History

How not to paint the Caunter camouflage scheme 1) use blue 2) use dark brown 3) assume the pattern consists of parallel bands Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh

Nick Hewitt@nickhewitt4.bsky.social · 6y ago

@crusaderproject I am truly sorry for the physical pain this will cause you but it just has to be said #CaunterIsCoolerInBlue

Drop some PUNCHES (held back here)

Jet Li's Powerful Fist Punch

ALT: Jet Li's Powerful Fist Punch

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author.@dapperdinobot.bsky.social · yesterday

Drop some PUNCHES 👊🏻

Ah, that wonderful time of the year when they turn the heat on in my building... it was 25C in my bedroom last night, or it was when I got up. 😩

Do you disavow the House of Atreus?

Ok it finally occurred to me that after sensibily buying a modest house, I could afford to equip it with anti-tank defence by buying and completely restoring an Archer, so of course I'd do that.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d ago

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

“AI boosters may say that their hostility is just fear of change. But they’re wrong. The promotion of AI music-generation software as a way of making music is an insult to musicians. Musicians are right to react to it as such.” www.ft.com/content/2c21...

Today's seasonal nitpick is that I don't like "pumpkin pie spice mix". I like all of those spices just fine...

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Today's #TheMuppetShow GIF of the Day is...

Followed a link to an 8-minute 1953 TV version of Abbott and Costello doing “Who’s on First,” and it’s still entertaining after all these years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlll...

"Who's on First?" in HD w/LIVE AUDIENCE from The Abbott and Costello TV Show (1953)

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WW2 British Vehicle Markings Deciphered - a thread 🧵 Using the Tank Museum's Comet as an example, we can see the following: 1 - Arm of Service Flash 2 - Bridge Classification 3 - Formation Insignia 4 - Serial Number 5 - Tactical Sign 6 - Vehicle Name All explained in turn below... [1/10]

Just fucking don't use fucking Substack. I want to read that thing you wrote but I will NOT hang out in the Nazi bar to do it. I won't link to it. I won't tell my friends about it. I may mute your posts. Leave the Nazi bar. There's still time.

A little Polish joy this morning. These panoramic sketches weren’t created during the Battle of Monte Cassino - they were drawn afterwards by Second Lieutenant Zdzisław Brunne and Officer Cadet Jan Bisiński, serving in 12 Kompania Geograficzna (12th Geographical Company) of the 2nd Polish Corps.

An experimental tank battalion was formed #OTD in 1942 in Cairo under the command of Major King. Kingforce, as it came to be known, took part in the Second Battle of El Alaimein, showing the value of the Churchill III tank in combat. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

I have a grandkitten now. Meet sweet goddess of love, beauty, fertility and magic, Freya! 🐈‍⬛

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Note for readers of #histbookchat

Drafting the Past@draftingthepast.bsky.social · last wk.

Happy launch week! Our first reviews (yes, two!) publish tomorrow. Are you subscribed? www.draftingthepast.com

My family have ordered a copy of Ken Ford's _Mailed Fist_ (early 2000s) about 6th Armoured Div which fought in Tunisia and then (in distributed subunits) Italy. #histbookchat

Holiday, got home and there's not much in the house, so I went out for Persian

Make a war film rubbish The Longest Daydream

Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · last wk.

Make a war film rubbish. The Heroes of Telemarketing

Churchills of 43rd Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment, 33rd Brigade on manoeuvres in Great Britain, October 1942. Original colour. IWM (TR 215), Edward Malindine

For those of you in London -

Leonie V. Hicks@lvhicks.bsky.social · last wk.

Mark Hagger is THE historian of the Normans, so go along and hear him if you can. #medievalsky #skystorians #Normans

"We're wanted again, Mrs Peel"

Mark Simner@marksimner.bsky.social · last wk.

I almost missed this new book. The Avengers: Death in Downing Street. The first new official Avengers book to be published in decades. titanbooks.com/72871-the-av...

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Master and Frozen Margarita

Andrew Robinson (no, not Garak)@andrewr.bsky.social · last wk.

Ruin a book by adding a word: Mansfield Theme Park

Learned yesterday about changes to passport rules for dual UK-Canadian citizens. Seems a can of worms. My father might be considered a British citizen as he was born there, and so as a result might I? Having to get a second passport to visit the UK is a disincentive...