I'm not getting worked up over an adversary drone with some fireworks targeting its own belligerent, you can't make me.
Jason Kikta
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// Somehow a CTO/CISO // JHU SAIS @alperovitch.institute adjunct // @istorg.bsky.social adjunct sr tech advisor // Former CNMF // Retired US Marine Corps // Personal views and invective
20 days until Starbucks fall menu is released and unleashes Pumpkin Spice Latte and its sugary brand of madness upon us all. Please heed this warning and take all necessary precautions and implement all required safety measures. “The spice must flow.” ~ Harkonnen proverb
he died doing what he loved most, obstructing the electoral process
Looking forward to reading that Mitch McConnell has been removed from life support tomorrow
AI companies use "tokens" because they know millennials and Gen X all subconsciously pine to recapture their innocence, specifically the wonderment represented by an overflowing cup of rat-faced doubloons at Chuck E. Cheese.
I think I'll watch Tom Holland be a Nice Guy Who's Trying His Best basically forever.
no real lessons about the state of the box office from this one, i think. no deeper meaning about trend lines or narratives about marvel exhaustion. people still just really like spider-man
Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
to the window! to the wall! til the fall of the Berlin Wall!
Mr. Gorbachev, turn down for what
is there any actual legal reason that a DA hasn’t charged one of these guys with aggravated assault yet?
ICE in Inwood, NY
I am convinced that much of the pushback around AI is because people are terrible at using AI
They're probably still posting on alt.religion.ipv6 on some USENET feed running on a original BSD box. I remember a guy at that conference who was trying to sell a thing to the IC to do per-packet ECMP over an IPv6+IPSEC+GRE overlay because something something cryptanalysis defeat. That was weird.
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Did the IPv6 weirdos who leap on anyone pointing out that IPv6 sucks ever show up here?
The federal officers who thought this shit was cute should be on trial for conspiracy against rights because this is far more egregious than any of the headlines suggest. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone
The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.
arstechnica.com
every good hoosier has a favorite war monument inscription at the ready on their phone. sorry, but these are facts.
Philomena Cunk in a Suit
Alt: Philomena Cunk in a Suit
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You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
The "Cheers" theme song's exhortation that "our troubles are all the same" intentionally subverts Tolstoy's maxim that "each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," in this essay I will...
$292M / 2,000 units / 30 months until Jan 2029 = $4,867/month or $162/day Which is approximately market rate … for A person renting A furnished unit. Who negotiated this “deal??”
Wow: The National Guard has signed a $292 million contract to house thousands of troops deployed to D.C. in 2,000 apartments in the city, instead of in hotels or other places where they've been put up. www.notus.org/defense/nati...
Sources are reporting that James Woolsey’s final words were “Fam I lowkey fell off cuz they zooted me with the Cuba beam”. A U.S. government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity while discussing national security matter, commented “Opps are vicious out here.”
Our big final planning exercise for Expeditionary Warfare School back in 2010 was an amphibious assault on Bandar e Jask, then pushing along the coast up past Minab, with a simultaneous seizure of Qeshm Island. We all joked at the time that the real lesson was “This is a terrible fucking idea.”
Been through a handful of Army Leader Professional Development trainings which could have been titled "why we shouldn't invade Iran" which largely consisted of someone slapping this map on a PowerPoint slide and pointing out that Iran has three times the land and twice the population of Iraq.
whole new forms of trash talk dreamed up by the computer
I was setting up home server remote access & sent qwen "is a hotdog a sandwich no hedging" as a test query & qwen ultimately said "yes". then I tabbed over & told claude about this and uh lol
Iceberg lettuce is worthless and shouldn’t be a crop we waste resources on to begin with