if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 4h ago

It keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.

Air War Dodgeball is a thing; you have air to air munitions (red balls), air to ground muns (green balls), patriot interceptors (yellow balls), and various infrastructure portrayed by cones also the "loggies" have to run around to recover the thrown balls www.maxwell.af.mil/News/Feature...

22. This thread is neither expose nor astroturfed recruiting pitch. But. If you like libraries, there are some phenomenal libraries, including at least one which is handled something like the restricted section of the library in the Harry Potter books. Dangerous, cursed tomes, escorted access only.

More than one labbie has ended a career this way. This kind of uptake is hazardous enough that depending on the details, emergency surgery (in a special surgical bay with contamination controls) may be done to remove it.

8. The bees! Aaahhhhh, not the bees! Well, wasps this time. Some wasps at an NNSA production site were building nests with contaminated material from an old building, leading to several nests of Fallout-esque rad-wasps. Any reports that DOE is breeding an army of mutant wasp-men are hearsay.

19. Another wildlife one. There is a particular building that has the triple whammy of beryllium, uranium and asbestos contamination, and also a leak in the roof. The leak is not repairable because of the contamination, but it also lets mice and birds in. Which have to be handled as contaminated.

Self-consistent claims are useless if they are not consistent with the data, or the world. Claims can also be useless if they *are* consistent with the data, or with the world. There is an infinite number of claims in each category. 2/

Apropos of nothing: Mercedes expressly markets the Unimog's ability to help recover unexploded World War ordinance.

Urban munitions disposal with the Unimog U 5023.

Since 2019, the explosive ordnance disposal service of the Hamburg Fire Service has relied on the U 5023 extreme off-road Unimog.

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NEW: Locked Up and Criminalized: People on the Move Face a Broken System on Crete’s Shores People on the move arriving on Crete are held in makeshift facilities where they have no rights, as authorities freeze asylum registration while implementing the EU’s contested new Migration and Asylum Pact.

Locked Up and Criminalized: People on the Move Face a Broken System on Crete’s Shores  - UNICORN RIOT

People on the move arriving on Crete are held in makeshift facilities where they have no rights, as authorities freeze asylum registration while implementing the EU’s contested new Migration and Asylu...

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It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently

Understanding this and its full implications will give you a better understanding of Economy than 99% of the population.

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 7h ago

Basically, recessions are caused by "everyone trying to save money at the same time". This is a problem because at an aggregate level, everyone's income is the same as everyone's spending.

Let's address the problems you mention, rather than blaming them on AI: - Decarbonize electricity - Build physical and digital public libraries - Strengthen & enforce environmental regulations - Ditto financial regulations Bonus: it applies to all industries, not just computing ! Good is possible.

I’m seeing articles saying “America’s far left is in ascendance.” It’s vital to remember America’s far left is pretty close to the rest of the world’s center. Don’t be distracted by the deeply flawed L/R binary mind trap. Focus on the proven character, qualities & positions of the candidates.

The Hormuz crisis is taking place specifically as a consequence of American power projection capabilities.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 9h ago

The problem is that as we're seeing with the Strait of Hormuz, "the USA forfeits its global ambitions" does not lead to a new age of peace and sunshine, but to global recession and instability. The Strait of Hormuz is not the only load-bearing instance of US power backstopping modern economies.

the City of Boise's increasingly aggressive campaign against the state's repeated attempt to ban pride flags flown by cities is extremely funny

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 5d ago

i have never seen a higher density of pride flags than in Boise

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NetBlocks@netblocks.org · 6h ago

⚠️ Confirmed: #Georgia has experienced the third in a series of nation-scale internet disruptions corresponding to power grid blackouts. Authorities say today's incident was triggered by tests intended to diagnose Enguri HPP systems responsible for the earlier two outages.

Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · yesterday

Days before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...

Alabama passed tough immigration laws in 2011. It devastated their agriculture sector. Farmers couldn't find workers for their fields and the ones they did find, quit because the work was too hard for the pay. Let these morons build a wall around themselves.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

Tuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."

Alabama is the second biggest taker of federal funds. They’d be out of money within months.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

Tuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."

I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · yesterday

Only a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...

Good job Germany didn't send Ukraine those Taurus missiles. It really helped prevent an escalation.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7h ago

The Leipzig drone bomb marks a dangerous escalation for Europe

Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

people love to post about how "you're not gonna like it when there's millions of unmarried aimless young men" and like Japan and Korea have been running this field experiment for years and they're mostly just playing video games and jerking off

This is correct. Germany's role in the EU is *highly* distortionary, because it reaps the benefits of a common currency (which does not appreciate as much as it should when Germany runs trade surpluses) while also wielding a big stick in Brussels.

Thomas@djamesalicious.bsky.social · 8h ago

this seems sort of similar to Germany within the EU to me

China (and before it, Japan) is similar but on an even more behemoth scale. You cannot have a world economy where everyone runs trade surpluses, and no one has discovered a method of development that *doesn't* stem from export booms.

The dipshits will get over it, Deo volente.

✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 10h ago

starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”

Is this headline a triple negative?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 7h ago

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point agreed to a permanent legal ban on its controversial policy limiting what professors can say and write publicly, although an attorney for the academy left open the possibility of a later appeal.

More than just a beautiful launch! 🚀 These hyperspectral satellites will help monitor Earth's water, crops, forests, and mineral resources, supplying high-resolution data that supports agriculture, forestry, water conservation, mining, and environmental management. #ChinaSpace #SmartDragon3Rocket