Obey The Cube

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · yesterday

Constrained vs unconstrained requirements, why we do both NY and OY projections, what the PTD is and how it's developed (for that matter what is the JCOFA)

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

I have custard creams. Bet you don’t.

Binface propaganda is really top notch

Trump having a normal one today

I’m drunk enough to be angry again. wtf was that all about again? Why do I still give a shit? youtu.be/IWI1Lhp01Ks?...

Soviet soldier life in Afghanistan, 1988.

YouTube video by linkchrono1955

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Ok so I’m proud that my birth year gave humanity: 1) neoliberal 2) laser printer 3) log out 4) paleoconservative 5) prostate-specific antigen 6) safe word 7) spiff 8) supermoon 9) white-glove 10) wide-body What a year to be alive. Please guess the year for extra points.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

Chat is the tech industry a serious business?

Solar routinely generates several times as much electricity as your house will need unless you use a crazy amount

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d ago

Death cult

@lena don’t get mad, ok? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

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Erik Prince meets Alex Karp and finances War as a Service to replace the US Army.

This article by @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social looks so good. 1st paragraph of abstract:

Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor@rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I finally have a peer-reviewed publication to my name! I'd appreciate it if you all would be kind enough to read and share. I'm trying to comment on the reductive nature of the 'apex' form of techno-process driven war that seems to be the limit of martial imagination. doi.org/10.1057/s429...

Russian missile destroys US firm’s Kyiv drone factory

Russian missile destroys US firm’s Kyiv drone factory

Strike on Terminal Autonomy plant appears to be first time in the war that Moscow has targeted a US company A drone factory in Kyiv destroyed by a Russian ballistic missile on Friday was owned by a US corporation registered in Delaware, in what appears to be the first time Moscow has targeted a US company in the conflict. Terminal Autonomy makes precision “deep-strike” drones with guidance systems that are resistant to Russian jamming signals, according to a person familiar with the company. Continue reading...

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"we should be more like China" shut the fuck up, Saruman

Ah

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 6d ago

The urgent need for new weapons is a major test for the Trump administration. The Defense Department is betting on Silicon Valley start-ups to replenish stockpiles amid the Iran war. Now the firms must prove they can manufacture at military scale.

I am in a funk. I don’t be got the funk, it be getting me down brah.

Shaggy's Existential Crisis in Scooby Doo

ALT: Shaggy's Existential Crisis in Scooby Doo

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It’s the night of the Dunwich Dynamo. Good luck to everyone riding tonight!!

the palantir dipshits were wrong. the lethality gurus were wrong. and no one will ever make them pay for it.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2w ago

No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

my view is that we have reached the historical moment in our relationship with technology where this maxim ceases to be inspirational and increasingly reads as a dire warning

@clayrobinson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 3w ago

Simple question? #BookSky

Don’t be so f*cking narrow minded. F*cking evidence free reading of history. Like letting a 10 year old write an essay with access to nothing but Encarta 95 on CDROM. On a monochrome monitor.

Cato Institute@cato.org · 3w ago

"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus." — Milton Friedman. They were driven by individual liberty and free markets. And they always will be.

I don’t think this should be celebrated.

An apocalpytic scene in Moscow following Ukrainian drone strikes on the Wildberries warehouse in nearby Elektrostal.

Really glad we got rid of that hopeless PM who seemed great at first but then permanently alienated the labour base and burned up all his goodwill by making clumsy rightwing decisions right at the start of in his premiership www.bbc.com/news/article...

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling

Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licenses.

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The Times reporting that Andy Burnham succeeded in persuading Shabana Mahmood to become Chancellor because it would give her more control over cutting immigration

North Sea drilling. Great. What a visionary policy. To what end? Who cares. Let’s just do anything. Let’s flail around and hope good policy is the same as placating a right that is equally clueless and a private sector that is happy to watch the world burn. Fantastic. Brilliant.