Don't forget you can still order your pre-order copy of my forthcoming "Littoral Commander: Australia!" It is the first expansion featuring new national forces and a collaboration with the Australian Army Battle Lab! 🦘 💥 🎲 dietzfoundation.org/product/litt...

Littoral Commander: Australia

Designed by Robert Engen and Scott Jenkinson, Littoral Commander: Australia is an expansion to Sebastian Bae's critically acclaimed Littoral Commander: Indo-Pacific.  LITTORAL COMMANDER: AUSTRALIA i...

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Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year. The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.

The more you make the back end unreliable, the more the front end is eschewed. Nobody is buying your kit if you signal you will brick it on a whim.

“Al seems to have more godparents than even Sleeping Beauty. And, regrettably, more than one significant prick.” 😂

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 2y ago

queen did not mince a single word www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI Anne Frank bothsidesing the Holocaust in today’s dystopian nightmare.

Henrik Schönemann@lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 2y ago

An 'AI-emulation' of Anne Frank made for use in schools. Who the fuck thought this is appropriate? Who in the everloving fuck coded this? Who approved it? Who didn't stop them? @histodons #histodons

Look, I’ve no doubt Trump wants to play hardball with Canada in trade negotiations and that we’re in for hurt. But the annexation talk is a negotiating tactic, same as him insisting that we have nothing the US needs. It is meant to rattle Canadian leadership, which is in flux right now.

Australians low-key anxious today that Trump wants to annex Canada and not them.

“Bluesky is an echo chamber” Yes of course it is, I tailored it to my taste, interests, opinions, and community. I’m here to have a good time, not argue with strangers lmao

I have been taking my time deciding whether to restart a social media presence here and had just started crafting content again. But I’m not going to if community protection isn’t taken seriously here. This sort of thing has killed friends of mine. @safety.bsky.app

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bluesky's current moderation policy is crafted specifically to allow the coordination of mass transphobic harassment campaigns off-site. Crafted specifically to protect one guy, a well known pedophilia apologist, harasser, and child doxxer who is *currently* openly collaborating with kiwi farms.

The Australian Army's Battle Lab led the development of the Australian expansion for my "Littoral Commander" #wargame series. Roughly 100+ copies will be delivered to various Australian units. A commercial variant will be released later in 2025. #wargaming 🎲

Accidentally closed the app after an hour of composing my first long-form thread and lost it all, so fuck this, I’m going to bed. Taking recommendations for a different piece of software to draft skeets with before posting to here.

superb point: if we take Sam Altman at his word about the relative risk of the tech he's gleefully building, we should all be hunting him for sport

For the last two years my daughter and I have done a personal art piece for my department’s Secret Santa before Christmas. This year I did one for our Centre’s program coordinator. Lately she’s been wanting the Untitled Goose Game goose instead of dragons. 🪿

I can run my mouth for hours in front of an auditorium with hundreds of military officers but have completely forgotten how to social media.

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Basically: autistic people have less neural pruning of synaptic connections as babies and toddlers, but this thick density of connections on the small scale within a region, ends up decreasing connectivity *between* regions. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Autism as a neural systems disorder: A theory of frontal-posterior underconnectivity

The underconnectivity theory of autism attributes the disorder to lower anatomical and functional systems connectivity between frontal and more posterior cortical processing. Here we review evidence f...

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The obvious way to kill military AI in decision support. Accelerate the production of synthetic data. Rubbish in. Rubbish out. Bring on model collapse and force the adversary to fall back on static data. Back to bombs and bullets before you can say boo to a goose.

a man in a suit is running down a street in front of a building that says imgflip.com on the bottom

ALT: a man in a suit is running down a street in front of a building that says imgflip.com on the bottom

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I love the nuclear block and respect the work folks at Bsky are doing in T&S spaces, BUT. The underlying design of the site regarding things like blocks being visible to API are profoundly dangerous, cursed foundations that could turn the nuclear block into a Maginot Line.🧵

These folks did a great job of breaking, well, *all* the leading LLMs by asking the models an incredibly simple question. These models should not be relied upon to assist anyone with reasoning. Check out the appendix with examples of truly wild confabulations and errors arxiv.org/html/2406.02...

Hot off the press and pulling no punches: Allan English’s “The 2024 Defence Policy Update and its Predecessors: Why the CAF is in a ‘Death Spiral’.” The CAF is in serious trouble, but is it interested in change or perception management? Yes, that’s rhetorical. scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcont...

*tiptoes over, sets this down, scurries back into deep cave*

Oh, Whatever, Everything Is Totally Great For Writers Right Now

What’s that? How is it being a writer right now? An author? Ha ha, yeah, man, yeah, no, it’s fucking great, everything is super cool right just, just really chill and what is it the kid…

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For the record: you call the police non-emergency line and ask whether they have an officer who coordinates tracking people who are at elevated SWAT risk (and if so, ask to be transfered to them). If not, ask to speak to the captain of the SWAT unit.

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have an entire script I give to T&S people for making the "please don't murder me just because the internet says so" call. It *has* gotten better in the last decade or so: more and more police departments in the US are enacting anti-SWAT policies, especially in the larger cities.

Though politicians have compared Hamas to al-Qaeda since Oct. 7, the groups have different aims and fighting Hamas requires different tactics, writes NDU’s Kim Cragin in this week’s Foreign Policy Essay.

Hamas Cannot Be Fought Like al-Qaeda

Grouping the two terrorist organizations together obscures some important distinctions.

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In the Spring of 1864 Twain, while working as a beat reporter for the SF Morning Call, Twain witnessed the murder of a Chinese laborer by a mob that included cops. It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”… 2/

Hey, you! You want to make a horror game? Let me tell you how to make it good: docseuss.medium.com/your-horror-...

your horror game isn’t as scary as the classics.

Elaine is having a nice cup of tea on her porch when she looks up to see her brother, Arthur, dashing towards her. Something in the…

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Via Vincent Proce on Twitter (@vproceart) some hope vs the Ai glut (repost to add alt text)

I saw someone call it mansplaining as a service, not just the unwanted explaining but the high inaccuracy and high confidence, and I do think that explains both who makes it and who is pushing it