Matt Drance

As good a read as I’d hoped.

Is it bad when someone who was comfortable working for Meta and OpenAI finally says “This is too much?”

I'd also like to nominate "SPECS OFFENDERS". Thank you, I yield my time.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis. Troy Tassier is a professor of economics at Fordham University and the author of The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks.

"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.

Cut down after just 14 months. What kind of monster would do that?

i have been to the emergency room for a dental abscess. it is a uniquely excruciating kind of pain. this man was tortured to death via medical neglect.

Chris Miller: Some clarification here: "no green screen" doesn't mean "no VFX". There were, in fact, thousands of VFX shots in the film (2018!) Green screen is sometimes used in lieu of building sets or figuring out locations/lighting in advance, which can be noticeable if not done carefully, and is something we didn't want to do. We built the entire interior of the Hail Mary ship - but within the ship, there were still wire and puppeteer removals and ceiling replacements, etc. When Ryan is outside on the hull of the ship, we shot him in front of a black background for space and a shifting hue background when he was up against the aurora of a planet which allowed for truer interactive light on him than a green screen would. The wide space exteriors and spaceship shots were entirely digital and beautifully done by ILM. Rocky was a seamless blend of puppetry and animation from Framestore. And other great work from many more. It really does take a village and we had the best of the best on our side.

you can all stop asking me to comment now

"Project Hail Mary" (2026)

Science of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warn | Jey McCreight “McCreight added that using misinformation to limit who can seek healthcare is a warning for all patients. ‘These attacks are fundamentally coming from a broader attempt to dismantle science and exper...

For those of you on LinkedIn, I would deeply appreciate you liking/sharing my post! Especially if you are in biomed and/or are a member of the LGBTQ community

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After your splendid blitz of generosity, I am down to the last *3* of each of these prints! I can't thank everyone enough for welcoming my work into your homes, sharing it, and generally being cool.

Just in case you'd like to help get those numbers to zero:

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Yeah, Tillis voted for Noem and these other shitbirds and he owns part of this mess. But for people who still have a shred of a conscience, that's going to make them more invested in righting what's gone wrong. We should all encourage that.

Seems consistent to me. “Your body and your life do not belong to you.”

I have a whole file of these stories that I point to whenever someone responds to allegations of domestic abuse/violence with "If it was so serious, why didn't she call the cops?"

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...

The regime won’t let you have clean hands if you work for them, even if they’re punishing you. This was leaked on purpose, is uncomfortably close to confessing to a war crime, and highlights once again how tech’s unthinking growth directly leads to dead kids.

A gentle reminder that contemporary neural networks are only an abstraction built upon Boolean logic

And that said neural networks are only an echo of a whisper of what organic neurons are.

Imagine a world where the terms of this agreement—between two of the world’s most powerful & dangerous organizations—were precisely specified & robustly debated through transparent, accessible, & accountable public processes.

But no.

We get swagger, threats, proprietary systems, & tweets.

If you live in the Gorton and Denton constituency and spoke to a Reform party member on your doorstep or in the streets then I'd like to speak to you for an article. My DMs are open.

Pretty sure I have tbh

Breaking: IPost has obtained CCTV footage showing a Border Patrol van dropping off Nurul Shah Alam at a closed Tim Hortons last Thursday.

Shah Alam, nearly-blind & unable to enter the shop, then wandered the city for days. He was found dead Tuesday.

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If law enforcement tells you there's a kid with a gun to their head inside your property - your answer should STILL be "Show us a judicial warrant or fuck off."

If the need is real, cops have actual authority to enter under exigent circumstances. They won't ask, and they won't explain.

Searching drugs.com for penisomab. There is no result but the website offers to ask an AI agent.

The drugs.com AI claims that penisonomab is a medication used to treat DLBCL.

Asking the AI if penisomomab is a real. It responds that no, it is made up.

The drugs.com AI is working spectacularly well

“Not even the greatest chess grandmaster can beat a child who doesn’t care how the pieces move anyhow.”

Body of Evidence 2026 Subscribers: This is included in your subscription package. This special limited edition 2-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Adam Maida)

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In the other 5 percent of cases, they recommended a nice game of chess

Metroid Prime. Extremely satisfying to shoot in stride and pass through with zero time idly open.

The lo-fi audio and fade when switching worlds in the original Myst. Real, immersive magic that overcame technological limitations with creativity.

ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank, a former ICE instructor and attorney, testifies that agents were trained to disregard constitutional rights.

How a Small California City Kicked War Criminals to the Curb Albany now boasts one of the nation’s most progressive ethical investment policies.

"Caterpillar sells machinery to Israel."

Albany "no longer holds investments in Caterpillar or Lockheed Martin and is precluded from making similar investments in the future."

"I think that a lot of other cities can do this."
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

If Forced to Choose, Our Military Leaders Should Follow the Law Not the President—Like Ulysses S. Grant The choices the Civil War general faced can inform how they ought to conduct themselves in these perilous times

Grateful that @theunpopulist.net gave me full sail on the history of Grant during the constitutional crisis:

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

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Is that, uh, Generally Accepted