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(And no, it doesn't "go both ways" - the moment someone has forefeited their human rights, they are fair game and taking them out is not "sinking to their level" at all. Fascism is not, in fact, a two-way street.)

I've always framed it in purely humanitarian terms: as soon as someone denies the human rights of others, they forefeit their own. With all prospective consequences.

The only acceptable "billionaire bracket" should be a type of device used for executions.

For everyone else, I fully support the notion of maximum income. You go above that, 100% tax. Anyone making a million a year shouldn't be, and billionaires can be shot on sight.

youtu.be/Z4ayRtaJdMs?...

Tired of the hand-wringing. Capital punishment is an absolutely valid way to deal with Nazis. No need to treat them with kid gloves - those who deny the human rights of others must immediately forefeit their own.

Prosecuting the Powerful Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.

Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...

Chotiner: So you decided you were going to make a joke post—

Me: —in the form of a Chotiner interview. That’s correct.

Chotiner: And you thought it was funny?

Me: I mean, I didn’t think it wasn’t funny.

Chotiner: Sure.

I think we all should aspire to a head of state with basic pathfinding and collision avoidance, at minimum.

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Between that and the "routine" MRI...

To be fair, they were designed for completely different roles, so I don't think a direct comparison between the way their weapons perform actually says much.

(PS - all that said, I do think the Terminator as a whole is stupid, wasteful, and has limited utility outside of a very specific niche)

...that make them seemingly immune to a lot of psychological effects of combat. Most of everyone else just breaks down. Inconvenienly, this doesn't seem to correlate to a lot of other factors.

I'm actually less afraid of people who break down from AI psychoses than I am of those who DON'T.

I don't think it's a cause, but it could be an activating agent for (traits of) personality disorders.
Closer to my own areas of expertise, there's a constant thread in personal narrative histories of war that a certain (small) % of people in combat situations turn out to have psychopathic traits...

Wow, I saw some of the names on that list and almost vomited.

On the bright side, all of this explains A LOT (possibly everything) about that abomination of a "platform".

It's not Napoleon (it's 7 Years War), but the demo was VERY good.

I only happened to bump into it on Steam NextFest the week before and thought I'd just give it a short look - ended up sinking about 10 hours into it. I have a feeling it might get repetitive after a bit, but it's a satisfying loop.

Yeah, I had it last year and it definitely ranks as one of the more awful experiences I had - and I had the fairly uncomplicated form of it. In more extreme cases, it can affect the eyes and just the thought of that (based on how much it hurt) absolutely horrifies me.

(source: www.beefheart.com/captain-beef... )

Captain Beefheart to Huxley:
I did sell Aldous Huxley a vacuum cleaner in the desert, in Lano. An Electrolux. I have a hard time selling anything. He could hardly see, you know, he was very tall, and he looked down like this and said, “I want that” I said, “Well I assure you sir, this thing sucks.”

#art #design

Music to my ears.

American (derogatory, slur)

Please don't - our provincial health systems are oversaturated and failing, resulting in many people being unable to access services in any reasonable time unless they can afford to pay for private care. We don't need additional incentives for nurses and doctors to leave the public systems.

*didn't exist before 1939

October 1939 at that, which sort of undermines the "missed the invasion of Poland" - I don't think a unit that didn't exist counts as "missing" something, either.

I don't know what your deal is, but this is misinformation. The 3. SS-Panzer-Division (which didn't exist since 1939) is a much later use of this version of the Totenkopf emblem. It was used by the SS, including the SS-Totenkopfverbände who were organizationally separate from Waffen SS, since 1934.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

4 pictures of a tuxedo cat with very remarkable white coloration on his face that makes it look like he's saying "ooooooooh."

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

A Tumblr meme: “it fucken WIMDY” with a windswept fox narrowing its eyes as it faces into a strong gust

WIMDY

This is what, the 5th or 6th time he's said that exact thing?

Another phonecall to butter him up, or maybe threaten with kompromat, and he'll be going through the same damn loop for a 7th time. He's such a pathetic nothing.