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Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

Pay attention, this is going to smack the games industry and PC business hard.

You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.

Same day

British public also voted for Brexit.

Arguments about the moral right to islands is a sign that future space exploration is going to be a pain in the ass, with countries launching a million shitty probes and fighting over arrival times

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

Empezando a pensar que Tebas es una especie de Leto II que quiere educar a todos los usuarios de internet españoles en el uso de VPNs para, no sé, escapar a la censura de la dictadura sanchista o algo así

Kind of anecdotal, but there is somewhat of a trend towards more more high-ranked professional tennis players coming out of the US college system

job losses to AI: Ben Garrison

yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

CONCEIVED IN SIN,
BORN IN INIQUITY,
NURTURED BY TYRANNY,
DIED OF ACHRONIC ATTACK OF PUNCH

Pope on a plane with a baseball bat

“I think you’re in my seat”

"I don't think it's my fault [...] I can't see [kid-sized obstacle]" uuuuh

it's a good thread and i think encapsulate's secretary heghshgeths's's mindset that mindless brutality is a cheat code to battlefield success

Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data The issue is thought to affect 6,000 planes, which will need to undergo an urgent software update or have computers replaced.

Not a lot of technical details on this story, but it feels like this is the kind of problem satellites deal with: the Single Event Upset (SEU) where bits in memory (or in a CPU register) can get flipped, causing all kinds of failures.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country

for all they scream about "importing the third world" it's the most idiotic, base tribal clannishness they aspire too as well. fuck rule of law, fuck the law, fuck rules, fuck neutral institutions, fuck universalism, fuck meritocracy.

I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].

Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

We will do any amount of self-harm to avoid seeing what our real problems are

I mean it is objectively hilarious that the media and government are trying to hype the OBR leak as a cybersecurity thing

When any digital manager at a large institution could tell you in about ten minutes.

Less if I knew what CMS it was.

This suddenly came to mind, good night all.

-- Chinese suppliers now control roughly 220 GW of Europe’s solar capacity through remotely controllable inverters; more than 80% of new installations are Chinese.
-- Huawei, deemed “high risk” for telecoms, is Europe’s largest inverter supplier.

God help me, I'm gonna actually defend "AI" a bit here: this stuff is like tracer dye revealing how corrupt and decrepit so many of our institutional processes already were long before this garbage came along.

No one wants to upset the golden egg layer that is Trump - easy stories with easy access. Prestigious journalists sit on timely and important stories for years for their books. Journalists routinely print stories from GOP stories that are proven to be lies and then come back to the source for more

So the Trump administration wants Japan to be “crystal clear” about Taiwan in July…
but by November it’s asking Tokyo to shhhhhh because Xi might throw a soybean tantrum.

This isn’t “strategy.”
It’s foreign policy run on noise-cancelling headphones.