Paul Hansen

You go through a lot of chili crisp in your house. 🔥

School work

I really want to try these. Cross-cultural food influence! Mexican in Japan 💚.

We ask top designers how to make board games about the worst parts of human history Board game designers Cole Wehrle and Amabel Holland talk about designing distressing historical games - and whether to make them at all.

A long read from me today, about the delicate task of designing respectful historical board games. Massive thanks to @amabel.bsky.social and @colewehrle.bsky.social for talking to me about their design approaches. www.wargamer.com/board-games/...

Great to see this at CSU. I recognize one Computer Science student.

Dr Pigeon gets a selfie with CSU's Game Dev Club

Gave a talk yesterday on the psychology of gameplay for Colorado State University's Game Dev Club. 😁

#gamedev #games #ttrpg

I think Borthwick might be cooked. This is too talented a squad to be fighting to avoid the wooden spoon.

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Iran acknowledges they are targeting AWS and Azure data centres. "The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The whole reason I bought this sweet reproduction of a 18th century map of Taiwan at the National Palace Museum is bc it's almost a ship's eye view. It's huge too, like 9ft/3m when fully unfolded.

POV: You're in a landing craft trying to figure out where you can land and not be immediately killed.

Italy earn first-ever win over England ROME, March 7 : Italy pulled off their first-ever win over England with a 23-18 victory at the Stadio Olimpico on Saturday as the visitors slumped to a third successive Six Nations defeat.The win ends a run of 32 losses for Italy against England, with 26 of those coming in the Six Nations Championship.

Italy earn first-ever win over England

Scotland may regret that. I say "may", because they'll still need to show up in Dublin for it to be a thing

It's been a week of war in Iran. Where are we?

-The US & Israel have accumulated tactical successes. The Islamic Repubic is not on the verge of collapse, but it is much weaker.

-Again: how to translate this into sustainable strategic success is at best uncertain.

I'm obviously backing the boys in green next week, but it would be the most Scotland thing ever if a loss to Italy cost them the grand slam and championship...

While we are all looking at topographic maps for the first time, please everyone look at one of Taiwan before your next take.

Washington’s Anthropic-shaped abyss [FREE TO READ] Who gets to set the limits on the military use of AI?

"It goes without saying that you shouldn’t trust Hegseth to walk your dog, let alone set the limits of warfare." My Swamp Notes newsletter with Richard Waters on the Pentagon's ominous take-down of Anthropic. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/e8dc25c9-1...

These statistics literally mean fuck all because they are measuring efficiency, not effectiveness

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

Foundry, Fleet, and Fight: Hedging the U.S. Navy The U.S. Navy got some serious nautical miles under its belt during the first year of this administration, with combat operations from the Caribbean to

From maintenance backlogs to drone swarms, the Navy’s latest strategy confronts hard truths about readiness and risk. Writing the plan was the easy part.

For anyone outside of the UK, unfamiliar with UK satirical/news magazine Private Eye, this is how most (?) Europeans see the Trump administration.

Meta has a history of torturing their moderators and providing NOTHING in the way of mental health care. How do I know? Because I used to be a moderator for Meta and I got a $3,500 settlement for the PTSD they gave me.

When we tried to unionize, they moved their moderation to the Philippines.

My thing with Hegseth is that he wants you to think he was a scary, war-criming, door-kicker when he was actually a Minnesota National Guardsman assigned to the 101st Airborne Division as a replacement in Iraq, then quickly pulled from the line and shuffled off to a Civil Affairs unit mid-tour.

So, there’s this thing called the Total Munitions Requirement and it doesn’t give a fuck if you can bench press 315.

Only a single Arrow-3 interceptor launch recorded last night, coming from Sdot Micha.

Really remarkable shot of cluster munitions, likely from a Ghadr, starting at 00:32

An undamaged radar of the same model

Its unclear how extensive the damage is. The other two faces may still be operational depending on how messed up the interior is. Maybe a future image will capture the damaged face!

Damage to this EW site has likely complicated missile defense efforts for other areas in the Gulf

“People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President, we're in to few wars. We can't take it anymore. We're not used to so little war in our country until you came along, we're just always peaceful. And I say, no, no, no, we’re going to war again"

Fascinating branding decision to rename it the DoW and then start insisting people don't call them wars

Smart play from Colby would be to lay out the multiverse theory

You cannot do blanket coverage by fiat. DFC can underwrite risk insurance but will need to be on a carrier by carrier basis and will come with a risk subsidy calculation.

No serious shipper will take “trust me bro, this is legal” when they’ve got crews and hundreds of millions in cargo endangered.

Glad to see my days of not taking anyone remotely associated with Liberty University seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

good. children should not be exposed to linux, their brains aren’t fully formed and capable of handling it