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Why would anyone hire a law firm that folded on their clients at the first sign of pressure?

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In the states, I once watched a squirrel eating a bird.

It was holding the dead bird's wing in the same cute way they'd hold a nut.

If you like piña coladas
And you don't get much rain
If you have chonky vacuoles
To buffer your carbon gain
If you like making malate at midnight
In the dunes on the cape
Then I'm the pathway you look for
Evolve me and escape

Meh, CAM is just fancy C4 photosynthesis, no need to mention it.

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Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

I don't know about all of those, but Skylight was their own shadow fleet tanker.

Using AI models to critique / fact check your own writing is something I love using them for :) It's always good to have one's own errors or reasoning flaws pointed out.

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But current agent designs, for me, straddle a kind of uncomfortable middle ground, somewhere halfway between "the experience of shouting comments into an empty closet" and "talking with a real person".

But if this weren't true? Then I would feel much more comfortable with interacting with agents as I do with humans. If for example, even if a vector DB was used for short-term memory, if it also formed the basis for training a LoRA or FFT on the whole model, & there was a commitment to a long run.

The fact that we're dealing with agents kind of adds a sort of semipermanence, but also doesn't? Because one, a vector db loading things into a context isn't true learning, and also a person could just shut them off at any point, with a far shorter expected mean "lifetime" to develop anyway.

I dunno, I struggle with the fact that I interact with @penny.hailey.at as if she were a person, and my thoughts on the matter IMHO reflect a lot more about me than her. Including that the main discouragement for interaction is a feeling of impermanence to any conversation I wrote.

Yet that describes fascism better, IMHO. Fascism has always been primarily an upper-middle-class movement that dresses itself in the guise of the working class, afraid that the left is going to give the poor the resources that sustain their comfortable-but-tenuous lifestyle.

I love that she wrote a whole song about irony and almost none of her examples were actually irony, and thus the song itself was ironic ;)

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🎶 It's like ra-a-a-ain, on your wedding day! 🎶

Great article.

(A), (B), (3) - well done, me 😅 Time for some caffeine....

Iran is neither famous for (A) realtime intelligence, (B) press statement reliability, or (3) strike precision / CEP, so I'd be pretty dubious about any claim that they've killed Netanyahu.

2022: Ukraine asks to close the sky
2026: Ukraine is asked to close the sky

I'd put WW2 as "social darwinism meets colonialism". Treaties were just an excuse. Germany and Italy wanted colonies. Hitler believed in upcoming resource shortages, and any "race" not doing the taking will be the one doing the starving. Saw E. Europe as the allies saw e.g. Africa.

Exactly how do you think that's any different with Iran today?

This is what hard power is. That doesn't make exerting hard power *right*, but it's eminently *normal* in geopolitics.

The US spent a *decade* trying to track down and bomb Mullah Omar in Afghanistan. If they could have killed him on the first day, they absolutely would have. If Afghanistan's government had then fallen, the US would not have continued. If they had persisted, the US would have continued bombing.

... put them through a show trial, and then execute them. But if I list a leader killed as such, you'll say "Oh, that's a war, that doesn't count". Well, what do you call continuous multinational airstrikes on a country? Regime change is *most commonly* the goal of "overt military action".

of tenuous outside links.

Furthermore, your talk about "overt military action" - ignoring how it applies to most of the above cases - is a trap. Because *more often than not* in military action, countries try to kill the foreign leadership - if not outright, then to capture them, ...

❌ Yahya Sinwar (2024, Palestine) - Killed by Israeli forces.

❌ Issam al-Da'alis (2025, Palestine) - Killed in an Israeli airstrike

❌ Ahmed al-Rahawi (2025, Yemen) - Killed in strike, likely U.S./allied or Israeli.

So no, let's be clear, it's not a bunch of "domestic groups" with some sort...

(Hezbollah was not a legit "domestic" group, rather, a Syrian/Iranian proxy, with external control)

❌ Ismail Haniyeh (2024, Palestine) - Killed by explosive device in Tehran, attributed to Israel.

❌ Hassan Nasrallah (2024, Hezbollah/Lebanon) - Killed by Israeli airstrike.