Ray Radlein

I won't be surprised if they reveal that this does not actually work.

I call this the reverse Turing Test. If an LLM is producing something passable, it doesn't mean the tool is intelligent, it means humans were being asked to write something meaningless

Tom McHenry is one of my favorite cartoonists and you should follow him.

District 5 Special Election Initial details about the special election for District 5 including interactive map of council districts. Also a look at turn-out in the district the last 2 elections.

I've been quietly updating the District 5 special election page with links to campaign sites for the candidates. 9 candidates now have formal sites with qualifying ending next Friday.

tampamonitor.com/fyi/district...

$8000, I believe? His net worth is $10 million

Laura Loomer is attacking Flo Groberg for being the wrong kind of Medal of Honor recipient—he’s a French-Algerian immigrant—and suggesting the Army posting about him today is an act of disloyalty to Trump.

…The Army posted about Flo today because 8/8/2012 was the day he tackled that suicide bomber.

Lmfao

Tweet by Bristol post reporter

400 counter protestors vs 15 fascists in Bristol

And yet it is the latter who are painted as expressing the "legitimate grievances" of "the people" by the mainstream media and politicians

This leads to emboldening and mainstreaming and it is a top down effect

This was a random Democratic congresswoman a week ago.

It Sure Looks Like Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Think Women Should Vote If this video is any proof, the defense secretary has a dark vision for America.

“Men have a sexual right to women. Unsubmissive women are at fault for sexual violence against them. He penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. She receives, surrenders & accepts. God created women to make sandwiches. Women’s right to vote has led to a war on family.”
~Hegseth advisor Doug Wilson

Photorealistic tattoo of mechanical shark from the movie Jaws on a white man's left inside bicep

Blonde woman with dreads tattoos white man's inside bicep using a stencil

Freshly tattooed arm with detailed picture of the mechanical shark from Jaws on left inside bicep

Laptop screen with tattoo template constructed from the only two photos of the mechanical shark from Jaws available online

NEW TATTOO REVEAL, a gift to ten-year-old Jaws-obsessed me, from fifty-nine-year-old me. I could not be happier with it. The artist is Peaches from Studio Ex on Francis Street, Dublin, and she's amazing.

liberals on here have in fact been perfectly happy to admit the one thing the Corbynite left was absolutely right about was Starmer, that’s how much we hate him now too, but by all means keep tilting at strawmen

I keep seeing stuff about ChatGPT “therapy” and I need to say that therapy is not just about unloading about your problems or even about getting advice, it’s about screening for more serious issues, and that many people who go in for the former access the latter, and ChatGPT cannot do the latter.

If Trump maximalizes enough, he'll reach totality.

Not great, is it, when subeditors have to rack their brains to come up with a word that conveys less meaning than the obvious one.

God I love the term “affective gradient”. This is neat.

Movie poster of _The Thin Man_, with Wiliam Powell and Myrna Loy drinking martinis together.

You know when you finally watch something you know already through geek culture osmosis and it's just as good as it was made out to be?

Watch The Thin Man. Just be prepared for sclerosis of the liver by proxy.

You know, a government which exerts the maximum possible reach... one which governs the totality of life for its citizens.

If only there were some other word for a government which controls such a... totality

Or the direct synonym of "maximalist" in this context: "Totalitarian"

That it literally the maximum government possible! Everything which is not compulsory is forbidden.

A ball of floof for your media feed

#ICE Agents Tear Down Cameras And Break Doors And Windows At Restaurant in Burbank

Only criminals would need to do this. They know they're breaking the law, and they're destroying anything that can give evidence.

#Nuremburg style trials can't come fast enough.

New York is in the thick of a mayor’s race in which crime, especially in high-traffic spots like Times Square and subway stations, has been one of the defining issues. It took on even more prominence after Zohran Mamdani, who has drawn criticism for his remarks about the police, won the Democratic primary in July.

There's a shooting on Times Square and who does The Times single out for its political angle? The mayor on whose watch this occurred? No Mamdani, because the #BrokenTimes has a #MamdaniVendetta.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/n...

It’s just a ridiculous story, even if all the requirements were quoted correctly

They aren’t “new” rules, and the question will be asked on a screen at the e-gate, the same question that border guards are supposed to ask everyone but rarely do due to time constraints

A possible hypothesis is that the authors used ChatGPT for "research", and did not check the results. Another is that this is a deliberate untruth, to enrage people for clickbait purposes. Or a simple misunderstanding they didn't check.

Anyway, deeply unimpressive stuff for a front page story.

Here's the law - Article 6 of the Schengen Borders Code (as codified after amendments) - eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
I'm curious as to *how* the Times got this wrong. In addition to the actual law, the EU and UK government/parliament sources are correct. So is Google AI, when I did a search.

The Times has got some basic legal points wrong. There's no requirement for visa waived visitors (such as UK citizens) to have travel medical insurance. Nor is there a requirement to have a return ticket, just the means to buy one (or being in a position to acquire such means lawfully).

Parts of Convoy have not aged well. Other parts of Convoy have aged so shockingly well (in particular its portrayal of US law enforcement) that it feels like a modern arthouse movie filmed in a seventies style as some kind of metaphor.

Like, the ENTIRE PREMISE of convoy is that every sheriff is grifting cash, goes full racist when challenged on it, then frames any resistance as assaulting a police officer.

It's this crazy dark movie that someone convinced the studio was a fun romp with trucks based on a meme song at the time.

Loved this film as a kid because of all the big trucks.

Caught it on TV late one night as an adult and loved it because it's basically about how all US sheriffs are racist crooks, so its okay for Kris Kristofferson to punch them out then have affairs with their wives.

Also all the big trucks.