Stephen England

Are there any good treatments out there that delve into questioning the conventional wisdom of how this would go down?

Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data

I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key

I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed.

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The story didn't really work for me, but I enjoyed the greater tactical variety. It had some solid mechanics that I would have liked to see developed further.

He's changed ideologically, I would say, but my perception after reading the book was of someone who would sell out their own family for fame, and someone capable of doing that is capable of anything.

That was one of my conclusions from the book, yes.

I've read it and while I had some major issues with it. . .yeah, the man who wrote that book and the man who is currently serving as VP are very different individuals.

Currently quite popular in China are tiny collector's editions of classic works adapted as lianhuanhua (early form of Chinese comics). #books

I could see this. When one considers the President's overall aesthetic, "sultan" is a completely plausible descriptor.

I could definitely see that. Sultan is a very plausible aesthetic choice.

👇🎯 Having flashbacks to my very first “signs you might be a far right authoritarian party” posts on the Hellsite, in Dec 2020/Jan 2021, about exactly 👇 sort of stuff, when lots of folks got really angry with me & told me I was crazy/unfair/biased/overreacting & the party coding data were wrong.

🎞️ Oldest Video of Istanbul, 1897 (View of the Galata Bridge from a Steamship)

Very excited that the Japanese edition of my book BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China is out now! It has also been translated into Italian, Korean and Portuguese, with more languages to come. Pick up the English version here www.versobooks.com/products/510...

Intention Matters: The Magic of Middle-earth Credit: Aronja-Art Today I want to talk about how magic works in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and associated legendarium, as well as how systems of morality and values function …

NEW BLOG POST! Today we're using @bretdevereaux.bsky.social's recent articles on this topic as a jumping-off point to talk about spiritual, magical, and moral power in Tolkien, and how they're all fundamentally the same thing.

So yeah, how have things been in Turkey since this?

Lights Out? Wargaming a Chinese Blockade of Taiwan | CSIS Events This report analyzes the operational challenges of implementing and countering a blockade with a series of 23 wargames. It proposes policy changes to better deter a blockade and to cope with one shoul...

My best guess is Beijing knows an invasion is too high-risk, and will continue rolling out so-called "quarantine" exercises of greater and greater duration to save face every time Taipei does something they deem as offensive or "independence-seeking." www.csis.org/events/light...

Kinda funny to see this post the day after I start listening to Aaron Dembski-Bowden's "The Emperor's Gift." 😆

I was very nearly mugged within an hour of stepping off the plane in Istanbul and I would go back in a heartbeat. These "alpha males" need to stop panicking at shadows.

The Right has always been a three legged stool of sorts; the fact that the evangelical side gets real quiet when their comrades are basically like, “be immoral, promiscuity is okay if you’re a male!” Pisses me off

It needs to be called out more

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

Stefan Zweig, in his memoirs (completed in 1942): "The herd instinct of the mob was not yet as offensively powerful in public life as it is today," and "toleration was not, as it is today, deplored as weakness and debility, but was praised as an ethical force."

Which is why I love Hunt for Ref October so much, because fundamentally it's a movie about people being good at their jobs.

One of the strangest experiences in my life to date still has to be reading Hofstadter's book only about a month before realizing the woman I was dating at the time was the granddaughter of a Bircher who had immersed his entire family (right down to her generation) in the mindset.

I just looked up Erika McEntarfer since the White House is portraying her as a Biden mole. This is laughable. She has a Ph.D. in Economics and spent 22 years as a government civil servant during Republican and Democratic administrations, including the first Trump administration. 🧵

There is something remarkable about watching the parallels between the American *Right* and the PRC.

I'm waiting with anticipation for Matt Walsh to describe DEI as "historical nihilism."

The Chinese 110 metre landing barge head on, larger 135 metre design behind. Via "by78"/SDF.

The US military conducted 5 air strikes in Somalia in July, according to AFRICOM—and an operation against the Somali ISIS branch that AFRICOM wouldn't characterize any further than that, very probably meaning it was a JSOC ground raid.

This was the same night, July 25, that CENTCOM announced a...

Am about to lift the following from a thread I did once in the Olim Bird Place, but if I leave a legacy behind, please let it be the legacy of coining the term The Chortlemuffin effect. The Chortlemuffin Effect describes a citational chain leading to bullshit. /1

Most coast guard ships understaffed: report - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Most of Taiwan‘s coast guard ships understaffed, report says – Taipei Times