Trump is absolutely a guy who found some success in Raid Finder and decided he and his idiot buddies will now faceroll their way through Mythic.
Only instead of fucking up a guild and wasting a lot of people's time, he's fucking up the global economy and getting people killed.
Honestly the movie gave me a wrap-up for these characters, which was enough.
Someone on Reddit had an insane fan theory that reveal would be the Firefly cast playing the cast of a TV show on the next Murderbot season, and now every thing that this could actually be just pales in comparison.
Ultimately it means it's going to be a lot easier to make fun of her if she tries to pretend she wasn't blindsided by a firing; not really any way to reconcile her forward-looking statements with reality.
DHS is live-streaming on their website and YouTube (www.youtube.com/live/tUViUAm... ). Still nothing happening but the schadenfreude is delicious.
I'm assuming most of them don't know since it seems to be an audience of mostly enforcement, not reporters--this makes every question suspenseful AND she is racking up so many statements about the future. Every single one is hilarious and an indicator she does not have any idea.
SHE JUST OPENED IT UP TO QUESTIONS
I'm actually now watching her stupid speech just because there's a chance I could see that live. I'm not that lucky, but you have to hold out hope.
"AI is excellent at tasks outside of my sphere of expertise that I can't evaluate in-depth, but terrible at things I do and can identify the flaws with." is the universal LLM experience. It's good at generating code, but the code it produces isn't inherently optimal or often even good. Same w/prose.
Going for maybe lesser-mentioned stuff:
Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar if you want a deeply silly comedy
It's What's Inside on Netflix if you want a more thriller-y vibe
The sad thing is that this is probably Trump's actual plan--Big military op, declare victory, the end. He's flat out not smart or informed enough to realize the situations are materially different, Israel doesn't want the same thing, and he's going to get a lot of people killed for his idiocy.
Anthropic made news yesterday for backtracking on a model safety training promise unrelated to the DoD; social media started conflating the two and linking the model training article and saying they caved to Hegseth. They hadn't and didn't. What they did do: www.pcworld.com/article/3071...
This is astonishing and as a bonus probably also pisses Stephen Miller off.
He's just sitting at SOTU with his face resting like this; this isn't a transitional face, this is just how he's looking. This is the vibe of the State of the Union:
How dare you say that about Del Taco.
Current most exciting part of SOTU: Waiting to find out if the hockey boys get a seat, or if he literally made them wait outside so he could display them and then send them away.
Is half of Trump's speech just
<pause for applause>
?
I swear 2016 him would be upset by how dull 2026 him is; he always sucked, but he used to get the occasional real laugh.
In the world After All This, Anthropic telling the DoD to eat shit now would be very forward-thinking. Now is a really good time for companies to start separating themselves from Trump and whoever does it first will stand out.
Wouldn't make me like Anthropic, but it would be amazing PR.
now want a website that just covers social media drama as Trails political conflict
Initial relief at the decision was immediately met with a feeling of "Oh no, he's gonna take it out on Iran."
Beat Pathologic 3 today; excellent game and enough to get me interested in going back to Pathologic 2. Also pretty impressive how persistent some choices are through time travel--I spent a while trying to savehack the cursed street away and couldn't. Will need to do another run later to fix that.
Didn't they, in court, claim that Trump posting Lisa Cook was fired constitute sufficient notice?
Trump is going to be so mad about this when Fox News explains it to him.
Is someone trying to primary Rick Larsen? I live in his district and would maybe like it to not be his district any longer.
Just watched a coworker try to mic-drop an internal style consistency debate (how to name some columns) by copy-pasting a 'quick Copilot check' defending his side.
I was just an observer, which is probably good because the extent to which I would have flipped out. Copilot doesn't know our system!
If they never said stop before, I'm baffled that at a time where the coordinated pushback these groups are doing are seeing real, broader impact they chose public division and essentially giving DHS a PR win by pushing out a visible face.
Only part of MN's resistance I'd like to see not exported.
ICE/CBP not providing CPR and just hanging out and counting his bullet wounds is such a condemnation of all of it. They didn't know if he had a pulse. I know we all know this, but they didn't shoot him out of fear. They shot him to cause his death, and couldn't even pretend otherwise.
I want to see people pick up Walz's line about not calling ICE law enforcement. Reject the law enforcement label wholesale, in every situation, and label them as the thugs they are. Weaken the 'weak against law enforcement' angle by denying them the title.
"For example, Iceland, without tariffs they wouldn't even be talking to us about it."
I... I think Trump just forgot he was trying to take over Greenland. He is ABSOLUTELY planning to rename it to Trumpland.
Somebody finally gave Trump a list of all the wars he's solved; I tuned in partway through, but he's reading them off and bragging about how Putin couldn't believe he's settled the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which someone has taught him to pronounce.
He's literally going to make his own peace prize with, presumably, blackjack and hookers and a definition of peace that includes blowing up anyone you don't like.
I know the 'money doesn't buy happiness' cliche is dumb in a lot of ways, but between this guy and Elon just... jfc.
