I remember this idea. The only good thing that came of that was the Vaughn Bodé character “Cobalt 60.” (Serious opinion)
I understood the dirty bomb to be a non-fission device that would spread radio-isotopes to create casualties &/or terror. Presumably because enrichment was hard.
My thesis about AI propaganda continues to hold.
Show journalists that LLMs can imitate their work product, and they will attribute intelligence to it.
Note that the vector is journalists not novelists.
Related: how many of the journalists on the LLM beat read fiction, especially litfic?
Imagining my high school history teacher grading that answer with a big red F.
I don’t understand dirty bombs, so what makes a “good” one?
I assume something that has a short half life and follows a biological pathway? Like Strontium follows a Calcium pathway?
This is *really* far away from my expertise & training.
It’s a completely wild take.
I go to a coffee shop and the person ahead of me orders something complex. It slows down my order. Which clearly has priority because it’s *mine.*
And how is this not the fault of coffee shop management? Where is the screed about staffing levels?
Those are beautiful. I just shared to my non-Bluesky family.
Love the interlocking covers.
This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.
Good to know. Just like microwaving old rice, it sounds like.
Thank you! I never knew that. I steamed them before
Again, this motherfucker thinks PROTECTING billionaires and ATTACKING trans ppl is normal.
Fuck him.
Imperative to prove him wrong on this by making sure he doesn’t get the Dem nomination
If this was someone else, I would think this was misdirection, and they were planning something completely different.
With this crew? Nah.
Bitter melon.
I like many bitter foods: endive, Indian Pale Ale, black coffee.
This is too much for me.
That said, many people love it.
As others have said, yes.
We can also explain how gas prices will go up, even if the gasoline comes from Alaskan or West Texas crude.
Bonus for an explainer when Chevron et al announce record profits in ~1 quarter.
This exactly.
Jensen “I am a Kiln” Huang.
I would love to see a mockup business card.
You do know what these are, right?
My least favorite vegetable, bar none.
I've been listening to an audiobook about airships (zeppelins, dirigibles, or blimps, depending on locale), and how they NEVER really worked, but governments had invested so much in them that they were determined to MAKE them work, wasting fortunes & years & lives
This post is not about airships
It changed my life. 🤷♂️
White duck in a perky red jacket and felt hat. He carries a bow and is smoking a pipe.
“I’m ready for my close up Mr De’Bill”
Messing about with backdrops and buildings. Creating tiny little moments in miniature is good soul food. Duck is from @fenrisgames.com
A thread for this snowy Saturday
I have to say, I couldn’t have predicted how bad Musk’s ownership would be. Bad, yes. This bad, no.
“Extend the light of consciousness,” though? I would have laughed hard and long at that, even in high school.
You would sound just as silly by saying, “Musk clearly has a lot of magic points.”
Block and give him no further attention
Losses are to be expected, but i don't think the US has enough C-UAS assets in theater. For a long time now, there has been a particular lack of passive defense planning by the US for its IAMD assets. I can't say this loss was totally unexpected, it was eventually bound to happen.
Great post and thread.
One nitpick, and please take it as such. This admin doesn’t care about $200M. (I do)
Key question: What is the lead time to *make* more?
You cover the lead time to move, which is obviously good to know.
I feel like this admin is about to rediscover wars of attrition.
The weirdest part of the early Internet was how unequally distributed it was, even in Silicon Valley.
In ~1985 my roommate was at Sun and using Usenet at work. I work at a chip company and was oblivious to it before he showed me, one weekend.
I think we had CD players long before home internet.
Homage to Catatonia. 😄😄😄
And the U.S. Army didn’t buy loads of Gepards, either, right?
Because (a) we are “smarter” than that or (b) they’re not made in the USA?
The U.S. learned that Saggers were deadly in 1973. And reacted. Seems weird to not internalize Shahed lessons of the last 4 years.
Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.
(Efficient market hypothesis) not, in Boolean terms.
Could not agree more.
Not like I want oil at 100 USD/barrel, but I think your take is more accurate than the so-called wisdom of crowds.
anti-trans Dems ate shit last night
