Pookleblinky

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

The amount of times a doctor has dismissed my concerns about a medication’s impact on libio or avoided the topic is so annoying. And once again it all goes back to how much internalize puritism society is strangled by that we can’t acknowledge the value of pleasure

Monday's update is at least the fifth time the U.S. has revised the number of personnel injured during the Iranian attack. President Trump initially reported no U.S. troops were injured. "No Americans were harmed in last night's attack by the Iranian regime," Trump said shortly after the strike. He added, "We suffered no casualties." But the Pentagon later said that 11 people had suffered TBI. And on Jan. 24, the number jumped to 34. Nearly a week later, the Pentagon said 50 personnel were injured, only to revise the figure days later to 64.

109 U.S. Troops Suffered Brain Injuries In Iran Strike, Pentagon Says Of the 109 who were injured, 76 have returned to duty. But 21 service members who were taken from Iraq to Germany for medical care have now been brought to the U.S.

Like nearly identical. From 2020:

Pentagon says about 140 U.S. troops have been injured in Iran war so far, 8 severely "The vast majority of these injuries have been minor, and 108 service members have already returned to duty," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in an emailed statement.

“The vast majority of these injuries have been minor, and 108 service members have already returned to duty."

They said the same about a retaliatory strike during trump 1.0 when it turned out numerous service members received traumatic brain injuries.

pedocon theory not so much a theory as an immutable law of physics

I've thought about an ergometer but the appeal of a bike is that I can read while using it

I put a thing in my calendar for June that, if there is still a functioning society, look into it and do some maths to see where one could fit

It might be possible to attach some 45's but it'd require welding loading pins and reinforcing it, which is more work and money than just finding a nice big rock

Another spot where one *might* fit is replacing my desk chair with it, but that is where I sit to play bass and guitar.

Not *that* big an annoyance because high rep breathing squats beat cycling in every single respect, but still.

And I'm absolutely not gonna make log presses less convenient

I've been wondering about getting a stationary bike but I just don't have enough space, the only spot it could fit would be where I do overhead presses.

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

Avengers: Endgame was 182 minutes and had a $356 million budget. Using Noemenomics it, would have cost $40.04 billion to make. That's more than the entire box office take from the year 2025.

Yes. Anthropic has made $5bn in its entire existence up until March. It also spent $10bn on compute. It's raised $60bn (with $30bn of that arriving Feb 12), which suggests other costs - or prepayments/deposits for compute are brutal

Today’s fun fact: the reason shipping lanes in the Baltic are so damn narrow is that there are anywhere from thirty to one hundred THOUSAND unexploded mines in the waterway from the World Wars, and the lanes are where the bottom has been swept

That this war with Iran is unpopular in a way never before recorded in American history has seen remarkably little attention from the press

Trump said, on camera: "but they were very strongly involved and all of the people that died through the roadside bombs died and are right now walking around with no legs, no arms. A face that’s been so badly damaged.”

Who wants to bet his scheming viziers snuck in some Romero clips into his slop

which news agency still has the fucking guts necessary to just play his words on air and then have their anchor silently stare directly into the camera for 30 solid seconds

I just… What are we doing? What the fuck is wrong with these people.

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!

Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

18 Dems just voted *today* for Trump’s agenda. Does it make sense yet why they’re so unpopular?

Jesus Christ

Hasbro deciding they're going to make D&D into a subscription-based, AI-laden "lifestyle brand" is insane to me, but also not the least bit surprising

The double harmonic major is like one note being a half a step different than Phrygian dominant, it's basically the same scale just at a different time of day

I wonder if you could map exactly when crunch set in, like the way you can with Lost Izalith, and see how it compares across games in the franchise

Halfway through they're like fuck it, just toss in another grenade launcher fight or something and no one will say shit

It's cool how every resident evil game is that meme about drawing a horse where the last half is just a child's stick figure