It should be stressed that Ukraine isn’t attacking WB instead of attacking refineries, logistics, and shipping. They’re doing it in addition.

Warehouses are a soft, easy target. And, like oil facilities, you’re counting on the goods themselves to do most of the destruction with a little incendiary help. Ukraine has a large supply of slow, cheap suicide drones and this is a good use for them. You force Russia to move air defenses away from the front, absorb economic and financial losses, and remind regular “non-political” Russians that they’re at war. Also, you minimize collateral damage because unless workers are killed in the initial attack, they’re likely to escape the conflagration that accounts for most of the damage.

This doesn’t make any sense. NATO is much stronger than it was before the war. Russia is much weaker.

The Baltic States started the war isolated, partially surrounded by Russia. Today they sit in a NATO lake that can not only support the Baltics, but threaten St Petersburg.

Russia would have to defend a front stretching from the Black sea to the Arctic sea.

Even if the US declined to help, Russia starts in a position of great weakness. And worse still, everyone knows it.

Neat fact: Japan maintained continuity of government through surrender and occupation. In Germany, a new government with a new constitution was formed. Nazi ideology, symbology, and officials were purged. (to one extent or another).

Not so in Japan. Only the top leadership was removed (but not the emperor). Their culture and curriculum puts Neo-Confederates to shame with it’s atrocity-denial and historical mutilation.

This is jaw dropping. I wonder if this is pressure by the Trump regime to get Israel to get in line behind whatever Iran deal Trump can conjure.

Vance has publicly rebuked Israel to be “careful” with it’s most powerful ally. Netanyahu then rejected Trump’s peace plan. Friction from a normally sycophantic Huckabee may a signal that America’s love isn’t unconditional.

Whatever private channels of leverage Israel has in the US, they appear to be weak.

Despite what Alex Jones will tell you, Israel is a vassal state to the US, not the other way round. It may seem confusing considering how bad of an ally Israel is. But that’s my point, people on the left and right are starting to wonder if Israel is more trouble than she’s worth.

It’s extraordinary that Israel doesn’t seem to have much direct leverage and instead seems to be relying on their ability to spoil an Iran deal as their “cards”.

Vance has already publicly warned Israel that back-biting their most powerful friend was risky.

Driving a wedge between the US and Israel may be the lasting consequence to this war. Nevermind the straight of Hormuz.

Microslop has designed a hardware solution to disable AI features on Windows for advanced users.

This isn’t a weapon, and probably won’t work as intended either.

“Space lasers” don’t work over long distances because the light spreads out. (inverse square law) A pinpoint laser is almost 2m wide when pointed at a low flying aircraft.

Increasing intensity doesn’t work because you’ll need a) a Dyson sphere level of energy input. or b) a mirror big enough to occupy a significant fraction of our orbit.

This is just “data center in space” fiction

Did they fix the bug where Ublock Origin doesn’t work?

This isn’t fair. Madagascar is 592,800 square kilometres. You shouldn’t discriminate against prompt engineers in their studies before they’ve even had a chance to take those future-skills into the workforce. In 2024, Madagascar was estimated to have 32m residents. The professor should be ashamed.

is their a meaningful difference between open weight and open source?

Why is she a public figure, just by virtue of being a Trump hanger-on? Is “influencer” a qualification now?

$15.5B dollars, invented out of ether, and bestowed on the lucky gamblers. The stock market is so efficient that it can create wealth without bothering with economic activity. No jobs created; no products produced; and nothing to trickle down.

Elon mad because he’s being exploited for other people’s profit. Delightful.

Reading the article, the reason proprietary “AI” models didn’t work is because they block the kind of code used in attacks to protect themselves. The Chinese models weren’t superior, they were just able to be run locally without restriction.

The real story is that agentic attacks live and in the wild.

Microslop is confused that the people forced to pay for shitty software won’t pony up for the optional shitty software.

This is good actually. The current standards assume that exposure to ionizing radiation is always bad no matter how small. The evidence suggests that small doses are absolutely safe, and arguably beneficial.

Panicking about small radiation doses has absolutely caused public harm and even death. Many people argue that some of the evacuations around Fukushima were overly conservative and ultimately more harmful than doing nothing.

My mother, who used Office software her whole working life recently asked me, un-prompted to help her switch to something else. She was tired of the always online, always signed in obnoxiousness of Office 365. She was tired of looking for stuff in Onedrive. And the software had changed so much over the years, that she figured learning a new office suite wouldn’t be any extra effort.

I’m confused, why is Google telling customers they can’t use it’s AI? Can they not keep up with demand?

That seems way more interesting a story than Meta relying on a competitor.