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I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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“They had fangs, they were biting people, they had this look in their eyes, totally cold, animal. I think they were Young Republicans.”
October 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
“They had fangs, they were biting people, they had this look in their eyes, totally cold, animal. I think they were Young Republicans.”
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I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
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I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.
September 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.
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A longer video of the collision between PLA Navy destroyer Guilin and a Chinese coast guard ship as they pursued a Philippines coast guard patrol vessel about 10 miles east of Scarborough Shoal
August 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A longer video of the collision between PLA Navy destroyer Guilin and a Chinese coast guard ship as they pursued a Philippines coast guard patrol vessel about 10 miles east of Scarborough Shoal
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The single best line from any rpg ever is from a random encounter table in Anomalous Subsurface Environment by Patrick Wetmore. Still kills me every time
"Mimes. Dozens of them, trapped in their invisible boxes, silently pleading for help"
"Mimes. Dozens of them, trapped in their invisible boxes, silently pleading for help"
July 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The single best line from any rpg ever is from a random encounter table in Anomalous Subsurface Environment by Patrick Wetmore. Still kills me every time
"Mimes. Dozens of them, trapped in their invisible boxes, silently pleading for help"
"Mimes. Dozens of them, trapped in their invisible boxes, silently pleading for help"
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I miss the days when people got their news from reliable newspapers.
July 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I miss the days when people got their news from reliable newspapers.
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From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.
July 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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In today's EMPOWERED webcomic page from the 2015 one-shot PEW PEW PEW!, Emp springs into action against an obliviously ranting foe: www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/pew-pe...
July 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In today's EMPOWERED webcomic page from the 2015 one-shot PEW PEW PEW!, Emp springs into action against an obliviously ranting foe: www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/pew-pe...
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I've been looking into how UF6 is stored, recently.
Natural ratio and depleted UF6 is stored in steel cylinders called 48Y, where 48 is the diameter in inches and 'Y' is a designator for the different models; 48Y is the most common, but there are also 48A, 48X, 48HX, etc with different standards.
Natural ratio and depleted UF6 is stored in steel cylinders called 48Y, where 48 is the diameter in inches and 'Y' is a designator for the different models; 48Y is the most common, but there are also 48A, 48X, 48HX, etc with different standards.
June 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I've been looking into how UF6 is stored, recently.
Natural ratio and depleted UF6 is stored in steel cylinders called 48Y, where 48 is the diameter in inches and 'Y' is a designator for the different models; 48Y is the most common, but there are also 48A, 48X, 48HX, etc with different standards.
Natural ratio and depleted UF6 is stored in steel cylinders called 48Y, where 48 is the diameter in inches and 'Y' is a designator for the different models; 48Y is the most common, but there are also 48A, 48X, 48HX, etc with different standards.
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1718) Vennbots. Robots that use the power of overlapping circles to tell you when a thing satisfies multiple definitions.
June 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
1718) Vennbots. Robots that use the power of overlapping circles to tell you when a thing satisfies multiple definitions.
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In ancient Rome, the rumors of this would spread far and wide and herald great calamity.
June 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
In ancient Rome, the rumors of this would spread far and wide and herald great calamity.
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BALDWIN: What is the authority that the administration is using to deploy active duty Marines to California neighborhoods?
HEGSETH: The president has constitutional authority
BALDWIN: Cite the provision of the Constitution
HEGSETH: I'd have to pull up the specific provision
HEGSETH: The president has constitutional authority
BALDWIN: Cite the provision of the Constitution
HEGSETH: I'd have to pull up the specific provision
June 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
BALDWIN: What is the authority that the administration is using to deploy active duty Marines to California neighborhoods?
HEGSETH: The president has constitutional authority
BALDWIN: Cite the provision of the Constitution
HEGSETH: I'd have to pull up the specific provision
HEGSETH: The president has constitutional authority
BALDWIN: Cite the provision of the Constitution
HEGSETH: I'd have to pull up the specific provision
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Fascinating interview with a private drone designer for the RU military. His knowledge of UKR & Western drones is limited and should be taken with some skepticism but he still presents a quite candid picture into the current state of unmanned warfare:🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfN...
Why This Russian Drone Developer Isn’t Impressed by U.S. Tech
YouTube video by Real Reporter
www.youtube.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Fascinating interview with a private drone designer for the RU military. His knowledge of UKR & Western drones is limited and should be taken with some skepticism but he still presents a quite candid picture into the current state of unmanned warfare:🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfN...
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See if you can figure out what this ad from 1984 is selling before the reveal…
March 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
See if you can figure out what this ad from 1984 is selling before the reveal…
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May 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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The White House cites an NPR feature that states "banana slugs are hermaphrodites" as a reason to cease public funding of the network.
But banana slugs literally are hermaphrodites! Like that is just a scientific fact!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_...
But banana slugs literally are hermaphrodites! Like that is just a scientific fact!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_...
April 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The White House cites an NPR feature that states "banana slugs are hermaphrodites" as a reason to cease public funding of the network.
But banana slugs literally are hermaphrodites! Like that is just a scientific fact!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_...
But banana slugs literally are hermaphrodites! Like that is just a scientific fact!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_...
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Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it?
1/x
1/x
April 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it?
1/x
1/x
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My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.
April 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.
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Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?
April 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?
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don't worry, they've moved their war planning directly from Signal to the War Thunder forums
March 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
don't worry, they've moved their war planning directly from Signal to the War Thunder forums