CNN headline: "Israel jails two soldiers who damaged and photographed a Jesus statue in Lebanon"
Never mind the ethnic cleansing and war crimes in Lebanon. Damaging an inanimate object? That's where we draw the line over here at "the most moral army in the world".
photo of John Ternus, future CEO of Apple, looking like the sum total of all photos of rich, middle-aged Californian white men combined into one picture
Apple Intelligence, generate me an image of a tech bro
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
Infantry wins battles, kofta wins wars.
AI star symbol.
It's funny (not funny) how this ubiquitous symbol screams 'beware, incoming trash!' I have an instant reaction of revulsion whenever it pops up.
Valid crashout. He was my favorite animal back in elementary school.
Dining on conservative Christians figuring out Trump might not be a Christian after ten years of Trump doing not-Christian things.
That's a Hitman Sniper level.
Every once in a while this patronizing "feature" is forced on me, I recoil in horror and rush to disable it. I see the potential benefits, actually, but this seems like a step backwards. German Emma can't get out a straight sentence, when we do have the technology to auto-translate this correctly.
Emma Vigeland subtitles: "We are back and I'm thrilled to be joined by my friend Crystal Ball,"
Naturally, youtube's auto-dub feature is cursed, but I just noticed it's more cursed than I thought. The German auto-dub here inserted filler words like "uhm" and "er" and says "to be joined" twice. None of that is in the original. The auto-subtitles are perfect, and so is their google translation.
Also, there's a Hitler propaganda picture which I'm not going to paste in here that looks eerily similar.
I'm glad the Chaos Primarchs have come to assist.
Bro quite literally saw the rest of the world come together to open the strait without US involvement, put on a pouty face, crossed his arms and went: If I can't clean up my own mess, no one will!
Practically all Medieval artists worked under the wings of the Catholic Church, some monarch or nobleman. That doesn't make the papacy, the monarchy or the nobility necessary. People go where the money is. We have the power to change where the money is.
congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers
"Radical Living"'s youtube video "I'm leaving Germany".
Complains about immigrants in Germany -> emigrates to Japan, where they complain about immigrants.
The old TF2 pyro airblast reserve shooter combo was not overpowered and they patched it because it made pyro too competitive and competitive players only want demo, soldier and scout.
Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it.
His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.
If I get round to playing it and there's something to analyze there, sure! Currently, though, I've got other projects going on that focus more on shooters.
Gas stocks are dwindling, my liege!
Tagesschau article, translated from German: "Ceasefire in the Middle East - but not in Lebanon? This question is a source of contention. The UN and France are condeming Israel's most recent 'surprise attack' with numerous dead. The terror militia Hezbollah is firing back rockets."
Calling Hezbollah a "terror militia", sure, but then you don't get to just call Israel flattening residential buildings a "surprise attack".
Civilization 5 peace treaty with Darius where he owes you nothing and you owe him the 10 point Iran ceasefire deal.
Very privileged to call Abi a friend, do vote for her!
See Social Ideology of the Motorcar, repost Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Just talked to my Lebanese coworker this morning. I don't know how he gets anything done.
I remember a Dishonored making-of clip where @harvey1966.bsky.social says something to the effect of: "It's a fantasy where if you knife the right five people, the world goes back to normal." Usually I'd agree. But just today, this very day, it feels ever so slightly less fantastical.
being a man
NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Now Available. Dynamic Multi Frame Generation & Multi Frame Generation 6X Available Now.
Sorry, apparently this was already out a week ago, but just seeing this NVIDIA App headline now after weeks of ridicule over DLSS 5 is perfect comedy.
don't threaten me with a good time
The audacity of an LLM my students use to turn 2 sentences worth of content into 5 paragraph emails to call out human writing for not being concise enough.