The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
Breaking WaPo:
The Trump Justice Department is now demanding all ballots from the 2024 election in the Detroit area — a highly unusual move that comes shortly after prosecutors seized 2020 ballots in Georgia and obtained 2020 election records in Arizona.
Jake Mangum spots kid in the crowd, tosses the ball, and her brother catches it and gives it to her. Dudes rock.
Cover of All Systems Red by Martha Wells.
And so it begins...
Re-reading The Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com
Book 1 is All Systems Red. If you're finally going to do what I told you to do and read the series, read Book 1-4, then 6, then go back to 5, then 7 (a direct sequel to 5). There are minor book 6 spoilers in book 5.
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Sound on for the orgasmic "oh - toilet" commentary
NEW: Justice Dept demands Wayne County, Michigan turn over all ballots, ballot receipts & envelopes from 2024 election
"This request is as absurd as it is baseless,” said Michigan Atty General Dana Nessel
State says letter cites allegations that are “incorrect and not credible"
Heavy is the head…
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
I think part of what makes matt Levine good reading is not just that hes funny and very good at explaining complex finance topics but that you can also feel his desire to be a neutral professional journalist at war with his desire to scream that so much happening in markets is so fucking stupid
Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.
The hardcover of Platform Decay, art by Jaime Jones, stacked in a cardboard box with padding air bags.
So this arrived today:
I love it! Top three best ad micro-targeting geos are (1) this, (2) movie billboards on Sunset Blvd in LA, and (3) tech infrastructure ads on the 101 south of SF.
Markets up 15% again on the news
We thought we were living in a cyberpunk dystopia but this is actually straight from Warhammer 40K. The machine spirit must be appeased using the proper rituals. Blessings affixed with purity seals will keep the cogitator functioning.
This point is: Detroit was dominate, then Japan, now China
If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?
BYD is the new Toyota (says a guy who was born in the 80s in Detroit)
@revrrlewis I've played over 1,000 hours of Civilization VI. Here's how Ukraine can defeat Russia. (1/47) Anthony Smith - 2h Replying to @revrrlewis one game of Civ VI and you think you're an expert????
The stochastic nature of LLMs might be a genuine “strength” here
Go blue!
Go blue!
He always looks like someone told him they just replaced his coffee with Folgers crystals
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
The Moon as seen by Artems II on 4 April 2026. Mare Orientale is seen side on as the feature narrow feature on the right limb of the Moon, just past the darker blob of crater Grimaldi.
OK this is cool. The first time humans have seen the whole Mare Orientale on the far side of the Moon with their own eyes. See flic.kr/p/2s5HA2X 🧪🔭
Yes, and I think neo-conservative is more clearly defined/discredited by foreign adventure in Iraq, so people sort of think “neo” something is bad per se
(my conjecture is that for a lot of people 'neoliberalism' is a term primarily used by people who annoy them, and then the 'ill-defined' thing is backfilling justification for dismissing it/those people)
Getting rid of Tulsi might be one of the few firings that actually, in and of itself, makes America immediately less vulnerable to foreign adversaries
Oh hell yeah. When I quickly read the opening word I was like “what did you call me”? But irl one of my better friends is LAPD and it’s safe to say we’ve had our… differences over time, but I totally see the cross pressures and gamification that metrics can create in policing.
