Got my late father's Bulova Accutron Spaceview repaired, so it works again for the first time since the 1970s. I remember him letting me listen to it hum during bedtime stories. Geek chic?

From an Englishman, that's outright condemnation

In Vance's comments about EU "interference" in Hungary and Trump's comments on NATO, we are not just dealing with verbal aggression.

There is a complete lack of understanding about the mechanisms of international cooperation- which are unique in each case. They just don't have the 101. Problem.

Lord knows the UK press – with its deep reserves of feral idiocy – has its issues, but rather this than the spineless deference we see across the pond

Anthropic sending people copyright takedown notices to forbid using their code, and irony is rolling in its grave.

Let's hope he's matured a bit since the Syrian gas débâcle

factor in that pedaloes are much slower and you'll be fine

No one here in the AQZ knows exactly when the invasion of Klendathu will occur. But everyone's talking about it and the talk says tomorrow ...

I listened to the 2 (which didn't do it for me) and the 3, which I very much enjoyed – as I did his earlier WDR recording. Any other standouts?

Looking forward to listening to this ... with some trepidation

Wikipedia has banned the use of AI to generate article content. Good. Wish they'd do it for article _discussion_ (Talk) too – nothing worse than having to argue with walls of AI slop argumentaion about why the moon landings were hoaxed or somesuch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

I think Wikipedia knows (for sci/med anyway)

square-ish steering wheel

Will they have a 'quartic' steering wheel like the Allegro?

Solved with the magic of doublethink !

See also: everything else

If you've had a kidney stone, you've been advised that the most important thing to prevent another bout is to increase hydration. Now a randomized trial of hydration in over 1600 participants showed no benefit, despite evidence of increase during volume. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The 49MB Web Page A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

nothing better illustrates the desperate search for a media business model like a 50MB web page with a 90:10 ad-to-content ratio

is this some kind of reverse "Judas" ?

Does that explain what he's got against the Strait ?

He expects them to bear the brunt of the sinkings

Here is Article 5 from nato.int

What happened with Vietnam when the UK refused to help with troops? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Concerning. The UK might find itself in a European war with the USA not leaping in to help. And if the US was belatedly bestirred to help out of self-interest, they might bill us for it in ways which hamstrung the country for generations ... #ww2

"must"

"Hopefully"

I think that's unfair on penises

There's an early Vienna B5 which is fantastic.

Pretty slick

But will it confuse military barracks with primary schools?

New York Times piece headlined "How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran's Response to War"

Even when the NYT raises an eyebrow it dignifies the current situation as if there was some "calculation" at all to mistake. Cannot admit (/does not realise) that the US has regressed to a nation of irrational policy spasms.