Thursday, May 29, 2025

Today's news and jokes

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Russian drones' new nemesis: a dude sitting in the back of a prop plane with his shotgun. euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/23/r...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM


In Ukraine, a slow march towards the autonomous future of drone warfare theaircurrent.com/ukraine-spec... (via @elanhead.com) #staycurrent

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— The Air Current (@theaircurrent.com) May 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM


(When I looked, there was no hint as to the issue)

(Ukraine is basically the stub from William Gibson's Peripheral used to accelerate weapon advancement)









the US economy is currently in the Wile E Coyote-running off the cliff stage. Already initiated hundreds of actions to juice inflation and crater demand for the next few years but haven't felt the consequences yet.

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— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM












If all you've got is an informal non-prosecution agreement, you don't want to be committing crimes with a statute of limitations that reaches beyond 2028

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— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM








(Misleadingly tame summary) (Lurid, depraved details)



















("There have been recent border incidents between the two countries, including in February when Cambodian troops and their family members entered an ancient temple along the border and sang the Cambodian national anthem, leading to a brief argument with Thai troops. The incident was recorded on video and went viral on social media.")







whoever did the advance work for this Kash Patel interview is about to find themselves with a one-way ticket to Guantanamo

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— Bradford Pearson (@bradfordpearson.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM








Notable 4th Amendment rulings in this 5th Circuit opinion today. Most importantly: People have a reasonable expectation of privacy in stored online contents—here, the contents of a Dropbox account. (Per Oldham, J., w/Richman & Ramirez) 🧡 storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2025/05/... #N

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— Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM








(If these all get deleted) (Speculation as to why xAI would spend that much money on it) (Not the weirdest gossip of the day) (New word.)







Scoop: The top contributor to X's Community Notes is a security startup that set up an automated process to flag crypto scam tweets. It's posted 52,000 times! Read the remarkable details from @mantzarlis.com on @indicator.media: indicator.media/p/the-top-co...

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— Craig Silverman (@craigsilverman.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM








Tesla’s sales fall 87% in Quebec as its market gets wiped out

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— Electrek (@electrek.co) May 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM








People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

— Hank Green (@hankgreen.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM








A scooplet: Authorities say a woman who was shot by CIA police officers last week was driving drunk at the time of the incident. She has a detention hearing later this afternoon in federal court. www.courtwatch.news/p/fbi-woman-...

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— Seamus Hughes (@seamushughes.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 6:40 AM
(This must have been obvious immediately, and why initial write-ups were so bland and terse)















Cheap tickets, cheap beer and having to stop the game because smoke from flares got too thick. Never change, German soccer.

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— Bill Connelly (@espnbillc.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM


















High socks or short pants?

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— Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM








The payroll of the Dodgers' π—Άπ—»π—·π˜‚π—Ώπ—²π—± π—½π—Άπ˜π—°π—΅π—²π—Ώπ˜€ ($102M) is more than the total payroll of six teams (Guardians, Rays, Pirates, Athletics, Marlins, White Sox) 🀯 H/T @spotrac.com

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— The Athletic (@theathletic.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM








(How many of those people will never watch a race again....)







Spent the week with the US Winter Olympic team going for the big superhero shots. @ilmvfx.bsky.social

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— Ian MIlham (@ianmilham.bsky.social) May 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
















I cannot describe how many emotions I felt at the moment when I found out WHY Treasure Island Dizzy only gave the player a single life:

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— Anatoly ShashkinπŸ’Ύ (@dosnostalgic.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM








The curse of being a Maxis fan who lives in the East Bay is seeing a building and thinking "I'm pretty sure that building is in SimCity 2000" and then being RIGHT

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— Phil Salvador (@philsalv.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM


Being in the East Bay is a key to understanding why SimCity 2000 looks the way it does You ever wonder why the terrain in SC2000 is dull brown and dotted with random trees? Because that's what the hills actually look like in Orinda, where the game was made!

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— Phil Salvador (@philsalv.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM








went through a big JCVD phase last year and while I was researching Hard Target, I found an interview with John Woo where he discusses what it was like working with Sam Raimi on that set. it's become one of my all-time favorite behind-the-scenes stories.

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— priscilla page (@priscillapage.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM








still think about how funny it is that they put keira knightly from pirates in that disney kart racing game because everyone always wears full racing suits and she does not have any other distinguishing features or even an iconic hairstyle it's just "a white woman". herbie fully loaded ass

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— Topher Florence (@topherflorence.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM

weird lineup of playable characters!

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— Topher Florence (@topherflorence.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM








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