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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 41m

I'm curious why they needed that allegory considering that both the old testament and new testament prominently feature stories about successful insider threats.

Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1h

That's literally one of the problems we've been trying to solve for thousands of years in philosophy! Come for the ethics, stay for the ontology and epistemology!

Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1h

Well that explains why he was so weird about the Nobel Peace Prize. He must have thought it was some kind of get into heaven free ticket. Not going to lie, kind of nice to see a Christian terrified their theology might be right.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 5h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 5h

And the consequence is that it's very easy for conmen to snow us about how their technology is going to (verb) the (adjective) (noun).

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 5h

If we scratch at this just a little it seems like what we're usually imagining is either "nuclear weapons in 1945", "fleeting wartime advantages", or "we miss the asymmetry of wars of imperialism and have forgotten all historical battlefield setbacks." Right now there's no expectation management.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 5h

I think one thing we frequently overlook in these debates over technology is explicitly stating what historical cases of military technological innovation we're envisioning and then analyzing exactly what they achieved.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 5h

I don't think it's a technological gap, I think it's more of a recording/facilitation gap.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 6h

I'm sure one exists for Ferdinand Eberstadt, I've just got to find and read it. I learned about him while researching the National Security Act of 1947. The WH and military are throwing around dumb ideas, then Forrestal asks Eberstadt and all his ideas are awesome.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 7h

Sometimes philosophy can feel like Sears, where all the best parts of it have gradually been spun off to become their own things. Although in that sense, if there are other departments with better representation, you can probably thank philosophy for creating those disciplines.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 7h

The two best degrees are like the two least valuable. A philosophy degree is like how to understand anything and how to detect all the ways you can misunderstand things. An education degree is how to communicate anything you understand to anyone else and how to detect ways they misunderstand things.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 7h

Speaking as one, there's some side to side motion in the end product.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like the future is mostly lonely guys asking predictive text generators to write pick-up lines for women they don't realize are chatbots.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 16h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 7h

I have an entire playlist that I use for grinding out staff work, writing, and grading. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlNZ...

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

Not telling you how to do things at the University of Louisville, just saying that the post was about the US Army and the picture was a US Marine.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

To be charitable, you're doing better than the US Navy accounts, which post foreign military pictures by accident half the time.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

You say that as if Wikipedia doesn't label the photo correctly.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe not all of them, but if these were more common at a minimum I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be talking about battleships in 2025.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

There's an inflatable penis implant that can give you rock hard erections for life, and I think it has the potential to fix a lot of bad weapons procurement ideas.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of subtle tells. Shirt, shorts, body fat, muscle tone, that he's on a pullup bar, you name it. You can also search the image in DVIDS.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

Are you joking? We picked up like 90% of miltwitter and moved it here. But I recognize the problem of googling "US Army recruit doing pullups" and half the pictures you get are Marines.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

Are you just using a picture of a Marine to get rage clicks?

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 1d

The DuckTales reboot.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 2d

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 2d

Marines: