2026-01-05
Horseshit
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Tech Companies Show Feet as They Try to Appeal to Gen Z
- When Slashdot's community began to coalesce, a couple of people were insecure about their appearance and didn't want to post their photograph to a "who we are" page. So the gallery used pictures of left feet, often those of the people profiled.
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More than half of UK therapists report seeing rise in out-of-control porn use
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Imaging reveals 2k-year-old ice mummy's 'incredibly impressive' tattoos
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Academia's Abstraction Failure
Academics are so tied to their little “cities” that they have only vague concepts of most of the space outside of it. In fact, only ~2% of academics could give a coherent intelligible (but not necessarily correct) answer to this question: “Why is your particular research nearly the most cost-effective among the options available?” Few academics can justify their research relative to anything besides other nearby research. The sort that might cite them, and which they might cite. The question of why that whole area is funded is of little interest to them.
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Harvard President Faults Faculty Activism for Chilling Debate and Free Speech
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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CoreWeave credit agreement amendment puts liquidity covenant in focus
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Anthropic's 'do more with less' bet has kept it at the AI frontier, Amodei tells
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World 'may not have time' to prepare for AI safety risks says leading researcher
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Slop before the machines: Why the AI authenticity panic misses the point
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Computer scientist Yann LeCun: ‘Intelligence really is about learning’
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Left Angst
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The Venezuelan Oil Narative Is Pure Theatre
The targeting package, operational timeline, force structure, and strategic objectives were determined by military planners based on threat assessment and capability requirements. The decision to strike was made when the Pentagon concluded that the convergence of Chinese resource control, Iranian weapons manufacturing, and Russian military integration exceeded acceptable risk parameters. Trump’s role was to authorize what had already been deemed militarily necessary and provide political cover through public messaging about drugs and oil. This matters because the oil narrative, while politically convenient, obscures the actual strategic imperatives that drove Pentagon approval. Understanding what the military establishment determined was worth the largest US operation in Latin America since 1989 requires looking past presidential rhetoric to threat assessments and capability vulnerabilities that define Pentagon planning.
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Now you're saying capturing him was unlawful? Did you just entirely forget your administration's policy?
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How the Times Assessed That Photo from Trump of Maduro in Handcuffs
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“Fumbling towards bicameralism”
and yet we do deceive ourselves, all the time, and no one more than SJWs, whose lives indeed seem to be nothing but “self-deception.” Bicamerality explains that. The “god” that lives in the smartphone says X today, so X it is. That same “god” says not-X tomorrow, so now it’s not-X! It’s not self-contradiction, it’s not self-deception, for the simple reason that there’s no real “self” at all.
Finally, it explains what might be the most frustrating thing about the Left, the thing that’s likely to end in a nuke or two here before too long: Their utter inability to see the glaringly obvious consequences of their actions. Those of us who tend to see “Leftism” as a big conspiracy love to point out that if they, the Left, were just stupid (childish, contrarian, herd animals, whatever), cold impersonal chance alone would guarantee that at least some of their fuckups would benefit us at least some of the time. Much like The Media’s “retractions” and “admissions” and so on, the “mistakes” always always always go in only one direction … ergo, they’re not mistakes.
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US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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Trump suggests cyberattacks used to turn off lights in Venezuela during strikes
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How Donald Trump watched Operation Absolute Resolve live from Mar-a-Lago
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Rubio says US won't govern Venezuela, will push for changes through oil blockade
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Pete Hegseth says U.S. intervention in Venezuela is "exact opposite" of Iraq
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US Army tests 20,000W vehicle-mounted laser systems for drone defense
World
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Multi-day power outage for 45,000 Berlin homes after suspected arson attack
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British and French warplanes strike suspected IS weapons facility in Syria
Britain and France carried out a joint airstrike in central Syria on an underground facility where members of the Islamic State group are suspected to have stored weapons and explosives. Britain’s Ministry of Defence said in a statement guided bombs were used Saturday evening to target a number of access tunnels down to the structure in the mountains just north of the historic town of Palmyra in the country’s Homs province. The two countries are part of the U.S.-led coalition that has been fighting IS militants for more than a decade.
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Sheffield project aims to build first UK video games archive