A joint technical project between two governments with a very short delivery timetable, opposed by independent and governmental hackers worldwide. What could possibly go wrong?

I know we're close to April Fool's Day, but this looks like it's for real.

Happy April Fool's Day! Time to re-up an old post ... softwarememories.com/2010/03/30/no-…

I missed this at the time of the original posting, but it sounds like a VERY early example of quantified sentiment analysis. cc: Seth Grimes

Ground warfare is now fully technological and 3-dimensional. The efficacy of engineers matters a lot. Analogies to naval warfare in WW2 probably apply.

In case anybody thinks Ukraine should be pressured into "peace" with Russia, please recall that former president Medvedev is basically one of the top four spokespeople of the Russian government (along with Peskov, Lavrov and Putin himself).

I love the phrase "rapid unscheduled disassembly".

Perhaps he wants to recreate the Battle of Culloden.

If you haven't seen this yet, İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي , you should. It's the most concise (and of course therefore oversimplified ...) description I've seen of a problem I know you're trying to solve.

LOL

I don't know enough about India to judge any of the particulars, but the main point seems well worth listening to.

russian civilians in #Rostov standing in line to take pictures with Wagner's tank in the city center

ICYMI: Israeli Prime Minister declares West Bank is part of state of Israel & Israeli law applies there. Zero ambiguity: without fanfare Israel has de facto & de jure annexed the West Bank. Israeli rule over Palestinians ["local population"] in this single state is apartheid.

Oldest daily newspaper stops printing.

The link is badly broken, but the tweet speaks for itself.

Spotted this in the Hot 0 Day Summer break room today…

Fan holding beer at the 3:30 mark looks a lot like John Landry . Is it? youtube.com/watch?v=WCFPi5…

Though a bit of my childhood dies when I say it, Ben & Jerry's is pro-fascist, subjectively and objectively. Avoid them and all other Unilever products.

RIP Marty Goetz :( nytimes.com/2023/10/21/tec…

A Democrat was in the White House when my family was sent to the internment camps in 1941. It was an egregious violation of our human and civil rights. It would have been understandable if people like me said they’d never vote for a Democrat again, given what had been done to