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Metaphoric use of 'decapitation' referring to an organization or state is normal and idiomatic in American English, especially if you spend a lot of time talking to people with mil…

I'm from Jefferson county KY, the FAA had to fund a sound proofing program for a huge part of that area because one of the 5 busiest cargo airports in the world is smack in the mid…

They need to convince 65 year old law firm partners, not you or me.

GitHub has about as much of a shot of doing that as I do of fixing my allergies by updating the base human genome.

Russia still has a huge portion of the Nazi stolen artifacts but I have no idea how many are in public museums.

But we're cool with this bill pushed by people whose primary concern is more tee times in Florida in January? I lived most of my life in a place that already has days with post 8AM…

People who work in finance and certain fields of law on the west coast start their day at 9AM eastern time .

Do you seriously believe that the EPA is deferential to the current Republican coalition, and that it has been over the past few decades when it was asked to reconsider glyphosate …

The people who put shit like this out, referring to the Supreme Court as the "Trump administration" siding with Bayer in favor of cancer and poison, think you are too stupid to fin…

The vast majority of American employees are not maxing out every tax advantaged retirement account instrument, and putting everything in a 401(k) past the employer match level is n…

The 'wallpapers' in question are pirated games made in renpy (python game engine) or rpgmaker (js based), which makes them a really good vector for malware. As another commenter no…

Direct links to OpenAI's own report: https://openai.com/index/prc-linked-influence-operations-ai-... https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/96b559fa-c165-4575-805d-e636909e2...

180cm is the roughly equivalent round number benchmark but it's a bit shorter and most European populations are a bit taller on average than Americans

> After the ban, Balochi priests in the Sindh region complained to the British Governor, Charles Napier about what they claimed was a meddlement in a sacred custom of their nation.…

The article takes a while to get there, but it is focusing on a set of companies I hadn't heard of ("Transsion, Oppo, Vivo, and Lava") that buy components from last gen smartphones…

Sports gambling a few advantages over any other subject that seem near insurmountable to me: - it has the semi-respectable veneer of something that normal people have done througho…

Most available data suggests that sports betting is much worse for the people making the bets, as it better targets people with poor impulse control. Bad bets in political markets …

The first rule of AI alignment is don't talk about AI alignment (in any medium that could end up in a training corpus).

The ZipAir direct flight can get you a week long trip from SF to Tokyo for ~$750 outside of peak seasons, although I'm not sure what their rates for extra bags are if you were only…

? This is related to a vulnerability that was introduced to the Linux kernel in 2017.

We live in a time where skilled and honest tradespeople have significantly more demand for work than they can actually take on. Having anything resembling a friendly and trusting r…

Incorporating in Delaware was initially attractive because of usury laws that matter to a small number of business sectors. The charitable take is that most corporations want to co…

That seems totally reasonable but I wonder if there was some head butting in non-public channels given Bun is one of the biggest players in Zig and planned to push through a change…

Possibly related to https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/ where the Bun team wanted to upstream work to Zig that was rejected by a blanket anti-LLM contribution policy…