When I worked at Blockbuster, I miskeyed almost every credit card number on new-member applications. The system didn't authorize the cards, or even check if the number was valid.
At the end of every shift, the computer would attempt to charge late fees to the card on record if your balance was >30days old. The failure rate was high due to expired cards anyway, so nobody ever got suspicious.
Professional wrestling was all fun and games until it started airing on CSPAN.
quit to the main menu
Fuck you, I wanna quit to the desktop.
A corrupt system is not a space where corruption is permissible, it's a space where corruption is mandatory. And by corruption I don't just mean graft. The ability to ignore Trump's lies comes at the cost of corrupting your ability to perceive reality. As people who have family members in MAGA or Qanon know, people vanish into the upside-down where school shootings are fake, but pizza pedos are real.
Having an "it's complicated" relationship with reality means being estranged from competence.
I still wear a wristwatch. Not as jewelry, a cheap one that tells time. Pulling the black obelisk out of pocket just to see the time is burdensome and slow.
Not to mention a fresh opportunity to drop the damn thing.
There is no reason to believe that Skynet is related to, or a development of LLMs, machine learning, or neural networks.
It's like criticizing their time-travel tech because a Timex could never work that way.
From the outside, freedom always looks like chaos.
fig1. example of US troops being creative about punishment.
This isn't a weapon, and probably won't work as intended either.
"Space lasers" don't work over long distances because the light spreads out. (inverse square law) A pinpoint laser is almost 2m wide when pointed at a low flying aircraft.
Increasing intensity doesn't work because you'll need a) a Dyson sphere level of energy input. or b) a mirror big enough to occupy a significant fraction of our orbit.
This is just "data center in space" fiction
Is Israel and Zionism not bad enough in reality that you have to write an Oliver Stone script to jazz it up? Is genocide too boring?
It's not like the regular numbers behave themselves. Have you ever heard a coherent, non-self referential definition of the number 3?
12/13/03 A date that will live in infamemey.
Because they need a fall-guy for Iran. It's ironic because the things directly under Hegseth's control appear to have largely functioned as intended. That is the strikes on Iran have been carried out with minimal US losses. Don't @ me about war crimes like the Minab school, Republicans DGAF.
The problem with the Iran war is the decision to start it and the terms upon which it will end. We should launch an investigation into who's responsible for that.