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    Delusions of a War Hawk

    We didn’t “lose” in Afghanistan. We “not-won.” Or something.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 29, 2021
    • Militarism, Nationalism is Bullshit, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
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    They Did It Again

    One of the US military’s less endearing characteristics is that it classifies its failures, which effectively puts anyone who discusses them at risk for prison time.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 28, 2021
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, Totalitarianism, War is a Racket
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    An AI Technique

    One of the challenges in AI is creativity: how do you make an AI that makes new things? For a long time, many humans privileged the human experience (as we do) saying that computer creativity was a hard limit.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 27, 2021
    • Art, Technology, Terrorism, Things That Delight Me
    • 8 Comments

    Letters of Marque

    That great big clueless jackass, Donald Trump, tended to blurt whatever was in the forefront of his mind. Picture, if you will, a conveyor belt of bad ideas attached to a microphone, and that’s a good model for how well Trump could think and keep a secret.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 26, 2021
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, Totalitarianism, TrumpUS, War is a Racket
    • 4 Comments

    Read This

    This is incredible. On a scale of 0-10 WTFs this is a 10.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 25, 2021
    • Science, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, We are Fucked
    • 19 Comments

    Uncommon Sense: Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez

    Look This is a bit from a recent episode of Reveal podcast. [reveal]@50:00You have to hear it in your mind as coming through tears of sadness and deep frustration, with a great deal of passion. Or go listen to her, in audio.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 24, 2021
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, Uncommon Sense
    • 12 Comments

    Checkmate

    This is almost certainly a pre-release bit of propaganda, but it’s – as is the case for most Russian propaganda – well done. The Russians have their own F-35! [france24]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 23, 2021
    • Science, Technology, War is a Racket
    • 14 Comments

    Floor Rails

    This is probably the penultimate report on the shop doors. I feel like that project is finally drawing to a close. It’s about damn time. “Operation Overreach” must eventually come to an end.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 22, 2021
    • Art, Badger Forge
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    Ladders and Levers

    Yesterday, I had a lot of reasons to think about the question of mechanical advantage involving ladders. The 40-foot extension ladder that I ordered (one has to special-order such things) finally arrived and it was time to clean out the gutter on the upper edge of my house.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 21, 2021
    • Science, Uncategorized
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    Unsettling Quick Sand

    The standard Hollywood “quick sand” is plain water with a layer of vermiculite floating on top. It crops up so often in movies and it’s always one of the hallmarks of a truly bad film – what director has to reach for such a hackneyed plot device, anyway?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 20, 2021
    • Burn it to the ground
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