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dayofthedaleks··on The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
Hard to be a true state builder over the past 80 years without being capped by the CIA or else suborned to the soviets/bratva.

Which almost makes China's mercantilist foothold on the continent seem like an improvement.

dayofthedaleks··on Fuck it, make it anyway
memento mori
dayofthedaleks··on Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex
[0] “Palo Alto” - Malcolm Harris, 2023
dayofthedaleks··on Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation
Ever since the U.S. went fash, provably and demonstrably. This is an example of federal apparatus being used to delineate sides for cases in Oregon and Texas.
dayofthedaleks··on The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
It already goes to your local DHS Fusion Center.
dayofthedaleks··on Show HN: Hallucinopedia
You could also argue that the web has failed and poisoning it into irrelevance is a vital service, motivating humans to collect knowledge into immutable sources. We‘ll call them ‘libraries.’
dayofthedaleks··on The gay jailbreak technique (2025)
Ah yes, Data Queering.
dayofthedaleks··on Larry McMurtry's Tall Tales
https://archive.is/bCMv9
dayofthedaleks··on North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim
Advanced Persistent Coworker
dayofthedaleks··on Man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver
Getting grifted is no excuse for shooting a stranger.
dayofthedaleks··on ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants
Related HN thread:

ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data (eff.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46756117

dayofthedaleks··on FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations
Bubble of protection is 3000 feet laterally and 1000 feet vertically. From the article:

“Unlike traditional Temporary Flight Restrictions, the NOTAM does not provide geographic coordinates, activation times, or public notification when the restriction is in effect near a specific location. Instead, the restricted airspace moves with DHS assets, meaning the no-fly zone can appear wherever ICE or other DHS units operate.”

“In practical terms, a drone operator flying legally in a public area could unknowingly enter restricted airspace if an ICE convoy passes within the protected radius.”

dayofthedaleks··on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
Maybe worth noting in the title this is from Cory Doctorow.

https://archive.is/ctuVG

dayofthedaleks··on Rail travel is booming in America
The engineering is not stellar either. 96% of the line's crossings are at grade. Those intersections are undersignaled with barriers that are easy to drive around.

If you know anything about Florida drivers you won't be surprised to hear there have been 180 fatalities on Brightline since its inception in 2017.

dayofthedaleks··on America's Coming Smoke Epidemic
[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20250629175151/https://www.theat...
dayofthedaleks··on US Supreme Court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders
This is functionally equivalent to the Enabling Act of 1933. [0]

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

dayofthedaleks··on Endometriosis is an interesting disease
Any AI will most certainly reflect the biases of the bureaucracies responsible for their creation.
dayofthedaleks··on The Leaning Tower of New York
Assuming the neighbor to the north gave up air rights, could this be corrected with guy wires planted in the park one block away?

Makes me think a kerbal citybuilder game would be fun.

dayofthedaleks··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
Consider watching Paul Shraeder's _First Reformed_.

We're all nearly powerless but our choices do matter.

dayofthedaleks··on New forms of steel for stronger, lighter cars
My experience is that cars manufactured in the past 10 years can withstand salty rust belt winters with little or no corrosion. I'm sure metallurgy varies between manufacturers but I think you're underestimating how much practices have improved.
dayofthedaleks··on Nvd.nist.gov cert expired yesterday and uses HSTS
Some of the site's infrastructure is using an expired cert referencing letsencrypt R3 and other bits are serving a working cert at letsencrypt R10. Broken ACME updates maybe.

This can be so hard to get right! But I guess an automation oopsie is a step up from the need for spreadsheets, NMS checks, calendar reminders, and still having things expire once turnover erodes institutional knowledge.

dayofthedaleks··on Probability Estimates of a 21st Century AMOC Collapse
I appreciate an abstract that doesn't beat about the bush:

The collapse time is estimated between 2037-2064 (10-90% CI) with a mean of 2050 and the probability of an AMOC collapse before the year 2050 is estimated to be 59 +/- 17%.

We'll miss you, Gulf Stream.

dayofthedaleks··on The Ridgeway: The 5k-year-old pathway that's Britain's oldest road
Looks great for bikepacking.
dayofthedaleks··on Show HN: The first open-source Infrastructure-as-Code framework
Documentation link leads to main page, no documentation section present in site menu.
dayofthedaleks··on When RAND made magic in Santa Monica
Third paragraph marks this as a work of fabulism.
dayofthedaleks··on Ask HN: What skillsets/stacks will keep me employable over the next 5-10 years?
Infosec can be a good grift.
dayofthedaleks··on U.S. to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles in 5 years
Perhaps knowing the car ahead of you may brake suddenly outside of human control will break the habit of tailgating!
dayofthedaleks··on Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit
Not operated by MTA so maybe out of scope.
dayofthedaleks··on Scenes from the last operational Morse-code radio station in North America
Nice to see reliable terrestrial radio services chugging along with orbital services becoming less assured.

I was recently pleased to see eLORAN is gaining momentum to fill the void left by LORAN-C's shutdown in 2010. 8 meter resolution through radio triangulation is pretty impressive.

dayofthedaleks··on The lithium-ion battery may not be the best bet for EVs
I was expecting this to be about thermal performance rather than climate impact. The fact that you have to dump energy to heat LiIon batteries for safe charging or use in cooler weather is nuts to me. How's 0°C performance of Lithium-Sulphur?

I'm pretty enthusiastic about LithiumIronPhosphate prismatics in cooler regions even if they're a little more heavy.

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