West Point graduate becomes first woman to complete Army Ranger competition.
I went to (did not participate, watched!) the Best Ranger competition back in 1997. That thing is intense. I have respect for anyone who can complete it. The majority of the teams drop out each year.
Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in.
The attempts were "near real-time", and made and using one of the newly created DOGE accounts with the correct username and password. https://t.co/jBtJgXvdCU
— Jackie Singh
(@HackingButLegal) April 16, 2025
I was not exaggerating at all when I said that we have enemies of the United States in charge of the nation. And no, I don’t mean “enemies” like the MAGA doofuses screech about, which to them just means brown people, gay people, anyone who believes science is real, etc. I mean actual Putin and China.
This is insane.
I have a tool that tracks prices on Amazon over time. It embeds a graph right on the page for me so it’s very easy to see. Any imported item you can observe the price rise as tariff expectations occur and then tariffs actually hit:
This is just a decorative item, but this huge price increase is and will be affecting everything else as well. Since January, the product has increased from $120 to more than $180. That happening across most of the economy is going to be very bad for everyone.
Recall going back into Windows.
People in the comments are puzzled about what this undesirable product is for and why it’s being pushed so hard. But it’s not difficult to figure out. Recall is all about employee surveillance. Of course that is not being touted as its purpose yet. It’d never gain acceptance if Microsoft came right out and said that and they’d be foolish to do so.
MBA types, though, are drooling at thought of something like this existing, and that’s built right into the OS so it’s much harder to disable, get around, or fool.
They love it. And that’s who and what it’s for and why Microsoft is shoving it down our throats so hard.
That is amazing, but every one of those frames is hand-painted. That scene is 94 seconds long, so that’d be 2,253 frames. 2,253 frames x 30 mins animation etc. per frame = 67,590 minutes. Which is 1,127 hours or just under 47 days.
In other words, that scene alone would’ve taken just under 47 days of animator time to produce1. There’s no way CGI would take that long. A comparable scene with CGI would take a day or two of animator time. Big, big difference.
Behind the Scenes of Metropolis (1927).
A silent film still well worth watching today. It was the precursor of and a massive influence on nearly all filmed scifi that followed and had a huge effect on cinema in general.
Even though it’s silent and in black and white, it feels like it could’ve been filmed today. It shows how much 1927 was like our current era.
The more I mess about with Docker and Kubernetes and the tooling associated with it, the more it reminds me of playing around with OSes in the 1980s: Everything is manual. Nothing is settled and predictable. It’s not easy to tell what’s happening or why. The networking and security are poor while the performance is atrocious.
Why anyone thought this was better I haven’t a clue. Seems like mass delusion to me as we retreat into abysmal performance and unpredictable behavior.
Ain’t no accident like a teleportation accident.
U.S. weapons from Afghan war give Pakistani militants a deadly advantage.
25 years on, Patrick Bateman’s unsettling morning routine is normal. Not so much the routine, as the ethos.
The People Are Resisting While the Elites Are Surrendering.
What the best ads of the 2000s reveal about American culture.
You say you want a revolution. Well, you know, we all see you’re full of shit.
Investors Haven’t Been This Bearish in 30 Years, BofA Poll Shows.
Trump will destroy a world economy that has us at the apex and only getting stronger. It is idiocy not seen since the Civil War at least.
The Planetary Politics of Everyday Life. Forging an effective ecological transition requires improving people’s daily lives. Fuck degrowthers.
