People are often down on the value of elephants on the battlefield but they have so many uses beyond a risky charge.

Just having a mobile viewing platform was useful. They could functional a bit like mobile artillery as well. Hellenistic armies were sophisicated combined-arms affairs, so i think we have to presume they gave militaries options they wanted.

People also forget how incredible elephahts are for logistics & engineering - huge in helenistic warfare. Elephants move trees like nothing else could. Imagine today if only one side in a war had industrial earthmoving equipment.

This article is just PR for anthropic. “mythos-grade” is obviously a term a marketing division hype squad came up with, and the entire article is about how to be as good as the mystical program most of us plebs can never even hope to see.

“Japanese”

It’s a chinese character, imported from china, used as a tally in chinese.

But sure, “Japanese”.

Yeah you don’t get to walk shirtless onto a live set by accident.

I mean they kinda are. It’s called hospice and it’s when they break open the good shit.

Why is my coffee shaking? I dont want my coffee shaken!

I think your point about a war going on is spot on, but backwards.

While the project of zionism is engaged in genocide, kill all zionists is pretty clearly a call for resisting and punishing genocide.

Just as during a deeply homophobic regime, be gay do crime is clearly understood as a call to resist our illegitimate system.

That’s the best horse name ever! Definitely not something i expected to see while browsing a three day old non-monogamy shitpost.

I’m sorry that you got nothing but downvotes despite being factually correct.

Boomer can be used to mean a specific age range or just someone old, especially if they’re bad with tech or hold odious views.

It just won’t happen. Our institutions are weak and very subject to outside influence. Everyone in the world can see it.

If our corrupt oligarchs allow an election, the next president will still have to deal with their financial power, the private electronic surveillance state they control, their overwheming control of our very corrupt court system, etc.

If the dems were interested in fixing the problem it would take focused effort over multiple terms. The dems are not interested in fixing the problem. This is just who we are as a nation-state.

Oh well that’s younger than i expected as an early millenial, but i think of “puter” as a term from that cross-generational group i’ve heard described as “analogue childhood digital adolescence”. If you were also watching vhs as a kid it sounds like that includes you.

Do you remember, IRC, the sweet song of the modem and the pain of a parent picking up the phone while you were online? That’s what i think of when i hear Puter.

The rich talking about democracy is like a catholic bishop talking about god - they know it’s not real, it just helps them distract people from all the child rape.

Lol the gizmodo article about the preview of mythos has this incredible openly line:

If Anthropic is kind of like a kid at a Halloween party with a bowl full of spaghetti, telling its blindfolded friends the spaghetti is brains, European cyber agency leaders are like kids who are mad that they still haven’t gotten to stick their fingers in the brain bowl

Anthropic in particular seems to use “we’re scared of what we can do” as their marketing strategy. So maybe this unauthorized use is real, or maybe it’s just more PR.

If there’s one thing fascism has taught us, the two are hardly mutually exclusive.

I suspect you’re roughly my age because of the use of “puter”.

died in a vehicular crash in the mountains of the Sierra de Chihuahua following a drug raid, alongside two Mexican officials

Anyone else think the most likely scenario was a cia hothead pumped up after a raid and driving like an idiot?

I find that being made aware of my mistakes helps me be more diligent in the future, so i’d want to know.

30% of the adult population voted for trump in 2024.

If we lived in a democracy, that would be a generational level defeat that may spell the end of the party, not deliver full control of both houses and the executive.

It’s just a bit rich blaming voters in an oligarchy with no real representative mechanisms.

Given that bluesky was hit a few days ago, could be a threat actor gauging the defenses/responses of 2nd tier targets. I wouldn’t put it past musk to use ddos to generate bad press for non-x socials either.

Plenty of ways this could be worth someone’s resources even if complete take down isn’t on the table.

Seasons 3-8 are generally considered “golden age” simpsons. Theres a lull for a few seasons where it gets very patchy, then it kinda enters a long silver age where episodes are fairly consistently good, with few poor ones and even fewer universally agreed upon greats.

Many fans completely ignore 9+. Others argue where sliver age begins.

The ratings only show the golden age and then slowly declining popularity, because popularity is only ever a loose proxy for quality.