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Tesla Showroom Set on Fire
  • Le Monde caught up with the primary investigating detective as he was enjoying a chocolate croissant and a double espresso at a charming little café. He had the following comment on the case:

    "Yeah, we'll be getting right on that. Everybody wants to find the culprits, and it's totally not to hand them the nice gift basket we absolutely didn't put together for them."

  • Atomfall Hands-On Preview: Rebellion’s New IP is More Than Just British Fallout - WGB article
  • I don't disagree, but my problem is the ways in which it clearly isn't Fallout. Specifically, FO has some deep lore that justifies the existence, mannerisms and internecine postures of the various factions, but here it's apparently just... Waves of nutters take the first opportunity to move into a radiological quarantine zone and set up shop as conveniently thematic gangs for... reasons.

    "Just think about it lads! Not only can we live in a place that'll kill us on the cellular level, but we can wear theatrical facepaint - don't ask where we're getting a steady supply of that - like a 24/7 Kiss revival concert! It'll be awesome! There'll be matching top hats for everyone. Millinery is a real growth industry in here. Mind the mercury."

    But other than that, it looks fun enough.

    Edit: Spelling.

  • Trump Admin Pressures IRS to Hand Over 700,000 Addresses of Immigrants to be Deported
  • Yes. My point wasn't that "they're not illegal immigrants because they pay their taxes", but that - of all the immigrants one could have - the ones that do pay taxes, while getting nothing in return for it are surely even more profitable for a state than actual citizens which can and do make use of public services.

  • Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts?
  • I'm fine right here, thanks. Although I'd been using Reddit for some time at that point, I permanently left Digg as part of the Great Exodus. I don't see any particular appeal to going back to a centralized service, especially in the current climate.

  • Elon Musk's AI chatbot says a 'Russian asset' delivered the State of the Union
  • It's hardly surprising. He's always wanted to be Tony Stark, e.g. simultaneously a nerd and one of the cool kids. Unfortunately for Musk, Stark could pull that off because A) He's neither real nor a realistic character and B) was a bona fide world-class genius. Musk - who's so far from being a genius that you need the JWST to resolve 'smart' from his location in intellectual phase space - characteristically just managed to concurrently fail at both.

  • Elon Musk's AI chatbot says a 'Russian asset' delivered the State of the Union
  • Setting aside all considerations of Trump and his Russian entanglements for a moment, it's interesting how machine learning mirrors our own preconceptions back at us. It can be nice and validating, but not necessarily insightful when applied to public opinion. All it means is that Trump being subordinate to Russian interest is the common expressed perception. That doesn't make it wrong (at all, in this case), but we didn't need an LMM to tell us that.

    It's far more useful when applied to seeking out trends or patterns in scientific datasets where those are considerably less apparent. We really shouldn't use this technology to build echo chambers for ourselves.

  • Poland plans military training for all adult men, says PM
  • There's a lot of things that could be included in such a program that would be useful for the general population to know both in times of war and in peace. Civil defense and emergency response. First aid, evacuation of wounded/incapacitated people from dangerous areas. Basic firefighting, shelter locations and evacuation protocols etc.

  • DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers
  • That might have made more sense if polygraph testing actually performed better than a dice roll. The US Congress Office of Technology Assessment and the National Academy of Sciences could've told DHS that, but I guess they didn't think to ask.

    Or think in general.