Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@fulelo
Are they anything like the robust security guarantees that were in the Budapest Memorandum?

We are clear on opsec

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

@EugeneMcParland Unlike the disgraceful thirty-on-one they had with Zelenskyy

@rubenbolling

"So, mysterious old man in a robe, you're a wizard and my dad was a wizard and all three of us are magical and you're going to give me my father's magical sword and we're going to save the kingdom from the dark lord who is also a wizard?"
"Yes. Also, we're in space."

@kralcttam @Nonilex

Believe me you're very far from the first to ask that question. Feeding and validating peoples' crazy, which is what LLMs seem to be almost designed for, is going to give us a mass shooter sooner or later.

@brucelawson

Are there any major players overtly offering sin as a service?

...

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/

Oh. Never mind.

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@molly0xfff
Next you'll be saying "Belgium" outside of a Serious Screenplay

Hey, remember Y2K, when COBOL skills were suddenly valuable again? I'm banking that the day is coming when the same is true for having been adept at Palm Pilot Graffiti

@molly0xfff

From his tu-lips to investors' ears

Those who want us to forget the past are planning to repeat it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/arts/design/smithsonian-exhibitions-review-white-house-trump.html

@BashStKid @evacide

Yes but you really need to have the ankles for it.

@tezoatlipoca @mikeTesteLinuxQlub @nixCraft

Techwank peaked around '12, when it was still called Cyberfap

@evacide

So the saying about "what happens in Vegas" isn't true?

@EugeneMcParland

I mean we're swapping land now, right? While we're at it, we should probably give Florida to the Palestinians. They'll make better use of it than the kind of people who are there now.

@EugeneMcParland

I wonder if Ukraine would be willing to give up Crimea if it received Alaska in return? And the US gets, say, the Altai region, which I hear is very nice.

@carlysagan @sundogplanets

I'm reminded of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. At one point a "soletta" is launched, which allows them to focus intensified sunlight on selected areas of the Martian surface, but which is promptly misused for, shall we say, suboptimal purposes.

@EugeneMcParland

I'm sure they'll have a good talk after Putin's done laughing his head off at all the cheap, incompetently applied gilding and trailer park bling all over the white house. This is a guy who's spent the last quarter century surrounded by Tsarist luxury.