@gwynnion
Not here. "Culture war" is connected outrage about people making an effort not to be assholes. Plus the columnist call outs on the front page of the Telegraph. (Tell Musk to cancel Starship, Alistair Heath is already in orbit.)

@azonenberg how would it be monitored or enforced?

News from occupied Ukraine: Russia confiscating homes in Mariupol, continuing forced passportization, restriction of reproductive rights

This weekly update from the Kyiv Independent aims to shed light on the situation facing Ukrainians living under Russian occupation and the tight control of information imposed by the Kremlin.

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Two posts in my feed today. In the first, what looks like four air-defense interceptors - Patriots, maybe? - missing an incoming Iranian missile.

In the second, the Ukranian military celebrating a soldier with a record six Shahed interceptions in one day.

I know they're not the same, I get it but Patriot missiles cost $4,000,000 each. Just for the missile, not the platform/deployment.

Those Sting FPV interceptors cost $700.

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116218693871247871

https://cosocial.ca/@VitalisViVa@mastodon.social/116223393028053334

(Via @ollie_whitehouse )

Why o why did I surrender to curiosity and peek? ... It seems that five years metaphorically lying down in a darkened room isn't long enough for the fundamental impossibility of #infosec to change or evolve.

"This paper provides a comprehensive practitioner-oriented analysis of the Bill's provisions, their practical implications, and the steps organisations must take to achieve compliance. "
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07861

"Must" is doing an awful lot of structural load bearing there. Put another way: what a waste of time and electrons.

PS the non-word "cyber" still hasn't laid down & died, see. Too much to hope for, eh.

@Quasit @mikemccaffrey 30 seconds of thought should reveal why that's a total non-starter (absent major genetic engineering of the human species)

Yet another example of the endless, ever-descending spiral stairs to hell that is #infosec...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/14/confidential-health-records-exposed-online-uk-biobank

#infosecrefugee

Five, maybe ten years too late, but full marks to the Grauniad for spotting the early trickles of fine sands and tiny pebbles starting to accumulate at the foot of the mountain of conflict, I mean the mountain of ""#AI"" hype. Haven't seen any sign of other professional news organisations working it out, yet, but it'll come.

The G doesn't seem to be comfortable with the main problem - the gulf between the general notion of what it is, and what it can actually do - but that's OK. Another couple of years of practical demonstrations, a few hundred deaths, some organisations collapsing and the penny will drop. Maybe a global equities correction and a three year recession, too, just for fun?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/14/datacentre-boom-is-uk-ai-bubble-about-to-burst

"major combat operations".

Dubya used that phrase in his speech at the infamous "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" event vis-a-vis the Iraq war being over after a couple of weeks.

#StrongMessageHere

@baldur Slightly uncanny; I was only browsing some of Chris Locke's remaining online output yesterday. RIP Rageboy!

“Five Things: February 27, 2026 | As in guillotine...”

https://loudpoet.com/2026/02/27/five-things-february-27-2026/

All five links are interesting reads.

@knotfeed yuk. Well, they have to do what they need to do to survive, I guess. How Zalensky doesn't drink himself to sleep at night, having to deal with Trump, IDK.

@krypt3ia IDK about that. If I were on a US ship I'd be much happier in the Med than the Gulf or NW IO.

@krypt3ia tandem, per the professional news media here, but with Israel getting things started for whatever reason.

@hanse_mina Impressive! Now, if only they could develop some indigenous capability WRT liquid fuelled engines. Or just quietly bought some from one of the seemingly endless parade of small space startups needing an income stream that's not a billionaire, while they develop their bouncy castles on Mars system or wtvr nonsense.

Regime change, you say? I am reminded of Malcolm Tucker's bon mot to the American citizen who objected to him swearing in a public space.

The "best", the least-terrible possible outcome for the US that I can conceive, is that Trump manages to kill some of the senior government / state figures, and a lot of IRGC / Basij thugs and quotidian forces of oppression. But regime change via an air campaign? Never happened before, and I see no reason it could happen now.

Quite possibly his intended exit is a Venezuela outcome, where some second tier stooge gets to be a public figurehead and Trump (likely personally) gets to steal their oil. Basically, he's doing his best to act out a scenario that, say, a naive young anti-Iraq war protester in 2003 thought the Dubya loons were doing.

In short: he's an idiot, with no real grasp of what he's doing or why he's doing it; and he's going to cause the deaths of thousands, possibly tens of thousands, basically so he can look good on TV.

#Trump #Iran #airstrikes #regime_change #evilfuckwitsoftheworld

That doesn't sound at all sinister.

"...Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has declared a "special and permanent state of emergency" "

(BBC live blog on Parent Israeli preemptive (?) attack on Iran, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t )

How nice of them to time it just as I woke up and checked the apocalypse updates you puny earthlings call 'news'

This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.

He records them and shares it with the world.

What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?

Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJnkikcrHA0

PEERTUBE option: https://kinowolnosc.pl/w/p/av2NQ5ug2M7TgJzkSvyzi6

People like to mock AI search, but if you just follow some best practices, it will work fine.

Let's take Google's "AI Overview" feature as an example. To use it effectively, simply follow these steps:

1) Type your question into Google
2) Get an "AI overview" result that is wrong and bad.
3) Go search for your answer on Wikipedia and get a much better result.

It's not rocket science people!

For the record:

Despite significant progress, there remain serious, exploitable vulnerabilities in parts of our election infrastructure. There’s also no credible evidence to date that any election outcome has actually been altered this way.

That’s unsatisfying to just about everyone, but it’s where we are.

If it’s frustrating that reality doesn’t neatly fit your narrative, you probably need to fix the narrative.