Dark Laughter
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Dark Laughter
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OIF/OEF vet and Duffel Blog writer. DarkLaughterTDB (at) gmail (dot) com #satire #natsec
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We could have had Captain Ron 2, but Disney gave us this instead.
‘TRON: ARES’ is set to have a loss of $132.7M.

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"In the absence of AI expertise within the organization, leaders should consider devoting resources to upskilling a small percentage of the team so those AI-capable team members can conduct the onboarding, scenario-based training, and peer coaching required for success."

"AI-capable" team members:
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The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.
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All these freaks boycotted Superman for being Woke and as a result they missed its 10 minute scene about how Off The Record works
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"...but just in case it can't, here is live footage of the administration hitting the White House with a wrecking ball."
The “No Kings” rallies were “dignified, irreverent, driven by old-fashioned love of country,” George Packer argues. “If anything can rouse the stupefied mainstream in time to stop the collapse of everything good about America, it’s a spectacle like this.”
Why the No Kings Protest Moved Me
The protesters’ depth of feeling was matched only by the modesty and decency of the event.
bit.ly
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Okay, in our defense NBC wrote "Marines Corps." So be fair, mistakes happen.
The Marines Corps has launched an investigation after the California Highway Patrol said shrapnel from an artillery shell, fired during a live-fire demonstration touted by the White House, struck a law enforcement vehicle.
Patrol vehicle hit by shrapnel as Marines fired live artillery over California interstate, highway patrol says
The live-fire demonstrations were part of a celebration of the Marine Corps' 250 anniversary. Gov. Newsom has criticized plans to fire live munitions over Interstate 5.
nbcnews.to
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i didn't fight in the Wikipedia MOS:DASH wars just to start using hyphens in place of em dashes
"but I use that and I'm not an LLM" - I don't care. Also you have to start using hyphens even when you mean to use an em dash
"it isn't just X—it's Y" is by far the most annoying ChatGPTism
I'm going to laugh when it uncovers one of those ORM worksheets that's like "RISK LEVEL: Extremely high. CONTROL: We will be very careful. OVERALL RISK LEVEL AFTER CONTROLS ARE IMPLEMENTED: Low"
The investigation is going to assess root cause and find the technical or training issue to remediate. I care more about how they assessed risk and decided to accept it.
To be honest, when I was in Paris I skipped the Louvre. I finally did a virtual tour during COVID. My dog had thrown up earlier, and I remember looking at pieces I'd once written essays on for AP Art History and thinking "This museum is overrated, it smells like someone's dog threw up."
I went to the Louvre once and enjoyed it but honestly if I was there and a bunch of French investigators rushed in and said “Sacre bleu! there has been a heist!” I would have had a much better time and would have given it five stars on everything
I love celebrating another year of the Marine Corps as much as anyone, but we may be getting into "I don't think Hank done it this way" territory.
An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
Between this and things like HP trying to switch home printers to a subscription model, I feel like the future is everything you own is actually just rented, but also all of it appropriates data from you. I'm starting to think "eat the rich" might be too moderate.
“At toilet time, you sign in via a fingerprint sensor so that the device knows who's using the facilities. (Please wash your hands before signing out or tracking your progress.) Then, check in with the app for the day's analysis and trends over time.”
Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents
The company's new Dekoda toilet accessory is like a little bathroom detective.
www.cnet.com
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Ok, I figured out what happened. Will make this a thread but TL;DR is some one on the gunline put the wrong time on a time fuze which made the shell function early.
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BREAKING: My demand to stop leaking things I’m doing that make me look bad, including when I beseeched corporate to save me from the leakers, has leaked.
exhibit a of “has never been a reporter” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
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I feel like the grappling may need to take into account which service the guy doing the applauding joined, because it wasn't the Marine Corps.
Who's applauding us for what now?
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The UK No Kings sympathy protests may seem a little ironic but it’s No Kings, plural, you’re allowed one.
This is the most unified I've seen Chicago over something unrelated to Michael Jordan, Mike Ditka, or Jussie Smollett.
The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight.
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To be honest, a lot of my PME and war planning talents just reduce to my ability to make good pop culture references.
Because they're led by an unqualified moron. Under this administration there is no department so anodyne that it doesn't need a crisis comms team to save it from itself once a week.
Hegseth kind of reminds me of the shithead son from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.