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Australian student, writer, video game modder. (He/him) Acronym = Yet Another Roguelike Dev (and) CinemaGoer.

Fan of world cinema; perennially procrastinate on updating LB.

https://boxd.it/ciP1z

Has ascended NetHack.

Knowing history changes lives.
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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · 3d
More context about me beyond the bio (1/2):

*The environment is what I study, and the bulk of my replies/reposts will likely be devoted to it

* Another major interest is (military) history: I first joined here to follow @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

* Whenever I review something, I'll post about it
yardcg.bsky.social
#filmsky 😬
"Personal life Besson has been married four times; first, in 1986, to actress Anne Parillaud. They had a daughter, Juliette, born in 1987. Parillaud starred in Besson's La Femme Nikita (1990). They divorced in 1991.[39] Besson's second wife was actress and director Maïwenn Le Besco, whom he started dating when he was 32 and she was 15 after having met three years earlier.[40] They married in late 1992 when Le Besco, 16, was pregnant with their daughter Shanna, who was born on 3 January 1993.[41][deprecated source] Le Besco later claimed that their relationship inspired Besson's film Léon (1994), where the plot involved the emotional relationship between an adult man and a 12-year-old girl (played by then 12-year-old Natalie Portman).[40] Their union led to aggressive criticism, which deeply hurt Maïwenn.[42] Their marriage ended in 1997, when Besson became involved with actress Milla Jovovich, then 19, during the production of The Fifth Element (1997).[43][44][45] "We sensed the special chemistry between us immediately at the auditions and it just intensified during the filming of the movie," said Jovovich.[45] He married Jovovich on December 14, 1997, when he was 38 and she was 21. They divorced in 1999.[46][45] On August 28, 2004, at age 45, Besson married film producer Virginie Silla, 32. They have three children,[47] including the actress Thalia Besson."
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
yardcg.bsky.social
More context about me beyond the bio (1/2):

*The environment is what I study, and the bulk of my replies/reposts will likely be devoted to it

* Another major interest is (military) history: I first joined here to follow @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

* Whenever I review something, I'll post about it
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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euthyphro.bsky.social
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.

Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were

X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
ldh.fr LDH France @ldh.fr · 8d
La #LDH porte plainte contre la publication de #Grok, l’intelligence artificielle du réseau social X, pour contestation de crimes contre l’humanité.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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victorygin.bsky.social
Between this lady and Stuart Seldowitz, who went viral for racially abusing a food truck worker, what a terrible look for Obama staffers.
Ex-Obama adviser Stuart Seldowitz arrested after Islamophobic rant
The former State Department official was filmed harassing a Muslim street vendor in New York over the Israel-Gaza war.
www.aljazeera.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Alright #filmsky , let's do this! Might as well start sharing my multi-paragraph LB reviews here as I write them, and see if that changes anything at all.

First up, #bugonia . Hopefully, this is sufficiently spoiler-free for those who have not seen it.

letterboxd.com/yardcg/film/...
A ★ review of Bugonia (2025)
For a supposedly prestige film, there's surprisingly little to discuss about Bugonia as it actually exists, as it effectively has all its messages written on its sleeve - and they were all said in bet...
letterboxd.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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mm-hacker-news.bsky.social
Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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kibblesmith.com
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
👇👇
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Indeed.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/05/a...
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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publicpowerny.bsky.social
Kathy Hochul could bring down bills and protect our future by building 15 gigawatts of public renewables.

Instead, she's raising bills to build Trump's fracked gas pipeline and a crypto mine.

Is this why?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
Hochul Approved Permits That Could Help Clients of Her Husband’s Firm Opponents of a natural gas pipeline approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York noted that the project would benefit a client of the prominent law firm where her husband works.
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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usapolling.bsky.social
Those who say they're very enthusiastic to vote in 2026:

Democrats: 44%
Republicans: 26%

Ipsos / Nov 12, 2025
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Goes well with this (derogatory).

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
"As Meta tells it, though seemingly dismal, these documents came amid vast improvements in its fraud protections. Stone told Reuters that “over the past 18 months, we have reduced user reports of scam ads globally by 58 percent and, so far in 2025, we’ve removed more than 134 million pieces of scam ad content,” Stone said. According to Reuters, the problem may be the pace Meta sets in combating scammers. In 2023, Meta laid off “everyone who worked on the team handling advertiser concerns about brand-rights issues,” then ordered safety staffers to limit use of computing resources to devote more resources to virtual reality and AI. A 2024 document showed Meta recommended a “moderate” approach to enforcement, plotting to reduce revenue “attributable to scams, illegal gambling and prohibited goods” by 1–3 percentage points each year since 2024, supposedly slashing it in half by 2027. More recently, a 2025 document showed Meta continues to weigh how “abrupt reductions of scam advertising revenue could affect its business projections.” Eventually, Meta “substantially expanded” its teams that track scam ads, Stone told Reuters. But Meta also took steps to ensure they didn’t take too hard a hit while needing vast resources—$72 billion—to invest in AI, Reuters reported. For example, in February, Meta told “the team responsible for vetting questionable advertisers” that they weren’t “allowed to take actions that could cost Meta more than 0.15 percent of the company’s total revenue,” Reuters reported. That’s any scam account worth about $135 million, Reuters noted. Stone pushed back, saying that the team was never given “a hard limit” on what the manager described as “specific revenue guardrails.” “Let’s be cautious,” the team’s manager wrote, warning that Meta didn’t want to lose revenue by blocking “benign” ads mistakenly swept up in enforcement."
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
yardcg.bsky.social
tribune.com.pk/story/103371...
The strike, ordered by Obama on the third day of his presidency, reportedly did not hit the Taliban but caused the hidden civilian damage of a counter-terrorism tactic employed by the US. Following the incident, Qureshi spent 40 days in several hospitals. Shrapnel had punctured his stomach and lacerations covered much of his upper body. Doctors operated on the entire left side of his body, which had sustained burns, and used laser surgery to repair his right eye. They could not save his left. More bad news awaited the boy as he recuperated. Two of Qureshi’s uncles, Mohammed Khalil and Mansoor Rehman, were dead. So was his 21-year-old cousin Aizazur Rehman Qureshi, who was preparing to leave for work in the UAE. Fourteen of Qureshi’s cousins were left fatherless. The teenager, a good student who wanted to pursue a career in Chemistry, was suddenly tasked with providing for his family – mother, brothers and sisters. The family never had the money to repair the guest lounge. Why Pakistan's first drone strike should worry Obama Seven years have gone by since the strike, but Qureshi and his family have yet to receive even an admission from the US that the strike ever happened. Although Obama expressed “profound regret” for a 2015 drone strike on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border that killed two western hostages, the White House would not comment on "specific cases".
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
yardcg.bsky.social
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
yardcg.bsky.social
OMFG
"He became an associate professor at MIT in 1946, a full professor at MIT in 1947, and a full professor at Caltech in 1949.[4] During the Second Red Scare in the 1950s, the United States federal government accused him of communist sympathies. In 1950, despite protests by his colleagues and without any evidence of the allegations, he was stripped of his security clearance.[1][5] He was given a deferred deportation order by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and for the following five years, he and his family were subjected to partial house arrest and government surveillance in an effort to gradually make his technical knowledge obsolete.[1] After spending five years under house arrest,[6] he was released in 1955 in exchange for the repatriation of American pilots who had been captured during the Korean War. He left the United States in September 1955 on the American President Lines passenger liner SS President Cleveland, arriving in mainland China via Hong Kong.[7] Upon his return, he helped lead development of the Dongfeng ballistic missile and the Chinese space program. He also played a significant part in the construction and development of China's defense industry, higher education and research system, rocket force, and a key technology university.[8][9][10][11][12] For his contributions, he became known as the "Father of Chinese Rocketry" and was nicknamed the "King of Rocketry".[13][14] He is recognized as one of the founding fathers of Two Bombs, One Satellite."
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
yardcg.bsky.social
13 months after this.

pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/17/g...
November 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Brought to you by the miasma administration.
Excerpt from an April Ars Technica article. "It’s important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy’s disbelief in germ theory isn’t based on speculation or deduction; it’s based on Kennedy’s own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled “Miasma vs. Germ Theory,” in the chapter “The White Man’s Burden.”" Link: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-stance-is-rooted-in-a-disbelief-in-germ-theory/ Credit for finding and highlighting this section goes to this user. https://bsky.app/profile/moosewithablanket.bsky.social/post/3lo3mftqxs22y
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
readersupportednews.org/news-section...
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Oh, and what a surprise!

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/m...
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
And don't forget this!

www.groundreport.in/latest/full-...
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
It's true!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanti...
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Clouds (sycophantic profiles of the worst people) do have their silver linings!
caioalmendra.bsky.social Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 13d
Leia Organa loved him. She loved the Hutt, even though she was his prisioner. She loved his eyes, “big as apples.” She loved that “the sight of something as trivial as the Sarlacc” could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his “particular complications and particular darkness.”
Black and white pictur of Princess Leia Organa choking Jabba the Hutt to death in the movie Return of Jedi.
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
I wish I could edit out that typo! Still, I hope at least a couple more people get to see this, and perhaps offer suggestions!
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
What a world where it's Ars Technica which bothers to do the hard, hard work of reading a book someone wrote under their own name and the scion of one of the most celebrated U.S. journalists in history does this.
Excerpt from an April Ars Technica article. "It’s important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy’s disbelief in germ theory isn’t based on speculation or deduction; it’s based on Kennedy’s own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled “Miasma vs. Germ Theory,” in the chapter “The White Man’s Burden.”" Link: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-stance-is-rooted-in-a-disbelief-in-germ-theory/ Credit for finding and highlighting this section goes to this user. https://bsky.app/profile/moosewithablanket.bsky.social/post/3lo3mftqxs22y
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
So many of these!

timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM