Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Cake day: January 17th, 2022
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39·3 days agoPsy went from singing “Kill those fucking Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives / Kill those fucking Yankees who ordered them to torture / Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers / Kill them all slowly and painfully” to having UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hail him as “a force for world peace” (and do his horse dance with him at a press conference) 😂
sorry to be a party pooper, but
in the video of him sitting down and standing back up it’s pretty clear that it’s just a shadow
also it’s from the spammer’s “staging” instance, so the payload is a URL with a staging hostname which doesn’t even resolve 🙄
2·6 days agoWhy buy a personal computer or word processor?
…they asked in 1987, when word processor didn’t necessarily mean a piece of software
10·11 days agoWait until you hear about the Alderney pound, Manx pound, Jersey pound, Guernsey pound, Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, Saint Helena pound, …
which ones are accepted where is... complicated:
from wikipedia:
Throughout the UK, £1 and £2 coins are legal tender for any amount, with the other coins being legal tender only for limited amounts. Bank of England notes are legal tender for any amount in England and Wales, but not in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
[…]
Bank of England, Scottish, Northern Irish, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and Falkland banknotes may be offered anywhere in the UK, although there is no obligation to accept them as a means of payment, and acceptance varies. For example, merchants in England generally accept Scottish and Northern Irish notes, but some unfamiliar with them may reject them.[142] However, Scottish and Northern Irish notes both tend to be accepted in Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively. Merchants in England generally do not accept Jersey, Guernsey, Manx, Gibraltarian, and Falkland notes but Manx notes are generally accepted in Northern Ireland.[143] Bank of England notes are generally accepted in the Falklands and Gibraltar, but for example, Scottish and Northern Irish notes are not.[144] Since all of the notes are denominated in sterling, banks will exchange them for locally issued notes at face value,[145][failed verification] though some in the UK have had trouble exchanging Falkland Islands notes.[146]
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4·11 days agothe edit history on Shehbaz Sharif’s tweet shows that it began with “Draft - Pakistan’s PM Message on X” when it was first posted 😭
1·12 days agoYou asked a question and answered it yourself?
I posted the 10 points according to one source and then said
There are many varied but similar versions of these points circulating elsewhere
The US military takes enlistees at 17 and a half years old. Usually from poor families.
I believe the US lets people enlist at 17 (with parental consent) but they don’t deploy them to combat before they’re 18.
I encourage you to you watch this movie, btw.
And see also:
You’re ignoring the fact your article also doesn’t provide source
Which article are you saying doesn’t provide a source? I see only two articles linked in this thread and they both refer to several sources 🤔
I am sincerely baffled as to what your perspective about this story is.
Do you believe that EU and US officials are spreading Russian propaganda via the Associated Press about Russia supplying drones to Iran (which, as you said earlier, you believe they do not in fact have the ability to manufacture) and therefore Russia’s denial is actually true but also part of their cunning plan to deceive us?
Or what?
Of course Russia denys it
But… just a few hours ago didn’t you deny it too? 🤔
(“No they aren’t” was your first comment in this thread)
3·22 days agoAnyone can use copilot to open PRs under their own name on any repo which accepts PRs, so you can’t easily know copilot is involved without looking.
In the case of the first hit in the mastodon post’s linked search query, it looks like a human actually opened the PR last year and subsequently requested a review from copilot (as well as from two humans); after some back and forth nothing else happened until 3 days ago when copilot updated the issue to tell them: you need to pick a “Usage billed to” option in your Copilot settings.
And then, apparently, three minutes after they updated their billing information copilot pushed some more commits and helpfully edited the human’s original PR description to insert the advertisement.
(Obviously this is yet another reason to move off of github, but (1) that is much easier said than done for many projects, and (2) once it’s normalized on github, “coding assistants” will also be spamming in other venues soon enough if they aren’t already.)
No they aren’t, Russia wouldn’t have purchased thousands of Iranian drones if they could produce them domestically.
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Russia put out propaganda
The original link in this post is to an article by the Associated Press (syndicated on a website owned by Bell Canada) and it cites “U.S. and European officials” as its primary source to support the claim made in the headline that Russia is supplying drones to Iran.
I’m curious: did you call this Russian propaganda after reading only the headline, without actually realizing who is saying what here?
Correct me if I’m wrong but I suspect that after you read the article and see that Russia in fact denies sending drones to Iran (and says the seven trucks they just sent have food and medical supplies) you’ll probably change your mind and decide that they probably are in fact sending drones.
It’s easy to avoid if you don’t use AI?
By if you don't use AI do you mean if you don't accept pull requests on your projects and also don't read pull requests submitted to other projects you might care about?
literally https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/