The GenAI has straight-up plagiarized a real poster, too.

There’s something darkly funny about

GRUEL

Any complaint respecting food supplied…

No worries - I just popped it open in GIMP and painted over the letters, the work of a moment.

Here you go, but it’s been clipped from a bigger crossword (New York Times, February 6th 2022) and some of the squares across don’t make sense in isolation.

The full crossword answer sheet is here on NYT.com but I doubt you’ll be able to find a full blank grid and the clues online.

They’re good dogs, Brent.

A gold hat on a volleyball could replace the royalty at a fraction of the cost.

Do we have any evidence or indication of that, other than this one spurious article?

I think you’re right – I was thinking a small portion of grits, but it’s probably too neat.

c2c was established in 1996; Southend was given city status in 2022.

Grim news, I wish him all the best. The Elder Scrolls wouldn’t exist without him.

Yus indeed, and self-named. Some of the other monikers are fun, too.

Lefay was the lead dev for Arena, Daggerfall, and Battlespire, and laid a lot of the very early conceptual groundwork for Morrowind and Oblivion long before they were concrete projects.

The New Yorker has an article limit, but their entire article is just this BlueSky post. Image follows.

Nah, just read into it a little and then forgot it afterwards! The first link – the old Reddit thread – was quite helpful.

I was interested in whether this was accurate. I got a similar answer, but I know almost nothing about nuclear fission and math is not my strong suit. Here it is anyway:

The heat capacity of water is fairly linear. At normal atmospheric pressure, it’s 4,200J/kg°C, which means a 300ml mug of water would take 1,260 joules to raise by 1°C and thus 75,600 joules to raise by 60°C.

Fission of a single atomic nucleus of U-235 releases an average of 3.2e-11 joules (0.000000000032). To release 75,600 joules would presumably take fission of 2.3625e+15 atoms (2,362,500,000,000,000 – two quadrillion three hundred sixty-two trillion five hundred billion).

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What do you do if it comes up positive? Presumably if you know it’s a risk, you’d leave your phone in airplane mode or at home, and if you know it’s happening you’ve already been recorded?

No, but he thinks another soldier did. It’s a bit of a grim tale (though that page doesn’t cite its sources, so take this with a grain of salt):

the kitten was one of two who were orphaned after a soldier shot their mother for “yeowling”. The marine who adopted the other kitten killed it after rolling over on it in his sleep.

But Praytor’s kitten survived. He fed her on meat from ration cans. After Praytor left her to return home, she became something of a mascot for the company’s public information office. Praytor believed another marine, corporal Conrad Fisher, eventually adopted her and brought her home to the United States.

Edit: this history enthusiast’s page corroborates the story with a citation of Frank D. Praytor, “The Commandant and the Cat,” The Greybeards 23, no. 3 (May-June 2009): 30-31, 65

Not to mention that they were happily selling Kanye West’s Nazi clothing until the press and social media called them out for it.

I can’t think of a single company worse at naming products and services than Microsoft. They have an abysmal track record. Some examples off the top of my head, all of which make web searches near-impossible:

• They renamed Office 365 to just “365” (and then “365 Copilot”). The mind boggles.
• They named their lightweight extensible code editor “Visual Studio Code”, despite the fact that they had a long-established IDE (for code) called “Visual Studio”.
• They called their application framework “the .NET framework”, despite .net already being a popular TLD.
• They called the replacement framework “.NET Core”, and after a few major versions, changed to calling it “.NET”, but it’s totally distinct from the .NET framework.
• They called their ninth major desktop operating system “Windows 7”, then followed up with “Windows 8” and… “Windows 10”.
• Their native web app replacement for Outlook is called “New Outlook”.
• They recently renamed their Remote Desktop app “Windows App”. I have no words.

Today’s lucky 10,000.