1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (126+ words) flyingpenguin. com The "even though" construction is a big give away. It frames the Germans harboring ongoing Nazi sympathy as a sincere complicating nuance, rather than the exact problem that the occupation existed to resolve. Was there a better form…...

22+ hour, 48+ min ago  (518+ words) In January 2011, two weeks after Jared Loughner shot nineteen people in Tucson, undercover investigators walked into the Crossroads of the West Gun Show in Phoenix and bought the same model of pistol Loughner used. No background check. No questions. One…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1419+ words) As many people ask me about safe VPN solutions, such as my suggestion to try eisengarn, they also seem to express frustration with Swedish "tech entrepreneurs. I hear things like "how can they turn out to be such horrible people?...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (362+ words) flyingpenguin. com Every news outlet I'm seeing says the same basic thing. The Supreme Court, injected with right-wing activist justices, are actively working to end representative government. "Today's decision in Trump v. Slaughter takes a wrecking ball to a 90-year pillar…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (305+ words) There is an interesting history to a French announcement that resistance to the Nazi occupation would be recognized. Eighty years of official French memory was cynically mismanaged to celebrate the Resistance without celebrating the people who actually conducted armed operations…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (180+ words) Elon Musk had initially said he would run his companies with robots because human life was overrated. When he failed at that, he told reporters it changed his mind about human life having value. Tesla then became known for gaming…...

4+ day, 44+ min ago  (170+ words) flyingpenguin A new Berlin Story report, about drones attacking Ukraine, discusses the NVidia AI hardware used by Russia. This brings us to the NVidia support community for developers, where a Muhammad Aiman Izzat (likely Malaysian) account seeks some very specific…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (733+ words) METR has released a brief on Open AI's GPT-5. 6 Sol that, read between the lines, indicts the whole vendor class for the cartel-like behavior I have written here about before. Their closing line is that real validation "requires deep access…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (89+ words) flyingpenguin Some historians were sitting around a table asking "who killed more people, Stalin or Elon Musk. This has been a topic ever since "DOGE announced their campaign to destroy USAID as Musk's revenge for ending his future spot in…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (155+ words) In April "The Boy That Cried Mythos" caught Anthropic collapsing its own credibility. In June "Mythos dressed up in a coat, should be called Opus with a moat" caught it again. Anthropic wants to play God, feed on claims only…...