They're learning - the hard way - a whole lot of things about modern warfare that all of our western militaries could really benefit from.

But then I guess "America First" means we'll likely limit ourselves to in-house knowledge (because we're the greatest!), including our older ultra-expensive drone tech that in a prolonged conflict will get overwhelmed by an opponent fielding cheap countermeasures.

Hate to Godwin this topic so early, but - this is straight from the Goebbel's playbook. Shout loudly and repeatedly, claiming your enemy is guilty of Nefarious Activity A, to provide attempted cover for your own intent to commit Nefarious Activity A.

We've seen it numerous times - such as during Trump's midterm convention, when he told attendees to "Cheat like hell because the other side is doing it". This is one of the main reasons he's been shouting that lie over and over again, despite being unable to prove it in court even once. Notice you haven't heard anything about the Georgia ballots recently? Further back, remember how his crony's recount of Arizona's 2020 ballots eventually resulted in the eventual and very quiet admission that their recount showed Biden did win the state - and with slightly more votes than the official tally showed?

Musk really can't stand it when the spotlight isn't on him, can he?

Most Slashdotters will likely be disappointed when they find out what "the title is alluding to".

More seriously... I decided to watch the video of the guy against that "Terminator" non-autonomous robot. Just about everything the guy did had ZERO effect on the robot. The robot's attacks, on the other hand, were clearly dominant. But the robot fell over on its own, twice... and after the second fall the guy just walked over and declared "victory". It was pretty bogus.

How would he do against The Crushinator - or Destructo?

American keyboards have an "A" key, while Canadian keyboards have an "Eh" key?

This might (or might not) be mildly funny in context... but just yesterday I was looking at the cupboard in my home office, thinking about how I really should clean all the old kruft out so I can repurpose that space for something actually useful. One item, on the top shelf, is an old Iomega Zip Drive. Right next to it is a Handspring Visor, along with its box.

Of course this little narrative with myself has repeated every few months, for many years, without any ensuing action. In all likelihood that cupboard with eventually get cleaned out... but by my daughter, after I've passed on.

AI agents don't make choices. If they're using a language, it's either because they've been specifically asked to (by an end user) or because it's referred to a lot in the relevant training data (because of its noisy boosters).

Hadn't actually noticed one here for a few months. I thought maybe they'd died or something... but no such luck.

Let's stick with standard units.

The star is roughly 8.33 Kellel Runs from Earth.

"Are we green?" - Korben Dallas
"(choking) Supergreen" - Ruby Rhod

Perhaps they were a trifle hasty in naming that class of star white dwarf.

If we're getting Speed Racer (movie) tech, I'd prefer the automatic bubble-wrap escape system that lets me survive a crash over a cliff!

Also the 2016 Tesla Full Self Driving "demo".