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@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-21 03:47:39

Learning how to psyop Third World populations with Manual of The Mercenary Soldier
archive.org/details/PaulBalorM

Your best psy-op is that which seems to demonstrate to the enemy as well as your people that the enemy has lost control of the situation. You can be pretty sure that by the | time you go in, the bad guys have had things going their way. And you’re not going to reverse that with words alone. Remember . . . you’re not going up against an open Western society or one of the West’s sloppy, half-assed Third World client states. You’re going up against rebels or a regime which is totalitarian in…
tunity to “build bridges to the people.” Unfortunately, building that bridge takes too long and it is too easily blown. Your opposition gives lip service to civic action— but he practices “grab ’em by the balls and yank. Their hearts and minds will follow.” And damned if they don’t!
Sample psy-op: Your conflicts always throw up little local despots in the countryside. They may be the rural police chief, a militia captain, guerrilla leader, even a local religious figure. They may be on either side. Or no side. What they have in com¬ mon is that they’re vicious, detested by the local people they oppress. Select one. Take him out. Visibly. Hoist his body in the village square. And, of course, broadcast the fact. Now you’re really in the hearts-and-minds business. Your best…
Not for you any cold, colorless recitation of facts. You’re not the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Marti. . . . Come on strong. Speak passionate truths! Feel free to indulge in color, symbolism, folklore, histrionics, and invective! You have to not only inform—you also must entertain. But never forget: Third worlders are realists. They have to be. They’ve been exposed to the application of raw power all their lives. They want to survive. They’ll accom¬ modate whoever is able to app…
@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-04-20 01:59:43

Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change is turning them into prime burning hours phys.org/news/2026-04-wildfire

Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change is turning them into prime burning hours
Burning time for North American wildfires is going into overtime. Flames are lasting later into the night and starting earlier in the morning because human-caused climate change is extending the hotter and drier conditions that feed fires, a new study found.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-02-19 19:27:17

💀 New research reveals how dread shapes decision-making
#emotions

New research reveals how dread shapes decision-making
A new study reveals that people are far more emotionally affected by anticipating negative future outcomes than by imagining positive ones, helping to explain why many individuals avoid uncertainty and prefer decisions to be resolved sooner rather than later.

@77slevin@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-20 21:01:33

As promised, here's the game play footage of the tiny Virtual Pinball machine playing my most favorite layout: Mexico 86 Deluxe. See previous posts for the specs of the hardware. #Steam #ZaccariaPinball

@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-20 21:07:56

Time for renewed #presentation
Hi, I'm Matteo. I'm Italian 🇮🇹, living abroad 🇪🇺. I'm a big space Nerd. Computer scientist with a PhD in Evolutionary Robotics.
I work in AAA #gamedev as a UI/UX engineer.

@Archivist@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-20 08:17:38

I really regret no being a Protoss irl, because then I could hurt LLMs by giving feedback to them. Sadly I am but a regular wizard, not a space wizard

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-02-18 08:06:43

At home a busy ~5.2kWh import start to the (cold, ~5°C) day with a pasteurisation cycle (~2.9kWh, 8A/~2kW grid limit) with a 7-minute pause in the middle for low grid frequency, two spikes of a dishwasher eco programme (~0.7kWh, ~2kW), then a DHW production spike (~0.4kWh, ~1.3kW), then space heating (~0.7kW), all before 08:00! #grid

Grid import graph/chart snapshot from this morning showing pasterisation cycle (while grid intensity relatively low) then dishwasher then heat pump DHW and space-heat!
@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-02-20 20:17:41

Rats suck.
I have a largish older (’48) brick house on a crawl space. I have a large brushy yard. I live in the Midwest. So of course I am a rat magnet.
This is the 2nd pack we’ve had in 25 years, so I guess that means we’ve been lucky. For an unknown period of time prior to last Winter the crawl had standing water deep enough that no self-respecting rat would have stayed. Last week we had a bag of snacks ripped open.
The guys from Critter Control have snap-trapped 3 so…

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2026-02-20 07:16:50

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
JARVIK: And so are you. But when was the last time you felt the warmth of the Earth's sun on your naked back? Or lifted your face to the heavens, and laughed with the joy of being alive? How long since you wept at the death of a friend? [Pause.] Doesn't mean a thing to you, does it, Madam President? You've surrounded your…

GPT 4.1 Nano describes the image as: "This image depicts a scene set in what appears to be a futuristic or sci-fi environment, possibly a spaceship or advanced facility, indicated by the minimalistic, metallic decor and lighting. Two characters are engaged in a tense or serious interaction: a man on the left wearing a space or sci-fi styled jacket with padded sections and a neutral expression, and a woman on the right with short dark hair, dramatic makeup, and a distinctive outfit featuring a w…
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-04-12 18:28:22

Guided by her conviction that science is for everybody,
Prescod-Weinstein renders accessible some of the most abstract concepts of theoretical physics
and draws on poetry and popular culture
—from Queen Latifah to Lewis Carroll to Big K.R.I.T. to Sun Ra and Star Trek
— to tell fascinating stories about the fundamental quantum nature of space-time and everything inside of it.

The Edge of Space-Time // Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie