@detondev@social.linux.pizzaEnjoying MillMint today, and thinking about the way a world built by one person inevitably winds up uncannily unified in aesthetic to the point it undermines the project's credibility with regards to what it tries to express about ours
https://millmint.net
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineAre you really an AI chatbot at all if you haven't almost started World War 3 at least once? 😳🤦♂️
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship
@cdarwin@c.imUkraine will only halt attacks on Russian energy targets if the enemy does likewise and the US guarantees it,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The announcement came after Donald Trump’s uncorroborated claim that both sides have agreed to such a ceasefire.
Neither Ukraine nor Russia had said so at time of writing.
The US president regularly claims to have brokered what turn out to be nonexistent or extremely shortlived deals between foreign adversaries or with his o…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe UAE gained broader US AI chip access after aiding the US in the Iran war, letting G42 buy freely for at least nine months; G42 plans to become a US company (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/uae-
@lpryszcz@genomic.social" the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, reported that 600 drones were launched towards the capital’s region, of which 201 were destroyed.
Ukraine has rapidly expanded its long-range, deep-strike missile and drone capabilities in 2026, allowing it to attack warehouses, oil refineries, ports and military facilities at distances of up to 1,500 miles (2,400km) from its border."
@cdarwin@c.imUkrainians, already drone innovators, are turning their focus to psychological operations aimed at undercutting Russian support for the war.
Maria Berlinska has formed a nonprofit organization,
Victory Neurones,
and last month gathered specialists in cognitive influence,
a term that includes everything from strategic communications to cyberwarfare.
“Wars begin and end not in the trenches,
but in people’s heads,”
she told the gathering.
“You ar…
@cdarwin@c.imThe feeling of unity soon gave way to anger and division,
in large part due to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,
begun by the George W Bush administration
and framed as necessary conflicts to help the US win the "war on terror".
“We launched two forever wars that were wholly ineffective at making us safer militarily,
and only sank our prestige in the world
– especially [in] Europe and the Middle East
– at the cost of thousands of American sold…
@hex@kolektiva.socialRE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/117243404728349033
The monarchs of the Russian Empire were well aware, more than 200 years ago, that freedom anywhere was a threat to empire everywhere. That's why a collection of European autocrats formed The Holy Alliance in 1815.
But the corollary is also true: empire anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere. Sure, we can learn rules from each other, because these autocrats all play the same game. They've been playing roughly the same game for hundreds of years. But it's more than we can just share notes. We are in the same war.
The fall of any dictator threatens the legitimacy of all other dictators. While authoritarian countries may be at war, it's little more than a game of chess for them. They want to win, not to kill the other player. More than even needing an opponent to keep the game going, dictators prop each other up.
Autocrats have been internationalist for hundreds of years, and that's part of how they've kept coming back. After the fall of Russia, the torch of autocracy passed to the US who really picked it up after the end of WWII. They toppled countries around the world for daring to fall outside of one imperial sphere or another. And, eventually, they got the chance to do the same to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. American intervention helped put Putin in power, and he very much repaid the debt with Trump.
Dictatorship is an infection that spreads until it is contained and destroyed. There is one war, the class war, and we should learn from and support all our comrades fighting the same fight everywhere.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Colossus: the computers that helped win World War II.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/colossus-computer-ieee-milestone
saved 2026-07-27
@cdarwin@c.imA far-right leader who has won an important state election in Germany has
thanked Elon Musk for his support,
as voices in Europe warn the result is a serious moment for the continent.
No far-right party has led or formed a government in Germany since the defeat of nazism at the end of the second world war.
Ulrich Siegmund, the Alternative für Deutschland’s lead candidate, thanked Musk on X
after the tech billionaire said “Well done!” in German to the AfD co-fou…
@cdarwin@c.imThe populist, far-right,
anti-immigration
Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)
has emerged as the winner in a crucial state election in Germany,
exit polls have projected,
securing a historic result
and more than doubling its support.
The AfD now appear on the brink of becoming the first far-right party to gain power in Germany at state level since the second world war.
Initial exit polls showed the party to have secured 44.4% of the vote,
…
@cdarwin@c.imNow in Iran:
Beside the coffin of the assassinated former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei at a packed prayer hall in Tehran on Sunday there were calls for the killing of Donald Trump.
Iran is staging a week of mass funeral processions for Khamenei, who was killed along with other members of his family on the first day of the US and Israeli war on 28 February. The funeral was delayed because of the war.
@cdarwin@c.imA Ukrainian greengrocer narrowly escaped death when he was hunted by a Russian drone on the streets of Kherson.
Footage shows the market vendor, named as Yuri, trying to evade the remotely controlled aircraft as it stalks him in the city, which is on the front line of the war in Ukraine.
The incident is being seen as an example of a Russian "human safari" targeting civilians.
In the video, the first-person view (FPV) drone can be seen making several lunges at Yuri …
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is considering candidates to replace the Army Secretary
and possibly the Deputy Defense Secretary
as frustrations over the Iran conflict persist,
though officials deny a formal review of the Deputy role.
https://
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At a Roadwork conference (1994? Lloyd was asked if he was ever censored by his producers over war news. He said no, but the newsroom did regularly censor itself, and gave the example of body counts where relatives may be watching, they would tone it down. At the same conf, a panel was asked if the Internet could be censored, Bill Buxton replied that it would require the most draconian government the world had ever seen.
@cdarwin@c.imA depot on World War II’s infamous “Death Railway” has resurfaced from beneath a reservoir
where the site has remained underwater for decades,
prompting researchers to race to western Thailand to survey the remnants of Nithe Station.
Thousands of Allied prisoners of war and Asian laborers toiled and died building the railway, a supply route through mainland Southeast Asia for the occupying Japanese forces.
The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand recently draine…
@luana@wetdry.worldI only figured this out today bc I'm playing A Plague Tale and was curious about what was happening during those years irl and did some quick Wikipedia searches
I'm glad teachers didn't make us remember "random" years, it wouldn't actually help, but it's crazy how little we relate different subjects in History with each other when teaching
I think one of my History teachers, who gave me classes in High School and some Middle School years, understood this was a problem bc in his first class every year he always drew a timeline of world events
I always loved this and wished he did it more often
My memory might not be doing great either, bc I generally remember learning about things but don't really remember details. E.g. I remember learning about the 100 years war and that it was a 116-year-long war in Europe but I remembered nothing else about it
But while this part might be my memorys fault, the general lack of intuition about simultaneity and order of events is not and was always a problem for me. I remember being confused about this and impressed at historical events timelines way back in school. One of our books had a timeline like that too (tho it was cluttered, which is understandable but made it harder to read) which I often spent a while looking at
@cdarwin@c.imTrump faces mounting pressure to address high gas prices
as the war in Iran on Friday reached a six-month milestone with no conclusion in sight.
The U.S. has tapped its strategic petroleum reserves,
which in early August fell below 300 million barrels, down by more than 100 million barrels since the start of 2026.
The U.S.-Israel war against Iran has led to a dramatic slowdown of Gulf oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz,
which about 20% of the world petrole…
@cdarwin@c.imThe attack on a girl’s elementary school in the Iranian town of Minab was one of the US military’s deadliest civilian bombings in decades.
But nearly four months on, the Pentagon has produced no answers about why the military fired a Tomahawk cruise missile into a school on the first day of the war,
killing at least 175 people,
mostly children.
Some critics doubt that the Pentagon ever will, or will bury the results under classifications to keep the worst mistakes se…
@cdarwin@c.imVolodymyr Zelenskyy has argued for Ukraine to be allowed to join Nato at its annual summit
– saying it would be wrong to exclude a country that had built up strong defences in its long struggle against the Russian invasion.
The Ukrainian president said his country had developed almost all the weapons it needed,
and now only required European help in developing an alternative to the US Patriots to protect against ballistic missile attack.
“I have a question for you.
@cdarwin@c.imSpeaking at the Nato summit,
Trump says the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Iranis “over”
because
“I do not want to deal with them any more,
they are scum”.
They are sick people, they are vicious, violent people.”
He then adds:
As far as I am concerned, it’s just a waste of time dealing with them.
They are liars. …
There is something wrong with them. They are cuckoo. As far as I am concerned, it is over.”
Investors are spooked …
@cdarwin@c.imAsked about Trump’s "Lake America"
ploy during a press conference on Thursday,
Wab Kinew, the premier of Manitoba, was withering in his assessment.
“You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago?
I think that’s the part of Donald Trump’s presidency we’re at now,” Kinew said.
“He thought he had a real hit, a real golden oldie with the Gulf of Mexico,
and he’s trying to bring …
@cdarwin@c.imTrump threatened retribution against Iran again in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.
“From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
