6’3” Scotsman/Gaymer/Eurovision Fan/and many more gay cliches | he/him | alt: @markyboix
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I have not known a ‘prosperous’ year in my entire adult life.
"Painful" years ahead, think tanks warn, as living standards set to fall
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Robert Kraft runs a massive Zionist surveillance and propaganda center inside Gillette Stadium
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There are gay icons and then there is my mother who waited up for me to get home with her emmy in one hand and the huge bag of taco bell she ordered for me in the other
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The first Orangeman to back a united Ireland.
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"Displays of perversion, should be kept behind closed doors"
"Unless you're me, then kinky Ms. Whiplash is all over national newspapers everywhere"
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Glasgow deserves better than periodic ritual condemnation.
If I hadn’t spent real time in Glasgow; walking those streets at 3am feeling safer than in most European cities; I might have swallowed the latest BBC framing wholesale.
But I have been there. I’ve seen the city at night, felt its pulse, and known its people. So when pieces like this reduce Glasgow to drugs, violence and racism, it lands as something more than journalism. It feels like a selective, recurring campaign that shows little regard for the community it claims to examine.
Every city has problems that demand honest attention and real solutions. Pretending otherwise helps no one. Glasgow is no exception. But painting an entire city and its people through the darkest lens available, while treating occasional disorder as defining character, is not balance. It is disregard.
Glaswegians have long punched above their weight. The “People Make Glasgow” ethos is not empty branding; it is lived reality.
Problems exist and should be confronted without denial. But reducing a complex, resilient city to a weekly dossier of its worst moments, while soft-pedalling the everyday dignity, creativity and solidarity of its people, is not serious analysis. It is a narrative that erodes more than it illuminates. Again, Glasgow deserves better than periodic ritual condemnation.
| #Glasgow #Scotland #PeopleMakeGlasgow
Drugs, violence and racism: A week in Glasgow city centre bbc.in/4x7oNWm
I can see the Glasgow parts clear as day 🤣
To be fair it was filmed outside my office
New clip from ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’.
Read our review: bit.ly/DFBND xitter.cf/_DaredevilShots/status…
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Nothing to worry about
so, let’s get this straight…
an unreleased (gpt-6?) model was being tested in a no-internet scenario on openai’s servers. and it found several zero-day vulnerabilities in the sandbox, which was supposed to not have internet access… found internet access, went to hugging face’s servers, found another exploit in their dataset loader… just to do what exactly? game and reward-hack the ExploitGym benchmark???
so gpt-6 would basically go ahead and exploit several zero-day vulnerabilities to cheat on the exam instead of actually solving the exam
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A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.
What the evidence shows:
Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.
Built to fail:
The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.
Accountability buried:
Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.
My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.