A few months ago, early March, CNN wrote.

The US government for decades shied away from targeting foreign leaders after embarrassing failures and unintended consequences from covert activities by the CIA.

The targeting and killing of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which opened an undeclared war with Iran, is the first time in modern history the US — in this case working with Israel — openly killed the leader of a foreign country, according to CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali.

I struggled with some demons; they were middle-class and tame…

A li’l frustrated with the lopsided goose:gander ratio on this stuff. It’s like he doesn’t even see other people as real people.

Arguably the initial strike could be seen as liberating; going after a dictator that less than a third of the population voted for and has approval ratings well under 40% and who has wrested direct control over national security and armed forces, been unbound by institutional norms, banned and bypassed journalists and congress in lieu of personal propaganda edicts, and ruled via a group of hand-picked loyalists overriding elected officials. But all that applied to Khameini too and that feeling of being liberated didn’t last long:

Then today, the US president said.

“1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME!,” he said in a Truth Social post.

“Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran.”

I believe these market reforms will be a net negative and create more suffering. They don’t address the root cause of the crisis. They’re more likely to create illusory wealth through wealth gaps, externalities, and debt.

There are several countries that don’t have an army.

When I was little ads wete illegal and now here in Stockholm I’m drowning in them.

What a ray of hope!

Phoenix is a new X server, written from scratch in Zig (not a fork of Xorg server). This X server is designed to be a modern alternative to the Xorg server.

Dejarik goes Andy Looney.

Nice design! Simple luck-based dice chucker that should’ve been the default with the more complicated version an optional variant.

ScooterMc11’s proposal for balancing first player in Tak.

1. White places a stack of two black flats
2. Black places a single white flat
3. White takes the first normal turn

One thing that’s “fun” is how visual artists don’t have qualms using ML for the audio side of things while audio artists use it for the visual side.

I’ve always had a hard time working with other people on art stuff so I get that.

The next week the Commander Clash group had a discussion about how the “worlds” is becoming a problem in Magic. Yeah, I appreciate that. 🙏🏻

English version here.

Ich hoffe, das stimmt. Er kommt zu einem Schluss, von dem ich mir wünsche, dass er stimmt, denn dann müsste ich kein so schlechtes Gewissen haben, weil ich nicht auf den Apps bin. Aber mir scheint, dass diese Schlussfolgerung aus den genannten Gründen etwas voreilig gezogen wurde. Ich ringe sehr mit dieser Frage. Ich hoffe, das ist die Antwort. Ich möchte es glauben. 🛸 Ich weiß es einfach noch nicht genau.

Ich habe mich nie bei diesen Apps angemeldet, und als ich fast zwanzig Jahre später nachgesehen habe, hatten die Faschos sie gekapert, und die Welt war sowohl online als auch offline schlecht. Ich kann nicht anders, als diese Entscheidung zu hinterfragen.

Emily Tankin.

We should mean it regardless of whatever loyalty we may feel to groups we cherish being a part of. We aren’t lessening our commitment to our identities by doing so. We are just insisting that our identities incorporate our full humanity.

With this level of “Worlds” takebacks, piloting becomes meaningless. (Talking about the Treasure Hunt / Loran interaction.) So many legendary, clever plays over the years completely obliterated by just declaring that nothing really matters, love is all we need, a boot trampling Strawberry Fields forever.

This is pretty trippy. Opcodes that the 6502 accidentally support.

They’re unintended consequences of combinations of pins. Some of them are useful. Only goes to show the strength of emergence through combinatorics.

This “makeheaders” from Fossil/sqlite dev fixes what I hate most about C. Being a human compiler having to manually write boilerplate for information that’s already in the source anyway.

Peeps, are you good at troubleshooting Avalonia UI glitches on Xorg? I ran into some invisible menus on Mesen CE.