Well, there goes the weekend, again. On the minus side, it was, of course, WAY too damn short. On the plus side, spring is DEFINITELY here, and that is my absolute favourite season of the year. It is a time of renewal and growth, where the days are getting longer, the Sun is finally out, and the leaves and flowers start appearing on the trees.
Of course, the big downside of being inside on a spring day, when the Sun is out, is… well, BEING INSIDE. Especially if you are stuck behind a computer at work.
Fortunately, that is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Slayer is here. And this week, you get to let your inner eight-year-old go crazy, because it’s all about DINOSAURS.
First up – what did they ACTUALLY sound like? The Overseer helps us find out:
ExtinctZoo gives us a creature feature for the ages:
WhatIf tells us the full horror story of what the Earth was like before the dinos arrived:
Taking a Biblical view of things – how do we handle the fact that human remains have not been found alongside dinosaur ones, if the Bible’s chronology is accurate?
And here’s another one:
And, to round things out – who here remembers a cartoon from the 80s, called Dino Riders?
If that is you – congratulations, your childhood was AWESOME.
The Mighty God-Emperor
His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, has an interesting idea on the subject of helping 404:
Here’s an even better idea, Orange Boi:
STOP SENDING MONEY TO BANDERASTAN!!!!!
In ANY form, of ANY kind. The fact is, 404 is DONE. The Banderite regime is getting increasingly desperate, crazy, and stupid – better by far to force the entire country to collapse, and let the Russians take the east, south, and northeast, which are her historical lands anyway.
#BasedTucker is Based
Exercise discretion watching the long interview above, because Fredo is actually even dumber than we thought he was, and there is a point where you have to tune him out to avoid losing IQ points.
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has been seriously busy this week, sending over all sorts of great content. Seeing as how it’s been a while since we had Ryan George around here, let’s start with Pitch Meeting doing the pitch for the original Ghostbusters film:
It says a lot about how great that movie was, that even attempts at satire, FORTY YEARS LATER, just make it better.
The Babylon Bee explains how to defend your home without long-distance hole-punchers:
Your friendly neighbourhood philosopher at Wisecrack explains how, basically, America runs on theft:
PsycHacks helps men understand GRRRRRLLL MAFF!!!, which is amazingly stupid and quite illogical most of the time, because it prioritises short-term rewards over long-term investments:
Honest Ads unpacks the problems with generative AI:
FreedomToons provides a simple hack for fixing Amerikhastan’s severe border crisis:
ReasonTV explains the Law of Unintended Consequences, with superb examples:
DamiLee looks at “floating cities”, and provides a good rationale behind why they would actually be a terrible idea:
I am NOT a fan of Konstantin Kisin, as a general rule – he is one of those typical Russian emigres that thinks Russia under Putin is basically just Mordor, run by and for Orcs – but he does make a very good point here in a discussion with former Aussie Senator John Anderson:
Mind-Expanding Drugs
If you have ever wondered why Africa, with all of its vast natural resources and booming population, is still such a wretched shithole, no matter WHICH country you visit, Economics Explained has some of the answers:
Unfortunately, the question of IQ never seems to enter into the equation, which is a major failing. You CANNOT expect people with an average IQ in the range of 68-75, to come up with institutions and systems designed for societies with average IQs in the 95-105 range. The latter is the typical range for European, North American, Antipodean, Russian, and Chinese societies – which are, for the most part, highly functional.
Colonialism is also NOT the answer, it is merely a lame and pathetic cop-out. India suffered horribly under British Colonial rule – if not quite as horribly as many Indians claim, given how much the Brits invested into their empire as well – and yet they have managed to create a reasonably stable and functional society since independence. And the average Indian IQ is 77 – about half a standard deviation above sub-Saharan African averages.
The ultimate verdict has to be: LET AFRICA SINK. There is simply no point in further aid or help to the continent. Let them figure it out for themselves. If they can, great. If not, too bad.
Death Smiles At Us All…
Poli-Ticking Off
Mark Dice talks about Don Lemon’s most recent failures:
I’m guessing Lemonhead’s prima donna personality and utterly unfounded sense of self-worth had a lot to do with Brolon MuZk YEETING him off X.
The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted try to figure out what the heck is going on with PommieBastardLande’s Royal Family:
PJW wonders when someone is going to inform the trannies that the rest of us can’t stand them:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap has been quite busy as usual. We start with Col. Douglas Macgregor, discussing the coming collapse of Europe and NATO:
Maj. Scott Ritter goes OFF on one of his usual rants about the Gazacaust:
Capt. Matthew Hoh points out that, until and unless the Arab nations around Israel intervene with actual deeds, rather than words, the Gazacaust will continue:
Alistair Crooke is horrified by the total lack of understanding about reality in the diplomatic world:
Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern break down the world’s big stories in their Intel Roundup:
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is not optimistic about the tensions afflicting the world today:
Prof. John Mearsheimer predicts the final collapse and fall of Ukraine:
Margin of Victory
Col. Douglas Macgregor is a very, very busy man, but DA KERNEL still managed to find the time to sit down to speak with Glenn Diesen, about current and evolving geopolitical realities:
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the huge and rapidly widening gap between the FUSA’s Navy – its one really serious core military asset, nowadays – and Russia’s, in the realm of submarines, which are the only types of hulls that matter anymore for future sea warfare:
Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…
The good gentlemen of The Duran dissect Macaroni the Gay Frog’s latest outbursts of blithering idiocy:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas uses MAFF to explain why the Ukies cannot possibly replenish their numbers to anything like the degree required to beat the Russians:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell looks at post-Convid symptoms, and points out their pathology is really no different than what we have seen in the past from similar respiratory diseases:
Dr. Suneel Dhand discusses the link between being a lardass, and getting cancer:
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya interviews a fellow dissident voice on the subjects of masks and lockdowns, following on from the Plandemic:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle goes into GREAT detail about the alternative points of view on Jesus:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International go through the latest research on the Izzlamic qira’ats – long story behind that term – which put to lie the entire standard narrative around the origins of the Koran:
Christian Prince is doing God’s work by exposing Izzlam’s lies, in the original Arabic, to those with eyes to see and ears to hear:
Sam Shamoun answers a very interesting question about the temptation of Jesus, by looking at the original Hebrew and Greek in the Biblical texts:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp MANSPLAINS to the wammenzes why they have rendered themselves totally invisible to actual good men:
Joker from Better Bachelor voices the fears the rest of us feel about flying today:
hoe_math is not amused by the fact that Sork women are letting their own race die out:
You know what is truly sad about that video?
There is a meme running around on TEH INNARWEBZ, about how “North Korea is Best Korea”. This is idiotic on its face – the Nork juche ideology is quite literally insane, and it has led to starvation and misery for 70 years.
Yet, the Norks, simply by virtue of ACTUALLY EXISTING, will one day probably overwhelm their Sork brethren, who have a vastly higher standard of living and industrial economy.
The future belongs to those who show up for it. Therefore, act accordingly.
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge report on Dumb & Dumberer’s attempts to adapt Cixin Liu’s (superb) novel, The Three-Body Problem, into a Netflix series:
I have not watched the series. I will not watch it. The book is quite interesting enough by itself.
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock goes into full-blown QAnon mode about the latest rumours surrounding KurtzmanTrek:
Gary from Nerdrotic reviews perhaps the dumbest racist movie – or the most racist dumb movie, you choose – of recent times:
The Critical Drinker watches a truly atrocious feminist take on fairy tales, so you don’t have to:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and explains how you can use ASCII art to break LLM AIs like ChatGPT:
Safety is critical to the usage of large language models (LLMs). Multiple techniques such as data filtering and supervised fine-tuning have been developed to strengthen LLM safety. However, currently known techniques presume that corpora used for safety alignment of LLMs are solely interpreted by semantics. This assumption, however, does not hold in real-world applications, which leads to severe vulnerabilities in LLMs. For example, users of forums often use ASCII art, a form of text-based art, to convey image information. In this paper, we propose a novel ASCII art-based jailbreak attack and introduce a comprehensive benchmark Vision-in-Text Challenge (ViTC) to evaluate the capabilities of LLMs in recognizing prompts that cannot be solely interpreted by semantics. We show that five SOTA LLMs (GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2) struggle to recognize prompts provided in the form of ASCII art. Based on this observation, we develop the jailbreak attack ArtPrompt, which leverages the poor performance of LLMs in recognizing ASCII art to bypass safety measures and elicit undesired behaviors from LLMs. ArtPrompt only requires black-box access to the victim LLMs, making it a practical attack. We evaluate ArtPrompt on five SOTA LLMs, and show that ArtPrompt can effectively and efficiently induce undesired behaviors from all five LLMs.
Your long read of the week
Linkage is good for you:
- Sergey Poletayev notes the very active role Bozo BoJo and Bellendsky the Clown played in sabotaging the nascent peace agreement in Istanbul in April 2022;
- As President Putin recently revealed, the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle system has, in a single stroke, rendered completely obsolete every single Western air defence complex;
- Bernhard from Moon of Alabama points out that Macaroni the Gay Frog has plainly lost his tiny mind, because Odessa is ALREADY lost to Ukraine, bar the fighting;
- Gaius Baltar unpacks the long, slow, painful suicide of Europe’s economy through poison and stupidity, and asks why it is happening;
- Jack McCord writes for SONAR21 about the ominous and terrible signs of the coming disintegration of Amerikhastan, thanks to TENS OF MILLIONS of illegal invaders pouring through the open borders;
- OBADSDL(PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible explains the appeal and longevity of “the Heather”, i.e. the hottest of hot girls, and the gradations of Heathers therein;
- Peter Hitchens points out the serious dangers posed by the Assange and Phillips cases for free speech and freedom of conscience in the West, as the authorities seek to abolish both;
- Matthieu Buge correctly links France’s codification of abortion as a “human right”, with the country’s self-destruction and eventual collapse;
- The apostate “Pope” of the Catholic Church is getting some very serious pushback from non-cucked denominations, particularly the Orthodox churches, over Fiducia Supplicans;
- Millennials and Zoomers are being forced to confront an incredibly ridiculous job market – the lengths some of them have to go to get hired, are just idiotic;
- On a related note, Millennials are cottoning on to the fact that their living standards are far worse, and their lives far harder, than that of the narcissistic and selfish Boomers who created this hell;
- For those of you looking for an easy-to-use Linux distribution, that is even simpler and faster to setup than Mint, and want to migrate away from WinDOZE, try BigLinux;
- There is a gigantiferous active volcano on Mars that is very nearly 450Km wide and more than 9Km high, which makes it much, MUCH bigger than Mt. Everest;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Goolag’s own latest Pixel phone, is apparently not powerful enough to run its own AI-assisted operating system on its native chip;
- Buying Chinese was never really a viable long-term strategy (unless we’re talking laptops or smartphones, and a few other things), and especially so for electric vehicles;
- A man in his mid-fifties swapped out his wife of 27 years for a younger, hotter, tighter woman half his age, which makes him either a Gigachad, or a Gigarat, depending on your point of view;
- Most of us prefer to use wasabi when eating sushi to clear the nostrils, but apparently, it can also be used to preserve texts on papyrus, which will come in handy for early texts;
- Generative AI is likely to be MORE disruptive to female white-collar workers than to male professions, which is the first bit of good news us men have had in a while;
- OK, who had “megaquake smashifying things all over the world due to a strange cosmic conjunction” in the Doomsday Apocalypse Sweepstakes for last week?;
- An American private startup has begun testing a hypersonic missile for the Pentaloons – which would be impressive, if they weren’t already THREE GENERATIONS behind the Russians at this point;
- A whistleblower who was found dead before he could testify on the endless litany of disasters at Boeing, almost certainly did not kill himself, at least not without extra motivation;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar gave an extremely detailed, typically factual, and very interesting interview to Russian media, in which he made a number of very important statements that the West really needs to take seriously:
HALO Nation
What happened to Spartan Locke in HALO Infinite???
Not that I particularly care – Locke was one of the reasons why HALO 5: Guardians sucked harder than a vacuum cleaner.
Do Sangheili warriors know their fathers? In theory, no. But in practice…:
Slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing while dropping all of the latest news:
PancreasNoWork provides a fascinating, and very funny, look at ODSTs:
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!
Our very own LRFotS MrUNIVAC provides a look into the daily trials and travails of the Imperial Guard:
Scholar’s Lore gives an in-depth look at Hive Fleet Jormungandr:
Nightfall in Middle-Earth
mystical lands journey provides a brief overview of the fate of the Nazgul after the destruction of the One Ring:
Creature Feature
What Lurks Beneath looks at stories of terrifying cryptids in Nevada:
Oh No! Anyway…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Also, Dawn Pine has a whole passel of Star Trek lightbulb jokes to share with you:
Q. How many BORG does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A. The whole collective.
A. One: but the whole collective enjoys the experience.
A. Illumination is irrelevant.
A. None: Darkness is irrelevant. Light bulbs will be obsolete in the new order.
A. Light bulbs are irrelevant. Darkness is irrelevant, Changing them is futile.
A. They don’t change the light bulb, they assimilate it . . .
A. Changing the bulb is irrelevant. It will be assimilated.
[I’ve got one… A: None. Light bulbs operate on electrical resistance. And RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. – Didact]
Q. How many ROMULANS does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. 151: one to screw the light-bulb in, and 150 to self-destruct the ship out of disgrace.
A. We have been gone for a while, but we have returned to change it.
A. Two: one to do it, and another to kill the first one and take the credit.
A. Three: one to change the bulb and two to guard him so the Federation doesn’t steal the secret.
A. Two: One to change the transtator and the other to blow up the ship in disgrace.
Q. How many VULCANS does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Approximately 1.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
A. One. Any more would be illogical, Captain.
Q. How many CARDASSIANS does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. One – but there are *four* lights!
A. Four – because THERE… ARE… FOUR… LIGHTS!!!
A. We don’t need a light bulb, but if we did, we could take it from you!
A. Just one; however they first have to determine how many light bulbs they see.
A. Four – one to know how to, one to interrogate the one who knows how, one to give the orders, and one to be told to do it.
Q. How many FERENGI does it take to change a light bulb?
A. He’ll sell you a new one… double price (and you’ll think it’s a bargain!)
A. None of your business, huu-mahn !!!
A. Depends. How much will you pay?
A. Two: one to change it, and the other to sell the old bulb as an antique.
A. Two: one to steal a new one, the other to go sell the broken one.
A. None: they’ll just sell the whole lamp to some young Starfleet Ensign.
A. Just one, but he’ll charge you double for it.
A. Ferengi Never change!!
A. For the right price, as many as you want.
A. None… they steal it and sell it for profit.
Q. How many KLINGONS does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Burned out light bulbs have NO honour. And a true Klingon Warrior is not afraid of the dark!
A. None: Klingons can fight in the dark.
A. “Klingons do NOT change lightbulbs!”
Q. How many BETAZIODS does it take to change a light bulb?
A. I sense it has already changed.
A. Well, the bulb has to really want to be changed.
Q. How many TROIs does it take to change a light bulb?
A. “I sense a lot of bad humor here”
A. “Captain, I sense – darkness”.
Q. How many Q does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Here now, wouldn’t you rather have this nice supernova?
A. One: He holds the light bulb and the universe revolves around him.
A. Change it into what?
A. “Really, such a trivial task! Here, have a whole bank of fluorescent lights instead!” (snaps fingers)
A. “Changing lightbulbs is boring, I’ll set it as a test for Jean-Luc!”
Q. How many WESLEY CRUSHERS does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. None: He’s that good.
A. “I can do that!”
A. Wesley helps by going up on a ladder and cleaning the contact points with a pencil eraser. Unfortunately he slips off the ladder and breaks his leg.
Q. How many STAR FLEET OFFICERS does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Two: One to change the light bulb, and the other to die shortly after they beam down.
A. None: it would be interfering with the natural development of the light bulb.
Q. How many FEDERATION SCIENTISTS does it take to replace a light bulb?
A. Six: One to fill out the environmental impact statement, One to fill out a cost analysis, one to request the light bulb, one to do a labor study, one to do a post installation followup study, and one to follow up on the follow ups. A robot actually replaces the bulb.
Q. How many STARFLEET ENGINEERS does it take to change a light bulb?
A. None: If you run a phased inverse tachyon burst through the main emitter array grid and multiplex it with a subspace standing wave locked back into a diagnostic mode filter, you’ll bleed off most of the static warpfield instabilities through the higher verteron harmonics of the decchyon field and get at least another 60 Watts out of the old one.
Q. How many STARFLEET ENSIGNS does it take to change a light bulb?
A. They can’t, they get electrocuted everytime they go near one.
Q. How many DATAs does it take to change a light bulb?
A. “Lightbulb: a device for giving out light. An object emitting photons on command. Invented by Thomas Alva Edison in… Yes, sir!”
A. “As well as the light bulb on the bridge, 33 other light bulbs on decks 5-29 have gone out, and some fluorescent tubes in Ten-Forward are about to blow.”
Q. How many RIKERs does it take to change a light bulb?
A. “What the hell?”
Q. How many PICARDs does it take to change a light bulb?
A: (insert a long pro-lightbulb speech here, involving rights to be changed, etc)
A: (insert a charming story about the early life of Thomas Edison and how his example should be looked upon as inspiration for Starfleet officers.)
Q. How many KIRKs does it take to change a light bulb?
A. “Spock… is… there… any… way… we… can…”
A. “I suppose the situation is critical and the odds are against us?”
A. He gets Scotty to turn the beam up.
Q. How many SPOCKs does it take to change a light bulb?
A. “Captain, sensor’s show that this lightbulb is not operational”
A. “It’s light Jim, but not as we know it.”
A. One: The needs of the many far outweigh the needs of the few.
A. He can’t, but he can make a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
Q. How many McCOYs does it take to change a light bulb?
A. “It’s dead, Jim”
A. “Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not an electrician!”
Q. How many SCOTTYs does it take to change a light bulb?
A. “We’re running low on dilithium, Captain. I dinnae how many more bulbs we can replace”
A. None: He could always switch to auxilliary power.
Meme Warfare
We begin with a true buttload (actual unit of measure – go look it up) of memes from our man in the field, The Male Brain, who just finished Star Trek TNG, so we’re a bit heavy on those memes this week:
And now for some non-Picard stuff:
Moving on – here’s one related to that story about the Boeing whistleblower who definitely didn’t kill himself:
Plus a whole bunch more:
Why can’t females start getting dressed an hour before? Just asking for a friend.
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
REPS FOR JESUS!!!
Gym beast props this week go to Sergio Hernan Mardones Meza, who clearly has a SERIOUS power-belly:
His squat depth is a bit suspect, to be honest, but I’m not inclined to argue with a man who can pick up 340Kg like it’s nothing.
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Blades of Glory
Drumlines
Guitar Heroics
MOAR DAKKA!!!
Beat Saber
Mighty Wings
Hot Wheels
Game of Drones
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
More DEUS VULT!!!, Please
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Believe it or not, there was a time when SABATON was actually just a generic metal band.
All I can say is, it’s a damn good thing DRAGONFORCE isn’t in charge of spelling and grammar at your local comprehensive…
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Thot Shots
Finally, here is your Instathot to get the day off to the right sort of start. This is Olga Shishlakova (Ольга Шишлакова), age unknown but originally from Queef, 404. Since she is a khokholina, you know to observe the usual protocols – look, but DO NOT TOUCH, under ANY circumstances.
OK, chaps, back to work now, those St. Paddy’s Day hangovers won’t fix themselves.
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China already made a 30-episode adaptation of The 3-Body Problem (available on the streaming service Rakuten Viki). Should I ever decide I want to watch an show-version of it, then that’s the one I’ll watch, not the Netflix one.
Spring is lovely for the one week when the flowers and tree blossoms bloom and you can finally go outside without needing a heavy coat, but before then I find it kind of miserable. I hail from New England, so I’m used to living in a frozen wasteland for six months of the year, but at least when it’s very cold out, there are plenty of fun activities you can do outside. Same when it’s very hot out, and if you’re lucky, you can get summer weather well into October to accompany the explosion in color from the changing leaves (which has been the case for a few years running now).
With spring, though, it’s not cold enough to do winter stuff, and it’s not hot enough to do summer stuff. So you’re stuck in a cold, gray-and-brown limbo until all of the plants and birds finally get around to coming back right at the end/beginning of summer.