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Dambusting

Dambusting

Everyone has no doubt heard by now about the destruction of the Novaya Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, or Kakhovskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant (KHPP). The result was pretty much what you might expect -...

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Don’t put Pajeets in charge

Don’t put Pajeets in charge

The whole "Pajeet" meme is a hilariously offensive term used to refer to Indians (or, more generally, people of Indian origin), originally coined as a specific racial insult that has since expanded...

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The history we need to relearn

The history we need to relearn

There is a lot one can say about D-Day - the courage, the heroism, the terrible hardships endured by those men on the landing craft as they waited to storm the beaches of Normandy. There was every...

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Monday morning Mandelbrot madness

Monday morning Mandelbrot madness

Welp. Here we go again. Monday is back, and I'm already tired. Actually, this one was not so bad, as it was considerably less crazy than past weeks have been. Things have calmed the hell back down...

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Soldiers of three armies

Soldiers of three armies

Two former American SPECWARCOM types, who are now in 404 - Country Not Found, training up the khokhol military, wrote an extensive piece in War on the Rocks about the complications associated with...

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Cloudy with a chance of daggers

Cloudy with a chance of daggers

Recent footage of American Patriot PAC-3 air "defence" missile systems "working" to "defend" Queef against Russian missiles in the Banderastan War has emerged, and is forcing some very serious...

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Dawn of the AI

Dawn of the AI

Over six (!!!!!!!) years ago, I wrote a quasi-humourous post about how SkyNet wants to kill us all, on the basis of what happened when you tried to process images of various kinds through what were,...

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Monday morning memorialising

Monday morning memorialising

Normally, the Great Mondaydact Browser Killer is all about making the day pass by with humour, dank memes, crazy linkage, and a healthy dose of geopolitical rants. It takes hours to assemble and is...

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