blottica [they/them]

  • 3 Posts
  • 93 Comments
Joined 6 years ago
cake
Cake day: October 9th, 2020

help-circle



  • https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/is-a-ground-war-with-iran-imminent

    If you squint, an invasion seems inevitable. But look closer at the actual state of each force being cited, and a very different picture emerges. How is it possible, for instance, that every news organization from the New York Times on down, can report three ships leaving Japan with the Tripoli group when there were only two? Secrecy. Sloppiness. Sops.

    With Trump in charge, one never knows. But even if there were a ground operation against Kharg Island, it would most likely involve Army Rangers and special operations forces, Green Berets and Navy SEALs — not some conventional ground assault à la Normandy. The idea of the U.S. Marines storming the beaches while the 82nd Airborne drops on parachutes from above is a cable news fever dream.











  • However, some users may not have to go through either form of age verification. Discord is also rolling out an age inference model that analyzes metadata like the types of games a user plays, their activity on Discord, and behavioral signals like signs of working hours or the amount of time they spend on Discord.

    “If we have a high confidence that they are an adult, they will not have to go through the other age verification flows,”

    data-laughing








  • yeah hes got a bunch for different specific areas. which I dont think is too strange tbh but if it does turn out to be Dean who is doing this day to day meeting he is the most "company man" they got hes like a lifetime advisor for the dems so who knows what they are actually gunna do with that.