Arthur Dent

high modernist multicultural flavour maximiser

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

Maybe the real research outcomes are the friends we make along the way

[zdhpeter @peter6759]

hailuo h3 image oil painting is much better. Prompt: A Caravaggio-style oil painting with stark chiaroscuro against a deep black background. Two elderly fishermen in tattered clothing haul a dripping net up from a wooden boat. Tangled inside is a struggling pelican, its beak and one wing thrust out through the gaps in the mesh. The rope netting binds its body and pulls taut between the men’s hands. One shaft of light from the upper left strikes the pelican’s white plumage and the fishermen’s faces. Thank you guys for the amazing model. @Hailuo_AI, #H3Image @MiniMax_AI

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

Interesting developments

[Jake Eaton @jkeatn]

I asked Fable 5.2 to create a painting as indistinguishable as possible from a photograph. this is roughly 700,000 simulated brush strokes

[Willem de Kooning @artistdekooning]

Park Rosenberg #artbots #dekooning

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Even among Republicans, there is little support for annexing Greenland, seizing Venezuela’s oil, waging a cold war with Canada, cutting off Ukraine, insulting and indiscriminately tariffing allies, fawning over authoritarians, buying diesel from Russia, launching a war on Iran, blowing up alleged drug boats and making lucrative deals abroad that benefit the first family.

It’s just possible that out of the wreckage of the MAGA party will emerge a chastened group of lawmakers who are willing to work with Democrats to reorient U.S. foreign policy in a direction that actually puts America, rather than Trump, first. https://t.co/aqGvhus9A5

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

A concerted effort to make the US military a politically partisan organisation.

Combined with contempt for democratic voting and the rule of law, it’s a pattern every American should stand up and take notice of, regardless of whether they identify as conservative or liberal.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is disgraceful. According to new reporting, Pete Hegseth pulled decorated officers from promotion lists after merit boards had already selected them.

Staff printed out internet searches showing that officers had spoken at a Hispanic Heritage Month event, joined an International Women’s Day panel, or encouraged sailors to get vaccinated.

Those printouts went into files the officers never saw, and they were used to end careers built over decades.

On one Navy board, every woman and person of color who had been selected, except one, was removed.

Every American should want the most qualified leaders in charge of our military, and these men and women earned their stars.

Hegseth must come before Congress, testify under oath, and answer for his decisions.

He has no business hiding while he sabotages careers.
https://t.co/3PJF8n1zod

[A_Suburbian @ASuburbian]

"Encouraged soldiers to get vaccinated" invited retaliation from Hegseth's DoD.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

head of Chinese spy agency: did you successfully honeypot the target

me: [in a Winnie the Pooh costume] okay so I think there's been a misunderstanding

[They murdered Renée Good @Youtalkingtume]

Reporter: “Pete Hegseth says you want to see him in prison.”

Rep. Thomas Massie: “ There’s no way that I would go to visit him”

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

I see they’re not giving up on their “Democracy is bullshit” line

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

@KiddSpade1 I want to be able to do this but I lack confidence

[vas @vasuman]

It’s not just NVIDIA. Sources confirm Google's Gemini team was also leaking confidential information to China.

China is reportedly asking them to stop.

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

@MusicVersa @thebadstats Why should we care about this rape when are other rapes? Her logic is compelling.

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

@tomieinlove @hecubian_devil A friend has a term for this: “discourse surfing”.

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

Just checked (because there's so much AI crap). True story!

[Chris Kavanagh @C_Kavanagh]

Brand was always a creep and offered vapid political commentary. This was true when he was just as true when he was posing as a left-wing revolutionary as when he became a born-again MAGA right-wing conspiracist. Glad to see his victims getting justice.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Congrats to the morons, edgelords, galaxy brains, defenders of Bo Vichy-French and "Indian Question" indulgers, who helped to make this possible.

[Chris Kavanagh @C_Kavanagh]

I made a little visualisation to try and help explain p-values for students. Some people might enjoy: https://t.co/qSrjo3l0jK

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

@kelley0011 @KareemRifai

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

So, let me flag a few things, traitor.

1. "European security architecture" is a phrase the Kremlin uses. We already have one: it's called NATO.

2. You conflate (as you always do) the victim of this war with the aggressor. The aggressor is Russia.

3. "Root causes" is Russian for "do it our way" and you know it.

4. Nothing a word about Russian withdrawal, the occupied territories, POWs or deported children. Weird.

5. Lavrov wrote this for you.

6. Fuck Putin, fuck Russia, and fuck you.

[Dr Susan Oliver (PhD) @DrSusanOliver1]

A number of prominent antivaxxers who have risked lives by spreading dangerous misinformation remain free. Russell brand has been jailed because he's a rapist. End of story.