Dennis B

Eking out a modest existence.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@CoyoteUnclean @witte_sergei Hey retard, Iran last week blew up US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@witte_sergei That's what happens when you lose a war, the winner gets the spoils.

Also, Iranian Oil in the market is a benefit for the US, cheaper oil is better for the US economy and its gives the US scope to refill the SPR.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@Nighttrekker3 @HMD2V @FinanceLancelot Haha, I am a bot now?

Fuck man, your brain is broken.

Good day, will now block you.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@Nighttrekker3 @HMD2V @FinanceLancelot So angry? Calm down fool.

Microsoft has made a pragmatic decision to run open weight models on their infrastructure. They know more than you.

I run Chinese (Qwen) and US (Gemma) models on my own hardware. It's no big deal.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@Nighttrekker3 @HMD2V @FinanceLancelot Cope?

Your post is factually stupid and incorrect.

Whatever, keep living in your own fantasy world where open weight models hosted in America are actually Chinese hosted.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@Nighttrekker3 @HMD2V @FinanceLancelot This is this most idiotic thing I have read in a very long time.

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

Britain used to be good at propaganda. Really good at it. Alongside the Navy, it was the one thing Britain’s foes always respected: not brute force, but the quiet art of trickery, the information gambit, the elegant misdirection woven so deeply into the machinery of state that you barely noticed the strings until they were already pulling you off course.

That was the genius of it. Subtle. Institutional. Almost artistic. Which is why half the world’s sharpest PR minds still cluster in London—trained here, highly compensated here, operating in that grey zone where influence feels like consensus.

So it’s genuinely painful to watch this latest episode. The official story around these Ukrainian arsonists and the attack on the PM’s property isn’t just clumsy; it’s an outright embarrassment. A gross, unvarnished shambles of deflection, selective omission, and conspiratorial stitching held together by the thinnest sheen of authority still available from the usual compromised assets—Hope not Hate and their like.

It has all the hallmarks of a once-great machine that’s simply given up. You can almost hear the weary sigh from the back rooms: “Sorry, this particular turd just can’t be polished. We’re out.”

The result is exactly what you’d expect: obvious lies, ill-connected narratives, and that sad, desperate attempt to project gravitas over something that smells rotten from a mile away. Britain once fooled empires. Now it can’t even fool its own people without blushing. What a fall.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

And then there’s the BBC’s own contribution to this farce — a lengthy “investigation” that breathlessly insists the whole thing is a sophisticated Russian state operation, complete with shadowy Telegram handlers and grand sabotage campaigns. Yet it ends, almost as an afterthought, with the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism chief stating plainly: “we’ve got no evidence to suggest that this was a state-backed threat.”

One can almost picture the poor producer staring at the screen, realising the carefully constructed house of cards has no foundation, and deciding to shove that inconvenient quote right at the end anyway. It’s the journalistic equivalent of polishing the turd for six paragraphs and then admitting in the final line that, actually, it’s still just a turd. The mismatch is glaring, the credibility shredded. Britain’s once-feared propaganda apparatus has devolved into self-owning spectacle.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

Excellent, France is kicking out Palantir.

All countries of the world, outside the US, needs to cease using @PalantirTech which is nothing more than US deep state malware.

Well done France.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Wow, this is a huge and - rare for France these days - a genuinely good move: France's intelligence services (DGSI) are terminating their contract with Palantir in favor of a domestic alternative (source: https://t.co/yaIu2cqLMT).

I posted about this multiple times. See post below for instance, which Palantir officially replied to, calling my take "insane" (https://t.co/9AlYKZ31qH), where I called it a "complete dereliction of duty" for France to use Palantir as the "central software architecture" for their intelligence services. As I wrote, it's completely incoherent with any notion of sovereignty.

Looks like my "insane" take wasn't so insane after all 😉

And, by the way, ALL countries currently using Palantir should do the same: you are, quite simply, not a sovereign country if you let your national data infrastructure depend on the goodwill of a company with such a clear political agenda.

At this stage this isn't even a sovereignty question, it's a sanity test.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@JakeWSimons

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@CupidoRocc90233 @bbdealio @ggreenwald A moron does not he is a moron because he is a moron, and you sir are the biggest moron of them all.

Worse than that is that you are a dirty disgusting peeping tom who watches sex tapes of other people.

That makes you a sick fuck.

Good day and goodbye. Now blocking you.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@bbdealio @CupidoRocc90233 @ggreenwald

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@bbdealio @CupidoRocc90233 @ggreenwald Oh, you are stupid as well as being a perverted peeping Tom, I am glad you admit to your idiocy.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@bbdealio @CupidoRocc90233 @ggreenwald Do you get off on being a perverted peeping Tom.

You are a sick fuck.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@verge Oh wow!
What the heck!
The sky is falling!
Never has news been this bad!
This is the worst thing ever in the history of the world!

My feelings:

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@geoffheyman @ggreenwald There was no nuclear weapon program whilst the JCPOA was in effect you stupid cunt! The same JCPOA that Trump tore up, for Israel.

Even Trump's DNI said Iran had no nuclear program.

Fuck you people are the most moronic people on Earth.

This war has been a total failure.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

Well done to the New York Knicks......but damn it did San Antonia wet the bed.

The Spurs, with better leadership, should have won this series.

But glory goes to the winners.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@AndreaE456 @ggreenwald People like you are so fucking stupid. No wonder America is on the decline.

The JCPOA was a good deal for the US, the new one will be far worse.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Brian May's PhD thesis sat in the loft of his Surrey home for 33 years. In 2006 — he put everything in his life on hold for a full year, went back to Imperial College, and finished it. His professor said he had a mountain to climb reviewing 30 years of scientific work. Brian May climbed it anyway. The most extraordinary act of academic commitment in rock history.

In 1970 — Brian May began a PhD in astrophysics at Imperial College London.

He supplemented his grant with income from part-time teaching and playing in bands with Roger Taylor. Soon they were joined by Freddie Mercury and John Deacon. Queen was formed.

For four years — Brian tried to do both.

His doctoral thesis on interplanetary dust was taking shape. But the grant was running out. And music was beginning to take over his life.

In 1974 — before leaving — he co-authored two research papers based on his work at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife, Spain.

Then he made a decision.

He abandoned his thesis — or more exactly, as he put it himself — he put it on the back burner. And the rest is history.

The 48,000-word thesis — Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud — was stored in the loft of his home in Surrey.

It stayed there for 33 years.

Then in 2006 — something changed.

Brian told Time magazine — "Suddenly my subject became very in-demand again. I started talking about astronomy again to people who said — 'Why don't you still do it?' I put everything — and I mean everything — on hold for a year. And they put me in a little office in Imperial College and I got down to it."

His professor was honest about what awaited him.

Professor Rowan-Robinson said — "Brian brought along print outs of what he had written in 1974. It was then that I realised Brian was going to have a mountain to climb — reviewing 30 years of work."

Brian May climbed it.

He re-registered for his PhD in 2006. Less than a year later — he submitted it successfully.

In 2007 — Brian Harold May was awarded his PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London.

Thirty-three years after he first abandoned it.

For a band called Queen.

He sacrificed his academic career to play rock and roll.

Then sacrificed a year of his rock career to finish what he had started.

Some people simply cannot leave things undone.

[Dennis B @dennisb5]

@x396ato44 @FurkanGozukara You could even beat the Taliban for fucks sake.

[Loong of the east @loong_of]

A safe prediction: regardless of which national team ultimately wins the title, this World Cup will go down as the worst ever; letting the U.S. host the tournament was an absolute blunder.

Expect terrible visa processes, chaotic organization, and outdated infrastructure and transport—not to mention the likelihood of facing even worse experiences and discriminatory treatment.