ICE agents getting an interesting mix of Vietnam and Iraq.

Okay, but if Alan Turing were alive today, he would be fascinated with the mathematics of the transformer architecture that modern LLMs use. Societal implications aside, the way machine learning has evolved is fascinating. I’d bet even something "intro to machine learning"y like a small, deep neural network (DNN) with backpropagation would be incredible to him. Even just an individual neuron in that DNN is its own perceptron, something that itself came years after Turing’s death in 1954. The Turing test sees a lot of emphasis among people who don’t know much about how machine learning actually works (or the rare philosopher who does), but Turing was a mathematician who would’ve loved to see how statistical processes govern modern AI instead of a preprogrammed decision tree. (Also, you’d have to be smoking crack and know zero about the field of AI or its history if you think Turing wouldn’t consider something like ChatGPT “AI”.)

Rule 4, OP.

“What is this, some kind of fight club?”

Here’s the relevant Nature article about specimens from the early vertebrate genera Haikouichthys and Myllokunmingia (and the corresponding Nature news article).

Full preprint published on ResearchGate. Credit for the image is persistently given to Xiangtong Lei and Sihang Zhang, the first two authors listed on the paper.

Reflexes honed over thirty attempts at beating Father Gascoigne.

Not only that, but this city street allegedly in Minneapolis or Portland is 100% empty except for some random protester, a single ICE agent in full military gear, and some rando half a kilometer away.

The man holding the blower is not only nonchalant as fuck, but his facial expression looks confused like it’s his first time using one.

Either:

• Some of the pepper spray would’ve hit the protester before he turned on the blower (or even while it was running), in which case his nonchalant demeanor is even more absurd.
• The agent saw a man pointing a leafblower at him or even saw it running and thought: “Yeah, this is a great time and position to deploy pepper spray.”
• The protester is using reflex mode from The Phantom Pain and turned the blower on at the exact moment the agent started spraying.

The ICE agent is using an ungodly amount of pepper spray and is continuing to spray despite knowing he’s involved in some Wile E. Coyote shit right now.

Perfect angle of the action and flawless timing while holding the camera completely steady. They’re literally positioned like actors in a stage play.

I’m sorry: I can’t imagine who looked at this for more than half a second and thought: “Yeah, that checks out.” There’s no “probably” about this without some deeply entrenched wishful thinking.

Oh, and the doorway of that red brick building on the left is casually just like four meters tall.

The post is just an ad disguised as a guide

That said:

its obvious they want to be like google but with “privacy” as a gimmic because its only private until they get a government order telling them to do something to unmask a user or monitor an email.

Besides the fact that Proton is based in Switzerland where government warrants aren’t issued willy-nilly, please learn how the mathematics behind encryption works – or, if not, at least trust that it does. For emails that are sent E2EE, Proton can only have garbled data that requires a key they don’t have.

You’re just constantly talking out your ass, and I have no idea why; it’s so unearned. Like I’m not going to debate you on whether ads or corporations are good because a) I broadly agree and b) that’s just, like, our opinions, man, but then you just say shit that’s so demonstrably untrue that all I can think is: “I fucking hate what this decade has done to people.”

Before I address the substance: that’s not what an ad hominem is in the context of an argument. I’d already 100% finished attacking the substance of their argument. An ad hominem would be if I fallaciously appealed to a personal characteristic (real or otherwise) to attack an argument of theirs. “You’re wrong because you’re a dipshit”.

Anyway: man, I dunno. It’s 2026, and I’ve gotten really fucking sick of being unilaterally bound by etiquette when the bullshit asymmetry principle and the Dunning–Kruger effect are being stretched to their limits by insufferable, insolent shitheads who’ve unburdened themselves of critical thinking and assume having a platform to the entire world makes them qualified to say anything about everything (I can fall into this trap too, but holy shit sometimes).

I was still more polite than they were, still exercised more critical thought than they did, and still addressed the substance, and that’s fine enough by me not to tone police myself.

but i guess thats why I don’t work in marketing

Yeah, I guess it is, because this article works in Proton’s favor on multiple levels:

• Plenty of Proton users have switched over from Gmail, still have their old account, and still, even with forwarding, occasionally need to use those old addresses.
• People who search for or are sent a guide who’ve never or rarely heard of Proton might end up on their site and read a guide that lambasts Google and its usage of AI.
• Meanwhile, Proton’s alternative product is being advertised everywhere on the page outside the guide and even is advertised within it.
• These guides are going to exist anyway (many, in fact). You’re acting like this is some extremely niche thing users might want to do. Having your own guide but poisoned with your marketing when you’re the underdog is a sound idea.
• This gives a benevolent image of “Good Guy Proton” who just wants to keep people’s data private regardless of business – and a “Bad Guy Google” image because it’s apparently so dire that their competition has to do this.
• Consumers becoming more privacy-conscious generally is a boon long-term for businesses like Proton.

You’re so smarmy about this but just come off as a complete dipshit who gave this two seconds of thought.

Thick noodles served with broth from a certain point of view.

He looks like B.J. Blazkowicz’s severely inbred second cousin.

So that’s why vegans are more likely to be iron-deficient.

Before I leave the house, I always pat pockets for keys, wallet, phone, and half-liter resealable bag of spaghetti marinara.

Otherwise tomorrow morning on the plane, no banana’d make you go insane.

Some people with a summer home in Florida do all three.

Hey, if you remember, the last time you whined about this, I appended the most recent 2025 position to the bottom of the list – just to soothe your oh-so-good-faith concern that the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics might’ve decided between 2016 and now that “actually, modern medical research is bullshit and plant-based dieting is unhealthy”.

Adding to what you said, I’ll just drop this here.

The “Ronda Center Tourist Apartments” in the background adds a funny touch. Specifically tourists. I wonder if Nathan Drake checked in while he uses this bridge for climbing practice.

Technically the numerical code still gives you a precise search key to find other people discussing the same issue.

… You know, as would be useful for a serious operating system where online support doesn’t mean trawling the bowels of Reddit praying somebody’s had the same issue and found a reproducible solution.