Interesting Links for 17-03-2026

[andrewducker]

1. "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story"

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2. Subnautica 2 Publisher Followed ChatGPT's Advice On How To Break The Law

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3. Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting looks, frankly, amazing

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4. Regression, Not Progress: A Response to World Athletics' Return to Sex Testing

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5. Have some simple but inspiring images about growth through making mistakes

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6. Almost 25 years ago, a war game exercise had an Iran-stand in use asymmetric warfare to obliterate a US military force. So they re-ran it to force a US victory.

(tags:usa military ohforfuckssake iran games )

Comments

[calimac]

5) True enough that a scripted outcome negates the whole point of having a war game, but the article also says that the "Iran" victories were at least partly due to limitations on the simulation's capacity, so to that extent it wasn't realistic.

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[danieldwilliam]

The Japanese did the same thing in their exercises in support of their invasion at Midway.