Interesting Links for 17-03-2026
Mar. 17th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story"
- (tags:iran israel journalism gambling ohforfuckssake )
- 2. Subnautica 2 Publisher Followed ChatGPT's Advice On How To Break The Law
- (tags:law ai games OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting looks, frankly, amazing
- (tags:games lighting nvidia video )
- 4. Regression, Not Progress: A Response to World Athletics' Return to Sex Testing
- (tags:gender testing OhForFucksSake women LGBT transgender biology )
- 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 )
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Date: 2026-03-17 01:50 pm (UTC)#6
Date: 2026-03-17 02:23 pm (UTC)Re: #6
Date: 2026-03-17 03:03 pm (UTC)It's really not useful to lie to yourself about your capabilities, particularly if you then use the results to go to war!
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Date: 2026-03-17 04:12 pm (UTC)This Resource ... was blocked due to its Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy header (or lack thereof).
See https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTTP/Cross-Origin_Resource_Policy_(CORP)#
The issue is that the pictures are on https://instagram.fman4-2.fna.fbcdn.net not https://www.threads.com
and my firefox doesn't have a reason to trust that the pictures do what threads intended ...
[ I had to open the Web Developer tools to see the errors, but did manage to see the pictures, which are terribly small on my screen and scaled down, by looking in the Page Info. ]
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Date: 2026-03-17 04:19 pm (UTC)Works fine for my Firefox install.
Have you set it up to block things in an unusual way?