Hard Pass

... I better not hear any complaints about this.

-Unknown artist, ripped off piece of tissue box, 2026

The United States has threatened to oppose Britain's sovereignty over the Falkland Islands if Andy Burnham does not increase defence spending, The Telegraph can reveal.

The proposal is among measures being drawn up by senior defence officials at the Pentagon as an incentive to hit Nato's 5 per cent spending pledge.

A senior US official told The Telegraph that Britain was likely to receive "special attention" in Washington's review of its allies' commitment to Nato, which will examine whether member nations have credible paths toward the target.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/70064423

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about what the recent AI hacking incidents actually mean, why we should stop referring to LLMs as AI, and what the post-bubble world looks like for LLMs.

When I went to pick up a friend from hospital and got into this lift, I found the choice of floors rather curious.

Do they have a direct connection to hell?

I'm interested to hear what do people use as their cloud backup and the cost of it. I currently use idrive e2 storage at 5$ per TB a month. Trying to see if there is any better deal anywhere and just curious on everyone's thoughts.

Zeteo’s weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump’s second term.