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"From one sequence of events, let a hundred narratives blossom."

Péter Magyar: Viktor Orbán played such a five-dimensional chess game, and this was probably one of the reasons for his defeat, among others. He talked about everything: Ukraine, Russia, Iran, the Iranian Shah, the Iranian Ayatollah, the US presidential election. Probably, if he had been woken from his sleep, he would have said that he won the US presidential election, not Donald Trump. Viktor Orbán talked about everything except for the problems affecting the Hungarian people.

❗️The "Freedom of Russia" resistance movement disabled two 🇷🇺Russian occupiers' VL-10U freight electric locomotives, which were used for transporting oil and petroleum products. According to the partisans, these locomotives provided logistics for the Novokuibyshevsk Oil Refinery — one of the leading oil refining enterprises in the Samara region.

Ukraine and Turkey agreed on new steps in security cooperation and gas infrastructure projects, President Zelensky said after talks with Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Discussions included regional security in Europe and the Middle East. #Ukraine

BREAKING: The security forces of the Islamic regime in Iran just found the bodies of a group of Basij militia terrorists who were out looking for the downed American airman in the mountains of south-western Iran. Looks like they ran into an American search and rescue group.

game companies need to remember they actually need to sell games to stay afloat, imagine wasting millions on a thing nobody wants and just to cancel it at last stretch, who the fuck makes these decisions

Iran situation seems to spiral towards extensive war, longer conflict that now is about attacking civilian infrastructure that is related to general military operations

Saudi air defenses repelling a recent Iranian attack on the capital of KSA, Riyadh.

FPV cam footage from the drone that took down a Russian Ka-52 in Donetsk region. @usf_army pilots from the Baltika crew, 1st battalion "Predators of Heights" of the 59th brigade, hit it with a fiber-optic FPV near Nadiivka, and Magyar's Birds drones finished off the crew after the crash landing.

Ukraine's 66th Brigade repelled a mass assault on the Lyman axis, killing 43 Russian troops and destroying 6 armored vehicles along with 10 quad bikes and 5 motorcycles. #Ukraine

USAF B-52H heavy bomber returning to England from an Iran cruise missile strike mission this morning.

for reshade, to make it look good, you need to make sure it doesnt mess up what developers intended, balance is key, too much hdr, tonemapping, bloom and it looks awful, motion vectors are in many advanced shaders, it seems this tech can also fuck up the game visuals same way

Adding uncanny valley AI slop filter on top of characters in games and calling it revolutionary is hilarious, you can see how off it looks in real time

❗️🇺🇸US Air Force strikes on 🇮🇷Iranian command-and-staff vehicles or electronic warfare (EW) systems.

An Iranian-backed militia successfully used a (likely fiber optic) FPV drone to carry out a reconnaissance mission through the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad yesterday. Seen here, the drone flies unchallenged through the embassy complex for nearly two minutes.

🇸🇪 Sweden has published a video of boarding the Russian shadow fleet oil tanker Sea Owl I.

You have to know as early as possible if something, an idea works or not, so it being crude first iteration, a slapped together thing at first, is fine, as long as it helps to figure out quick what works and what doesnt, and we get to real good version of it after

Footage of USS Mahan launching 9 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iran on Tuesday.

Something bizarre is going to happen now that major CPU/GPU manufacturers have given up on making mainstream stuff in exchange for corporate datacenter greed

Escape from Butcher Bay’s menu cube is an impressive technical flex with clear roots in the European demoscene aesthetic (2004)

Yuval Levin: “The experience of working in government actually made me less cynical about politics and less prone to believe in conspiracy theories, because what you realize when you work in government is that it's just human beings all the way down. Conspiracies are just implausible.” “It can't be that, hundreds of people in the upper reaches of the government would keep this terrible secret and have this six step plan in which the American public is just a stooge. Nobody could manage that. These people don't know what they're doing tomorrow, and they don't know how to deal with the stresses they're facing right now.”