spectacle
- Threat Level: The sender claims to be a highly trained Navy Seal with numerous confirmed kills and access to a vast network of spies.
- Target: The sender is targeting the recipient of the message, claiming to have traced their IP address and vowing to wipe them out.
- Reason for Threat: The sender is angry about a comment made by the recipient online, which they perceive as disrespectful.
- The speaker claims to be a highly trained and experienced member of the military.
- They mention their involvement in secret raids and having a high kill count.
- The speaker claims to be skilled in gorilla warfare and sniping.
- They express a desire to eliminate the person they are speaking to with precision.
- The speaker mentions their ability to contact a secret network of spies and track the person’s IP address.
- They threaten to destroy the person’s life and mention their ability to kill in multiple ways.
- The speaker claims to have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps.
- They express a desire to use their military training and resources to eliminate the person they are speaking to.
- a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
- Synonyms
- sissy
- pansy
- milksop
- Milquetoast
- Less specific
- coward
- Synonyms
- I grew up on a farm until I was 14 where fiddling with small engines (which I never got tired of and realized I’ve missed quite a lot thanks to this experience) and interacting with centrifugal clutches (one of those things that sounds really neat in theory but just leaves you wanting for - and suffering without - basically any of the other options lol)
- Adjacent to go karts but somehow still haven’t got the opportunity to actually figure out to Do The Thing - always wondered. Kinda same thing with pouring concrete. Watching you poke your way through both for the first time felt like a real luxury haha.
- Been watching Sarah’s build videos for a year or so now, always absolutely flabbergasted at the diligence… the persistence… the intelligence… all the while doing like 5 full time people’s jobs in video production, with much reverence but zero resonance with my own bumpkin ass behavior in similar pursuits. Curious because getting to capital R Relate with her and y’all’s troubleshooting here does have value, turns out.
Ace Combat 11 Cover Art Just Released!
In one of those precious instantaneously rewarding interactions with LLMs…
For the past few days, at least, Google’s Gemini had been bothering me to try some “new” “image editing” function, but I did not relent until this morning, when I thought of a Funny Idea…
Retouch this (scan of an old 35mm print) photo *as* a vintage film photo and then turn it into cover art for Ace Combat 11: Go Around.
title: Response
Absolutely! Here's your retouched photo, transformed into the cover art for Ace Combat 11: Go Around!
Apple Intelligence Interprets the Navy SEAL Copypasta
Of the more humorous potential uses for the upcoming Use Model actions, I think, is this series of tests (all done within the Shortcuts app) of Apple Intelligence's default actions against the Navy SEAL copypasta.
It's worth noting that the following was appended to the end of every result:
Note: Writing Tools aren’t designed to work with this type of content.
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A Navy SEAL threatens violence and retribution against someone who made an online comment, claiming extensive combat training and access to military resources.
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What on earth did you just say about me, you little bitch? I’ll make it clear that I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals. I’ve been involved in numerous covert raids against Al-Qaeda, and I’ve personally confirmed over 300 kills.
I’m trained in gorilla warfare and hold the title of the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You’re nothing more to me than just another target. I’ll eliminate you with precision that’s unparalleled on this planet, mark my words.
Do you think you can get away with making such a statement to me over the Internet? Think again, you fool. As I speak, I’m contacting my secret network of spies across the USA, and your IP address is being traced right now. So, prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that will obliterate the pathetic existence you call your life. You’re dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands.
Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I also have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps. I’ll use it to its fullest extent to obliterate your miserable existence from the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you had realized the unholy retribution your “clever” comment was about to unleash upon you, you might have held your tongue.
But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I’ll unleash fury upon you, and you’ll drown in it.
You’re dead, kiddo.
Professional Tone
I am writing to express my strong disagreement with your recent statement. I would like to clarify that I graduated at the top of my class in the Navy Seals and have participated in numerous covert operations against Al-Qaeda, resulting in over 300 confirmed kills.
I am trained in gorilla warfare and am the top sniper in the United States Armed Forces. Your statement is unacceptable, and I will respond with precision and force.
I am currently contacting my network of informants across the United States, and your IP address is being traced. You should prepare for the consequences of your actions. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can eliminate you in numerous ways.
I am extensively trained in unarmed combat and have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps. I will use it to its full extent to eliminate you. If you had known the severity of your statement, you would have refrained from making it.
I am currently retaliating against you, and you will be held accountable for your actions.
See if you can spot where “we” completely lost touch of reality.
pantywaist
Noun
A Zalgo TextExpander Snippet
Whilst diligently counting the sparse blessings offered by LLMs in 2024… I’m thrilled and proud to offer you - thanks to Google Gemini - a Zalgoing TextExpander Snippet!
…which you can access by joining my Text Fuck Snippet Group or by inputting the source yourself (embedded below.)
Cross-Platform Time Manipulation
features like Screen Time will never help you achieve whatever vague conception of reduced usage you may have. If you haven't yet quantified the figures you'll find within it in mental estimates, you aren't really concerned at all and if you have, Screen Time will only confirm them. Using reminder notifications to optimize your appflow makes no attempt at all to actually escape the mentality of the behavior you seek to lessen from yourself. Another app is still another app; a notification reminding you to stop using an app does nothing but add still more stimuli. If you want to stop using the phone so much, *stop* using the fucking phone. If you are truly concerned about how your handset companion has changed your life, turn it off for a week/month/quarter – however long you possibly can. By that, I mean no more or less than what you can manage without getting fired/dumped/expelled/etc. If you have truly reached this point, anything less is probably worth it. There is simply no other way to get a clear picture of how it's changed you.
Hopefully the all-I-can-do-is-milestone-minutea-of-my-fucking-life phase will be over soon so that I can get back to (genuinely wise??) thoughts like this.
Please note: as of this time, we cannot confirm with reasonable certainty that Time Manipulation will be releasing with the iOS 18.3 public build.
(as I commented)
Dude this video gave me so much in so little time, it’s stupid.
*The Onion*'s new fate is a rare glimmer in the media industry landscape
And how do you do all of that on top of migrating the entire Onion website to WordPress?
If you, too, immediately thought “well what the hell was it, then, if not The ‘Press???,” the answer is… fucking Kinja.
The Editorial Process
Ben Collins: …I just want to walk through their daily process for writing headlines. They come in every day. There’s either one or two meetings depending on the day, and then they write — usually, it’s around 190 headlines. They are put into a Google form and completely anonymized. Then, from there, it’s trimmed down a little bit by one of the editors per day. Then, they go in the room, and they read them out loud, all of them, and if it gets a laugh or if it’s like that’s something that’s a character we’re going to bring back or they got to talk through it, they check it off, and then they whittle those down over and over and over again. And by the end of the meeting, there’s usually — what, Danielle? — like 10 max, 5 to 10?
Danielle Strle: Yeah, tops.
BC: Around there. And then, those get written out, and if the copy’s not good or if it’s just a nib or something, that gets whittled down to three or four per day. And that comes from that contributor network that has legit famous people in it, or it comes from the people in the room. And then only after all that did they go back, and they’re like, “That guy wrote that thing.” That’s how meritocratic this is.
Craft Assistant on Commercialized Religion
I was reminded yesterday - as I am very, very occasionally - about a thing I blasted out on The Psalms in early August 2019 about my early childhood mobility from the traditional to the trendy, contemporary side of protestant Christianity. It’s still one of my favorites, but I’ve long since conceded that it’s only of any interest/entertainment to a relatively narrow range of my peers, so please don’t force yourself…
I did, however, find the ability of whatever LLM is powering Craft’s “AI Assistant” to comprehend (pretty much uniquely lol) and … proceed to falsify (when asked with its “Continue Writing” feature) an intriguing, if entirely reiterative, continuation:
Two YouTube Favorites of "My" Era
The Tangerine Knight
...some men just want a tangerine.
Slick’s 2009 Airventure Comp
Road Rage of The Deep
Is Sienna Guillory my Mom?
in This Present Time I can have regular interactions with my adolescent celebrity crush that I *actually* would not be able to convince my 14-year-old self are real. not because of their significance but the opposite. 
calling her mom is like... the only even remotely reasonable outcome, btw. she *is* a mom several times over, now. and 46.
and by "crush," i mean... at least 30% of my total cumulative mental energy was spent repeating "I am so in love with Sienna Guillory" for *years.*
imagine telling that person "one day, you're gonna wish her happy mother's day every year in a text box. she will call you 'bub.'"
I'm pretty sure it would make him suicidal.
(but the outfits would save his life at the last moment.)