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learned about the 83rd Infantry division today.
mfs stole so many nazi armored vehicles they almost turned themselves into a mechanized infantry division. fucking impressive. kleptomania at work.
they hijacked half-tracks, trucks, anything they could.
but also tanks.
above: a captured STuG, and what appears to be an armored car.
this one's of them coming up on an abandoned german Panther. if their pattern held, they probably stole this one and repainted it too. supposedly they even managed to capture a BF109 and fly that around for a little bit.
crazy bastards. gotta love 'em.
"A German-born admiral spent 6 years in Nazi POW camps and never spoke a single word of German to his captorsânot even to his own cousin."
Admiral JĂłzef Unrug was born Joseph von Unruh in Brandenburg, Prussia. He spoke German as his mother tongue, served in the Imperial German Navy during World War I, and commanded submarines for the Kaiser.
But in 1919, everything changed.
When Poland regained independence after 123 years of partition, JĂłzef made a choice that would define the rest of his life. He renounced his German commission, left his homeland, and traveled to Polandâa country that had no navy, no warships, not even a proper port.
He didn't just join Poland's military. He bought a ship with his own money and donated it to become one of Poland's first naval vessels. By 1925, he was Commander of the Fleet, speaking Polish with a thick German accent, building a navy from absolutely nothing.
When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Admiral Unrug commanded the coastal defenses on the Hel Peninsula. Outnumbered ten to one, he fought for a month while Warsaw fell. Finally, on October 2, 1939, he surrendered with honor and became a prisoner of war.
That's when his real resistance began.
The Germans moved him between campsâColditz Castle, Murnau, Woldenberg. Former colleagues from his German Navy days visited, appealing to old friendships. They offered him rank, promotions, command positions. Admiral DĂśnitz himself reportedly tried to recruit him back to the Kriegsmarine.
Then his own cousin came to visit.
Major General Walter von Unruh greeted JĂłzef warmly in German, expecting a conversation in their shared native tongue.
Instead, Unrug replied in French.
Confused, his cousin asked why he was speaking French.
JĂłzef looked at him calmly and said: "On September 1, 1939, I forgot how to speak German. I am a Pole and a Polish officer."
The Germans were stunned. This was a man who had commanded their submarines, who understood every word they said, whose family had served Prussia for generations.
But for six yearsâthrough multiple camps, countless recruitment attempts, visits from family membersâAdmiral Unrug never spoke German again. When Germans addressed him, he demanded translators. When they insisted he must understand, he replied only in Polish or French.
Language became his weapon of resistance.
He refused to give his captors even a syllable of recognition. Always correct, always formal, always cold. His fellow prisoners drew strength from his unbending example. The Germans found him increasingly frustratingâhe wouldn't break, wouldn't bend, wouldn't even acknowledge their shared past.
In April 1945, American forces liberated his camp. But the news was devastating: Poland had fallen under Soviet occupation.
Unrug chose exile over compromise. He moved to the United Kingdom, then Morocco where he worked on fishing boats, then France. A rear admiral working manual labor rather than accept a communist government or a pension he felt his men were denied.
His final wish was to be buried in free Poland, among his men. But he set a condition: he would not return until his colleagues murdered during Stalinist terror were properly rehabilitated.
He would not return until Poland was truly free.
Admiral JĂłzef Unrug died in France on February 28, 1973, at age 88. His wife Zofia died in 1980. They were buried together in France, alongside other Polish patriots who died far from home.
Decades passed. The Berlin Wall fell. The Soviet Union collapsed. Poland regained sovereignty. The murdered officers were finally found and honored.
And Admiral Unrug could come home.
On September 24, 2018âforty-five years after his deathâhis coffin was carried aboard the Polish Navy frigate ORP KoĹciuszko. On October 2, 2018âexactly seventy-nine years to the day after his surrender at Helâa state funeral was held in Gdynia.
Admiral JĂłzef Unrug was laid to rest at Oksywie Naval Cemetery, among his officers and sailors, in the free Poland he had waited his entire life to see.
He had finally come home.
Sometimes the most powerful act of resistance isn't violence or sabotageâit's the quiet, absolute refusal to compromise on who you are. JĂłzef Unrug never raised a weapon in his final war. He simply refused to speak the language of his enemy.
And in that silence, he said everything that needed to be said.
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Actually hiiiiiiii I'm sorry I'm gonna vent for a minute but the start of the slow decline towards a cashless dystopia in the US was individual stores deciding that they weren't gonna accept certain types of money for convenience's sake. This is actually illegal, a place of business cannot pick and choose what kind of cash they're going to take, but most places have for years and faced no consequences for it. $2 bills, $1 coins, and half dollars are usually turned away due to ignorance, which is a failure of the school system, but also yes, anyone at all does actually have the right to pay for their $20 purchase all in quarters and turning them away is indeed a violation of federal law
A federal law that will never be enforced because the government is actively pushing a narrative that coins are inconvenient -- most of the rest of the world has $1 and even $2 coins, the US already uses coins way less than everyone else
Also from what I've been told this is a big problem for blind people. In the US all bills are the same shape and size (I understand this is not the case everywhere), so it's much easier for blind people to work with coins, which all have a distinct weight and size, and can be further distinguished by feel by whether or not they have coining. There are bill counting machines, but I am told they're expensive and prone to mistakes and jamming, and of course batteries die, so a lot of blind people use coins instead. When a store has a policy against accepting larger coins, that's a problem
Plus, coins last longer than bills and as such are a better investment by the mint! I personally believe that we should look into 5 and 10 dollar coins.
I live in a small town where youâre much more likely to not be able to pay with card. I have, once upon a time when I was working as a cashier at the general store, helped a guy count a gallon bag of assorted change enough for his gas money (he kindly gave me the non-US coins in it as a thank you). It does take a while!
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
No one sin is called out more than the others, except if the pastor believes itâs a current problem for the congregation (EG, condemning homosexuality but not fornication).
"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:
The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:
"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power.
I donât disagree with this reading. I donât think itâs inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the Ăźbermensch writ large.
But itâs a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe in fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read.
The average comic reader doesnât fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one factâŚ
The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return.
Being a century into the genre, weâve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story.
But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts youâve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive.
We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies.
But itâs worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasnât been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (donât let the MCU fool you).
The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take.
So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isnât collectivist. But thatâs not why we keep coming back to it.
Thatâs not why children read it.
We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lessonâŚ
The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY."
- Joey deVilla, 2021
https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/
Kids don't want to be Batman because he's rich, they want to be him because he's got tons of cool gadgets he invented himself, is a badass martial artist, is a genius on par with Lex Luthor, and uses all this to be on the same level as Superman despite having zero actual superpowers. They see the little boy who lost both his parents, decided nobody else should ever have to live through that, and want to be like that.
Kids don't want to be Superman because he's superior to humans(he isn't, that's always been a core part of his character that he rejects that outlook and it's always just Lex projecting his view of Superman onto Superman himself), they wanna be able to deflect bullets and shoot lasers from their eyes because Superman uses all that to show the best side of humanity, to show how humanity isn't even tied to actually being human but to how you act towards other people.
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Funnily enough, the paper for the largest city in my region ran a front page article on her a few days ago, claiming she was afraid Biden was âhaving a strokeâ during the debate. It must have been a slow news day. I wonder why sheâs coming back into the limelight now.
i think a lot of younger teenagers who are against sex-based sports leagues haven't really grasped the strength difference yet. it's not a comfortable thing to understand, and its very tempting to deny it as long as you can.
Also, if they start questioning the difference in strength and bodies regarding sports then they also have to start questioning the difference in strength and bodies when it comes to dating and marriages and they're not ready to question the problems of hetero partnerships.
I would respectfully disagree. A great deal of romance novels for younger and younger teens are hinged the idea that a man has a great deal of physical power over the female protagonist, so she can âchangeâ him and gain a protector. Itâs creepy as all get out but increasingly popular with the 13 to 15 demographic at my library.
I think there is more light usually, the tank photo is probably a ânight modeâ. For the close up it really looks like the fish are backlit by very bright white light, so likely there are two lighting setups/settings.
Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.
But... Stochastic Parrots.
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.
Her name is Timnit Gebru.
She co-led the Ethical AI team at Google. She co-wrote a paper called "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" with Emily Bender at the University of Washington and two other researchers. The paper was 14 pages long. It was submitted to a top AI ethics conference. And it was the reason Google decided that one of the most senior Black women in AI research could no longer work there.
The story Google told publicly was that she resigned. The story she told, confirmed by 2,695 of her colleagues in an open letter, was that she was fired by email while on vacation because she refused to either retract the paper or remove her name from it.
The paper had not even been published yet.
Here is what she actually wrote, and why every prediction inside it has now come true.
The first warning was about scale itself. Bender and Gebru argued that training ever-larger models on ever-larger scrapes of the internet would produce systems that appeared fluent but had no actual understanding of language. They called these systems stochastic parrots because they would repeat patterns from training data with statistical confidence and zero comprehension. The paper predicted that this apparent intelligence would fool both users and developers into trusting outputs that were structurally incapable of being reliable.
This was 2020. GPT-3 had just come out. The paper predicted the hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
The second warning was about bias amplification. The paper documented in detail that internet-scale training data contains systematic overrepresentation of dominant viewpoints and underrepresentation of marginalized ones. The models would not just absorb this bias. They would amplify it, because the optimization process rewards confident outputs, and confidence in language patterns tracks frequency in the training set.
The prediction was that hiring tools built on these models would discriminate against women. That healthcare triage tools would underperform on Black patients. That loan approval systems would entrench inequality while presenting their decisions as neutral algorithmic judgment.
Every one of those things has now been documented in deployment.
Amazon's hiring algorithm penalized resumes that contained the word "women" in any context. Healthcare risk scoring algorithms used by major US hospitals were found to systematically underestimate the medical needs of Black patients. Apple Card's credit algorithm gave wives credit lines 10x lower than their husbands for the same financial profile.
The third warning was about environmental cost. The paper calculated that training a single large language model produced emissions equivalent to the lifetime output of 5 cars. The prediction was that the race to scale would create an environmental footprint that would eventually rival entire industries.
In 2024, Google's emissions were up 48% from 2019, and the company explicitly blamed AI infrastructure. Microsoft's were up 29%, same reason. Both companies have now quietly abandoned the climate commitments they were publicly celebrating the year Gebru was fired.
The fourth warning was about documentation. The paper argued that the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit. Nobody at Google, OpenAI, Meta, or any other lab could tell you with confidence what was in the data their models were trained on. This was not a temporary problem to be solved later. It was a permanent feature of the approach.
In 2023, researchers discovered that the LAION-5B dataset, used to train Stable Diffusion and other major image models, contained thousands of images of child sexual abuse material. The companies that had trained on the dataset had no way of knowing. The paper predicted that category of failure 3 years before it was found.
The fifth warning was the one Google cared about most.
Bender and Gebru argued that the deployment of these systems would centralize linguistic and cultural power in the hands of the small number of companies that could afford to train them. The internet would become a place where the dominant voice was a statistical average of dominant voices, presented as a neutral assistant. Languages underrepresented in the training data would degrade over time as more web content was generated by these systems and fed back into the next training run.
This is now happening in real time. A 2024 study found that 57% of new web content in English is AI-generated or AI-assisted. Researchers studying low-resource languages have documented active degradation in translation quality, because the synthetic content fed back into training is itself worse in those languages.
The paper Google fired her for predicted the model collapse problem before model collapse had a name.
The mechanism behind why this all happened is the part of her work that nobody quotes.
Gebru's argument was not that AI is dangerous in some abstract sci-fi sense. Her argument was that AI is dangerous in a very specific structural sense. The technology was being built by a small group of researchers who shared similar backgrounds, worked at similar companies, and were rewarded for shipping products faster than competitors. The incentive structure made it impossible for safety, ethics, and bias concerns to slow anything down. Anyone inside the system who raised those concerns was either ignored, sidelined, or removed.
She was making that argument from inside Google.
Then Google proved her right by removing her.
The team Google had built to make sure their AI was safe was dismantled in 90 days because they did the job they had been hired to do. Margaret Mitchell, the other co-lead of the Ethical AI team, was fired two months after Gebru for searching through her own emails for evidence of how Gebru had been treated.
Gebru did not stop. She founded DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute, in 2021. The mission is to do AI research outside the control of the companies that have a financial interest in not hearing the answers.
Every prediction in the Stochastic Parrots paper has now been validated by deployment. Hallucinations are an industry-wide problem the largest labs cannot solve. Bias amplification has been documented in hiring, healthcare, lending, and criminal justice. Environmental costs are larger than entire small countries. Training data audits remain impossible. Model collapse is an active research crisis at every major lab.
The question worth sitting with is the one almost no one in the industry will say out loud.
Every researcher with the technical credibility to call out these problems watched what happened to her in December 2020 and made a calculation about their own career. The number of people willing to speak publicly about safety and ethics issues inside the major AI labs collapsed after that firing and has not recovered.
The researcher Google fired for warning about exactly what is now happening was right.
The company that fired her is now the second-largest deployer of the technology she warned about.
And the people inside that company who agree with her are not allowed to say so.
so you gotta understand that us howlies were basically one big PR stunt. i mean, we were totally competent and effective, but not so exceptionally amazing that we were totally unprecedented. what we were was actually âthe face of american soldiers overseas,â and a representation of allied unity. (thanks, dernier and falsworth.) during the war, they made howling commandoes comics, trading cards, posters, radio dramas, toys, jackets, and more, all in the interest of supporting the war effort. most of it we had no idea about. we were pretty busy fighting nazis, and the journalists and PR experts they sent to tag along with us mostly just got in the way. so pretty quickly the ânewsâ coming from the front lines about the howling commandoes was totally fabricated, because we wouldnt cooperate with them. which is how some of the more outlandish captain america stories happened.Â
most of this steve and i never knew about, not until we wound up in the future.Â
anyway, in the early days they would sometimes send stuff to us. not sure what they wanted us to do with itâwe once got a crate full of trading cards with our own faces on them, which we promptly defaced and mocked each other relentlessly over. steve took twenty-six buckys and twenty-six steves and drew card suits on them, and we used them as playing cards. (we also had a pair of dumdum dougans as jokers.) and another time they sent us a box of teddy bears. specifically, cap-and-bucky bears.Â
the cap bears were decent. pretty much just a regular bear in a stripey shirt and spangly helmet. but the bucky bears were wearing this silly little domino mask, and none of us had any idea why. we figured somebody must have snapped a picture of me while i had some greasepaint around my eyes.
obviously, the other howlies gave us some crap about this. no matter what steve and i did, teddy bears magically appeared everywhere we went. in our cots at camp, in our footlockers, in our packsâeverywhere. i once watched dernier slip a cappy bear into steveâs backpack while they were both taking cover from gunfire.Â
the real problem for steve and i, of course, was what to do with the bears. we couldnât just throw them away, but it was a war zone, so we could hardly keep them all. i gave a bucky bear to peggy just so i could watch stevie awkwardly offer a cap bear to go with it. there were always a few kids aroundârefugees passing through, often, and we passed off bears to them as quickly as we could.Â
steve got it into his head that one of the Star Spangled Showgirls, ruby, would get a kick out of the cap bears, so he mailed her one. she thought it was hilarious, and shortly he got letters from the rest of the Showgirls demanding bears as well. so steve managed to get rid of all the cap bears pretty quick.Â
but the bucky bearsâŚthose things were everywhere i went, and people kept calling me âBucky Bear,â which is not a super dignified nickname for a famous, feared sniper to have. it seemed like every lad left from the 107th had a little masked bear head poking out of his pack. the howlies all had them tooâdumdum kept one sticking out of a coat pocket for a long time, until it ran afoul of some shrapnel, and then insisted we hold a tiny formal funeral for it. we got an air-drop of supplies in the field once that contained emergency rations, ammo, and a bucky bear. and one time i went to colonel phillipsâ field office for a debriefing and he had one on his desk.Â
iâd have been more annoyed about it all if they hadnât been such an effective stupid-decision deterrent. i once saw steve eyeballing a tank like he was gonna go take a swing at it, glance at falsworthâs bucky bear, sigh, and call in artillery fire instead.Â
steve had one of his own too, a raggedy little thing missing half its stuffing that one of the camp kids had insisted he take. he kept it stuffed into one of the silly pouches in his belt. i like to think it kept him company in the ice. though if i ever lay eyes on that particular bucky bear again, weâre gonna have stern words about its obligation as a bucky to talk steve out of doing stupid things.Â
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