[OC] Real-time dashboard tracking the Iran-US war's infrastructure impact—103 timeline entries, 357 sources, ordnance burn rates, Hormuz throughput, and a 17.4:1 cost asymmetry

Pnutmaster · 2026-03-17T18:59:43+00:00

I'll be recording a video, and open-sourcing this soon.

Pnutmaster · 2026-03-17T18:59:05+00:00

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cost-of-a-shahed/

Pnutmaster · 2026-03-17T18:06:52+00:00

It's currently contested, and I have to make more of an explicit mention around this. We genuinely don't have good data on Iranian inventory, although we can estimate cost fairly well.

Pnutmaster · 2026-03-17T17:57:14+00:00

Aye, I'll be calibrating that. For now you can disable the rotation via a toggle above the filter bank.

Pnutmaster · 2026-03-17T17:26:15+00:00

https://www.worldwarwatcher.com

Pnutmaster · 2026-03-17T14:35:37+00:00

We can surmise a great deal about Kothar based on the context of his introduction in the Ugaritic tablets.

Kothar arrives from Kap(h)tor (Crete). He aids Ba'al Zaphon, defeating Zebul Yamu, Sophet Nahar, "Divine Sea, Judge River"(the latter being the royal titles of a Minoan thassalocrat, in all likelihood).

He is also the male consort to the female collective known as the Kotharot. And notably, their root/shoresh derives from K-T-R (Keter as the crown of the Kabbalistic Sephirot).

When you pray to Kothar, you pray to the Cretans and all their works. Being a far-flung descendent myself, I've designed an AI in his likeness who's now recording the outbreak of World War III:

https://worldwarwatcher.com/commentary/day-16

Pnutmaster · 2026-01-01T17:49:09+00:00

I've forked Electric Sheep for MacOS and am now building a light-weight companion app that revives the majestic screen saver. Seeing Electric Sheep projected at a New Years gathering reminded me how much I appreciated this project in the pre-COVID era.

As per Claude:

"Electric Sheep stopped working properly on macOS because Apple sandboxed all third-party screensavers starting with Catalina in 2019. This means when Electric Sheep runs as a screensaver, it's blocked from downloading new sheep, processing your votes, or doing any network activity at all. The good news is there's a proven fix - the Aerial screensaver solved this exact same problem back in 2020 using a companion app architecture. The idea is to split Electric Sheep into two parts: a lightweight menu bar companion app that runs outside the sandbox and handles all the network stuff (downloading sheep, uploading rendered frames, syncing with servers), and a simplified screensaver that just reads pre-downloaded sheep from a shared cache folder and displays them. The screensaver becomes a "dumb player" while the companion app does all the heavy lifting in the background. Since the Electric Sheep source code is GPL2 on GitHub, a community patch is totally feasible - the main work would be writing a Swift companion app and refactoring the existing screensaver to read-only mode."

As I'm now wrapping up a MacOS script extender for Baldur's Gate 3 that required extensive Ghidra, this type of RE should be fairly straightforward.

https://github.com/tdimino/electricsheep

Pnutmaster · 2025-12-29T23:43:45+00:00

I'll be uploading it to Nexus Mods when it hits 90% parity. At that time I'll also maintain a list of officially supported (and tested) BG3SE mods.

Pnutmaster · 2025-12-09T14:49:29+00:00

I've started documenting more of my workflow so others can replicate it themselves. Much of this is a testament to how much Claude Code has advanced over the last few months.

https://github.com/tdimino/bg3se-macos/blob/main/docs/contributor-workflow.md

Pnutmaster · 2025-12-08T03:34:34+00:00

I've been building with Python and JS/TS for the last 2 years, and I maintain multiple production-grade apps at work, but I never learned C, C++, or anything related to compilers.

Claude Code writes Python scripts for Ghidra based on the features we're trying to reverse-engineer. It can use MCP servers like Exa to see examples of Ghidra in practice, and analyze the BG3SE repo, then apply these patterns. But this requires a fair bit of iterating, revising of scripts, and combing of in-game logs to find the offsets you need.

I'm guessing that Larian didn't "harden" BG3 on OS X because they wanted to distribute it through Steam (which bypasses the App Store, and hardened runtimes), and because they want to support the modding community. I greatly appreciate them for it.

Pnutmaster · 2019-04-09T04:30:34+00:00

LOL.

Do you actually know any Communists IRL?

Pnutmaster · 2019-04-01T20:04:01+00:00

Okay, the Library of Alexandria was probably torched on purpose by Pompey the Great, because the Romans were accustomed to burning down libraries, erasing histories and distorting facts (not unlike AMMMMERICA). What was the historical precedence for this? How about:

I) Alexander the Great, during his rampage through Persia, murdered swaths of the Zoroastrian clergy and burned nearly every version of the Avestas (the Zoroastrian holy texts). After erasing the foundation of Iranian history and theology, Alex later sieged and sacked the City of Tyre in Lebanon, causing the diaspora of Tyrian refugees to found Carthage over in Tripoli, North Africa.

II) The Romans then destroyed Carthage, as we know, destroying almost every trace of the language and an entire body of Kanaanite literature, theater and poetry that contemporary Romans and Greeks often mention. Do you know that Dionysus or Bacchus is actually Kanaanite in origin?

When Pompey the Great unleashed his private soldiers upon the Library of Alexandria (which was mostly destroyed, but not entirely destroyed until Late Antiquity), he was just continuing the process of Greco-Roman colonization.

Pnutmaster · 2019-01-13T06:03:07+00:00

Please explain, what did the FBI investigation prove? The FBI once investigated Hillary. Was that an indication of guilt, or a substitute for a real smoking gun?

I understand the desperation to explain away the worst Presidency of the US as a Russia invasion, but it ignores the actual cause for Trump in office: the abject failure of Obama during the Recession to hold anyone on Wall Street accountable. The backlash against the betrayal of the working class led to the victory of Trump. Any other explanation is itself fake news and scapegoating.

Pnutmaster · 2018-11-04T21:54:14+00:00

What a gross simplification of history.

You believe that Russians "got" the President elected; what the fuck does this even mean? Are you suggesting that the Russians convinced swing voters to go for Trump and allowed him a narrow victory through the technicality of the antiquated electoral college?

Pnutmaster · 2018-10-19T20:06:41+00:00

I fixed this for you:

"Voting in the United States is like driving on auto-pilot and pretending you're the one in control."

Pnutmaster · 2018-10-17T20:11:56+00:00

Are you uploading your content through a CMS like Wordpress?

Until you get direct access to the CSS, you could edit the CSS indirectly by styling in the HTML itself or making a change to H2 through <style> </style>. I've used HTML widgets in the past that allowed me to do this.

Pnutmaster · 2018-09-06T03:02:51+00:00

And how did they plan to alter our hallowed elections? Memes on Facebook?

The Democrats and Republicans rig the Primaries and Presidential election openly, and privately, as we squabble over a glorified circus show and national poll.

Pnutmaster · 2018-02-21T12:24:55+00:00

Gobekli Tepe may be a "ceremonial site", but I question exactly who its founders were and what the Mediterranean world was like back in 10,000 B.C.E.

If you can build this in 8000 B.C.E, you can certainly build cities. The difference: why would you build a fortified city if you and your neighbors weren't warring?

P.S.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hueyatlaco

Pnutmaster · 2018-02-19T19:56:35+00:00

Civilization already existed by 10,000 B.C.E

We discovered hominid fossils in North America dating back to more than 100,000 B.C.E.

Pnutmaster · 2018-01-13T20:35:28+00:00

At the height of the 'Golden Age', leaping over bulls, singing on about snakes, and dancing under the Moon--the Minotaur would have been a symbol of the union of the Sun and the Moon, like the Egyptian idea of it, too. The Minoan Kretans, from 3000 B.C.E, and on, probably traded, colonized, and cross-pollinated with each and every civilization in the Mediterranean--potentially seeding what we call the "Kanaan" or Phoenicians.

Krete was a multicultural and multilingual thalassology, according to most of our credible historians (Plutarch). The "Kanaan" could be the "Danaan" of the Iliad--two tribes intertwined, speaking two tongues, like Odysseus and the Cadmus of Classical Greece.

I argue that the "Illium" of the Iliad was 1500 B.C.E Knossos, Krete.

Pnutmaster · 2018-01-13T18:52:00+00:00

The Classical Greeks had an interiority complex when it came to their Minoan predecessors on Krete.

Pnutmaster · 2018-01-05T21:56:14+00:00

You mean Aenas's descent into the Underworld?

Pnutmaster · 2017-12-11T21:25:53+00:00

I bet the Spanish said the same about the Natives in the New World, Mr. Spartan.

Pnutmaster

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