IM Roman Dehtiarov won the 2026 European Individual Chess Championship with a score of 9/11! 🏆️
He gained 46 Elo from his 2781 performance, and earned the GM title directly by winning a continental championship.
Replay the games: lichess.org/broadcast/eu...
📷️ ECU / Rafal Oleksiewicz
No Cards, huh?
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
Russian missiles and drones pounded Ukraine overnight on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and wounding scores more in one of the largest aerial attacks of the war.
www.ft.com/content/d47a...
Zelensky just out with a long comment after the latest Ramstein meeting. Optimistic and gives thanks to many partners. Not a single mention of the US helping Ukraine.
The Ukrainians are not hiding the fact that the US is no longer their friend.
⚡ The EU is threatening to freeze €2 million in funding to the Venice Biennale over plans to reopen the Russian pavilion.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
Hungary’s PM-in-waiting Péter Magyar knows exactly what he wants from Brussels, and Brussels knows what it expects from Budapest.
This is where the grand bargain begins.
A #Ukrainian lady shared a video of the ruins in her hometown of Kherson. The building of a local college was destroyed by 5 Russian KABs, she wrote.
Every time I or any other pro-Ukrainian account show you the footage of the ruins caused by Russia, it's never just about the walls and roof.
They are an excellent organization, and perhaps the only real-world charitable organization with a published GURPS writeup.
Just read it and decide for yourself.
I think it is spot on, 💯.
It is not dominance. It is a man burning down his own house and whooping at the flames. The saddest part is not that America is losing its allies. The saddest part is that half the country thinks that is the point.
It’s a good day for everyone to turn on two factor verification on Bluesky.
Also on all your other online accounts.
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... and they're done. Sindarov now speaking to the press after his express train draw with Hikaru. #chess #Candidates2026 Hikaru cheerful with result 'I've got nothing to play for!'
It’s not even about land per se. Russians take the land in order for you to never have independent foreign policy, and then they ensure you die in the Russian swamp of corruption and rot. They steal everyone’s individual and collective national future.
Russian forces executed 4 Ukrainian POWs in Kharkiv Oblast, prosecutors say #Ukraine
Noticed the perennial debate about which format is best/terrible for magnificent event X, which flares up every magnificent event. #Chess #Candidates2026 eloquently argues both cases, the Open showing how a fair 2x round-robin can look unfit for purpose, and absolutely brilliant in the Women's.
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.
This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Trump says Obama's nuclear deal was bad because it was a short 10-year deal. The monitoring measures were set for 25 years.
You are right. Mate in three. Qe8 before mate. Qxg8, Rd8, Rxe8#
Good point 😊. What about Qxg8 instead? Rxd8# next move.
1 Rd8 Qd4+
2 Rxd4 RxQ
3 Rc4
and winning. Black need to move rook to 8 rank before activating the king. Meanwhile white can take a lot of pawns.
"language models have a tendency to produce face-saving phrasing when explaining an error. Instead of stating the fault in the most direct terms, the wording often defaults to mitigation language that preserves a sense of competence"
- ChatGPT+
A resident of Kherson illustrates what it means to live in her hometown right now.
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EXCLUSIVE: We've obtained a cache of text messages and recorded conversations between Russian intelligence officers and a student they coerced into becoming an informant.
Here’s a rare insight into Moscow’s efforts to infiltrate opposition groups abroad: www.politico.eu/article/russ...
800,000 people who died because of the lack of lifesaving food and medical aid were unavailable for comment.
Every dot represents a russian war crime. Click on the dot for full detail.
RUSSIA IS A TERRORIST REGIME.
maps.tochnyi.info/humansafari/
I've recently returned from Prague after attending an event organised by @ashoka.org, where multiple civil society actors who have worked on projects that support democracy met to discuss how democracy is understood, experienced, and shaped through narratives.
Assuming the general is being hyperbolic, the U.S. has never been so mercilessly mocked like this, upon the world stage, due to ineptitude.
In my darker hours, I fear it would be worse but for the fear of Trump going nuclear.
