Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...
I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"
First saw this story over on Threads, and people really, really, really did not like anyone correcting misinformation about their misreading of the story. We seem to be moving to some sort of post-reality where people just want fake stories that reinforce their beliefs.
My hope is that someday, hundreds of years from now, the cautionary tale taken from the fall of the American empire is that you shouldnβt put the stupidest people on earth in charge.
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
this is a good read.
personally I think the strategic costs were baked in pretty early with the addition of sweden and finland to nato, and the sanctions that are now grinding away at the russian economy
βThe central question is whether Russiaβs prospects for the military success Putin needs to justify this war have dimmed. The evidence suggests they have. The strategic costs for Russia is heading in a direction that Putin may not be able to reverse.β mickryan.substack.com/p/the-scales...
After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.
Lilies a deadly threat to cats, Kelowna vet warns ahead of Mother's Day #Kelowna
"Fuentes is largely supported by donations from a small cadre of sympathizers: Just 10 accounts were responsible for giving him a total of about $77,000, while the top 500 accounts provided almost half of his superchat income β more than $400,000, the Post analysis found."
Note how close the Swedish Intelligence Chief is compared to what I've been saying all along.
Russia is cracking, and there's no stopping it now.
kaiju (but make it haiku)
breath is hot laser
we lay in rubbled wasteland
then shed scales, trade love
The blowback is beginning.
Captain Queeg clicking his ball bearings energy
How are health insurance companies responding to the ever-increasing number of unvaccinated children? At some point in the near future the number of kids (& adults!) hospitalized due to contracting measles (or other preventable diseases) is going to reach critical mass.
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This patch of concrete with zero infrastructure is set to receive $200 million of federal financing. This is subsidiary farming at its worse. It should be a scandal.
I know this is true. I've known it for a while. I still have trouble believing it each time I see it because it is so mind boggling.
This is the fourth largest economy in the world.
"Fossil gas down 60% in 2026 v 2023."
"Financial markets ended last week on an upswing β apparently convinced that the worst of the crisis is over. That assumption looks complacent." @gideonrachman.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
According to Melnyk, in order to occupy the entire Donetsk region, Putin will have to send at least one and a half million additional soldiers to their deaths.
β οΈ Russia is putting 254 soldiers per square kilometer in Ukrainian black soil!
These statistics were given by Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN, Melnyk.
"No army since the First World War has paid such a high price in lives for such insignificant territorial gains as Russia," he said.
1/ Ukraine's success this year in stalling Russia's offensive, and driving Russian forces back in some places, has prompted increasingly bleak assessments from Russian warbloggers. In a lengthy series of posts, Yuri Kotenok warns that Russia's war effort is faltering badly. β¬οΈ
Palantir's 'manifesto' has been described as an 'AI-driven threat to humanity's existence' and 'technofascism'.
The ship has already sailed on people blaming Israel so it is funny that Trump is willing to claim this was all his idea anyway
As an experiment I'm letting the paid tier of Gemini assist me in running my fantasy baseball team this year and based on my experience with this so far, the idea that LLMs are ready to take anyone's job is insane.
itβs a great day for transphobes to eat shit
(snuggling with my cat when she gets a look in her eye) are you about to bite me
cat: prrhaps
I think if itβs going to be legal to wear pervert glasses that film people in public, they *should* be this obvious(ly hideous)
Waiting for someone to design a pair of glasses that just shine a laser into the lenses of smart glasses.
