wait are you saying that hundreds, or thousands, of sailors living in close quarters are some kind of contagion risk?

a thought I have from time to time is that using ai to do simple tasks and "take them off our plate" or whatever does not in fact free up our brains for bigger thoughts, it just makes them underused, flaccid and dumber

Zero AI (tm)

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

Japan Scraps Most Curbs on Exporting Weapons in Historic Shift Japan removed most of its restrictions on weapons exports, allowing the nation to sell arms overseas for the first time since World War II in a move aimed at strengthening its defense industrial base.

well well well www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oil Prices Don’t Reflect Scale of Supply Hit, Analysts Say Oil prices don’t fully reflect the largest supply disruption ever, after the Iran war effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, some of the market’s top analysts said.

this is pretty interesting www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the a-10 worship is really out of control. it's fine for cas in totally uncontested airspace. it's a less-good helicopter in every other circumstance. and this is from me, a guy who has a major soft spot for the plane thanks to the 442nd fighter wing at richards-gebaur

someone who is good at news please help, my brain is dying

"the champions league version of us politics" is a banger

this is, in all seriousness, important reporting because if you just focus on what is said day to day the broader context (of empty statements) disappears

Putin’s High-Tech Russian Submarines Goad NATO Deep Below the Atlantic NATO is fighting back against Russia’s submarine threat in cat-and-mouse games reminiscent of the Cold War

are you nostalgic for the '80s? is hunt for red october a classic to you? if so, then have I got a cold war treat for you (free link, for the people) www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

turns out there is a reason people hate missing flights: it sucks!

it is weird to me--as always, a simple country journalist--to just... ignore... hormuz as leverage in this whole scenario

and the strait is still closed

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Here’s FBI Director Kash Patel’s complaint against the Atlantic regarding the magazine’s reporting about his drinking habits: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO’s Face Leaders at companies from Nvidia to Palantir are now driving fashion, signaling a new era of the cult of the founder.

if I ever do this I give all of you permission to punch me in the face (my face, not the sweater's) www.wsj.com/tech/silicon...

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a shelf and saying `` i declare bankruptcy ! '' ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a shelf and saying `` i declare bankruptcy ! ''

(reference)

Kuwait Declares Force Majeure on Oil Shipments on Hormuz Halt Kuwait declared force majeure on shipments of crude oil and refined products as the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz makes it impossible to meet obligations to customers that can’t bring vessels into ...

I... declare... FORCE MAJEURE!

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the blackberry was massively popular--again, people could see instantly why it was important

the smartphone came along and everyone instantly could see why it was high-impact

etc etc etc

I can't think of a single piece of technology that *has* actually changed the game that required this much hype along the way

I mean, this won't happen but to me this is just a different way of expressing ai boosterism rather than any sort of economic prediction

I first read this as cno claude and, you know, not implausible these days

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in dallas with that bottle

anyway, subscribe to bloomberg online, I also write the Best Defense Newsletter on Planet Earth (tm)

Iran's Hormuz Control Gives Country Leverage Despite Military Struggles Iran’s conventional military has been largely destroyed and it can’t stop US and Israeli air attacks, but the Islamic Republic’s control of the Strait of Hormuz provides a means to escalate the confli...

and then a more explicit "iran's leverage over the strait is the whole ballgame" story five days later www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Strait of Hormuz Escorts May Trigger Iran’s Anti-Ship Missiles President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US would insure and protect oil tankers and other vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz may potentially bring Iran’s anti—ship missiles into play, a...

I'd just like to point out that I wrote this on march 5:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

excellent point

The Scapegoat Scam Hungarians stopped falling for an authoritarian’s trick.

“Trumpism will not deliver broad prosperity any more than Orbánism did,” Adam Serwer argues. “It took Hungarians the better part of 20 years to reclaim their freedom. How long will it take Americans?”