"Strategically, Ukraine has a theory of victory that looks increasingly plausible, while Russia’s is crumbling....Russia bet the farm on the theory that meat waves would overwhelm Ukraine while the United States and Hungary blocked Western support, and failed."
www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraines-s...
Spain has recently outpaced the US in GDP growth, emerging as one of the fastest-growing major advanced economies. As of 2024–2025, Spain’s economy is growing at a rate over 3% annually, exceeding the US (~2%) and Eurozone (~1%) averages.
Donald is such an uninformed idiot.
I think signalling theory is useful for understanding the effects of LLMs - they don't just *produce work*, they disrupt the indicators that we are used to relying on for judging how much effort someone put into communicating with us.
When someone writes to me now, I cannot as easily judge the […]
Question: “Now that you’ve met with him -Trump-, you’ve spoken with him multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?”
Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”
Question: “And do you tell him that?”
Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”
Jeg har skrevet i Dagsavisen - blant annet om NRKs uforståelige valg om å kringkaste Danby Choi og Asle Toje i anledning nasjonaldagen.
Et lite utdrag her - lenke lenger ned i tråden.
Trump: “I have to do what's right. I have nothing against the Pope.”
Reporter: “Why are you fighting with him?”
Trump: “I’m not fighting with him. The Pope made a statement saying Iran can have a nuclear weapon.”
Reporter: “He didn’t say that.”
Trump: “I can disagree with the Pope.”
4-D chess, obviously
The free speech warriors in the Idaho statehouse passed a law banning pride flags, meant to target flags at Boise’s city hall. So the Boise mayor took down the flags themselves but refashioned the flag *poles* to display rainbow colors idahonews.com/news/local/b...
I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war.
This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does.
It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences
Gaveartikkel.
Jeg er ikke Marit Vea sin største fan, men her er jeg 100% enig.
At hennes meninger trigger Høyre er en ekstra bonus.
Byrådet* som glemmer at folk må tisse...
En representant fra et byrådsparti skriver kronikk for å klage over manglende toaletter i Oslos parker ... samtidig som byrådet har fjerner toalettilbudet fra parkene for å spare penger.
The Herodotus Trap, if you will.
Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)
Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'"
These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now.
Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.
1/ Goldman Sachs analysts report that the biggest oil crisis in history is about to hit globally, with profound and highly destructive consequences. A new report asks ""Are We Running Out of Oil?", and concludes that the answer is yes. ⬇️
Lesverdig kommentar til "Arkitekturopprøret" fra Bernhard Ellefsen. www.morgenbladet.no/kultur/forso...
With the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz, Trump finally caused a problem so big he can't get out of it. Beyond the limits of TACO.
His speech repeated his lies that the war is going great and contradictorily insisted that others fix it, which they won't since he ruined US alliances.
We're stuck.
Trump speech is implicit recognition that Iran war is not going well & US options for escalating its way out are bad. 1/
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social
The allegory is so loud it's giving me a headache.
It speaks to Donald Trump's monumental incompetence that the "paramount objective" in his haphazard war with Iran is now to stop something that never would have happened if Donald hadn't rashly started the war in the first place. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Virginia Woolf skrev: «But dance, dance – If you stop you are lost.» (...) Ta på deg de røde danseskoene og dans!
www.adressa.no/debatt/i/wrg...
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH MEANS THE GOVERNMENT CAN'T ARREST YOU FOR WHAT YOU SAY. IF YOU'RE YELLED AT, BOYCOTTED, HAVE YOUR SHOW CANCELED, OR GET BANNED FROM AN INTERNET COMMUNITY, YOUR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS ARENT BEING VIOLATED. IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT ANYONE ELSE HAS TO LISTEN TO YOUR BULLSHIT, OR HOST YOU WHILE YOU SHARE IT. THE 1ST AMENDMENT DOESNT SHIELD YOU FROM CRITICISM OR CONSEQUENCES. IT'S JUST THAT THE PEOPLE LISTENING THINK YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE, AND THEY'RE SHOWING YOU THE DOOR.
Sukk.
No ICE.
No war.
No Kings. #nokings
Organizers expect today's No Kings Day rallies — with more than 3,000 events planned across all 50 states — to be the largest single-day protest in American history.
1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal.
It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.
Well worth viewing this interview in full - a sobering discussion between two serious commentators.
