I dunno about 100% but I am at least 70% on 'the FSB did the apartment bombings in 1999'

Scott Foster handing the Bucks-Suns Finals to Milwaukee by putting Deandre Ayton into immediate foul trouble etc

I would rather he drink his way out of any use as a russian and Chinese asset so hey at least there’s that

Is Ukraine winning the drone race? Barely six months ago it appeared that Russia was ahead in the drone race.

Have the Ukrainians regained the lead in the drone race? The Russians seem to think so. In this post I look at the evidence that there has been a step change in Ukrainian capabilities. (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/i...?

Peel neighborhoods We introduce the canonical, parameter-free, and efficiently computable notion of peel neighborhoods in a finite metric space of strict negative type. Using a soft threshold to upper bound their radius...

I just let Claude prove a lot of stuff now. If it’s not hard it generally comes up with something in one or two tries

arxiv.org/abs/2603.26645

Sad russian is a slice of bread with shoe polish applied for a day then scraped off. Alcohol from the polish is absorbed into the bread. The rest gets scraped off! Was a staple “drink” in the russian army in the 00s and probably now

arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19565

At long last, sir, have you no sense of…oh, no, wait a minute

OTOH I’m old enough to remember being a doomed in Ukraine in Dec 21 and having folks there think I was nuts

You did something stupid here.

Don’t wait for us

We’ll catch up

Now it’s time for Europe and allies to back Ukraine to the hilt.

I was kinda dreading flying to Budapest em route to the Carpathians in Ukraine this summer but now I’m pretty stoked to check it out

Cc @bafriedman.bsky.social

Needs a bigger Cava bag

This is so bad. Freedom of navigation ops are the core mission of the Navy. They started a war no one wants and because of that can’t fight it and now opened Pandora’s box. What a disaster.

Yeltsin selected Putin, a man with a preternatural fixation on loyalty *in both directions*, to keep his daughter safe and rich in exchange for selling out russia

Trump has the same fixation, but only in one direction. Therefore, he will not and cannot find his own Putin

Not that it’d work

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

On consideration, I think if the deal stands along the lines that have been reported, with Iran continuing to extract its tolls and without making any other concessions, I'd say this is probably the worst the United States has ever lost a war.

Truly a shocking outcome, if it holds.

Yeah that’s scalable CSAR and there will not be any more problems for sure

Coming up on the one year anniversary of the most recent instance starting

I’m old enough to remember the “tax and spend” Ds and I have never understood why those same Ds didn’t start talking about the “tax cut and spend” Rs

We could have had a balanced budget instead of huge interest payments if there had been a few grownups instead of pretenders like Paul Ryan

Nice

Arizona State alum here

That game was cool

Do they not know about the Wayback Machine?

Curiously, I hear nothing from the "Ukraine is destroying our ability to defend Taiwan" crowd these days.

A wild unitary executive appears!

Pro here. I can’t help doing math when I see some