The recent spat of articles from US think tankers arguing to give away Taiwan like it's an American bargaining chip consistently fail to account for Taiwanese agency. People tend to fight for their existence and when you bomb them their resolve tends to rise significantly.

It's not the same point, but the argument that the Biden admin had "porous policies" is completely false. They had a number of very harsh policies aiming to limit migration, the problem was state capacity to carry them out and the sheer force of the push/pull factors during the post-COVID years.

MAGA prayer: He didn’t say it And if he did, he didn’t mean it like that And if he did, he was joking And if he wasn’t, it’s actually legal And if it isn’t, we should let him do it anyways

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Seeing all the content focused on centering all the people who need help who aren’t “fat, ghetto asses” and we can already see how the deserving/undeserving rhetorical lines are going to fall.

NATURAL. EXPERIMENT. IN. IF. ANYTHING. MATTERS.

Good morning

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight. www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...

Fucking Legendary

🤬 Last night, Russia launched a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, likely targeting a thermal power plant on the left bank. A kindergarten was damaged in the Dniprovskyi district, and fires broke out in several neighborhoods. At least 9 people were injured, 3 were hospitalized.

Russian double-tap missile strike killed a rescuer who responded to the initial drone attack. Master Sergeant Oleksandr Yehorychev was a driver of the 37th State Fire and Rescue Unit in eastern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Another rescuer was wounded in the same strike. 📷: State Emergency Service

Kyiv 💔🇺🇦

Kyiv this morning

A Russian ballistic missile tore a crater between apartment buildings in Kyiv during an overnight attack on 25 October. The aftermath of the Russian strike on Kyiv: ♦️1 person killed ♦️10 people wounded ♦️3 people hospitalized ♦️kindergarten damaged ♦️shattered windows and damaged cars 📹Suspilne News

Patrol police released footage of children being evacuated from a kindergarten in Kharkiv after a Russian strike on October 22.

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

Kherson right now. russians are subhumans Video IrynaVoichuk/Twitter

Drone flew into a kitchen in Kyiv and didn’t detonate

💔A russian drone strike in Kramatorsk killed Ukrainian journalist Olena Hubanova and cameraman Yevhen Karmazin. Since the first days of russia’s full-scale invasion, they had been reporting from the frontlines, including in the Donetsk region.

Trying to thread the needle at work of being self deprecating without making junior employees discouraged sucks

A new marking of the downed Shahed is being applied to the Ukrainian Gepard/Cheetah air defence system.

russians hit a private kindergarten in Kharkiv. There are injured children. Children 💔Our future — the one russia is trying to destroy.

The russian army struck a kindergarten in Kharkiv. One person was killed and 7 others were injured. As of now, all children have been evacuated from the kindergarten. Help protect Ukrainians from russian terror. u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

🕯️Antonina 🕯️Adelina, 6 months 🕯️Anastasiia, 12 years Killed by russia this morning.

If being against a guy with a Nazi tattoo makes me a purist I guess I'm an anti-Nazi purist. If you think that makes me an anti-Nazi single issue voter, you're wrong, but also it's a pretty good single issue. There is more than a year. Go get another real progressive who doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.

Your average night in Kyiv

Kyiv now

Fucking explosions in Kyiv

Fuck

I mean it’s my fault that I learned how to read

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Russia kills two 16-year-olds, tortures and imprisons three other lads from occupied Melitopol khpg.org/en/1608815187

Excuse me: bb turtles

Sigurd Eysteinsson keeping the head of Máel Brigte

🇺🇦❗️Naftogaz asks to save gas: Russia massively attacked gas infrastructure for the sixth time since the beginning of October. Missiles and Shaheds hit civilian facilities that provide Ukrainians with gas and heat. There are casualties among Naftogaz employees and destruction in several regions.

Solomiia, a 9-year-old Ukrainian girl, had been separated from her mother for more than three years, and now the two have to get to know each other all over again.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it (either out of self-preservation or the distractions inherent in our cursed information environment) but man: It’s humiliating to live in the hegemon that built the current global order as a bunch of illiterate pissbabies smash it to pieces.

If they feel entitled to enforce this, and that necessarily means that they're going to feel entitled to stop and ask people for their papers if they think they might be aliens.

Guys I’m starting to worry about the width of this gyre

I think an impt lesson in all of this for any elected Dems still laboring under the impression otherwise is that RW Israeli govs (ie nearly all of them) dont view you in friendly terms & will actively work against you holding power in order to get a more aligned/pliant GOP gov in.

"They will experience the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence." is @democrats.org message, they just don't know it yet.

My “this is not a fake account” T-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

bitch what

The overriding goal of too many journalists is to provide “balanced” coverage from a “neutral” position in equidistance to both sides. That framework is much easier to justify if you pretend to be dealing with “normal” politicians – as opposed to committed ideologues pursuing an extreme project.

for active military or if you know someone in the military: “The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.” www.nimj.org/top.html#/

I know there's a million worthy causes to fund but may I suggest this teacher in Maryland who wants to buy two Albert Camus novels for his AP students? Please and thank you? www.donorschoose.org/project/2-no...