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So there’s a website called Deer Of St Nicholas which posts Christmas wish letters from Ukrainian children who had their childhood stolen by the war, anyone can pick a child and get them their present and it’s that time of the year again to achingly scroll it for hours again

Hans Jonas in the 90s pointed out that we are gambling finite gain against infinite loss.

Isn’t the whole point of this shutdown to actually keep the government… shut? I mean, does it not fit everything Trump has been doing, as in, wanting to rule single-handedly? Why is there an assumption that he wants it open?

and other lies I tell myself

Rethinking the Humanities in Light of Wanting People to Read My Stuff

I really love how whatsapp, the only viable alternative to telegram, just shuts down Ukrainian voices for no reason so I guess we just stay on our tnt barrel but hey at least we have circle video messages

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

“Three years ago the idea of Ukraine attacking [russian illegal occupiers in] Crimea caused people to lose their heads, while last night hundreds of Ukrainian drones attacked targets, many in and around Moscow and Russia tried to shrug its shoulders.” Pretty much it.

Farmers market in Kyiv today

Hearing this child scream for his mother is actually one of the most unbearable moments of this war for me

“I already ban the use of generative AI in my own courses, and as a promoter of master’s theses. I explicitly tell my students they won’t learn anything by using it. [...] A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so.” 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️ apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Soldiers of Ukraine’s 12th Azov Brigade intercepted footage from a Russian FPV drone showing Russian operators hunting down civilian farmers and targeting agricultural equipment in Donetsk region. Another war crime added to the growing list of Russia’s violations against peaceful Ukrainians.

“For local residents, Russia’s human safari has made sudden death from above an everyday fact of life. During the first nine months of 2025, more than a hundred people were killed and over one thousand were wounded in drone attacks.” www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

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

As seen in the release notes of ChatGPT Atlas. Cool cool cool

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Zelensky must be a Zen master, otherwise I cannot explain the insane levels of patience he manifests.

Below, Kate offers an explanation that everyone with basic empathy should immediately understand. But apart from this, the personal relationship b/n Pu and Zelensky is completely irrelevant. Pu attacked Ukr before Zelensky was in politics, he'll end the war only when he can no longer continue it.

Russians started a human safari in Pokrovsk too. Videos are just civilians getting slaughtered under the surveillance of a drone. This will obviously not make it to headlines but please don’t let russians kill in silence

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

I do not understand why the leader of the largest country on Earth needs a few more kilometers. This war is not about land, but about our independence, Zelensky said about Putin.

One of my friends recently said "We should all be sitting round a campfire and making sure everyone is OK"

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

Why won’t the US hand over its territories to the UK; the country is mostly English-speaking anyway.

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate. Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not. From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

“The offensive has come at an enormous cost: our meta-estimate suggests over 100,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war this year.” The quiescence of Russian society in the face of the meaningless slaughter of their men is horrifying.

This fandom is a prison

‼️🇩🇪🇺🇦 German KATAPULT shows how much Ukrainian land Russia has occupied.

Meeting Trump in Budapest is perfect. That's where we promised never to invade Ukraine in the first place.

This is obviously stupid, but the really strange thing is that RFK believes trust is a feature of totalitarianism. Totalitarianism has nothing to do with trust. It demands obedience. Democracy, on the other hand, requires trust: you elect people you trust to lead you.

urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"

Hey look russians are parading war crimes again and posting FPV footage of their attack on humanitarian convoys

Dune is a nice book, Star Wars is good, LotR is well written, why are we so edgy

Meanwhile, antisemitic chant at a far-right anti-immigration protest today in Amsterdam: “Hey Franz Timmermans, you dirty filthy cancer Jew, just go and die” (not getting into semantics of translating kkr, which I’m tempted to more loosely translate as “f*cking” in this context but that’s just me)

“We gave them nothing but we gave them respect”

As today is Hans Kelsen's birthday, a reminder: "The elimination of war is our paramount problem. It is a problem of international policy, and the most important means of international policy is international law."

Dr. Seuss went hard during WWII. Lessons should have been learned.

thinking about this & about the fact that he was killed almost two years ago in a precision strike and that his eldest daughter was then killed five months later with her husband and newborn

Air raid sirens howling in a completely dark city is some kind of cinematic horror. It’s mornings like this when it’s remarkably hard to believe in any possible better future, I just feel like we’re alone and this is it

"The most devastating shortcoming of LLMs is that however many things they appear to know about the world, and however smoothly they express these things, they don’t actually know that there is a world." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

An extremely proud day for Hungarians. I just really hope Orbán’s proxies won’t launch a smear campaign, since Krasznahorkai is an outspoken critic of contemporary fascism, far-right politics, and Viktor Orbán himself.

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer