5 month old GE9x(?) go vroom. Big fella.

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

Double-ended, nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser is maybe my new favorite class.

Interesting

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When will Trump go to Kyiv? Biden did it. Can't Putin guarantee Trump's safety?

Japan's Cabinet approves record defence budget that aims to deter China

Well that's crazy.

It's Newsom isn't it

Are you not entertained?

Thinking a little today about peace, goodwill, and the violence that resides in all of us. It’s a good day to recommit to those higher virtues Enjoy my holiday essay for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

Been waiting years for someone to write this. Fn nails it.

**BREAKING** Images of a Chinese merchant vessel with containerised missile launchers, radar/comms and close in defense are legitimate. Collaborated via other sources. Sobering. Merry Xmas

Merry Christmas

from doing so. That will mean the refineries have nothing to export their products in. Some 80% of refined product is exported on western (largely Greek owned) tankers. The reason it has been permitted was to prevent market collapse and price rises but that’s now seen as largely irrelevant.

EU & G7 PREPARE TO BAN ALL TANKERS FROM MOVING RUSSIAN REFINED PRODUCT The West is about to stop Russia using Maritime Services - ship insurance and certification specifically. That will mean all western tankers allowed to carry refined oil products (diesel, petrol, kerosene etc) will be banned

ah shit. Are 401ks about to get a big hit? Merry Christmas.

Ukrainian Su-27 pilot sends Christmas greetings from the cockpit.

That’s ONE way to get “consumption” up. 🤡 #GDP

Shout out to whichever news station has given us neurotics this little treat! 🎄

Like it's just so profoundly petty. We could be the most ethically and economically comfortable polity in the history of time and it literally wouldn't even be hard. We just keep failing all the time because roughly half the country is by some means scared of growth and change.

⚡️ Philanthropist Howard Buffett travels to Kupiansk suburb in Kharkiv Oblast to help evacuate civilians. Buffett received a state award from President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2024, naming him a "National Legend of Ukraine."

Some tankers and 2 Typhoons near eastern Syria. Germany, Italy, and UK forces.

Dear Media, When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom? Thanks, Anti-bigotry Americans

banana leaf rice - veg korma, pumpkin, spinach, beet with papadam Restoran Sri Seenu, Kuala Lumpur

AI-generated contracts for xAI and SpaceX are starting to look favorable for investors huh

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has begun evacuating diplomats’ families from Venezuela, according to a European intelligence official. -AP

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

I appreciate folks following the breadcrumb trail and not trying to jump to conclusions, but I’m not bound by those rules and I think “a media toady nuking a story about American concentration camps” is pretty self-explanatory

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.

the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now

However, if you believe, like me, that there are foundational limitations/quirks to LLMs intrinsic in the technology, then early adoption is valuable if only so you can build an intuition on where they will fail or get weird.

Regarding ai when it's asked/forced to be applied to everyone's daily life.

US blockade on Venezuelan oil tankers is accelerating Cuba’s economic collapse. Cuba, already in deep crisis with blackouts, hunger, and mass emigration, relies heavily on subsidized Venezuelan oil (now down to ~30k barrels/day).

Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women? Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them. Welker: So those women with Trump were victims? Blanche:

2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.

Most US media are oblivious to Melania's role in the Epstein world and do no reporting on it. But Melania was introduced to Trump by Epstein while she was working for a modeling agency which Epstein controlled. This has appeared in UK media, but Melania struggling to keep it unpublished in the US.

Say what you will about Biden, but at least the clocks ran on time

Authentication on a bunch of servers and services may fail if their admins use the Boulder NIST NTP time sync. Check your NTP sources.

What are they hiding about the Trump admin? Everyone wonders.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

🤔 At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Donald Trump, with no explanation. -AP