Hello all, just sent out my free weekend update. A special one as it’s from Ukraine. It’s clear being here that we are all taking advantage of the Ukrainians. They are fighting for their lives, and we are safe and sound behind them. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

For the jillionth time: what, exactly, is the Coalition of the Willing willing to do to force Russia to accept a ceasefire in Ukraine?

I want you all to know that this war would never have started if Trump had been President….

I am still baffled that supposedly serious media still report about the peace negotiations and the security guarantees as if they were real. It's like they are reporting about a rain storm when all they need to do is to look out the window to see the sunny weather.

Europe needs to be drip-fed obvious truths just as we drip-feed aid to Ukraine 😒

When you're surrounded by sycophants, listening to them gets boring after a while

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Surprising how many installations Liberia has in the Arctic

The proposed ‘peace plan’ is essentially a Kremlin wish list with amateurishly formulated attempts at Trumpian grift sprinkled on top.

Please, in the name of holy, infallible science, let this be true studyfinds.org/dark-chocola...

The only surprising thing about this - if you've been following events (and OBrien) and can put 2 and 2 together - is that a military organisation still uses the word 'flank' for its frontline

We've been busy donating to Ukraine and trying to rally support ---but we have probably also spent quite a lot of mental bandwidth processing the sheer amount of European naivety on display since November last year 😒

Another good cause

Medals for soldiers who shot unarmed women and children on their own land? No wonder you like Russia so much

At least one thing from Russia that won't get through to Europe

"on Ukraine" 🤡 If naivety was a protective shield, Europe would be impregnable

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But we need the Russian envoys to deliver our strongly worded condemnations to! How else to make them tremble with fear?!

Extraordinary that this needs saying, much less saying again and again 😒

Reality check: Nothing that happened in Alaska or Washington will make Russia think they have anything new to lose by continuing to kill Ukrainians. They won’t stop until we stop them.

To those who like raffles and helping Ukraine---

True. But in fairness, AI is utterly incapable of executing practical tasks, like most people with PhDs

Fair enough, as sending poor and ignorant people to the front lines is a traditional Russian value!

Peak Europe

Willing to do what? www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

The citizens of Europe should defend Europe. Just a thought...

If only Britain had had some sort of parliamentary system and legal traditions in place to constrain a capricious, authoritarian monarch...

Or ignorance...

AI should stand for average intelligence, as LLMs are trained on the opinions of billions of people, many of whom are wrong often, so the "average" is going to be wrong a lot.

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The Russians keep finding new ways of cheapening every aspect of human life. This is depressing to watch as a parent, but they manage to make you cringe as well.

Every time I hear “women are too emotional to be President/CEO/Commander-in-Chief/etc.” I’ll think of these guys and laugh to tears

Has Starmer been quoting Vergil?

people will make fun of ancient civilization for consulting oracles and cutting up livers to tell the future and then type “what is the meaning of life?” into ChatGPT

The 20th Century could have been so much better...

"A nation of thieves" as General Gordon said back in 1857

It's Pedantry Monday, so I'm here to inform you that Greenland was still under the Norwegian crown after 1380, although the then king of Norway had also just become king of Denmark. (Not that that strengthens the case for American bullying)

America voted for change

It’s about damn time -President of the European Parliament Metsola on the need to scale up Europe's defense capabilities “The situation today-Ukraine is fighting for Europe,Europe needs to be hand-in-hand with whoever is fighting for our security.Ukraine's security is Europe's security,"she said

Today in 'There Must Be a Coherent Academic Theory Behind Everything These People Get Up To'

Astronaut: "Wait, this is Europe's war?" Other astronaut: "It always was"

Fair play---the bot is being nefarious. (But not answering questions about a book you're not supposed to have read does seem the, er, intelligent thing to do)

Chinese censorship is undoubtedly a real and bad thing, but is it possible that the AI bot cannot discuss a book because * it hasn't been published yet * ?

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Well, that escalated quickly

The world somehow seemed more gentle in the old days (apart from the world wars)

Oh, if only we had known for months or even years that Trump is an unreliable ally of Europe...

This book sounds like a terrible take on the Crusades, so why does the tagline highlight the rather accurate statement that Islam is an historic enemy of the West? (Oh right, it's the Guardian...)

Given that this place is basically a reboot of old Twitter, but with a butterfly, they missed a trick by not naming it Flitter