We knew this all along, but ok

Your regular reminder that a NATO country shot down a Russian jet after it violated NATO airspace for *17 seconds*. What results? Russia didn’t start WW3 Russia didn’t carry on violating Turkish airspace. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Ru...

I remember slogging my way through Gibbon’s _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ and noping out, thinking the “loss of civic virtue” thesis was lazy bullshit and it must have been economics It was a long time ago

"Humanity is now obsolete. To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.'"

Never surrender

Jake Sullivan telling Garry Kasparov that “Javelins and Stingers were what helped the incredible and brave Ukrainian defenders save Kyiv” really shows Sullivan’s idiocy and bankruptcy. Too bad most folks won’t understand it was really 100 batteries of S-300s and 24/7 artillery.

Sneak preview of NATO Article 4 consultations

Exciting research

What to Make of Putin's Drones Over Poland? Some initial thoughts. tldr: neither attack on NATO nor accident, it's a probe and a warning youtu.be/Dgg-FFpcwV0

A Russia-friendly US president presents Putin with his best chance to achieve his key strategic objective - destroy NATO. It's never been likely that Trump administration decision-makers would try to formally leave NATO, but disengagement was predicted, and is happening. apnews.com/article/pent...

It probably is incompetence, but we should sink a Russian frigate anyway to send a message.

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. www.vox.com/health/46008...

New Apple #ML Research Highlight: The "Super Weight:" How Even a Single Parameter can Determine an #LLM's Behavior machinelearning.apple.com/research/the...

Looking forward to flamingos being set loose

Ukraine needs to name its military bases after Vladimir Putin and his generals. by Pete Hegseth

Time for some hopscotch civil disobedience. Dance D.C.! Dare the fascists and have fun while you do it 💃🕺

Mids holding that end zone down in more ways than one rn

Bluesky telling me that I’m a bullshitter

It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.

OK but what about mitochondrial challenges because I’m told that is related to inflammation in kids

Real things about the Russo-Ukrainian War that sound insane to anyone who doesn't follow it: -The Sudanese front -Ukrainian naval dominance West of Crimea -The Ukrainian strategic bombing campaign from Murmansk to Astrakhan -Ukrainian special operations in Siberia

Apropos of nothing, a reminder that German stock markets kept climbing in an almost uninterrupted fashion in the run-up to WW2. Investors are really, really bad at pricing serious institutional and political risks.

Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

Lafayette Park today without even a single submarine sandwich for protection to show support for Ukrainian bravery Still when we realized how reckless we had been with the streets deserted and all the reports of gangs of masked lawless thugs all over NW DC, we immediately went to Potbelly

Stagflation in some form is coming. The trillion-dollar question is whether inflation becomes entrenched paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-econom...

Busted clock tells decent time in this case because it really always is “Biden and Sullivan (and ofc Scholz) were idiots who were too scared to seize the greatest strategic and political opportunity of their careers” o’clock

Excellent analysis from @ldfreedman.bsky.social: "so long as the Europeans stay solid behind Zelenskyy, which they did at in Washington, Trump can’t impose Putin’s will."

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

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Recommended uniform of the day for European visitors to the White House.

@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org IANAL but this does not seem like you were in violation of

A few hours ago a half dozen uniformed US secret service officers were telling me and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org that putting chalk on DC sidewalks is illegal (no hopscotch on sidewalks, kids!) but a bunch of federal agents can put a dildo there? I think that dildo belongs elsewhere

Putin is in the Epstein files?!?

Chinese national champions for hardware and for AI fighting in public 🍿 The CCP will be less amused I’m sure

Fun math problem I was reminded of on Friday: If you choose an answer to this question uniformly at random, what is the probability that you will be correct? A: 25% B: 50% C: 0% D: 25%

European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

So Huawei famously uses polar codes for error correction in 5G and western firms use low-density parity check codes. The best LDPC codes are nonbinary. Sounds like woke bullshit to a certain kind of person I’m sure

My latest in @quantamagazine.bsky.social: a new algorithm solves the classic single-source shortest paths problem faster than ever before — by finding paths out of order:

Nothing to see here just a regular bit of hardware

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Challenge accepted Lada FTW

This just in from the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery…

For the non-math folks on here: TT would be at the top of any professional poll about “greatest living mathematicians”

Even the russian army can recruit enough desperate assholes for its meat assaults by throwing money at them