Everyone likes to makes jokes about EU tech policy, but imo you really have to hand it to the EC for setting up frameworks that already (by conditioning market/public tender access) lead towards this before the companies saw the writing on the wall. also: commission.europa.eu/document/095...

turns out if you adopt Claude Code practices from people who have a max subscription, you're going to have a very hard time using them without also having said max subscription... (tbf is 99% because the only way to get claude to do well at reading pdfs in detail is to have it use infinity tokens)

I love watching low rent cop shows. Every time someone enters a Kia they list the entirety of its custom options, with close-ups on each of the features. Not even trying to be decent about it.

I've been playing around with a compiledeck skill closely leaning on scott cunningham's example, and I think I could get it to reinvent DOD slide crimes from first principles

His CV makes this even worse than the name tbh.

Me irl

You just know there's hordes of public/micro labour economists just salivating at the prospect of getting this reform to study

god this website is hilarious some times.

FISH WANT ME I FEAR WOMEN

Maybe a bit of a hot take, but "energy independence" did mean the US was a winner of the 22-23 energy crisis driven by a European LNG demand shock, with domestic prices basically fine and significant gains from higher world market prices. And even now it means no shortage, "just" high prices.

The max range stuff here is minimal payloads etc, but also what's Ramstein AB's air defences like these days, since that seems like the maximum humiliation option?

If you can abstract away from the real life consequences of it all, this is utterly hilarious. You can really see when Dubai international airport and Fujairah respectively were hit today (for the n-th time). I'd love to see how much cope Goldman is going to have in the next recovery chart

Apparently my Uni's budget troubles are in the "reduce entryways of each library to 1" stage of cost cutting

Talarico is out there getting earned media from the NRSC

“We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much. We’re going to win at trade, we’re going to win at the border. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go, ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’”

Look, I've got a solid walking pace, but I feel like my local public transport app is just a little too ambitious here

"Since the US is the new Rome, we've been at war with Persia since 54 BC"

These only keep getting funnier

1 and 2 especially just make her 21st century HHH.

Wtf, I love betting markets now

Love to see the persistence of shocks IRL. Train to the office was delayed by 40 minutes in the morning, still accounting for a 20 minute delay taking the same line in the opposite direction now.

so when you describe how fortified a facility is against an aerial threat, do you always use the height of its perimeter walls as your primary measure?

Even the fake ideas are already real, too tacticalwipes.com

It should be a scandal that APNSA Marco Rubio has kept Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the dark like this bsky.app/profile/edac...

This may look scary, but if all you care about is the Orban government's negotiating position for EUCO votes with unanimity requirements, you are eating today

Didn't know gulf monarchy air defences could hit non-US aircraft

Extremely funny that Johnson made the same statement on the facts with a "(laudatory)" attached.

A modest proposal: Bundeswehr-held physical ETF of NATO's nuclear arsenal

Look on the bright side: the US's arms control institutions got continuously reorganised and then slashed with the rest of State since '99, so they probably aren't able to learn enough to actually feed the paranoia (or get the material under control, but I'm trying to be positive here)

> Pick up book on napoleon's wars > seems great with a lot of focus on diplo and econ history > get to section on EIC > "Hastings was a corrupt piece of shit, Clive was cool though" > Ah fuck, I can't take any of this seriously, can I?

Various realms had traditions of a summer capital, or a traveling court, but leave it to the Trump admin to establish the weekend white house, a private club that remains open to members while hosting the government.

AhahahahahahahahagHHagahagahahahahaha Why can't we just have vaguely sane natsec policy makers in this country, or at least more than a single digit number

since he's hardly a relevant political leader these days, I have to assume they are keeping him on the target lists for his poasts

I'm sometimes surprised GMU econ is a real department and not just a caricature from hell.

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Sorry, this is 100% false, some utterly demented hotep thread on twitter once explained that because snakes feature in a miracle conducted in Ireland their people actually descend from an extinct group of black leprechauns from subsaharan africa

The implicit statement that Andrew to Charles is not "my family" is *chef's kiss*

While for very obvious reasons I hope to god there will not be a RN president in France, I do wonder to some extent how Bardella would navigate this mess, both because the pro-Russian rightoids are his seniors and peers in RN, and because he's leaning hard into the neo-gaullism to outflank macron

Something I've found in my usage of claude code for the first month is that it's been an unalloyed good for my aggregate productivity, but it has shifted my resource allocation significantly towards tasks it is better suited for. Not sure yet if this is a short term effect or not.

Hawley is a bit of an oddity because he's the closest approximation to an American Strasser, but the big difference between Vance and AOC is that only one of them doesn't believe "working class" to be meant literally rather than as a dog whistle here. That person is also wrong about it.

Seeing Moldbug described in German language media (invited to some event in austria) and I have mixed feelings with some of the framing as an "influential intellectual". I've previously insisted he's more garden hermit than court philosopher to Thiel, but also "influential" on who?

*david attenborough voice* And here we see the Matt in his natural environment, entirely oblivious to the camera, explaining the difference between mean and median to random people on the internet

Look, you can take my new .parquet files from my cold dead hands, mostly because the script that processes a XML database from hell into something usable that's smaller than 30 GB makes my computer want to kill itself.

It's impressive how awful DHS is despite on paper looking similar to a normal interior ministry. I know it is post-9/11 related hysteria and institutional design, as well as existing rot in the agencies transferred (while leaving out less rotten federal police/investigative agencies), but still.

Not to beat a dead disc horse, but a lot of this mess can be avoided by not trying to map every single question on a monotonous left-right axis. Is being against TPP to the left of Clinton? Is Peter Navarro the most principled leftist trade policy makers of the US?

I see Starmer ministry insiders are back to shanking McSweeney, best of luck that they finally put him down this time.

I know some people viscerally hate LLMs, but having Claude code take some nightmarish Dropbox full of Stata do files (that I built some half-assed .rmd stuff for graphics on top of) and turning it into a clean set of R files with detailed pseudocode is extremely satisfying.

The discipline should hardly award itself with any laurels that it took the prior round of epstein files to finally ostracise Summers, but have other sciences drawn similar conclusions over their notables who are all over these emails?

Thank you Games Workshop for giving the White Scars some love in Warhammer 2.1k

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Microeconomics A Microeconomics B Microeconomics I Microeconomics II Microeconomics III