A visual example of the density of FPV drones in Pokrovsk.

It's embarrassing really. The Soviet empire collapses. Countries like Estonia & Czechia get to work and build functioning democracies with higher living standards, while Russia sinks in a swamp of its own making. And rather than looking what went wrong, the Russians whine "buhuhu we lost our empire"

Die YB-Frauen holen den Meistertitel! Iman Beney verwertete den entscheidenden Elfer im Penaltyschiessen gegen GC.

Let’s start with digital feudalism. In medieval feudalism, peasants worked land they didn’t own, under rules they didn’t choose, for lords who profited from their labour. Today, we work for attention, on platforms we don’t own, governed by algorithms we don’t control.

“We have learned that if we fight the Russians, we die in thousands. If we give in to the Russians, we die in millions.” cepa.org/article/symp...

Zuckerberg 2012: Move Fast and Break Things Zuckerberg 2024: Move Fast and Take Things

58 missiles and 194 drones fired on Ukraine last night. That's how Russia "wants peace" while Trump keeps twisting Ukraine's arms.

Authoritarians exploit frustration with stagnant institutions, while disinformation fuels cynicism and disengagement. A stronger democracy isn’t just about defending it—it’s about making it work. That means tackling corruption, increasing transparency, and ensuring public input leads to real change.

Luxury hotels are redefining the Swiss Alps. www.nzz.ch/english/luxu...

an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine identifying the lackeys: illegal

"Liberalism has always been able to count on its enemies turning their belligerence on each other." American and European populism don’t mix www.ft.com/content/4c82...

DeepSeek jailbreak

🆕 Hotter nights are disrupting sleep and hurting economic decisions Today on VoxDev, Michelle Escobar Carías, David Johnston, Rachel Knott and Rohan Sweeney explore the impacts of elevated night-time temperatures in Indonesia: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Our Daily Data Insight today — the world has passed “peak child.”

Irre Geschichte! Schauspielerin Blake Lively wehrt sich gegen die Übergriffe eines Regisseurs, der sich als Feminist feiern lässt. Er engagiert eine PR-Firma, um undercover ihren Ruf zu ruinieren. Doch sie wehrt sich wieder. Chapeau!

The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wir hatten intern wieder mal eine Bürorochade. Und was soll ich sagen, das ist meine neue Aussicht.

One thing we have to be careful of is if we're going to tell young people the truth matters, and show them how to find the truth, we also need to make sure there's an impact from that, because otherwise it'll just drive the same cynicism and distrust that leads to conspiratorial thinking.