Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

Exercise commanders had to ask 🇫🇮 reservists, the most formidable Arctic warriors, who were playing the role of invaders in the war games, to go easy on the Americans. “The Finns had to be told to stop beating the Americans as it was embarrassing and demoralising for them,” a mil source said.” 3/

Interesting Times article on the US approach re: Greenland. It notes: - Greenland isn’t even mentioned in the brand new US Security Strategy - The US has few military resources geared to the Arctic - Ending allied (NATO) arctic submarine-hunting would increase, not decrease military risk to 🇺🇸 A🧵

Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6

Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Palantir is using medical records to help ICE target its victims in the US. And Wes Streeting is pitch-rolling for Farage to do the same in the UK.

Our kids nymag.com/intelligence...

The government might as well be posting on Truth Social. There’s no reason to stay on X.

surely the government needs to act more decisively on this: if not out of broad principles then out of support for a Labour colleague?!

Trump has just announced a massive expansion of the global gag rule. Last time the rule was in effect, there were at least 20,000 excess maternal deaths due to lack of safe reproductive healthcare. Pro life that’s a lie, you don’t care if women die.

We are also going to have real world experience of how many children have to die before the public starts lynching officials.

BTW, this raging against France tells you a lot. They backed down, and fear of the French response was clearly a lot of that because they have such a need now to lash out at those who made them back down. This is a beaten bully yelling insults from a safe distance.

Wild how Sean Penn played Greg Bovino.

In the movie “One battle after another”, Sean Penn portrays the creepiest cop ever seen His mannerism, appearance and overall depravity were unbelievable until the real life Steven lockjaw showed up Looks like he used Greg Bovino as a character model for the part Movie didn’t end well for him

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Let’s run with this. Imagine Hindenberg and von Papen stop Hitler and he’s booted out in 1934. Then you vote him in again in 1938!

#WATO Pic. Cold War Steve

Stick him in the toy room and tell him the other leaders will be there after their adult meeting.

This is so stupid and crazy it wouldn’t have passed muster in the Veep writer’s room. Also demonstrates that they’d be insane to share any real intel with Patel.

Blue states need to start talking loudly about referendums to join Canada.

Murley ahead of Hendy is one of the weirdest selection decisions I’ve seen for a while. Hendy has proved himself one of the best in Europe, covering wing and fullback. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

I released this on Monday. You can have a read on the site, which has been updated to improve readability and accessibility. therugbyhistoryproject.com/2026/01/19/w...

I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Danish citizens are organising a huge boycott that includes cancelling planned holidays in the US, cancelling subscriptions to on-demand services based in the US & more generally, recommending the use of EU services instead of those provided by American platforms.” So, same as Canadians.

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

If he actually believes he is polling well he is less likely to interfere with elections. He still will interfere and reject election results he doesn’t like.

Number 9 here is linked very closely to number 10. Some people have insight and knowledge even when you disagree.

I hope everyone is following a version of these already, but if not here they are.

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

Actually I think it’s BORED Of Peace.

The president is now demanding the investigation of a member of Congress for “Political Crimes”

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks… #Europe #Rutte

The way I think about it is that when a politician says "this thing should be built", they don't mean someone should be allowed to make it out of papier-mâché or powered by incinerating tractor tyres. They're implicitly saying "something of this type should be built, to the relevant standard"...

"My plea to the unions of the Pacific Four is simple, stop stumbling into this series and start taking it seriously." Another year, another schedule full of TBCs open.substack.com/pub/alicesoa...

Pathetic.

ok it is easy to dunk on this, but, we must remember, it is also v v important to do so

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

Nice bunch, eh?

Pathetic Ridiculous Insane And a risk to US national security, and potentially, to that of their allies.

I just thought everyone should see this

The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.

I want to give America the benefit of the doubt. Clearly a lot of people in our government do too. You should forgive friends when they make mistakes. But America made a mistake then doubled down. ‘Hey, fuck you, we’re gonna do it again!’ You can’t trust someone who does that.

It’s not that America elected a despot. Lots of countries have done that. It’s that they RE-elected a despot. He showed them who he was during his first term. He showed them more of who he was during his time out of office. But they STILL voted him back in.

Perhaps the rest of the world will need to impose proof of vaccination checks on prospective US travellers. After all, we can't have them spreading measles, mumps, rubella, TB, Polio, etc.. This is all, of course, completely insane from the US govt.

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Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids? The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

Really interesting to see this being U21 instead of the usual U20. I think it could be a good fit for the women’s game at the moment.

Big year for women's rugby to include new U21 competition www.sixnationsrugby.com/en/w6n/news/...

The more I think about it, the more that F1 Best Picture nom is pissing me off. Put KPop Demon Hunters in there if you want a fun populist pick! Not a gross Brad Pitt redemption project where he doesn't even give a good performance

Under World Rugby Regulation 14.1, Y11 owning both the Ospreys and Cardiff, and both of them playing in the URC, will require sign off from World Rugby, and Ireland, Scotland, Italy and South Africa … Not convinced the WRU has taken that into account.