Ok let's talk about where we are with Russia/Ukraine. My latest for Foreign Affairs: www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/amer.... The key thing is understanding American national interests. Should be straightforward but, evidently, it's not.

YES! Do read this!

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

As I have noted before, almost half of everyone ever born died in childhood. There are people alive today who were already alive when this stopped being true for everyone born in the future. All of pre-20th-century history is an emotional foreign country, for this reason alone.

yup here it is www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99...

Herregud, @froyasjursaether.bsky.social er så sinnssykt bra. Dette er så tydelig og så riktig.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Verdt å lese! «Planer om å utsette oljepengebruken lengst mulig vil innebære en urimelig overføring fra dagens generasjon til framtidige, mer velstående generasjoner»

This is all true but 1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law 2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.

FYI: the EXAMPLE of what a war crime is in the DoD Law of War manual is EXACTLY what Hegseth did. bsky.app/profile/jjin...

Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.

To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine. We executed multiple members of that crew.

“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”

Lots of words, still murder.

pretty amazing thread

Professor Tarjei Bekkedal ved Senter for europarett, Universitetet i Oslo: «Hvis Norge både slipper toll innad, mot EU, og utad, mot resten av verden, behandles vi bedre enn EUs medlemsland. Faktisk behandles vi bedre enn alle andre land i verden.» www.dn.no/innlegg/toll...

Endelig noe som er et enda større rødt flagg enn folk som representerer seg selv i retten www.kode24.no/artikkel/for...

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...

Det er litt rart at når vi sitter på bussen så stirrer vi i mobilen og chatter med familie vi er glad i eller venner vi har noe til felles med istedenfor å slå av en prat med en 73 år gammel sidemann som kan fortelle meg at de ukrainske flyktningene som har kommet til landet er noen jævla kriminelle

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Frikkin amazing stuff.

This is the way

This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review. For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.

Lancet-artiklene, og kommentatorene, hopper elegant over at det er hovedsakelig kjøttprodukter og sukkerholdig drikke blant de ultraprosesserte matvarene som er forbundet med skadelige utfall. Likevel får det folk til å frykte alt fra knekkebrød til Farris med lime. www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

Cartoon by David Horsey.

A member of Congress just filled out a threat report with the Capitol Police naming the President of the United States as the person making the threat. Think of where we were on January 7, 2021 when the country overwhelmingly repudiated what had happened. And think of where we are now.

Even the text of the alleged "peace agreement" between Russia and Ukraine being touted by the Trump administration betrays its Kremlin origins. They were in such a such a rush they didn't even have it properly translated.

The '«Trump» «"peace" "plan"»'

Jeg har telt når jula starter.

CAN LLMs write about science? @science.org decided to find out, and they did it the curious, scientific way. They did an experiment. Love this thoughtful convo. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...

A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was released 18 years ago today. One of the most successful movies of the Coen brothers, and acclaimed as one of the great book-to-screen adaptations of the 21st century, missing the story of how it came to be is like losing a Chigurh coin toss… 1/38

"SARS-CoV-2 is too well-adapted to humans [hence, insert your favorite conspiracy theory]". That was never right because, for one, SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic virus so it necessarily had to be "well-adapted". Now, a new study shows the same is true for BANAL-236 - a related virus isolated from bats.

I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Denne! En 100% oppsummering av Senterpartiet og 100x bedre enn noe jeg kunne formulert selv. Er Sigurd Grytten på Blåskyen?

All because some of you out there are still buying Teslas from a Nazi.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

We’re in a strange limbo where secret police are routinely beating, disappearing, and shooting everyday people in public, but they’ve not yet consolidated enough power to stop us from talking about it on social media. That imbalance prob can’t last. Either we roll them back or this gets rolled up .

The West used to play dirty – and during the Cold War, we were good at it. Nowadays, we leave grey-zone tactics and hybrid warfare to Russia, which is winning the disinformation war.

I august kjørte det 9100 biler i døgnet i Kirkeveien ved Marienlyst (ny telling fra BYM). I 2005 var tallet 21 200 (SVV telling). Over 12 000 biler mer. I august syklet det 2700 sykler i døgnet i Kirkeveien ved Marienlyst. Finnes ikke tall fra 2005. Men vil anta vi snakker minst en dobling.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?

Six months ago I wrote this post about “the next terrorist attack.” I republish it now (lightly updated) because my fear of this scenario has recently grown much greater. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

“Furin cleavage site”, that is. Just casually, and naturally, sitting there in one of the most evolutionarily active parts of the genome. Mystery solved.

Jeg har til gode å se de vanlige «ytringsfrihetsforkjemperne» løfte frem ytringsfrihet når det er minoriteter som trues til taushet. Det er «ekstremytringer» som beskyttes, ikke dem som har vanskelig ved å komme til orde.

Interessant sak med flere gode poenger. Hvis jeg skal legge til noe, er det at disse ulikhetene innad i byregioner ikke kan bekjempes med transportpolitikk alene. Sterkere omfordeling av boligformue gjennom skattesystemet ville ha hjulpet.