Proper lampooning of the idiots

Microsoft Codpilot

Yes, the 'immigration policy' was from the beginning basically and entirely 'get rid of anybody we don't like, for whatever reason we don't like them'. The immigration 'centres' are also just concentration camps for anybody we don't like

Astonishing to discover this is first time there's going to be a futures contract for rare earths given how big of a problem the whole rare earths is and has been and for how long! No futures = no liquid hedging mechanism = financing v hard/expensive WTF just now?? www.reuters.com/world/china/...

We saw 5x more people sign up to run for office thru Jan 31, 2026 than we did in 2017-2018.

The trend is Reform levelling off and at around 30% which totally tracks

Welcome to the resistance, ignorant assholes! 🫡

Wanna watch a man drown and root for it?

AI guys going on and on about The Future Of The Free World has the market starting to worry about The Future Of Free Cashflow.

low-info voters are very responsive to national conditions. which is they they voted for trump in 2024, and now why they're even more anti-trump on affordability than high-knowledge (dem-leaning) voters thanks to @verasight.io for partnering on this poll! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

come on

we just rolled out an experimental integration with @germnetwork.com, an E2E encrypted chat app that integrates with atproto. Germ users can add a button to their profile so others can message them from Bluesky. we're exploring ways to connect your profile with other apps in the Atmosphere.

16 former SACEUR and US Amb to NATO have drafted a joint statement www.belfercenter.org/research-ana...

Ariane 6 nearly done with deploying the 32x Amazon Leo satellites after a flawless launch so far

This is as wide as the gap has gotten. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The government’s determination to promote comparative disadvantage in the UK economy is a thing of wonder. David Ricwho?

Looks like Will Lewis, the recently ousted WaPo publisher who couldn’t be bothered to attend the zoom meeting to fire a third of his staff, was being paid $3m open.substack.com/pub/genewein...

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

WTAF??? It's actually much more than 'hosting intern' Can we shut down Britain and rebooted again? www.thetimes.com/article/97cd...

We got cheaper launch vehicles and Starlink because he wanted to go to Mars. We'll probably get infrastructure that can operate on the moon out of his 'space data centres'. That's how he functions: needs to aim for crazy stuff to get to to something useful.

OUT NOW: Mind the Deterrence Gap: Assessing Europe's Nuclear Options. A new report by the European Nuclear Study Group assessing #Europe 's options to maintain a credible deterrence posture in the face of continued aggression from #Russia and an increasingly strained transatlantic relationship. 👇

ECA's reports have become favourites: this is how you get the details and get to the truth

I mean to call Skyrora an established operator is a stretch. They only had one flight attempt, a suborbital one in 2022 and that had an anomaly shortly after liftoff. They're real (they've got launch licence, some hardware and test infrastructure) but established? Bit of UK face saving this

De-risking the project and making sure the Definitive Feasibility Study is completed early next year. If DFS is good, lots will be interested www.reuters.com/business/ene...

This latest report from the Rhodium Group about Germany's second China shock is absolutely brutal! It defies logic and reason for Merz to still be holding the positions that he holds given how bad things are. rhg.com/research/ger...

I’m sure the lawmakers who were outraged that their toll (phone) records were obtained in the course of a predicated federal investigation through a subpoena are going to back Rep. Jayapal in being outraged at just lawless surveillance of her (and likely others’) search history, right?

Coinbase must be concerned I'm at risk of running out of material

And the good thing about this is that EU money can be used including in the eventuality of Saab making Gripen stuff (or the whole thing) in Canada. Could loop in a couple of other SAFE countries in a framework agreement for buying Gripen

It could have and can do 10x times more if it continues to get its act together. It's got an abundance of all the renewable sources, just needs to exploit them better. The latest is geothermal www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oh look, another bad judgement scandal www.thetimes.com/article/9c32...

14/ "The goal is to eliminate and silence Russian civil society within Russia itself. Everything else, including communication problems at the front, is considered collateral damage and insignificant compared to achieving the main goal: silencing Russians in Russia." /end

This is war like no other, in so many ways

1/ The Russian army faces a crisis with obtaining aid for its soldiers, who are dependent on volunteers to provide them with everything from socks to Starlink terminals. Russian warbloggers say that the blocking of Telegram will wreck voluntary assistance efforts. ⬇️

Far more effective than ZipRecruiter

So now we get von der Leyen's positioning ahead of the Thursday summit www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

There's no secret: it's inference chips & claiming he's got novel ideas for how to make them cheap and fast. Also has a brain monitoring start-up. What, no tunnelling side business? Groq (not Grok) got bought by NVIDIA and now everybody sees $$$$ in front of them www.ft.com/content/cba5...

“I am delighted to conditionally accept your article for publication in The Journal of Politics.” 🥳 We find that gender quota laws for legislatures also increase the share of women in cabinets. w @gventurini.bsky.social @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

If I'm not mistaken, this is probably the highest level endorsement of nuclear nonproliferation by anyone in this administration.

Germany going from 6->50 IRIS-T SLM for its Air Force and purchasing 25 of these for the Army (and potentially more in the future). IRIS-T SLM is medium range and Army usually does (very) short range air defence so this would be a doctrine change apart from increase in numbers

Interesting solution to further increase ISR capabilities even if the resolution will be low. They win on numbers and dispersion air-cosmos.com/article/comm...

ORBEX the only UK effort of launch vehicle is going into administration having failed even to get taken over. Should have packed up long time ago europeanspaceflight.com/orbex-fails-...

Switzerland 🇨🇭 has increased the number of exercises its military will participate in (32->39 total) and host (4->6) and leaning into high-end NATO-adjacent exercises, high-intensity NATO exercises and the niche it's good at (mountain warfare) www.news.admin.ch/de/newnsb/vg...

'Overcoming CLINICAL inertia'

19y old man www.rtl.fr/actu/justice...

'valued at nearly €12bn last year, is on track to surpass $1bn in annual recurring revenue by the end of the year, following a push by Mistral to rapidly expand the number of its large enterprise customers to more than 100' www.ft.com/content/6642...

We'll see where it lands