Next they'll want to force a baker to make them a cake.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

Canada is working on a new defence policy and this is part of that. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Excellent episode, could have gone on for hours

Another good innovation 'For twelve hours on Sunday — 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. — mayor-elect Mamdani and his top aides spoke with 142 ordinary New Yorkers in one-on-one sessions...People came prepared, knowledgeable, nervous' jacobin.com/2025/12/mamd...

'But three separate policy goals began merging that night — crippling Mr. Maduro, using military force against drug cartels and securing access to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves for U.S. companies.' www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

11/12: This is likely why the Ministry of Finance quietly changed OFZ targets. It is no longer “how many bonds placed,” but “how much cash raised.” Pricing and future debt no longer matters, all that matters is cash today.

Cause everybody was aware of it, just didn't have the necessary incentives to do something about it. They've even started to understand the economic potential of non-US/🇪🇺 systems so I think change will be enduring (capitalist self-interest and all that)

Incredible social science & data use here. The immediate story is about how the opioid epidemic (pushed by pharma in high cancer areas), resulted in major opioid death & economic hardship which - through various media/political channels - resulted in a sustained rise in support for the Republicans

105mm ammunition does cover a warfighting niche. Kosovo got some Hawkeye 1055mm artillery (soft recoil USP) and the US manufacturer was pitching same to Poland (after testing in Ukraine). There's no 🇪🇺equivalent en.defence-ua.com/industries/a...

cat decided to roast his chestnuts

Ouch again for Ireland

I love the description of 'snipers in the kitchen'. There's so many things standing in Mamdani's way, so much trepidation waiting to see which one he's going to overcome and which not. jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamda...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Great idea but it's only 150 places initially and the aspiration is still only 1000 www.lbc.co.uk/article/arme...

This could very well make Chinese EVs even more efficient so there could be even more demand for them. And it will affect SUV>small cars. It sets weight-based caps on kWh/100 km so 2 tons vehicle max 15.1 kWh/100 km chinaevhome.com/2025/12/26/c...

Amongst the recommendations in this report is allied investment in U.S. yards, joint distributed production, expanded allied MRO. Yeah, that would have bee great for allies too. Except that now US hates its allies so its a moot point. www.csis.org/analysis/out...

'41% of tasks landed in the Low Priority and Red Light zones, meaning much of the AI implementation is either unwanted or technically not possible' 'We anticipate...increased emphasis will be placed on skills that require human interaction and coordination' hai.stanford.edu/news/what-wo...

"How else is New York’s City Hall booby-trapped to prevent progress on housing? What forces barricade the staircase, and what snipers lie in wait for a mayor who dares challenge the real estate state?" Spectacular essay on the real deep state of FIRE sector jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamda...

Tl;dr: The "battleship" includes a certain amount of substance in requirements & several books worth of procurement history for USN. However, in line with the current US admin it is clad into a thick shell of vibes out of touch with reality, threatening USN capability. Buckle up.

Good explainer tellerwindow.newyorkfed.org/2025/10/16/n...

US is now using Tomahawks to chase bandits away???? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/w...

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

Oh look another Chinese company in disguise is getting tons of Nvidia's latest chips www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 receives a powerful ice-class tanker that can ship gas in winter, transferring it to the shadow fleet The commissioning of the Alexey Kosygin addresses the main tactical objective: providing the capability for winter LNG exports.

Along with @duitsmanms.bsky.social and @dexeve.bsky.social, I think we found the first deployment site in Belarus of the the Oreshnik IRBM. 🧵

WOW! Tory Bruno, who recently resigned as United Launch Alliance (ULA) CEO is now at Blue Origin, Director of the National Security division. Smart move by both Tory and Bezos DoD/national security space contracts is where money is going to be in the near future in US space.

Great @spectrum.ieee.org long read spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...

Datasection was previously a marketing solutions provider. It then bought 15000 of Nvidia's Blackwell AI chips (the most advanced) and is setting up a huge datacenter. It did this on behalf and with the money of an overseas customer, i.e China's Tencent 🙈🙈🙈 www.ft.com/content/9b47...

Whilst US and Europe are just in the early development stages of 6th gen fighter jet, China is at the 'testing 3rd prototype' of 6th gen fighter jet. In the last 12 months!

This is relevant now but will be even more so in the near future. It's about nuclear policy by way of social media, OSINT and AI. Weaponisation of information was bad enough for society but could be catastrophic in nuclear matters thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

There's this trend recently by European defence contractors of embedding themselves in US defence supply (both good as source of revenue but also by making the alliance harder to unwind). This is about SAAB but the others are doing it as well defence-industry.eu/saab-highlig...

This overstates the case in some places (for narrative purposes) but there's plenty right in it. And can we please not use Gibbon's framing for a living & breathing institution?? thecritic.co.uk/issues/decem...

To Prez, this remains one of best community notes of all time. To prove we can’t be beaten this idiot tweets a picture of 5 of our warships, 4 of which had been sunk. The remaining is probably now out of action. I am surrounded by idiocy

That's the spirit!

'the assassination attempt was planned by a 28-year-old citizen of one of the Central Asian countries. Russian special services recruited him while he was looking for easy money through Telegram channels.' 'he was promised $ 50,000 and legalisation in one of the EU countries'

This might be right in actual tonnage but I struggle to name a single German cheese. In any case clearly German car manufacturers need to speak to German cheese manufacturers for some business lessons

Whereas UK Parliament called the GCAP delivery in 2035 as 'ambitious' (official speak for 'govt hasn't put in the resources to achieve that') Japan govt response is we take GCAP seriously and we're staying on target.

$58bn for fiscal year 2026 not bad (and good signal about getting to 2% GDP) but more important is what Japan is prioritising: * long-range strike capability / coastal defence (ex Type-12) * unmanned mass * GCAP industry and tech

Russia has expanded the 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade, based in Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region, between Poland and Lithuania, into a division militarnyi.com/en/news/russ...

Apres moi, le deluge

A flip flopping continent? Left and right in South America: division between political spectrums in the governments of the continent's countries from 2015 to 2025.

Unbelievable amount of audacity and trying to game the system from Poland wrt SAFE re-armament money! It's quite breathtaking They plan to use 89% money on projects going to Polish industry and solo projects AND they are still moaning!! SAFE rules were public dziennikzbrojny.pl/aktualnosci/...

They're all Mamdani voters, if we can somehow replicate him

Interesting. Arizona/Taipei 😀 www.united.com/en/us/newsro...

Ouch

When Jensen looked into the abyss he saw that LLM training is a commodity and it's the inference where the future and the profit lies. If you've ever tried to build a fast server (in general, not just for AI) and you've hit memory bandwidth hard wall, Groq's SRAM & LPU idea is very very appealing