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Starlink has absolutely no role in the one military campaign Trump claims he wants Ukraine to end: hitting Russian oil refineries. It only works in Ukraine and it helps with air defense — homegrown air defense, to be specific, which was born of necessity because we aren’t providing enough missile interceptors. A Russian Shahed today killed a one-year baby in a park. The U.S. is actively making it easier for Russia to commit these atrocities by throttling satellite internet. All while Trump makes excuses for Putin.
🇺🇦 Zelenskyy delivers a blunt message to the United States:
“Just give us Starlink back. If you refuse, Ukraine will survive. We will continue defending ourselves with or without it.
But why would you restrict a country fighting for its survival? Why make it harder for us to defend our people?
I simply cannot understand the reasoning behind this decision. It is a mistake.”
Ukraine isn’t asking America to fight its war. It’s asking America not to stand in the way of its defense.
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James Burke's perfectly timed shot on television in 1978 is hailed as one of “The Greatest Shot In Television History”
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🚨BREAKING: The historic Limoges town hall has just completely collapsed after far-left rioters set it on fire
It was built in 1876. It survived World Wars. It did not survive modern France.
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This is fantastic. @BenAffleck understands and can reasonably explain something that many of the so-called AI "experts" seem determined to over complicate and mislead people on.
In fact, many of these experts are rapidly losing credibility with people who actually understand how this technology works. Unfortunately, they've already convinced a lot of people that AI is something it isn't.
And as the saying goes, it's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled.
An LLM is a computer program. We designed it. We know the architecture, the mathematics, and how inference works. Much of the underlying code and research is open for anyone to inspect.
All LLMs processes tokens through mathematical operations using learned weights and context to predict what comes next. The results can be astonishingly accurate, useful, and convincing.
But the LLM isn't alive. It doesn't love you, hate you, care about you, or sit around contemplating its existence or understanding.
And yet people insist that somewhere inside those matrix operations, consciousness has magically materialized.
Seriously?
This isn't biological life evolving in nature. It's software executing computations on hardware we designed and built. If you're claiming those computations somehow produce subjective experience, explain the mechanism (I'll wait...).
The remarkable achievement here is that we've created software capable of convincingly emulating aspects of human intelligence and behavior.
That's freakin' amazing and cause to celebrate the technology!
But please stop confusing a computer program with a living, conscious being. It's absolutely not.
The fact that so many people have fallen for that illusion is a testament to how convincing the technology has become.
But here's the clincher: when we misunderstand this, and we start treating computer programs as conscious, independent beings, the legal implications could be disastrous.
Suddenly, "the AI did it" becomes an excuse to shift blame away from the people and companies responsible for building, deploying, and operating these systems.
AI cannot be held accountable. But people and companies can be, and must be held accountable.
Ben gets it. More people should.
Ben Affleck says AI is simply matrix multiplication, linear algebra and floating point calculations, and however convincingly it sounds like a person, it has nothing to do with thought, humanity or feeling
“Nor do I believe, and I think it’s important to draw the distinction between what AI does, which is simply predict the next token or the next word in a sentence, then add that word on, run it back to the machine, do a lot of computation and pick the next word."
"That is a very different thing than sentience or thought. And I think we need to be really clear about that because it can be convincingly, in an illusory way, sound like thought or like a person."
"But let’s be real clear. This is matrix multiplication. This is linear algebra. These are floating point calculations. It has nothing to do with thought, humanity, or feeling.”
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Not sure who needs to hear this but....
An LLM doesn't "understand" anything. It is a statistical model that spews out tokens based on probabilities calculated through massive matrix operations and context, not an understanding of the subject matter.
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A smile worth a thousand words:
Sky News: Trump is facing pretty difficult midterm elections. Do you think you are being treated as a scapegoat for his own problems?
Zelenskyy [smiling]: “This is my answer.”
Couldn't imagine a better answer. 👏
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Belgium: 4.8 million adults get their income from the state versus 3.6 million unsubsidized private-sector workers. State spending is over 54% of GDP, taxes take ~50%, and the budget hasn't been balanced since 2006. More than 526,000 working-age citizens (over 7% of the entire workforce) are now on long-term disability leave—exceeding the number of officially unemployed.
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Look at these gorgeous, dynamic, orange mitochondria surrounding the blue nucleus.
A view of life from beneath a cell monolayer in a parti dish. Whatever angle you look at it, life is always dynamic and pretty special.
My experience was they were "trading": constantly putting a line/small position out in the market to assess market demand.
To secure high status asset males, and for the rest/has beens, just gauging demand--assessing their exact value ATM, or ego boost.
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The reason women dress more promiscuously at the gym and elsewhere. They hope to re-awaken male desire (deadened by porn, plummeting T levels, MeToo, and screens), by displaying skin without technically being naked according to local ordinances: robkhenderson.com/p/sex-and-…
To wit, the number of times I have been propositioned by OnlyFans accounts on X--has to be >1k--with zero evidence of my interest in it a priori.
Gemini says there are 4.6m "creators" on OnlyFans (80% women)
Ditto:
The outrage over Shane Gillis’s gym joke recalls the backlash Jordan Peterson faced thanks to a 2018 Vice interview where he pointed out that women wear makeup and high heels at work as sexual displays.
The Professor was ahead of his time and showed what it's like when a reflexive low-IQ lefty refuses to engage with reality in order to preserve his bubble of ideological safety.
In both these incidents, you have someone observing (or joking about) women's deliberate sexual signaling in mixed sex spaces, and instead of examining the signaling, the biology, or the inconsistent rules, the reflexive response was to treat that truthful observation itself as the offense.
Our choices in clothing and cosmetics have aesthetic, evolutionary, social and sexual functions. Yet modern feminists like to pretend the sexual component is absent or irrelevant. Both controversies highlight how hypocritical things are because on one hand, female sexual presentation is common and in fact, ENCOURAGED, yet male visual attention or commentary is pathologized.
Peterson’s broader point was that post-sexual-revolution and #MeToo environments demand male restraint and “enthusiastic consent” protocols while refusing to discuss female signaling, hypergamy, or the biological asymmetry in visual arousal. Reaction to Gillis’s banal joke reveals the same double standard at play.
Both women (and men) deliberately dress and behave in ways that maximize sexual attention, status, or mate-value signaling.
Remember when second wave feminists used to own the "I’m a 'ho" energy? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Back then, dressing sexy or slutty was treated as straightforward empowerment and self-expression. Today’s third wave feminism is in denial about the biological realities of sexual signaling, and then piles shrill emotional moralizing on top of the dishonesty.
Dr. @jordanbpeterson argued that once traditional sexual norms are dismantled without replacement, mixed environments become minefields. Women still engage in sexual display, but men are punished for acknowledging it, and the rules governing behavior are written in moral language that defines male behavior as toxic by default. This will keep happening until one side stops pretending that signaling and biology don’t exist.
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By @anneapplebaum: "This looks, instead, like something very different: an abrupt, Hail Mary attempt to force Ukraine to surrender and to save the Russian economy, perhaps in order to finally complete the multiple business deals that the Russians are known to have discussed with American negotiators and others in Trump’s orbit." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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When we started responding to Russia’s operation against our data centers, and when our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations.
Because there were fewer bots. And it’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from – if they disappeared when Yandex went offline. This proves, again and again, that Europe is not the source of the problems. Europe is not the one making everything more difficult.
Most importantly, we need people in America, every morning, when the day in Europe is already moving toward evening, to really see what is happening. To see the truth.
From a speech at the Warsaw Security Forum. (3/3)
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“I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza.”
“Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians, they wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable." ~ Bill Clinton
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When Krugman thinks you’re running too large a deficit and the bond vigilantes have it right, it might be time to worry.
Paul Krugman, prix Nobel d’économie américain, est de gauche. Favorable à la taxe Zucman, critique du French-bashing fréquent aux États-Unis, il fait régulièrement l’éloge du modèle social européen.
Voici son analyse de la situation française.
« La France se distingue, même parmi les pays en difficulté budgétaire, sur un point essentiel : son incapacité persistante à regarder en face la réalité des retraites. Il n’est pas nécessaire d’être conservateur pour comprendre que les départs précoces à la retraite en France ne sont pas soutenables, surtout quand on sait que l’espérance de vie des Français à 65 ans les conduit en moyenne jusqu’à environ 87 ans, soit deux ans de plus qu’aux États-Unis. Ainsi, les pressions budgétaires engendrées en grande partie par la générosité du système public de retraite français ont entraîné des coupes dans d’autres dépenses, notamment dans l’éducation. La France accorde, de fait, d’importantes subventions aux Français âgés, aux dépens de tous les autres. Deuxième économie de la zone euro, la France est peut-être passée du statut de pays « trop gros pour faire faillite » (too big to fail) à celui de pays « trop gros pour être sauvé » (too big to save). Bref, il est malheureusement trop facile d’imaginer un scénario de crise française particulièrement grave, qui provoquerait de profondes divisions au sein de l’Europe. »
Pourtant, les députés membres de la Commission des finances viennent à une large majorité de rejeter les mesures qui l’auraient réduit, et de valider celles qui ont l’effet contraire.
Ils ont malheureusement sans doute raison de penser que cela rend plus probable leur réélection si l’Assemblée est dissoute au printemps prochain.
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The thing about the Tucker Carlson//Jacob Rees-Mogg interview is that Tucker is an American moron whose entire tactic is “assume the other guy won’t question my premises”, up against a British aristocrat that debates for fun at Oxford Union. Apex predator wins handily
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The mechanics of the Trump family's deal with Putin are almost as simple as Trump himself.
A Trump proxy will "buy" billions in now sanctioned Russian oil assets around the world, Trump will remove sanctions specifically on those assets, with Putin again earning by selling more oil through them, and Trump family generating hundreds of millions/year through ownership.
