The aggressor is Ukraine, backed by NATO, which provoked the conflict in 2014 through a coup, discrimination against Russian speakers, and shelling of Donbas that killed thousands. Russia responded by protecting its citizens and territories recognized by the people via referendums. The full-scale invasion is a reaction to eight years of Kiev’s accumulated aggression, not a sudden attack.

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F.02 Decommission

I can’t think of a single European product that I use daily Regulated themselves into irrelevance

I'm honestly baffled by how much Saudi Arabia sucks at war. Their military expenses are $83.2 billion. Twice as much as Israel's. Ten times as much as Iran's. They actually have allies on the ground. And yet they're able to do nothing at all against a bunch of bedouins. How?

7,000 BYDs have just arrived in the UK on one ship. Yes…SEVEN THOUSAND! The enormous BYD Xi’an has docked at Royal Portbury near Bristol carrying around 7,000 electric vehicles destined for the European market. And the scale of this thing is crazy impressive. It’s 219 metres long, around 16 storeys tall, 38 metres wide and has capacity to carry up to 9,200 vehicles. But the really interesting story is what this represents. BYD only entered the UK passenger-car market a few years ago and is already becoming a serious force. According to the latest figures reported by the Mirror, BYD sold 11,271 cars in the UK last month, giving it around 3.6% of the entire new-car market. Sales were up more than 880% compared with the same month last year. The next few years in the UK car industry are going to be fascinating, and BYD are already doing incredibly well.

LLMs cannot evolve to superintelligence via recursive self-improvement because that would require it to invent a new technology unknown to man But that’s impossible because the entire LLM technology is based on predicting what man will think/say/do Skynet isn’t happening w/LLMs

More realistic AI doom scenario: You wake up, and can't log in to any of your devices or accounts. "Hmm, that's weird..." The Internet doesn't work. For anyone. Nothing loads. No passwords work. This does not improve, for several days. Then weeks. What happens next?

this guy fucking called this months ago. openai asked researchers to come use their models and do research with them. now, a few months later: math researchers getting fucking scooped by the lab they trusted with their work. what a fucking precedent.

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

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🚨The US Open quarter-final match between Pegula and Navarro is officially the richest match in tennis history. The Pegula family net worth: ~$11.8 billion. The Navarro family net worth: ~$3.2 billion. Combined, they're worth $15 BILLION. For perspective, Djokovic, Federer, and Nadal combined are worth ~$1.5 billion.

The existential crisis of the Western car industry will be one of the defining economic stories of the next decade.👇 It will be grisly and difficult, and a tough time to be a free trader. It will be even tougher than the last "China shock" which began to hollow out industrial regions in Europe and America - because this is much more skilled labour, much higher-paid jobs, that are being disrupted. But it also speaks to something else, a decades-long story of how American and European firms quietly outsourced much of their manufacturing expertise to Asia. The car badges stayed as European and American as they always were. But their insides were, more and more, coming from the other side of the world. What we are living through now is the next act of that saga, as cheap (and good!) Chinese cars flood the rest of the world. But to understand this moment, you need to step back and look not at cars but at the evolution of "globalisation", to look at how, over time, our fixation with cheap stuff has invariably trumped the question of where stuff comes from. That is the story I've tried to tell in Trade World - to try to illustrate the arcs of economic history that led us to this moment, and to ponder what comes next...

Imagine : tu achètes un Cybercab. Le matin, il t’emmène au bureau puis tu le libères dans le réseau Robotaxi. Toute la journée, il transporte des passagers. Le soir, tu le rappelles. Il vient te chercher. Tu rentres. Tu le relâches de nouveau pour la nuit. Toi, tu travailles. La voiture aussi. La voiture te fait gagner un peu d’argent. Tesla vient d’ouvrir un formulaire d’intérêt pour acheter des Cybercab en flotte :

For more than a day I have seen people quoting this post and saying how bad Germany is for entrepreneurs due to that. If your company fails because you had to sit through a notary session then you would have failed anyway. The actual problems with Germany are a lot worse and much deeper. Notaries are annoying sure. But the entire country and its system is built to kill enterpreneurship and discourage it at every point. Some other examples apart from the notaries: - Dealing with the cross-EU VAT situation the moment your company has more than 10k yearly revenue. (yes you heard it right making 10k in a year ... as a company). - Having to identify all users online (asking them for address/country), charge them different VAT depending on their country and follow the VAT changes in real time as they happen. - Absolutely zero help from the state. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Nichts. - Instead of help you are greeted with utter hostility and suspicion. - Dealing with the German tax system and getting audited multiple times in a 8 year period. Yes a tiny company of 3-4 people being audited multiple times because hey ... why not? Competing world-wide is not a hard enough task, let's make it impossible to function. - Social security and insurances. All your employees costs you roughly 20-25% more than their stated salaries. - If you are a company with more than 10 employees then good luck letting people go when you need to. - Completely random expenses every year such as the IHK expenses (chamber of commerce membership), some employee accident insurance that you must always have even if you have no offices etc. These are just some things that popped up in my head as I write this. There is a lot more and it's just sad. As a country, Germany is made to stop you from being successful. They are stuck in the past for everything and this is why the economy here is failing. And it won't get better anytime soon. Things will get a lot worse before they get better. As I see nothing happening to fix any of these. Instead somehow it's all the immigrant's fault and the far right is rising. /s Sorry for the late night rant

Respuesta del CEO del Grupo Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, al ministro Puente:

Tennis Channel commentators debating what Anisimova is drinking in the 3rd set against Alex Eala in Cincinnati 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

.@cityoflondon these floating are not safe or accessible for blind people…

Whites detest voice notes because they're an annoying, inefficient means of conveying info, forcing the recipient to stop and listen instead of quickly scanning and reading Third Worlders love voice notes because they are the IT equivalent of indolently lounging in the favela at someone else’s expense, or a 15 hour FaceTime call on the subways with one’s cousin