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Not far away, anti-aircraft guns begin to fire — every blast is a sign that brave people are trying to defend the city. But every shot feels like a lightning bolt of anxiety that unfurls from your heart to your head.
What it felt like overnight in Kyiv as the Russian dictator lashed out in response to Ukraine's sneak attacks on military targets. This morning, we awoke to Journalist's Day in Ukraine.
“I heard the drone flying around, but my roommate Sashka and I are really used to that sound, so we just tried to sleep. Suddenly, the sound became unbearable and louder with every second..."
RUSSIA AIMS TO CUT UKRAINE OFF FROM BLACK SEA: Russia is planning to create a 'buffer' zone in northern Ukraine and then move south to completely cut off Ukraine's access to the Black Sea, according to a top official in Ukraine’s Presidential Office, Politico reported.
UKRAINE LAUNCHED PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGAINST RUSSIA: Ukraine struck several Russian airfields overnight before Russia launched one of its most powerful air attacks, the Kyiv Independent reported.
Ukraine attacked Engels and Diagilevo airfields. Both are key to conduct air attacks.
Ukrainian strikes reportedly targeted Engels and Dyagilevo airfields — two key hubs for Russia's long-range bomber fleet, as well as logistics sites in Russia's Kursk Oblast.
GERMANY SCRAMBLES PLANES OVER RUSSIAN INTEL: A Russian reconnaissance plane was spotted in the Baltic Sea yesterday, prompting Germany to scramble two fighter jets, the European Truth reported with reference to DPA.
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy.
FERRET OF WAR: Today we have an unusual animal of war – a ferret! His name is Stitch: just like the cartoon character, he cannot sit in one place and bites a lot.
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy.
A good YouTube channel #ThinkUkraine documents some of the life of an average Ukrainian.
"Widow of a military pilot, I'm an ordinary teacher in Kyiv sharing the truth about life during the War. With two kids by my side, your donation to #ThinkUkraine fuels my mission. Help me amplify the voices of those living through the chaos. "
This one is from 25 May 2025, the day Kyiv turned (approximately) 1543 years old.
@timkmak@journa.host > Follow along through the link in bio! Dude... It's #Substack. Substack profits from and provides material fucking support to #NAZIs and Neo-Nazis. ***No thank you.*** #JustSayNoToSubstack
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy.
A mystery pigeon lady is snatching “weak” birds from outside the Met and storing them for days at a time inside her car – leaving neighbors disturbed over the strange behavior. The birdnapper, who …
Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.
"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect — which is where you read what’s actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."
"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time."
"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and they’ll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send ’em a copy of this post."
You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Döpm…
Couldn't resist so I asked #AI if your post was written by AI and honestly I wasn't prepared for the critique:
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That excerpt does not appear to be written by AI—it reads very much like the work of a human author with a distinctive voice, strong opinions, and a flair for biting, satirical commentary.
Here’s why it almost certainly wasn’t AI-generated:
1. Authorial Style: The tone is snarky, sardonic, and rhetorically sharp—hallmarks of a practiced writer with a clear worldview and a human-like sense of irony. AI tends to struggle with sustained sarcasm and tightly controlled satire without explicit prompting.
2. Cultural Referencing & Analogy: Comparing LLMs to carnival psychics, invoking the Barnum Effect, referencing the Hook Model, and equating AI enthusiasm to religious zealotry—these are layered cultural critiques typical of polemical essayists, not AI text.
3. Narrative Framing & Voice: It uses deliberate pacing, rhetorical repetition ("just a glimpse of Him again"), and personal/colloquial flourishes ("Send ’em a copy of this post")—stylistic touches that feel authored, not synthesized.
4. David Gerard Reference: David Gerard is a real-life tech critic known for his skeptical takes on crypto and AI. Referencing his writing and mimicking his voice is something a human poster might do, especially if they’re quoting or paraphrasing him.
It’s very likely this came from a blog, a Mastodon post, or something like a Substack article—not AI. If it was AI-generated, it would have had to be very tightly prompted and heavily edited by a human afterward.
Let me know if you want help tracing the original source or adapting the tone for something of your own.
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The fact that AI apparently seems to know what makes it's writing "appear to be AI" is what I found the most interesting.
How long before the AI companies tweak the settings and throw in more cultural references?
Just a thought: Maybe the planes are attacking the big Shroom because it can provide better insights & that's dangerous for the people in control .. Really nice artwork..👌
“All questions of power, arising under the constitution of the United States, whether they relate to the federal or a state government, must be considered of great importance. The federal government being formed for certain purposes, is limited in its powers, and can in no case exercise authority where the power has not been delegated. The states are sovereign; with the exception of certain powers, which have been invested in the general government, and inhibited to the
"All questions of power, arising under the constitution of the United States, whether they relate to the federal or a state government, must be considered of great importance.
“The province of the Court is solely to decide on the rights of individuals... . Questions, in their nature political or which are, by the Constitution and laws, submitted to the Executive, can never be made in this court.”
~ John Marshall (1755-1835) US Supreme Court Chief Justice Marbury v. Madison, February 23, 1803
"The province of the Court is solely to decide on the rights of individuals... . Questions, in their nature political or which are, by the Constitution and laws, submitted to the Executive, can never be made in this court." ~ John Marshall
I'm in my cushy office, minding my own business, considering taking a nap on the couch. Two guys from the warehouse come bargin in. We had a container arrive from Japan and they were both talking at once telling me that there's no way we can unload it. I had to walk all the way to the warehouse and across it. They had nailed 2x4s to the floor of the container in front of each pallet, to prevent shift. We don't have a loading dock, just a huge bay door and no crow bar. each skid weighed 650lbs...
The pallets were stacked to high to clear the top of the door from the bottom of the contaner. They had tried to get the boards up with a hammer, but werent' able to. I got a second hammer and used it to hammer the claws of the first hammer under the boards and pried them up. Then I stayed in the container and positioned one skid at a time with the pallet jack at opening where our forklift could read them, had the forklift guy pick up a skid and hold it, then had the driver pull forward 2/3
~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist Civil Disobedience (1849)
Turns out everything we've been told about the state of Russian army for the past three years was a lie.
• It's now twice as large as in 2022, and continues to grow • Production of arms and munitions has soared • Exposure to the advanced Western weaponry allowed the Russians to figure out how to neutralize it • The Russian air force, built to fight NATO, is modern and has been preserved intact • In terms of drone and electronic warfare, Russia is probably ahead of NATO
If “Too Late” at the Fed would CUT, we would greatly reduce interest rates, long and short, on debt that is coming due. Biden went mostly short term. There is virtually no inflation (anymore), but if it should come back, RAISE “RATE” TO COUNTER. Very Simple!!! He is costing our Country a fortune. Borrowing costs should be MUCH LOWER!!!
looks like i can get away with just welding a broken part in the old stock RSX exhaust and i don't have to replace the whole thing... which is good cause this is getting ridiculous
“Too Late” at the Fed is a disaster! Europe has had 10 rate cuts, we have had none. Despite him, our Country is doing great. Go for a full point, Rocket Fuel!
If people were taught, there would be debates, evidence, peer reviews, discussions. I even heard a congressman say science is settled. Ice is building up in the Arctic also.
Global greening from higher CO2 levels has hit "striking" new heights, the latest research has confirmed. But the Net Zero obsessed mainstream media don't want to tell you about it, says Chris Morrison.
"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."
tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part. So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.
President Trump isn’t ruling out cutting Elon Musk’s government contracts, saying it’s on the table—if it’s fair for both him and the country. t.me/GeneralMCNews/13751
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Professor Postol explains that the Golden Dome is a political idea with no technical value, designed to appeal to Trump's supporters by giving the impression that it would protect the US from nuclear threats.
A big worry is that the imbeciles in charge of the US might actually think these defenses work and act more recklessly in a crisis, which could lead to a world ending miscalculation.
MIT Professor and Pentagon advisor Ted Postol presents the dangers of Trump's Golden Dome.Follow me:Substack: https://glenndiesen.substack.com/X/Twitter: htt...
People also forget that a missile defense system is a first strike capability. It's not for protecting people's lives, it's for freeing the leadership from the constraints imposed by MAD.
Anyone who grew up during the Cold War should know this - it was openly discussed in the newspapers in the context of Reagan's similar proposal.
« La #gauche est devenue aussi mensongère et hypocrite que la #bourgeoisie parce qu’elle continue à proclamer sa vertu, la défense des pauvres. Elle continue à s’affirmer comme le représentant des classes misérables. Mais elle ment. Elle défend et soutient exclusivement ce qui peut la servir, ceux qui sont utilisables soit pour sa propagande, soit pour l’action directe. Elle utilise les pauvres exactement comme le capitalisme. Elle les exploite. Elle les fait marcher sans leur dévoiler ses vrais objectifs. Elle leur ment jour après jour. » « On n’avait pas en 1936 ou en 1945 le droit de dire que le communisme stalinien était une dictature sanguinaire et que les camps de concentration y étaient équivalents à ceux du nazisme. On n’a pas le droit aujourd’hui de dire que la Chine est une dictature de fer et que les camps de concentration y sont florissants. Chutt… cela servirait les ennemis de la révolution. La gauche est engagée jusqu’au cou dans le mensonge. Elle ne représente en rien les pauvres. Elle ne les défend en rien. Elle a substitué pour eux, à l’illusion religieuse du paradis céleste à venir, l’illusion politique du paradis terrestre à venir. La gauche est l’exact équivalent de l’Église bourgeoise du XIXe siècle, à l’égard des pauvres. Elle en présente les mêmes caractères et mérite le même mépris. Parmi les pauvres, exactement comme pour les bourgeois chrétiens du XIXe siècle, il y a les bons pauvres, ceux qui marchent dans la combine, ceux qui sont les bons moutons de la révolution, ceux dont la situation peut être exploitée comme facteur de propagande. Et puis les mauvais pauvres, ceux qui refusent, dans un régime communiste, de se trouver bien ceux qui se révoltent à tort et à travers simplement parce qu’ils sont malheureux et sans tenir compte des plans de la révolution mondiale, ceux qui représentent des valeurs et une culture traditionnelles. Tous ceux-là il faut simplement les réprimer, les refouler. » « Il est vrai que la gauche ne prétend plus le moins du monde être révolutionnaire. Elle a enterré la révolution, et s’apprête paisiblement à occuper le pouvoir pour continuer. Mais il faut aller plus loin. Non seulement elle n’est plus révolutionnaire, mais elle occupe maintenant un rôle tout à fait précis : sa fonction dans la société moderne est de bloquer la révolution. La gauche, des radicaux jusqu’au PC, PSU compris, a reçu délégation tacite du corps social entier pour que la révolution ne puisse pas avoir lieu. Les meilleurs gardiens de l’establishment ce sont les partis de gauche et les syndicats. Pensez donc, si ces partis arrivent au pouvoir ce ne peut être que grâce au jeu des institutions mêmes ! Comment ne les garderait-on pas avec le plus grand soin ? Bien entendu, je ne dis pas qu’il y a une connivence explicite, et une formulation claire de ce rôle. Les bourgeois font toujours semblant d’avoir très peur du PC. Mais combien il est rassurant, ce brave PC ! Il ne fait plus peur à personne, et la bourgeoisie sait très bien que l’on pourra dorénavant s’entendre avec lui. Il faut seulement avoir l’air d’avoir peur pour que l’idée de son opposition et de sa révolution soit « crédible », c’est-à-dire pour que les forces de révolte qui existent dans la société puissent être fixées, catalysées, bloquées sur le PC et de ce fait ne s’exercent pas en tant que forces de révolte, ailleurs, sur un autre point et de façon incontrôlable. La gauche est le grand paratonnerre anti-révolutionnaire. » Jacques #Ellul, Le naufrage de la gauche. #politique #pipolitique
Le PS a réformé massivement tout au long des années 1980, en faveur du capital : il a mis fin au contrôle des crédits et des taux d’intérêts et a déréglementé les marchés financiers. Il a légalisé les produits dérivés à l’origine de la crise de 2008. Il a soutenu le traité de Maastricht qui nous a fait perdre notre indépendance monétaire et nous a livrés pieds et poings liés aux emprunts auprès des marchés financiers. Et dans le même temps, il a désindexé les salaires des prix.
Failure, corruption and warmongering: Ursula von der Leyen is awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen for her contribution to the EU – because in Europe utter failure is not only tolerated, but celebrated! It is one of life’s guilty ple…
Kuiper et al. looked at the effectiveness of these approaches and found that only one, removal of the poacher’s reward through dehorning, significantly reduced rhinoceros loss.
At the re:publica internet conference, Federal Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger (CDU) took up the cudgels for greater digital sovereignty in Germany and Europe. He wants to make open standards and open source the "guiding principle", emphasized the former CEO of Ceconomy (MediaMarkt and Saturn) on Tuesday in Berlin.
All the discussions he has had in his four weeks in office "include precisely these topics". The urgency to become more independent of traditional software providers, cloud service providers and big tech companies from the USA is "greater than ever". However, it will not be possible to simply flip a switch here. Rather, it is possible to raise awareness for change.
According to Wildberger, German and European IT solutions offer the opportunity to create platforms and build technologies that are based on "our values". He specifically mentioned freedom, the rule of law, justice, openness, the social market economy and a functioning community. What is needed is a Germany stack, i.e. a uniform IT infrastructure with cloud and IT services that do not have to be built 20 times each. Every citizen should also receive a digital identity via the planned EU wallet (EUDI).
Currently, over 75 percent of European cloud data is "in the hands of US hyperscalers", the minister said, referring to the strength of AWS, Google, Microsoft & Co. "Why?" he asked the audience. This approach has no future; the German government is committed to European structures in the computer clouds. These are "part of a fair, open and innovation-driven competition". Sensitive payment data leaving the EU legal area
The former manager also believes there is an urgent need for alternative offers for digital payments "that are accepted and give citizens a more secure feeling". This requires a trustworthy infrastructure with the highest security standards. Currently, 80 percent of payment providers do not come from Europe, meaning that a lot of sensitive data leaves "our jurisdiction". However, he did not address the plans for a digital euro. With social media, it is also important to act in a decentralized manner and work with open interfaces to improve exchange.
Achieving a digital administration with functioning e-government is another "big issue" that Wildberger wants to tackle. Other countries are orchestrating this more centrally, but he does not yet have all the answers for a solution. He aims to set up a federal IT security center in close cooperation with the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) to create the basic requirements for digital services, for example. The country also needs an "economic push forward". The location must also be attractive for start-ups in the data economy and AI sectors. The state's task here is to create a free space for start-ups in which they can "build something themselves".
A new twin study published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that the sensory sensitivities often seen in autistic individuals may not be caused by autism itself. Instead, these sensory traits appear to be genetically linked to alexithymia—a condition characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing one’s own emotions. After accounting for alexithymia, the researchers found no remaining genetic association between autism and sensory symptoms. These findings challenge long-standing assumptions about the nature of autism and point to the possibility that some hallmark features attributed to the condition may instead arise from overlapping but distinct traits.
Extrait de notre entretien avec l'ancien lobbyiste de l'UE Frédéric Baldan, dans lequel il explique comment le cabinet de RP bien connu Hill & Knowlton a œuv...
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