Andrew Parsons should be forced to resign for this morally obtuse statement. He should probably be investigated for corrupt links to the russian state. The russian team he allowed to compete includes a frigging shooter and someone who served in the division that occupied Kyiv region (i.e. Bucha)!
Wait for them to calm down -> They're not calming down
US strategic analysis of Iran:
Yeah, i know first episode is what it is (spoilers) but...
In the fifth year of Russiaβs full-scale war against Ukraine, the Russian pavilion is set to return to the Venice Art Biennale with a βmusical festival come to lifeβ that serves as βa space for dialogue and exchange.β
Michelangelo's fantastic Entombment, an early work from ca. 1500. Always love this painting's total sense of unreality, & strong grace. Today is Michelangelo's day.
This is a weird piece: a decent summary of the apparent shenanigans around these artifacts, which might or might not be ancient, but the images with it are teethgrittingly annoying. Instead of pics of the people in the piece - and there are a good few - and of the codices themselves ...
Video showing bombings in west of Tehran. The white tower you see to the lower right is Tehranβs iconic Shahyad/Azadi tower, a symbol of the city since 1970βs, designed by Hossein Amanat, the elder brother of Yale historian, Abbas Amanat.
Very good thread. Scroll up.
The equation between protecting lives in βthe East-European buffer zoneβ and annihilating them in the Middle Eastern kill zone certainly makes some Western values explicit, including the context into which several of the βalliesβ immediately offered to send their armies to βhelp.β Message received.
This lady from the Philippines died because she was left outside of a shelter by the family she was worked for as a caregiver.
I see a lot of these stories about migrant workers being denied entry to shelters in Israel. Often without detail, and almost always false. In the case of Marie Anne De Vera, it's a blatant and horrible lie
What actually happened to the Bohemian Germans who enthusiastically cheered on the arrival of the Nazis, and who now had dramatically less rights and freedoms than they had just the week before as part of Czechoslovakia, shows the usual thread of what *really* happens when the far right takes power.
As a result of Gorelickβs actions, Kushner gained classified intelligence that he likely shared with or sold to foreign states, including Saudi Arabia, from which he pocketed two billion dollars, and Israel, to which he has been tied since birth due to his familyβs long friendship with the Netanyahu family, to the point that Benjamin Netanyahu slept in Jaredβs bed when visiting the United States. Garland has refused to investigate Kushner. A likely reason is that, were he to investigate Kushner β who remains a profound national security threat β he would also be investigating his best friend. It is one big club, and it is destroying our country.
From 2023, on Garland, Kushner, and more.
You need to grasp that the people who defended Garland and the DOJ did so to protect Epstein and his broader syndicate. That's why they were so vicious and obsessive about defending the DOJ during the Biden years:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
You'd be hard pressed to find a more comprehensive and well researched explanation of the fuckery that led to this point in the timeline. Mind blowing, fascinating, horrifying.
Low resolution image of Pikachu from PokΓ©mon facing to the right with wide eyes
Low resolution image of Pikachu from PokΓ©mon sitting on a bench
Low resolution image of Pikachu from PokΓ©mon sitting on grass with one ear pinned back
Low resolution image of Pikachu from PokΓ©mon looking towards the sky
Thinking about low res pikachu.
this meme format will never get old
π΄ Russia struck Kharkiv with missiles, collapsing part of a five-story residential building. Six people were killed, including a 13-year-old girl, and ten others were injured.
Rescue teams are still searching the rubble for possible survivors.
The shame. Russia's flag was paraded around the colosseum in Verona at the opening ceremony of the Paralympics.
Organisers are even happy for combatants in the illegal war on Ukraine to take part they said, claiming many nations have athletes training with military clubs.
OPENLY attempting to cause a MAJOR catastrophe because the world has completely reneged on their obligation to protect international law and thwart russian aggression
Around 1/4 of people in Lebanon are currently under Israeli evacuation orders. Jeremy Ristord, our head of mission, describes how 400,000 people, in an area the size of Manhattan, had one hour to flee. The resulting chaos means people are sleeping in cars, and are in need of water and essentials.
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."
what the fuck are we doing
www.wsj.com/business/med...
This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.
So a lot of the hype around LLMs and a lot of the userbase just fundamentally misunderstands what the technology is and what itβs capable of, instead treating it like a mythical supernatural or religious being. The industry openly encourages this delusion for profit
The thing is, a lot of LLM users actually think itβs capable of God-like intelligence, and thatβs clear from the ways they interact with it publicly
I love watching people use LLMs in public. Theyβll reply to a breaking news article and say β@grok is this true?β Babe where do you think itβs about to pull its answer from
Researching slurs for Hungarians
You probably know by now that the war in the Middle East has caused a spike in the price of oil. But it's also set to hit food prices in the supermarket, as Elena Casas explains
Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.
This is European culture. Almost literally nothing else is, but this is. Not following written guidance to the letter is a disgusting Americanism.
Eurosceptics and *spits* Americans find so much time to whine about them but I find something so adorably characteristic of this continent that no, there will in fact be rules on what font the expiration date on the packaging of your product has to use.
