I present exhibit A

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias-turn-to-its-asian-past-1530889247

I very much underestimated how irrational the west would be here. At this point I’m not going to be surprised if Europe joins the war directly and we end up in a nuclear holocaust.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPleasant/comments/1tuprtn/june_1_2026_vinnytsia_ukraine/

the circumstance is that Ukraine is an openly fascist state

calling people tankies is a well established method for low intellect individuals to identify each other online

look the fact that Gulf energy exports collapsed is really horrible for the Russian economy ok, it’s just economics 101

meanwhile in Ukraine

It’s pretty funny how people guzzle propaganda while a report from the European Commission just raised the Russian GDP growth forecast for 2026 to 1.3% and lowered the EU economic growth forecast to 1.1%.

it’s honestly jaw dropping

companies hooking up LLMs to their internal data and having them publicly exposed has to be the most hilarious thing ever

you could probably do a whole PhD thesis on the cultures developing around different instances in the fediverse :)

hey now that’s not fair, sometimes it’s a piefed account

it is pretty snappy

please DM me the drugs you are on

people treating memes like a treatise to be debated has to be my favorite trope

I was gonna say, it was a neat concept, but he didn’t really spend the time to make it convincing or explain the mechanism for how life would evolve to be like that. It’s like he just had this idea that life could be more modular, but didn’t bother fleshing it out past that. I actually enjoyed Shroud a lot more, I feel like he put more work into making it plausible. Can recommend if you missed it.

For non fiction I’m reading The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle, and can highly recommend. Short, thought provocative, and engaging. For fiction, Children of Strife is great, latest instalment in Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series which I really enjoyed overall.

Given the history of what the US military personnel has done in places like Iraq, a chance to shoot women and children is literally why they sign up. What they’re really worried about is that somebody might actually fight back like they do in Iran.

Get ready for 10 bucks a gallon, also this will mean that costs of all the goods will go up because delivery costs and energy bills will be higher, which companies will pass on to the consumer.

It can be since it’s more socially acceptable, and then people start engaging with new ideas which can lead them towards more rigorous analysis.

Actually, I grew up in USSR and frankly, I was shocked when I saw at how much worse the propaganda in the west. Most people in USSR understood there was domestic propaganda and were able to think critically about it. Meanwhile, Westerners gobble their propaganda up completely uncritically, and many don’t even realize they have domestic propaganda.