In the end, it is not weapons that decide a war (it turns out good engineers can nowadays develop them relatively quickly). It is also not how many people you have in your military (weapons are way more important). The most important thing in deciding a war is if you can endure it economically.
If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
In a few years from now, you might. That is what I hope. Battery prices are dropping very fast.
Ah, sorry to hear that. As a society, we should have switched to electric 10 years ago. It was all doable. But oil interests prevented it. If you want to understand what is happening in the world, start looking through the lens of oil.
Consider going all electric. Many already have.
Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Ik heb op @minister-president.bsky.social gestemd. Maar ik ben zeer teleurgesteld dat dit kabinet de aanval op Iran niet onomwonden veroordeelt als in strijd met het internationaal recht. Zo'n veroordeling is niet in strijd met het tonen van opluchting over het verdwijnen van Iraanse kopstukken.
for comparison: "sometimes I wonder if the people who insist God does not exist really just overestimate how much we actually know about the nature of God."
Trump is afraid his deal with Putin will be exposed. The deal is that Putin betrays Iran in return for Trump betraying Ukraine. But both betrayals need to be hidden, which is why Russia shares intelligence with Iran. Therefore, de facto, Trump is also betraying his own military.
This apparent contradiction is what everyone should be focused on. There is a possible explanation. And it is bad. Trump and Putin made a deal at the expense of both Ukraine and Iran. Actually, I see no other explanation.
Indeed. My friends from 'the global South' make no distinction between America and Trump. For them, Trump just shows the true face of the West. And they are not entirely wrong. After all, Trump was elected. He represents what the US *is* until the people of the US throw him out.
do not want to use it, and refuse to experiment with it. And those who claim AI has several fundamental limitations (they do not act for reasons, they have no intentions, they are not agents, have no responsibility, etc.), are actually happy to embrace it.
After many different interactions with colleagues in philosophy and computer science on AI, I see a, maybe, not so surprising pattern. Those who are optimistic about ascribing all kinds of agentic properties to AI (they are genuinely intelligent, have reasons, can be ethical, etc.) dislike AI,
Zelenskyy should reconsider sharing expertise on how to deal with Shaheds with the US.
I would not give this expertise to the US for free. Not after how the US treated Zelenskyy under Trump.
Indeed. And I have somewhat shifted my mind on this. 10 years ago I applauded Musk for what no democratic government was able to do (making electric cars usable and affordable). But I did not foresee how it would make him extremely powerful and that he would become a political extremist.
Make no mistake: this is the consequence of not having immediately helped Ukraine out of fear for Russia's nuclear capabilities. We should have stopped Russia right away. Of course every sovereign country now comes to the conclusion that they do not want to share Ukraine's experience.
Mental gymnastics.
The insanity is in the fact that Trump meant it as a boast. He is bragging about having killed more people than expected, even though those people might be more acceptable as Iranian leaders.
One thing I really appreciate is that Claude is more honest in its self-knowledge (it says it is uncertain about some of its capacities, while ChatGPT can be full of hubris).
This weekend I switched from #OpenAi to #Anthropic (that is: from ChatGPT to Claude). ChatGPT was good. My first impression of Claude is not bad. My impression is that its knowledge is comparable to that of ChatGPT. But its tone, and the way it suggests follow-up steps, is different.
TU Delft Campus makes switch to geothermal energy www.tudelft.nl/en/2026/tu-d...
As a result, CO₂ emissions from building heating will decrease significantly, with reductions expected to reach approximately 80% by 2027.
Ik ben afgekickt van social media (lees: Twitter/X). Ik zal ook hier niet vaak zijn. Althans, dat is mijn voornemen.
We gaan daar toch niet voetballen? Ondenkbaar. actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...
Obama: So we have to extend to people during their period of mourning
We can also at the same time say I disagree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake
I can disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power.
Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists
But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.
Witkoff's repeating of Kremlin lies about "russian-speakers" wanting to "join Russia" is truly chilling. This is nothing less than carte blanche for Putin's genocidal imperialism. Hearing Americans talk like this should be an electric shock for Europe, not a wakeup call.
🔵🔼 During the battles for Sudzha on the Kursk region, the Russians used blue tape, disguising themselves as Ukrainian soldiers.
❗️This is how stories about “atrocities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces” appear.
