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Almost rare these days - a statement regarding Russia signed by all 27 EU member states, thus including Hungary. This explicitly names Russia as the aggressor regarding Poland, vows further support to Ukraine and declared full solidarity with Poland. I guess not even Orban dared block this.

i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History

confirmed dead by the president of the united states

The shooting of Charlie Kirk will have almost exclusively extremely negative consequences for American society in general, the stability of society in specific, and the safety of everyone living in it.

Because the euro is the #2 global reserve currency & 114.1% is a meaningless, arbitrary debt/GDP level that, while well above the long-ago-rendered meaningless 60% Maastricht threshold, poses no actual default or crisis risk for 🇫🇷. It’s all just political preferences about debt all the way down? 🤷‍♂️

France, Ifop poll:

Scenario: NFP (LEFT|G/EFA|S&D) parties run united

RN and allies-PfE: 33% (-2)
NFP-LEFT|G/EFA|S&D: 25% (+4)
Ensemble-RE: 15% (-3)
LR-EPP: 13% (+2)
...

+/- vs. 3-4 June 2025

Fieldwork: 29 August-1 September 2025
Sample size: 1,369

throw this one on the "AI is the devil" pile

chat is this good

I really need to shoot this out into the void (!!) but the first time I ever heard Mastodon was the beginning of something inexorable. I can't emphasis enough how much of a place this guy's art has in my heart and life even 15 years later. this a horrible loss. RIP to a legend

US and Russia ‘propose West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’ Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff is understood to support the idea, which can be revealed before the president meets Putin in Alaska on Friday

This will create some discourse

"Solar panels in China are cheaper than a same-size piece of window glass. You can use panels as siding and fencing as if it’s a building material that just happens to produce some electricity
The future is panels everywhere"-@dfeldman.org
Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...

riots by the weekend

If you don’t think this moment of symbolism is 100% deliberate, you haven’t been paying attention.

The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.

All on #July4th too.

Unless something dramatic happens in the interim, a birth certificate will no longer be sufficient to prove the citizenship of any child born in much of the United States after July 27.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

i don't think i'm going to be able to handle headlines like this from now until november

please just get us to the playoffs at least Lord Almighty have mercy on the Steelers

this would be the end of the central eurasian studies program, which was really a delightful place to be able to study, so many languages you couldn't study many other places, so much passion and specific and deep knowledge in the staff (and students) there

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.

congrats!

cold pizza, Cafe Bustelo instant. international crisis breakfast

hey this sucks!

Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

Happy D-Day to all of those that celebrate!

feels like the Army SSI monograph I read years ago in which the cause of moral corruption was system assigning more work than people could do, people lying about doing it, and system pretending to believe them

for a while I was jaded and thought this sort of stuff was ~cringe~ but now im fully on board, this rocks, we need this energy. someone photoshop Gen. Sherman onto Han Solo's body or something

well, that ain’t good