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Yakov Feygin

@buddyyakov.bsky.social

Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995

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Yes but it is still very funny.

04.03.2026 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m looking forward to the quirky documentary about this guy.

04.03.2026 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Bro is the first motherfucker to shoot down a single F-15 in action. And he shoots down three.

There may be an asterisk to this achievement.

04.03.2026 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 211    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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Kuwaiti Fighter Jet Mistakenly Shot Down American F-15s, Initial Reports Say A Kuwaiti F/A-18 fighter jet was the cause of the accidental shootdown of three American F-15s on Sunday, according to three people familiar with initial reports of the incident. One F/A-18 pilot laun...

holy fucking shit www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

04.03.2026 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 145    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 28

But only one is a NATOist egirl coded poster. But yeah….

04.03.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I used to not care and then I found out Kat is based and Russophobe pilled.

04.03.2026 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They both seem fine?

04.03.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Do I really have to care about the TX primary?

04.03.2026 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

They hit tankers in the area before.

04.03.2026 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It blew up off the coast of North Africa. It’s a Ukrainian op.

04.03.2026 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nepobaby discourse

04.03.2026 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah but that’s not their goal. It’s to make it incapable of being a state that can project conventional or semi conventional power at all. To the extent it doesn’t have an economy.

03.03.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure but that’ll be the price of doing business so to say.

03.03.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s pretty much the Israeli play that once everyone runs out of ammo and targets Iran turns into a perpetual target for lawn mowing.

03.03.2026 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

To add anyone pointing out how Ukraine decentralized its mnc isn’t taking into account that Russia doesn’t control the air and that Ukraine has a a huge supply chain.

03.03.2026 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Surely they would have contingency planned that one!

03.03.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/shoe...

03.03.2026 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The second tanker war (March 3, 2026-March 3, 2026)

03.03.2026 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 396    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

thankfully the US has learnt the lessons of the 1980s Tanker war and kept significant naval minesweeping capabili- oh

03.03.2026 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 212    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1

What if you are not normal?

03.03.2026 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Rubio was trying to cover your ass on this and you just blurt stuff out.

03.03.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really funny that studying guys who were doing a lot of linear algebra theory considered outdated in their field made this thing very legible.

03.03.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder who I learned that trick from ;)

03.03.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I find invoking the living both more useful and devious!

03.03.2026 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It doesn’t reduce them but it makes it easier to manage them because you essentially make what it hallucinates your control target. The whole point of it is to hallucinate. Your job is to precisely tell it what to hallucinate about!

03.03.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The better your axis the more it won’t interpolate fake things when looking for the eigenvector.

03.03.2026 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Think of it as a machine that encodes all things on an x y coordinate axis and tries to flip the matrix without sheering the space.

03.03.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It very instructive to how the thing itself works in that the less room you give it to interpolate the data set the better it gives you what you want.

03.03.2026 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I have told it to read specific articles and filings. Explain to it what pieces of those to be most cognizant of and then respond with the bias of the person who wrote those things to something I have said.

03.03.2026 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I trained it to be three versions of my worst critics during job talks I’ve given and I wonder if those would have gone better if I had a chance to spar right.

03.03.2026 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0