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Putin Is Aging and Nobody Wants to Do Anything About It - The Moscow Times Opinion | For more than two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin has cultivated an image as a strong leader.

This is an important perspective. Putin increasingly looks like an old man, out of touch with reality, who lives in the past. This raises serious questions about his decision-making and his ability to grasp the consequences.

Some are more equal than others. Fair!

Non.

Le même parlement vote des budgets qui font que la grande majorité des universités sont dans le rouge et ensuite accroît leurs charges.

Also Wikipedia always had the frankness to explain how it works, whereas LLMs benefit from the aura of promises of AGI.

De-ICEing your town A local organizer explains how to get involved and protect immigrants near you.

So many of you wrote asking for a primer on how to push back against ICE's presence where you live! So this week's Tuesday post skips the usual history lesson. Instead, I talked to Oliver Merino of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, who offered a lot of specifics on how to take action near you.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

The order of science:

1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns

How witty

Berman: Was the President right about the polling?

Enten: No. If we are comparing him to other presidents at this point in their presidencies, he is the second lowest on record compared only to himself.

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

Ari Kouts @arikouts Thank you for answering honestly! Aug 3 Hamza @HowidyHamza Aug 3 Hi @arikouts, maybe because they were too busy being bombed, shelled, starved, and displaced, from their homes, schools, hospitals, and even so-called "safe zones." What do you expect from civilians trapped between an army that bombs everything that moves and an armed group that crushes dissent? And still-despite all of that-many DID protest Hamas. In the middle of war, under airstrikes, with no protection, mass starvation, people found the courage to defy them. Some were detained, others were threatened, some disappeared. That defiance came at a cost. Israel saw all of that, and kept bombing anyway.

Feindre l’échange « dépassionné » et « honnête ». Dans une perspective de désensibilisation. Ns détacher des affects à l’égard des Palestiniens comme si tt pouvait se dégoupiller autour d’un verre de rosé. Le propagandiste pro-dictatures Robert Fisk excelle ds cette posture sur le MO depuis 30 ans.

Pub BND Wir suchen Terroristen (m/w/d) Finde sie mit uns.

Excellente campagne de recrutement que celle du BND, le service de renseignement allemand, qui reprend cette formule classique des offres d'emploi : "Nous recherchons des terroristes (hommes, femmes, divers)"... et conclut d'un "Viens les chercher avec nous" !

🇩🇰Denmark, 🇳🇴Norway and 🇸🇪Sweden takes part in funding a 500m USD US weapons package for 🇺🇦Ukraine including Patriot missiles.
According to Danish Minister of Defence the Danish share will be 580m DKK (90m USD) and Denmark is ready to look into further funding.
www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2...

After all, it's the US who coined the word "gerrymandering". (True, the Brits coined "rotten boroughs".)

Une famille de loutres observée pour la première fois au Cap d’Agde Une famille de loutres a été filmée pour la première fois au cœur de la réserve naturelle du Bagnas entre le Cap d’Agde et Marseillan.

Une famille de loutres observée pour la première fois au Cap d’Agde

How interesting

The AI side of things may be overblown.

The question of Drone warfare, however, is a serious one. I'd recommend checking out @anderspucknielsen.dk work discussing this topic.

Now for Taiwan defence the situation is different than for the long trench-like warfare in Ukraine.

That’s the goal!

2019 – 2024 – Repeated denials and discovery stonewalling Through years of communications with the police, the plaintiffs and the court through the investigation and later the discovery process for the lawsuit, Tesla never mentioned that it had all the data that explained how Autopilot saw the crash, which everyone was seeking, sitting on its servers for years. The facts are: Tesla had the data on its servers within minutes of the crash When the police sought the data, Tesla redirected them toward other data When the police sought Tesla’s help in extracting it from the computer, Tesla falsely claimed it was “corrupted” Tesla invented an “auto-delete” feature that didn’t exist to try explain why it couldn’t originally find the data in the computer When the plaintiffs asked for the data, Tesla said that it didn’t exist Tesla only admitted to the existence of the data once presented with forensic evidence that it was created and transfered to its servers.

This whole story is insane. Tesla apparently did everything it could to avoid providing the data it had about its Autopilot crash. This is just a snippet and there's a lot more. electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

Vieille marotte des complotistes cette histoire de moteur à eau qui aurait été sabordé par le lobby pétrolier.

Payer la franchise au comptoir de la pharmacie, doubler les plafonds... Comment le gouvernement va rendre la santé plus chère pour économiser 700 millions d'euros. Article BFMTV.

700 millions d’euros ? Ce n'est même pas 0,6% de la fortune d'Arnault ! Bayrou va emmerder près de 70 millions de Français pour qu'une poignée d'oligarques continuent à vivre au-dessus de NOS moyens. En 30 ans, en France, on a multiplié par 9 le nombre de milliardaires et par 14 leur fortune !

YouTube video by The Consumer Behavior Lab Interview: Rory Sutherland, author of Alchemy, on why irrational ideas work

Excerpt taken from this interview on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngQe...

There’s also a large number of journalists on Bluesky who just don’t post much. I’ve been contacted multiple times by journalists who said, “You wrote on Twitter,” when they clearly meant something I had written here.

Meyer Habib : La décision est tombée! Benjamin @netanyahu a décidé de cesser toute négociation avec le Hamas . Il a décidé de le détruire définitivement!! La bande de Gaza va être totalement nettoyée de ces barbares djihadistes et terroristes . L’intégralité de la sécurité sera entre les mains de Tsahal! Les images en mondiovision diffusées par le Hamas , d’otages squelettiques en train de creuser leur tombe , ont sans doute été la goutte qui a fait déborder le vase!! Bonne chance à Tsahal ! Dieu est avec eux!

Meyer Habib se félicite du plan de nettoyage ethnique de Gaza, qui constitue un crime contre l'humanité.

Ça ne suscitera aucune indignation de la classe politique et médiatique

Il ne sera pas poursuivi pour apologie de crime contre l'humanité

On ne remettra pas en cause sa nationalité française

Since No One Else Seems to Care, Let’s Remember Epstein’s Survivors They've already told us everything we need to know...

Ghislaine Maxwell, who helped Jeffrey Epstein procure and sexually abuse young women, was transferred to a cushy minimum-security prison in Texas in the midst of Trump needing her support with the Epstein files.

We all know what's happening but shouldn't lose focus. www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...

Every weird nationalist who thinks the United Kingdom is an ethnostate should be forced to walk into a random pub in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland and informal all the patrons present that they're English and see what happens.

NYT pantsed by the Crimson

A+

Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back.

You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.

La catastrophe à bas bruit.

Pendant ce temps, en France, on se bat pour augmenter le trafic aérien low cost et repousser le développement de l’éolien aux calendes grecques.
#fatigue