In a major move, France will deploy soldiers and air defense systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect Yanbu’s critical oil-export facilities from Houthi attacks -French President Macron Macron did not rule out an additional French Air Force fighter deployment as well.

Chinese elite universities are powerful in their own right and are running out of Chinese students. 2010: Rich Chinese kids propping up third tier American universities. 2030: Rich White kids propping up fourth tier Chinese universities.

"Today...we are offered instant knowledge and expertise on any subject, which is often forgotten as quickly as it is absorbed...at the slightest twinge of boredom, we can access limitless distractions and forms of entertainment" a.co/d/01YAo8CM

One of the most striking things to me about the Jensen Huang interviews is he simply does not believe in superintelligence. Everything else falls into place once you understand this one fact. He's not worried about job loss, nor is he worried about loss of human control because he does not believe AI will ever be better than humans.

When I read books by past generations I am always fascinated by how they build and own houses of their own, even without successfully selling tech startups

The British state says we don’t have money to fund national defence. But in the last week we learned it found £12 billion for welfare for foreigners, £665 million for Angola & now £88 million for Gaza. There’s a magic money tree. It just doesn’t involve the British people.

Larry Ellison when he needs to pay for a data center lease

Many are saying this.

Films used to have fewer and less extreme swear words in them until Hollywood abandoned the Hays Code in 1968. Thereafter, "damn" was swiftly replaced:

jane street interns get paid the annualised equivalent of $300,000, roughly $25,000 a month. this year the firm threw out the project it used to give them, because the whole four weeks of work is now a single prompt: "the precipitating motivation was, wow, ai tools are really good now. the four week project we used to have interns start off by doing, that's one prompt and you're done." "so that's not a useful way to evaluate an intern, or productive work to ask an intern to do." "just producing the code used to be maybe among the most important signals, and it's less important now."

Warsaw has figured out the Infinite American Bases Glitch. "Fuck. Colby is trying to feed us to the Russians again." "Rename the American base "Fort Trump." "What? That's so stu---. Huh. Donald just asked if we want another one."

This is the level of denial within the @FBI. Proof has literally been sent to various media organizations and personalities, but they are "investigating." People wonder why no one believes or trusts the FBI and their statements, exhibit below. This is the "institution" that in the past week has claimed to have stopped over 1,000 terror plots, and arrested hundreds of cyber-criminals. @SurvivalReport @JJCarrell14 @mikeaglover1

Maybe this makes me corny, but I think that optimizing your looks should never go so far that you don't look like yourself anymore. cartoonshateher.com/p/being-…

The chattering classes love saying this now

In America, Mandate of Heaven is based on blended price of groceries and gasoline.

Here’s the rub: ShinyHunters’ motivation is $$$, not state level espionage. If a criminal gang can get this level of detail from the FBI, what has a dedicated state level team from Russia/China/North Korea breached that we don’t know about yet?

Ed did some homework

This is where the Arabs were ahead of us By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations

A reminder to those East Germans with minds now successfully pickled in Putin's propaganda, voting AFD and longing for the days of GDR.. Things were so great in GDR that East Germans regularly attempted escape by swimming across the river, under machine gun fire, with many dead or captured.