If you'd put in a movie that a) a Yale professor of history wd swallow Cadwalladr's Russia hoax then b) after Muller reported the Prof wd cling to the hoax by constructing a theory whereby *the FBI was itself controlled by FSB* & therefore suppressed evidence of 2016…

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I've said many times for many years, the political parties select for sexual deviants, incompetent narcissists, socioopaths. It's a feature not a bug. Problems in sw1 much worse even than they seem...
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Blog on RV Jones updated: Britain & Germany figured out how to spoof air defences but Goring ordered all documents destroyed & Britain delayed deployment for years - both delaying because of fears the other side wd turn the trick back on them - until a meeting in the Cabinet room…

per my blog on sex deviant MPs, even worse than numbers suggest dominiccummings.substack.com/p/snippets-4-a…

# scheduling workloads to run on humans

Some computational workloads in human organizations are best 'run on a CPU': take one single, highly competent person and assign them a task to complete in a single-threaded fashion, without synchronization. Usually the best fit when…

New episode! Our very first Conversations with Tyler guest, Peter Thiel, joins tylercowen for a deep dive into complexities of political theology.

In this clip, Peter sounds the alarm about Calvinism, rationalism, and other ideologies that can lead us to distrust our own agency to solve

Obrien, Snyder, all the most deluded charlatans jabbered like this at every turn - anybody who doesn't swallow Zelensky's bullshit & points out the obvious - like the counteroffensive was a shitshow - is a Putin propagandist.

But IR academia/think tank world is as rigorous as

'The counter-offensive is working.' 27/8/2023
Timothy Snyder

More narrative whiplash, coming thick & fast now as NATO's bullshit narratives collapse & they issue new NPC-lines-to-take
E.g
The war is weakening Russian army >> The war is strengthening Russian army
Stalemate >> Russia winning
Putin wasn't interested in a deal >> Putin…

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'The counter-offensive is working.' 27/8/2023
Timothy Snyder

Obrien, Snyder, all the most deluded charlatans jabbered like this at every turn - anybody who doesn't swallow Zelensky's bullshit & points out the obvious - like the counteroffensive was a shitshow - is a Putin propagandist.

But IR academia/think tank world is as rigorous as

4) Its also wrong. The Ukrainians dont believe the counteroffensive is failing. They believe that they have made the right choice (time will tell, but so far I think they are right). They seem frustrated that this is not understood.

Just sent out a midweek substack. Most of it is about the (impressive) Ukrainian attempt to regain control of the narrative about the counteroffensive--after all the undermining. Ukrainian efforts in this area seem to be increasingly successful. open.substack.com/pub/phillipspo…

Ukrainians are working hard to try and explain the counteroffensive to the world and best off the doom and groomers

After anonymous US DOD officials spent last week casting doubt on the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Gen Milley tries to put things in perspective. Ukrainians are through the first line of Russian defense. It’s taking time. amp.censor.net/en/news/343956…

The failing counteroffensive is now making notable progress….how can that be?