Russia invaded Ukraine based on 4 assumptions; 1. His Army was invincible - It wasn't.2. The Ukrainians wouldn't fight - how wrong he was. 3. The International community would fragment - it didn't.4. Ukrainian people would welcome Russia - they didn't 1/6 His only hope is to now

Rt. Hon Ben Wallace I don’t think many commentators or even analysts realise how close Russias economy is to complete financial collapse - Not in the childish sense people say it about China every year, but in a real demographics & zero money / resources left in the kitty - IMF bailout sense

Rt. Hon Ben Wallace Putin's only hope once his initial offensive failed was for his American fifth column to seize power. That is exactly what has happened. Putin's American influence network orchestrated by Musk has put Putin's tools and allies into the White House. A new fascist axis has formed,

My message to Ukraine today.

Elika Sadeghi The idolatrous golden statues are sure to mollify the various parties affected

A fair summary. Bonfire of the Inanities.

🚨 Here's a thread about ALUMINIUM. Why this commonplace metal is actually pretty extraordinary. How the process of making it is a modern miracle... ... which also teaches you some profound lessons about the trade war being waged by Donald Trump. And why it might be doomed. 🧵

British Muslims generate at least £70 billion annually for the UK economy. Muslim-led businesses contribute billions of £s & create 1000s of jobs. The halal food industry generates over £1 billion in spending. Muslims contribute 4 times more than the average Brit, in charity.

Absolutely brilliant letter.

reading a book called the 1000 books you should read before you die and ironically it is not one of them

My latest weekend project: Recipe for a Waterbike. This is the first of a series of recordings. 18 minutes. open.substack.com/pub/mikehyperc…

To everyone cheering on Trump for ignoring court rulings: Imagine a future left-wing president declares a national emergency on gun violence, bans AR-15s, and signs an executive order instructing the ATF to confiscate semi-automatic rifles from gun stores. A federal court blocks

Aerial Odyssey open.substack.com/pub/mikespiral…

Aaron Rupar Donald J. Trump: You're calling a trade deficit based on oil and gas - a subsidy? You don't subsidize Canada. You buy from us. And no Canadian wants to join the chaos, racisim, the Christofascism, gun violence, misogyny and contempt for the rule of law we see south of the 49th

Aaron Rupar I can’t think of a better example to show why Canadians don’t want to be 51st state. Canadians would never want to be part of a country that could elect someone like Trump.

Truckers in the USA open.substack.com/pub/mikespiral…

Important article. Curious about Hinton, he was one of the inspirations behind my own 1995 neurosymbolic paper, The Semantic Network Programming Language: hypercube.co.uk/docs/snpe-intr…

Another one for the "should have been obvious" pile.

Professor Peter Arenella Thank you for this thread. Many of us in the U.S. have been screaming this for over a decade. Worse, during this most recent presidential run, no one wanted to listen to the part where we told them Vance is the real Trojan Horse. Bought, groomed and placed by Peter Thiel. Once he

LLMs are powerful and useful productivity tools—but not in the way they’re generally hyped around AGI and similar distractions. For example, one of my kids pointed out that, despite all the power #OPAL (OpenLink AI Layer) unleashes, there wasn’t a clear document (beyond