Unbelievable A Russian submarine commander was assassinated on his run yesterday He was posting his workouts on Strava! One of the people who liked the posts, was the Chief of Intelligence of Ukraine

On Stepan Bandera, to try and do this succinct for those wondering: His section of the OUN, and subsequently, the UPA, engaged in ethnic cleansing of Poles and Jews in the Second World War. Even the Melnyk section of OUN collaborated with Nazi Germany. (1/5)

New post by me: The UK is much poorer than it ought to be – the US is nearly 40% more productive than we are. To get richer, we need to start thinking like a developing country and focus on getting the basics, like housing and energy, right. sambowman.co/p/britain-is-a…

Anyone who thinks Russia won't continue to weaponize grain if it succeeds in knocking Ukraine out of the global supply chain hasn't been paying attention. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Today is publication day for the first 4 papers resulting from a unique collaboration between Meta researchers and outside academics to study the political effects of Facebook and Instagram in the 2020 U.S. election! 🧵 1/N

New by me in today’s Sunday Times: Britain is being overtaken by Poland, Slovenia and South Korea, and left in the dust by America. If we want to grow again we need to let people build houses, energy supply, roads and railways. thetimes.co.uk/article/why-ha…

Do you use logistic regression? If so, you’ll want to read the thread below. ⚠️ Warning: Memes, charts, #rstats, and practical advice ahead.

Amazing. Son of the developer of Russian "Lantset" kamikaze drones lives in a 2-mil-dollar London apartment & works... wait for it... for UN Institute for disarmament research. Meet Lavrentiy Zakharov. #StandWithUkraine United Nations

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Go to Google Scholar and look up ‘As an AI language model” -“ChatGPT”’

Ok “free research idea“ - I just don’t have the time but it’s totally doable. One could measure the societal cost of female football vs male football matches with granular crime data. This could help inform how professional football may need to contribute to said costs. I am not

New: this is crazy. The top Google image search result for "tank man" right now is an AI-generated "selfie" of the man. Shows that as AI content becomes more and more widespread, the platforms we use to surface content don’t have a good way to identify it 404media.co/first-google-s…

New analysis from Crisis shows 40k long term empty homes could be brought back into use & be part of the short term solution to tackle #homelessness . A🧵on unlocking this potential

As I work on a project mapping changes in russian military infrastructure, I see a troubling trend — new factories, training sites, hospitals, bases, and supplies from NK and Iran. Yet, our allies seem unaware of the gravity of the issue. No, the problem will not resolve itself

GPT-4 can still blow my mind sometimes

"I started to get requests ... asking me to share how it felt to compete for attention with the Israel-Gaza war. I did not wish to partake in a competition of human suffering orchestrated by the media and exacerbated by our ever-shortening attention span." theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…

Western governments have a rather simple choice: They can base their defense policies on what Putin is doing on the ground in Ukraine, or they can base their defense policies on what Putin says to Tucker Carlson.

These conditions are in addition to forfeiting its right to defensive alliances and giving Russia an effective veto over domestic and foreign policy. Your regular reminder: Russia doesn’t need a ceasefire to stop fighting.

Let me translate this: 1. Russia is losing, though not as fast as needed 2. Sanctions are working, though not as well as they should 3. Unlike so many experts, Putin doesn't know that all wars end in negotiated compromises 4. It is up to us to speed up 1, fix 2 and internalize 3

No matter where you look in the EU, exports to Kyrgyzstan are booming. For example, Hungary's exports are up 1000%. How does the EU expect to be taken seriously as a global player if it keeps turning a blind eye to this? No short-term profit is worth the damage this is causing...