On this day in 1959, the Canadian government abruptly cancels the Avro Arrow program. All prototypes of the space-aged super-sonic interceptor are ordered destroyed. In Canadian aerospace circles, Feb. 20, 1959 will be remembered as "Black Friday" See: militaryhistorynow.com/2019/02/14/the…

Polio is here to stay. Cholera is here to stay. Smallpox is here to stay. Dysentery is here to stay. Tuberculosis is here to stay. Typhoid fever is here to stay. Look how easy it was to say, until we swept the excuses away.

With more than 100 million visitors welcomed last year, France remains the world’s top tourist destination. THANK YOU! Here’s how we welcome you:

Tides are shifting. Just heard from a client who will be paying me thousands of dollars to replace every scrap of the AI voice clones they previously paid for with a human voice, due to genAI pushback To companies: skip the AI in the first place. To everyone else: keep pushing.

Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ Social media trains people to think contrary to ancient wisdom

Yann LeCun just exposed AI’s fundamental flaw. We’re celebrating systems that can’t do what insects do effortlessly. LeCun: “The biggest difficulty is not to get fooled into thinking that a computer system is intelligent simply because it can manipulate language.” Language

NEW: The Kremlin continues cognitive warfare efforts to attempt to convince the West to abandon Ukraine by projecting the false narrative that Russian battlefield victory in Ukraine is inevitable and that Russian forces are making widespread battlefield gains. ⬇️ Russian Chief

The right doesn't get it. Canadians are done aspiring to be nothing more than a valet parking service for American elites. Those days are over. That it's happening while the US is being led by a pedo-enabling criminal psychopath is almost beside the point. It's permanent... 1/3

There is a reality that Europe must contend with. Russia is spending tens of BILLIONS of euros training CHILDREN to build and operate drones. Russia is not spending this money to fight Ukraine. If Europe doesn't start taking this threat seriously they are going to be fucked.

Rubio’s trip to Hungary and Slovakia went really well. Now both are blockading fuel and electricity supplies to Ukraine.

Say it with me: The “Board of Peace” isn’t ‘grift’ — it’s an assault on national sovereignty, the rule of law, and the UN.

Last night we took our reporting further, scooping that, per new filings late Friday, the Ambassador Bridge owner had, 3 weeks before his Lutnick meeting & the President's statement he'd block the new bridge, had donated $1 million to MAGA Inc PAC nytimes.com/2026/02/10/wor…

Tyler Pager Kenneth P. Vogel Ana Swanson Our scoop about the $1 million donation to MAGA Inc PAC is here! Accidentally linked the same story twice up-thread nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/…

He’s openly ignoring the Supreme Court ruling. On top of that, this pretty much blows up every tariff agreement he’s signed over the past year. Not entirely sure one can even tell at this point which tariff applies to what. No hope the Congress will impeach him. What now?

This is the same sentiment that Jamil Jivani is trying to weaponize with his Charlie Kirk-esque campus tours And it's why it's so despicable: he's exploiting disaffection and loneliness, and he's turning it into rage for political gain He's taking advantage of men who need help

This is some very thoughtful stuff from Ro Khanna . AI is the biggest economic, tech, social, and cultural issue, and more Democrats need to be talking about it.

In the 1920s there was radio mania focused mostly on one stock, RCA. The stock fell peak to trough about 98% during early 1930s, and yet radio’s growth never slowed for many more decades. Even if you predicted a half century of radio dominance, you would have lost money on RCA.

After all these years is coming together for me. MAGA is a psyop. Did these human potential movement things in the 70s and they will put you in a room and they would do sensory deprivation and you can leave the room and have all this traumatic experiences that you relive and

Military capability evolution always looks the same when accounting for the manufacturing process. The change is the step up. In the 20th century we had mass production of artillery shells. This century it will be precision missiles and small unmanned aerial vehicles.