Always funny to me that computers are 100% efficient turning electricity into heat. You’d think some of the energy goes into the math. Really the math is a useful byproduct Once we make silicon cheaper than wires, your toaster and dryer will do AI . Pass the butter I guess.

Iranian channels and commentators spent the entire evening hyping up tonight as a massive attack, and then launched less than a dozen ballistic missiles at Israel.

Embarrassing from the BBC (via secret account) bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg9…

WHAT KIND OF POLISH HOUSE ARE YOU - A THREAD 1. THE BLOK You're the everyman. Probably a little older. You got your job and your house from the state but insist that you're a self-made man. You probably have a mustache, vote PiS and drive a Skoda Fabia.

Lagarde asking for for more govt debt issuance 😂

why would anybody expect anything other than a lot of figures in the....comprehensive spending review?

What does Moscow think of the Israel-Iran war? I would say based on what has been written so far - there are mixed feelings. Here are a few points from a RIAC's Kortunov that sums it up nicely 1/5

April marked the 20th anniversary of the creation of the ODNI. What a way to mark it: having the DNI - who herself was patently unsuited to the job & should never have been confirmed - left out of a meeting in which intel judgments would or should have been absolutely crucial.

ANALYSIS: There is a LOT of stuff in the media right now about the Massive Ordinance Penetrator--The American bunker buster that might get used on Iran's deeply buried site at Fordow. Can it hit Fordow? I'm not sure. Here's why (WITH MATH). 🧵

House Prices 47% down in Chelsea (citing Land Registry). That’s a crash, not a slide. Two takeaways: 1. Localised house price collapses are already happening 2. “The rich” are the most affected, not the least. thenegotiator.co.uk/news/uk-housin…

"Refugee shd not be a murderer"

Hi I am famous Russian philosopher and this is my post

The military publishes footage showing the Israeli Air Force's 120th Squadron's aerial refueling activities during strikes in Iran. According to the IDF, more than 600 separate aerial refuelings were carried out over the skies of the Middle East, allowing dozens of IAF fighter

Clandestine mass grave found with 11 bodies in El Salvador. Authorities say it was used by MS-13 to hide bodies until 2022. This is just one of several mass graves periodically uncovered. As El Salvador’s murder rate went down, disappearances went up.

Reporting in El Faro indicates the Bukele government, in its pact with the gangs, encouraged them to hide bodies in order to bring down homicide rates. As Bukele’s negotiator with the gangs, a govt official sanctioned by the US, allegedly told a B18 leader, “no body, no crime.”

El Faro I wrote about the phenomenon of the mass graves back in 2022, prior to the State of Exception. There have been several. One was even found close to the president’s house. The issue of disappearances has only gotten worse. globalamericans.org/the-emerging-g…