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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 11, 2025

Counter-Drone Weapons Diverted From Ukraine To Middle East Amid Rising Tensions Hegseth Confirms

U.S. Embassies Evacuating Non-Essential Staff in Middle East Over Escalating Iran Tensions
California Pumped Tens of Millions into Immigration NGO’s that Fight Deportation, Track ICE and more…

Supreme Court Narrows the Scope of Environmental Reviews

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 10, 2025

Israel Conducts First Naval Strike Against Houthi Terrorists, Hits Yemen Port Linked to Iranian Weapons Shipment

Growing Fears of Massive Strikes On Iran As Nuclear Negotiations Sputter

Will China Force a Rethink of Biological Warfare?

Not really all that new of a point. I can remember the Economist talking about how many European armies were more like make work programs then serious militaries. Europe’s zombie armies. Or how to spend $3.1 trillion and have precious little to show for it.

No Group Has Flipped Harder Right on Immigration Than Legal Immigrants

IBM now describing its first error-resistant quantum compute system

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 6, 2025

Russia Executes Revenge Strikes Against Ukraine For Blowing Up Its Bombers

Ukrainians hired by Russia carrying out campaign of attacks behind the lines

Is Netanyahu’s government on the brink of collapse?

After the Deluge: An Uneasy Pause in the Trump–Musk Standoff

It was always clear that multiple invention wasn’t that uncommon, given the number of well-known multiples. But I was still surprised that over 50% of inventions in the time period looked at had some type of multiple effort to create, and that nearly 40% weren’t simply someone having the idea or working on the problem, but successes or near-successes.

Not All Sugars Are Equal

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 5, 2025

Bean-counting

24-country survey: Support for Israel strongest in Kenya and Nigeria, lowest in Turkey

The analysis indicates that the U.S. will dip below the industry-recommended 20% reserve margin this year, with national effective spare capacity projected to decline to an alarming 14% by 2027. Once this margin drops below 15%, the risk of grid reliability issues soars.

The Trump-Musk bromance devolves into a chaotic public breakup

NYC Air Quality Alert Triggered by Smoke from Canadian Wildfires

Dwarkesh on slow AI take-off