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“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

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We must fight for democracy. We cannot take it for granted. Democracy is never a given, it is always a choice. We have to choose it every day. My speech LIVE at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit → europa.eu/!99jj3n

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

DAS 👇 „Demokratie hält, weil die Ukrainische Infanterie hält!“ 🫡

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

They are back. And with a fantastic title.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

CEPA is thrilled to welcome Fabian Hoffman as a Fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security program! Fabian’s expertise focuses on missile technology, nuclear strategy, and defense policy. Welcome, Fabian! cepa.org/author/fabia...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Not just morally wrong but terrible negotiating strategy — senseless and nihilistic.

submitted 35 days ago • 81 comments

You can try the Microsoft just released a Quake 2 demo that runs on genAI. It forgets where you are you each time you look at the floor and soft-locks when it's to dark. A technological marvel. You can try the "Copilot Gaming Experience" here: copilot.microsoft.com/wham

submitted 44 days ago • 88 comments

If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.

submitted 58 days ago • 354 comments

PSA: If you think your Vulkan synchronization code is solid, may I introduce you to syncval_shader_accesses_heuristic? syncval layer, even if enabled, will not flag some hazards due to lack of precise information about resource access. The heuristic tracks static resource access in shader.

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

It's the stupid, economy.

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What can Europe do to help Ukraine militarily if US military aid and support were to cease? What should Europe’s priorities be? Here are a few quick thoughts from this morning after my first cup of tea. ☕️

submitted 79 days ago • 9 comments

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

submitted 80 days ago • 397 comments

Look, if you're an EU citizen appalled by Trump admin's ouvert fascism, Putin-simping, and antagonism toward Europe, it is now time to act. I know it's not very well communicated to you, but each of you has MEPs that represent you. Call them. Write an email. www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

Please enjoy this Hungarian rap song about a prime minister who loves money. English subtitles youtu.be/f2iQfEcO39A?...

submitted 81 days ago • 20 comments

Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 86 days ago • 136 comments

Talking about freedom in Kyiv with the great Volodymyr Yermolenko earlier this month youtu.be/8IpyP1PbubM

submitted 90 days ago • 9 comments

OMG. Another Russian reset😳- this is one of those foreign policy things that seems to be like herpes. Or hemorrhoids. It just never goes away. No matter how many times u treat it.

submitted 91 days ago • 9 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 94 days ago • 262 comments

Hi all, I sent out my latest newsletter post this morning, discussing the state and viability of Russia's nuclear deterrent in 2025. You can access the post via this link: missilematters.substack.com/p/the-state-... Below a short summary. 1/5

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

This.

submitted 102 days ago • 5 comments

Chaos of new admin=reaching Peak of Mount Stupid. “The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that describes the tendency for people to overestimate their knowledge in a specific area. It's observed in people with the least skill, who lack the ability to judge their own skills.”

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments

Zelenskyj mit einem kraftvollen Video zum 80-Jahr Gedenken an den Holocaust. „80 Jahre seit der Befreiung von Auschwitz sind eine lange Zeit. Es hat sich viel verändert. Aber was sich nicht ändern wird, ist unsere Erinnerung daran, wie dieser Krieg begann, wer schuldig ist und wer getötet hat. /2

submitted 112 days ago • 4 comments

this post gives a nice recipe for controllable light attenuation (so it gets 0 intensity at given distance). it's for spherical lights, but adapts well to point lights as well, just throw out the radius term. imdoingitwrong.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/i...

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

Martin Pollack 1944-2025. A friend, a guide, an example. One of the great Austrian writers of the last half century, a conceptualiser of the moral heritage of WWII, a human link to eastern Europe & populariser of Polish and Ukrainian literature. It might be a time to read his Dead Man in the Bunker

submitted 123 days ago • 39 comments

"Pete Hegseth: The Short Course – 13 Steps to National Destruction" snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

submitted 126 days ago • 77 comments

Nach 11 Jahren immer noch up to date youtu.be/deiEIzimzIc?...

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

ein Ehepaar aus der Ukraine, beide über 80 Jahre alt, sie mussten flüchten, weil ihr Haus zerstört wurde, lebt in Österreich von der Grundversorgung. Sie bekommen beide eine Pension von ca. 220,- Euro und haben das dem Magistrat nicht gemeldet.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

Hi all, I published my latest newsletter post this morning, focusing on how we can calculate nuclear risks. It’s a bit more academic, but if you were to choose just one of my posts to read that I have published so far, I’d say it should be this one. missilematters.substack.com/p/nuclear-st... 1/2

submitted 128 days ago • 9 comments

Drew this quick artwork for the cover of my next video, about Dazzle Camouflage. Inspired by the art deco paintings of c1918. Not a perfect drawing, but nice to draw something a bit different. Drawn by a human, for humans. #Art

submitted 135 days ago • 33 comments

By request, a small follow up to my previous blog on DRS, this time covering PC specific difficulities. Interestingly due to the platform rather than the hardware. martinfullerblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/d...

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

“maybe I’ll do some writing between christmas and new year” Between christmas and new year:

submitted 142 days ago • 9 comments

Donald Trump’s foreign and defense policy ideas going into 2025 seem, in part, to resemble those of Republican Senator Robert Taft during the 1952 Republican primary. Let me briefly explain.

submitted 140 days ago • 2 comments

The Mump Oligarchy – A Glossary 1/10. Mump regime. Musk plus Trump. Mu...mp. The real centibillionaire and the fake rich person in the proper order.

submitted 142 days ago • 102 comments

Gesichter der Infanteristen des 2. Mech Bat der 100. Mech Brigade der ZSU Einfach anschauen und daran denken, dass keiner von ihnen vermutlich Infanterist werden wollte, sondern von Russland dazu „gezwungen“ wurde, um die Freiheit der Ukraine zu verteidigen. 😔 /2

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

gpu texture compression primer www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H-H...

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There is a war taking place off the battlefield. Russia’s war of disinformation. Extract from my intervention in #EPlenary on Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine.

submitted 154 days ago • 19 comments

Tag 1‘026 geht zu Ende. Und damit wünsche ich euch eine gute Nacht. 😴

submitted 156 days ago • 10 comments

newlinesmag.com/essays/syria...

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Tomorrow (Saturday, Dec 14) at 11 AM PST we will work on improving shadows further by optimizing them and implementing support for transparent objects! youtube.com/live/233jxF7...

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

This is significant: Austria is officially terminating its gas contract with Gazprom.

submitted 160 days ago • 16 comments

In our next Tiny Glade update we'll bump the light limit from 32 to 32k while keeping the cost more or less the same. The small limit has been a cop out, as we didn't quite know how to render huge numbers of (screen-space) shadow-casting lights without severe performance degradation.

submitted 166 days ago • 12 comments