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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. ☕️

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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 9 days ago • 408 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 9 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

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

submitted 15 days ago • 131 comments

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

submitted 19 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 20 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 23 days ago • 272 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 29 days ago • 2 comments

This.

submitted 30 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 32 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

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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 66 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

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

submitted 54 days ago • 77 comments

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

submitted 54 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.

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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 57 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 64 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...

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

submitted 71 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 69 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 71 days ago • 104 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 73 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

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 82 days ago • 19 comments

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

submitted 84 days ago • 10 comments

newlinesmag.com/essays/syria...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

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 87 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 88 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 94 days ago • 12 comments

‚Kherson’s civilians have been, since midsummer, the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones.‘ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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I wrote a new article, this time exploring a bit how some games handle refraction. I discovered quite a few interesting tricks ! www.froyok.fr/blog/2024-12... #gamedev #rendering

submitted 96 days ago • 11 comments

Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance. Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

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“Thanks to AI, the electrical grid – in many places already near its capacity or prone to stability challenges – is experiencing more pressure than before... Data centers take one to two years to build, while adding new power to the grid requires over four year” theconversation.com/ai-superchar...

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

Hey internet. I’m making an engine and there is one area where I have little to no knowledge: Audio. My question is: is there some place I can get up to speed on the modern way of doing this ? (the gpu-driven mesh shader of audio if you will).

submitted 112 days ago • 9 comments