My Charlemagne this week

What happens if Ukraine loses?

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The fact that after 84 days of occupation Sloviansk, the first city where armed hostilities began in Donbas, simply went back to being peacefully part of free Ukraine shows you that the entire conflict was manufactured from the outside. Not some local uprising.

Map from DeepState UA showing Russian advances over the past week west of Avdiivka. Russian forces captured Pervomaiske, advanced west of Tonenke, advanced in Berdychi, and advanced towards Novokalynove.
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In this week's issue Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר looks at the IDF's moral and military failures in Gaza: a flawed strategy, indiscriminate tactics that have caused wanton death and destruction, and a refusal to take responsibility for a dire humanitarian crisis. economist.com/middle-east-an…

At restaurant in Palo Alto, next table talking about not drinking caffeine first thing in the morning. How do I block and report people in real life? cc Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

USS Boxer Headed to San Diego for Repairs, Pacific Deployment Stalled - USNI News
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BREAKING: Harvard has reversed course and will require applicants to submit standardized tests scores in the next application cycle.

“For the Class of 2029 admissions cycle, Harvard will require submission of scores for the SAT or ACT. In exceptional cases in which applicants…

Christopher Clary Thomas González Roberts did a parametric analysis with flyout distances and the number of sats needed. You can start doing the math based on some of these numbers:
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Questa sera facciamo il punto sull'Ucraina a tutto tondo - supporto, stato del conflitto, eventi rilevanti ed altro. In diretta alle 21 con Mauro Gilli, Michele Boldrin, Costantino De Blasi 🇺🇦🇪🇺, Marco Bellandi Giuffrida 🇺🇦 e la nostra Redazione.
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China is engaged in a massive hacking campaign against US critical infrastructure
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'NVIDIA’s South Korean partner plans to invest $3.9 billion in Indiana, the latest win for Midwestern states seeking a piece of the US' semiconductor industry.' Follow CEPA's Transatlantic Tech Policy Tracker for more tech policy updates. #DigitalAlliance buff.ly/3LD3zd9

Intel's Gaudi 3 is coming to China: But what about AMD's MI300 and Nvidia's B100/B200?
Do AMD and Nvidia even plan PRC-specific products based on the latest architectures?
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Un'inchiesta di CNN conferma che la strage in cui 118 palestinesi sono stati uccisi e 700 feriti non è stata un incidente, ma un massacro compiuto dall'esercito israeliano contro civili affamati. Israele usa la fame come arma, un crimine contro l'umanità.

'Education is the best option to fight desinformation'

Today, Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins receives the Four Freedoms Award for freedom of speech from Roosevelt Foundation.

Interview in Dutch newspaper NRC, with Georgia Oost

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“Any [drone] becomes increasingly ineffective over time as the adversary refines its countermeasures. Ensuring that a UAV complex can continue to function effectively requires updates to software, behavioural logic, sensors & radios, every six to 12 weeks” rusi.org/explore-our-re…

Amazing, it actually happened. A decision to refuse the approval on the EU Council budget until Ukraine is given 7 Patriot system was supported by a large majority of 515 MEP's.

The approximate paths of Russian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, hypersonic missles and Iranian drones aimed at destroying the largest underground gas storage terminals in Europe this morning.

About 70 projectiles were sent.

Ukrainian air defense can no longer shoot down…

Ukraine's parliament has finally adopted a long-awaited and hotly debated new law on mobilisation as the country struggles to replenish its forces more than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion. But there are some key elements missing from it.

Isobel Koshiw has the details:…