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Clausewitz is new to me. Mearsheimer's recently mentioned him, too.

Germany's deindustrializing, and it's going to be a cold winter. Their need for energy is so dire, they're considering all options, even environmentally questionable ones.

Can't have an effective inverted totalitarianism if they can't track us in every conceivable way

Businesses in states where it's legal would have access to banking

It's hard. The info we, in the west, get is filtered and propagandized. Here's a place to go for the military map. It may take a while to load. https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=9f04944a2fe84edab9da31750c2b15eb

Here's an online antifascist newspaper from Crimea. The authors are Russian speakers. If you don't like that, don't go there. https://antifashist.com/

Tass tells you what's going on from the Russian point of view. They publish a daily military briefing. Of course, it's filtered. Pravda's kind of like the NYPost. Don't bother, IMO.

There are online newspapers that specialize in who's selling what equipment, ammunition, etc., to whom. It's one way to have an inkling what's in store. "War is a racket," Major General Smedley Butler said, and if you haven't read his very short book by that name, I recommend it.

Comments are off. I'm sharing resources b/c they weren't all that easy to find. I sought them because it's clear my govt and MSM are misinforming us. That is all.

Someone deserted. Gov't sued. Judge says presidential decrees regarding the mobilization are illegal because conscription=forced labor=slavery. 35-page opinion included. (I'd like to see that point of view catch on internationally.)

The next available booster probably won't give much protection against the new variant, and the new variant is a champ at immune evasion.

From the abstract: "While we recognize that there is a vibrant community of earnest contributors building and contributing to ‘open’ AI efforts in the name of expanding access and insight, we also find that marketing around openness and investment in (somewhat) open AI systems is being leveraged by powerful companies to bolster their positions in the face of growing interest in AI regulation. And that some companies have moved to embrace ‘open’ AI as a mechanism to entrench dominance, using the rhetoric of ‘open’ AI to expand market power while investing in ‘open’ AI efforts in ways that allow them to set standards of development while benefiting from the free labor of open source contributors. "

The draft agreement, as it was being negotiated at the time, would give government agencies like the DOJ or the DOD the authority to:

• Examine TikTok’s U.S. facilities, records, equipment and servers with minimal or no notice,
• Block changes to the app’s U.S. terms of service, moderation policies and privacy policy,
• Veto the hiring of any executive involved in leading TikTok’s U.S. Data Security org,
• Order TikTok and ByteDance to pay for and subject themselves to various audits, assessments and other reports on the security of TikTok’s U.S. functions, and,
• In some circumstances, require ByteDance to temporarily stop TikTok from functioning in the United States.

Says he won't divulge secrets to program's cost-effectiveness

At least 10 people died in the crash of a Wagner-linked private plane outside Moscow, according to Russia’s emergency services. Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who led a failed mutiny in June, was on the plane’s manifest, according to state-run outlet RIA, citing the country’s aviation authority.

Prigozhin had largely disappeared from the public eye after leading the short-lived rebellion, which saw his mercenary fighters briefly occupy a military headquarters in southern Russia and march on the capital, shocking President Vladimir Putin and the country’s military leadership. Under a deal brokered with Putin by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin agreed to call off the mutiny in exchange for pardons and the ability to relocate his fighters to Belarus.

Since then, Prigozhin has been spotted in his hometown of St. Petersburg attending a Russia-Africa summit, and in a blurry video shot in near-darkness that purported to show him instructing his troops in Belarus on how to conduct themselves on their new base in exile.

On Monday, Wagner accounts posted Prigozhin’s first video address since the mutiny, where he indicated that he would be refocusing his efforts on Africa.

Musk’s attitude is “like Louis XIV: ‘L’état, c’est moi.’ ”

2 new papers. 80 different sequelae. 10 organ systems. Eric Topol breaks it down. (2 eds getting picture to appear)

You buy a DNA test and opt out of sharing results with police. 2 private companies share it anyway.

US govt has along history of ginning up public support of wars. Ukraine does this directly. This has been the only war I know of where one of the combatants has broadcast strategy to the world.

People creating local alternatives to an economy that requires perpetual wars

When you can't trust MSM or the CDC, Twitter's been a good place to follow independent journalists and scientists. I'm going to miss it.