We can't have Russian citizens enjoying the freedoms of European life while the Kremlin continues its missile attacks against Ukrainian families and cities. Together with Sweden, we call on the Commission and Member States to uphold a stricter visa policy for Russian applicants.
TLDR:
1. Declare AI too dangerous for ordinary competition so you propose a regulatory regime where only the largest incumbents can survive
2. Warn about labor displacement while selling the product to executives as a labor-displacement tool
3. Warn about state overreach while asking the state to license and gatekeep frontier models
4. Warn about corporate power while sketching a corporate-state cartel over compute, release, security, export controls, and deployment
I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently; all women my age, progressive, and employed at mainstream institutions. I don't know them. Yet in every case, I can intuit their origin story.
It goes something like this:
> be an older millennial female, no strong passion, but strive hard in school
> reach High School
> steer clear of the kids who like talking about “far out” philosophical issues
> also steer clear of student government and debate club, which seems too contentious and vaguely threatening
> focus on getting perfect marks, complying with college reqs. Get into top uni based on those marks
> get introduced to politics in freshmen social justice class, instantly floored
> the appeal of college politics is just how cut-and-dried it is. Unlike other fields, it has a clear “good” and “bad” side, no ambiguity. The “good” side always wins in classroom discussions, you feel like a hero for validating consensus with "The Conversation"
> politics becomes your religion, “this is my passion!”
> graduate with top marks and recs. Your degree is essentially in “Current Thing-ism”. Have no broad understanding of history or philosophy.
> Your concept of human events is just people being oppressed for 4000 years until feminism and progress happened in the 20th c.
> despite the Global Financial Crisis, immediately get hired by a government/media org because they want someone who “understands the role of female politics in our new digital era!”
> most of your colleagues share your perspective, the ones who don't are older guys on their way to retirement, not looking for the confrontation that disagreeing with you would certainly involve.
> great awokening happens, double down on Current-Thingism politics
> organe-man-bad and COVID happens, triple down on politics.
> you are 15 years deep in your career, you have never once genuinely engaged with a peer who didn't validate your worldview or who you didn't consider a "token" opposition to placade your political enemies
> vibe shift happens, establishment uncertain, time to have a "conversation" with the people you've considered deplorable
> have conversation, hear non-progressive opinion that is common in the modern world, historically ubiquitous
> react with schock, umbrage horror. "Can you even believe this is happening?"
> confident that non-progressive opinion is trivially easy to refute, somehow have no idea how to actually refute it
> unaware just how deeply you have been betrayed by your education, such that the average educated man on the street has more practical understanding of what politics is than you do with decades of "experience."
BREAKING🚨 President Trump stuns America by announcing the construction of “two brand new, very large battleships... They'll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100x more powerful than any battleship ever built”
LET’S FREAKING GO 🔥
Kilmeade: Where do you stand on the Dignity Act?
Stephen Miller: "You know that this administration opposes amnesty… but I want to reframe this whole conversation… We want to have high-value migration, not low-value migration."
"This old Washington conversation about amnesty is missing the whole point—the real conversation is how do we have an immigration policy that makes America stronger and more unified, not weaker and more divided."
We need to be stronger to "win all these civilizational struggles against [our] adversaries around the world," Miller says, seemingly alluding to the war with Iran.
Note,
• Miller doesn't say explicitly the White House is against the bill.
• Press Sec. Leavitt was asked about it earlier this week and didn't give a position either.
• Kilmeade said a week ago that it was Trump himself who told him he wants an amnesty in the form of "long-term work visas."
• Trump's insistence on giving amnesty to illegal immigrant farm and hotel workers fits into Miller's "reframing."
4 years being subverted by a political dynasty and its bureaucratic infrastructure /security service managers. Perused criminally, although specious it was a signal. Now running rugpulls, laundering billions for family and friends and destroying global energy production!
.@POTUS: "At 10a tomorrow, we have a blockade going into effect — that'll be 10a tomorrow. Other nations are working, so that Iran will not be able to sell oil and that will be very effective."
"Were winning, the regime's navy, air force, and leadership have been demolished." "Our european partners will pay for their insubordination." "The war is already over." "Iran is begging to negotiate" "We negotiate with bombs"
Just got this from Planet Labs:
Dear Tyler Rogoway,
Due to the conflict in the Middle East, the U.S. government has requested all satellite imagery providers voluntarily implement an indefinite withhold of imagery in the designated Area of Interest (AOI). Effective retroactively from March 9, 2026, Planet is moving to a managed access model, extending the publication delay for all new imagery within the designated AOI, and releasing imagery on a case-by-case basis and for urgent, mission-critical requirements or in the public interest. For the -media, this model is in line with the media policies of other remote sensing companies. We expect this policy to last through the end of the conflict.Access to imagery for the rest of the world is unaffected. These are extraordinary circumstances, and we are doing all we can to balance the needs of all our stakeholders. We will continue to monitor the situation and make adjustments as possible to minimize the impact on data availability to our customers. For questions regarding specific projects or to request a policy exception, please contact your Customer Success Manager or [email protected] appreciate your continued partnership as we work to ensure our data remains available for responsible use.
Best Regards,
Planet Team
A decade spent on this project, its over. The central nodes cashed out 16 months ago. The pseud/anons true believers are relegated on the perimeter with nothing but their conviction. Utterly betrayed yet committed ever more. Q tards are more respectable at this point. The raped.
Unpopular opinion: if Trump can get gas prices down & keep casualties minimal, he can continue this war indefinitely. Americans are used to “background violence.” I would prefer a decisive resolution obviously, but he has plenty of runway.
@RazorFist Interesting splitting strategy here that presupposes and frames mutual exclusivity of claims. Vague familiarity of the venona decrypts tells us as much. So one truth is the distraction from another? Some boomer slop containment technique. Such is the life of a inflooooencer