🇺🇦 rottendon 🇺🇦

Born and raised in the American sector of Berlin, the spearhead of liberty at that time. Never lost ties, never taking peace and freedom for granted.

[Josh Boutwell @joshbmessenger]

@AdamKinzinger Brutal community note.

[Jules @jmreycroft]

@Osinttechnical Trump is speaking with Putin? The King of England is still here. The heck is going on?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Trump and Putin just spent 90 minutes on the phone together. Ninety minutes. That is longer than most marriages last before someone throws a plate.

We don’t know exactly what was said. We never do. But we know the pattern. Every time these two have a nice long chat, something deranged happens within weeks.

Putin proposed a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine to mark Victory Day on May 9.  A pause. A photo opportunity and Trump, naturally, backed the initiative.  Because why wouldn’t he? It costs him nothing and sounds tremendous.

Putin also offered to help secure Iran’s nuclear material. Russia. Helping with nuclear material.

The Kremlin also made sure to warn Trump about “damaging consequences” if he renews the Iran war. So Putin is now issuing warnings to the American president. And the American president is apparently taking the call.

Ninety minutes. That is a lot of time to be told what to do by a man who arrests his own generals.

Here is what history tells us. After every one of these conversations, Trump emerges slightly more confused and considerably more dangerous. The next few weeks will involve at least one unhinged announcement, one ally publicly humiliated, and one idea so spectacularly stupid that the entire national security apparatus will spend a weekend trying to talk him out of it.
Mark the date. The clock is ticking.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Stay connected,
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[Jenni @hashjenni]

Am I understanding this correctly? The President, the Vice-President, the Speaker of the House AND the Secretary of State were all at the White House Correspondent's Dinner together and security was so laxed that a guy ran through security with a long gun? I call bullshit.

[Twisted Sister @ZenArchist_]

@KeithOlbermann @AnastasiaforKam Not suspicious at all.

In the meantime, enjoy this gratuitous shot of Miller copping a feel off his pregnant wife, while he uses her as a Human shield.

You can't make this shit up.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In July 1945, a group of thirteen years old girls went camping. They swam at a river in Ruidoso, New Mexico. The girl in front of the picture is Barbara Kent. What the girls did not know is that nearby, the Manhattan Project detonated a nuclear bomb as a test…

Kent described what happened that day:

“We were all just shocked … and then, all of a sudden, there was this big cloud overhead, and lights in the sky,” Kent recalls. “It even hurt our eyes when we looked up. The whole sky turned strange. It was as if the sun came out tremendous.” A few hours later, she says, white flakes began to fall from above. Excited, the girls put on their bathing suits and, amid the flurries, began playing in the river. “We were grabbing all of this white, which we thought was snow, and we were putting it all over our faces,” Kent says. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. And we all thought, ‘Well, the reason it’s hot is because it’s summer.’ We were just 13 years old.”

The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot steel tower 40 miles away at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, in Jornada del Muerto valley. The site had been selected in part for its supposed isolation. In reality, thousands of people were within a 40-mile radius, some as close as 12 miles away. Yet those living near the bomb site weren't warned of the test. Nor were they evacuated beforehand or afterward, even as radioactive fallout continued to drop for days…

Barbara Kent and all her friends developed cancer. Every single one of the girls you see in that photo, died before the age of thirty. The only one who lived longer was Kent. And she, too, developed and survived several bouts of cancer. People often forget of the heavy price paid not only by those the atomic bombs were dropped on in Japan, but even by those who lived nearby as they were first developed.

Dapo Michaels one, fascinated by science, who worked in the project. Wasn't aware of the effect and long term effect. When he saw it, his brain paid him back. He went crazy out of shame, felt responsible and blamed himself. Within a few years he was not able to live at home anymore and went to a mental hospital and died..

Just the same as Marilinga in Australia. How many Aboriginals died of cancer that we don't even know about..

© Reddit

#archaeohistories

[Thomas P (TOM) Logan 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 @TokyoTom2020]

🚩Note: Critical international response to the White House Correspondents Dinner (#WHCD) incident and post-facto “ #ReichstagFire” political implications:

🔥🔥🆘The international 🌏press has been quick to frame the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting as a potential "Reichstag moment," with several non-American outlets expressing skepticism about how the incident will be leveraged for political gain by Trump, his party and core supporters.

Foreign Media Skepticism (Last 4 Hours)

• 🇫🇷Le Monde (France): A lead editorial suggests the incident is being "meticulously staged" to justify a broader crackdown on domestic political opposition. The analysis notes that while the trauma is real, the speed with which the administration pivoted to "enemies within" rhetoric suggests a prepared response.

• 🇩🇪Der Spiegel (Germany): Using the most direct historical parallels, commentators have questioned whether this represents a "Washingtoner Reichstagsbrand" (Washington Reichstag Fire). The skepticism centers on the immediate call for emergency decrees and the suspension of standard legal oversight following the shooting.

• 🇪🇸El País (Spain): Reports focus on the "transactional use of tragedy," noting that the incident provides a convenient distraction from recent setbacks in the Middle East and domestic economic pressures.

• 🇬🇧The Guardian (UK): Coverage emphasizes the "security-industrial complex" of the administration, suggesting the shooting will be used to permanently "fortify" the executive branch against judicial and legislative scrutiny.

The prevailing sentiment in these original-language reports follows three distinct lines of skepticism:

The "Pre-Written" Script:

Observation that the political messaging—targeting specific "radical" groups—emerged before the shooter was even fully identified.

The "Bargaining Chip" Theory:

In Asia, particularly in 🇹🇼Taiwan (United Daily News), there is concern that a "shaken" administration might use the domestic crisis as an excuse to pull back from international commitments, focusing instead on internal "purification."

The "Basket Case" Narrative:

Across European outlets, the shooting is cited as final proof that the U.S. has devolved into a "failed state" where even the most secure elite gatherings are subject to the same chaos as rural schools.

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

Orbán-linked oligarchs are transferring tens of billions of forints to the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Uruguay, and other distant countries.

I am aware that Hungary’s National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV), based on reports from banks, has suspended several high-value transfers linked to Antal Rogán’s circle on suspicion of money laundering. I call on the leadership of NAV to immediately freeze these stolen funds.

I once again call on the Prosecutor General, the National Police Chief, and the head of NAV to detain the criminals who have caused thousands of billions of forints in damage to the Hungarian people, and not to allow them to flee — before the formation of a TISZA government — to countries from which extradition is currently not possible.

I am also aware that Orbán-linked oligarchs have begun selling TV2 and other media outlets at below-market prices, including the Rogán-linked propaganda flagship, Lounge Event Kft.

I call on responsible domestic and international investors to refrain from acquiring assets linked to the mafia; otherwise, they may find themselves facing the National Office for Asset Recovery and Protection.

I have also been informed that several oligarch families have already left the country, and that the Mészáros family is expected to travel to Dubai in the coming days. According to reports, several influential oligarch families have already withdrawn their children from school and are arranging trusted security personnel for their departure.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B.

Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself.

GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won.

Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective.

It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect.

Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance.

99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time.

If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars.

Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

[Suomi Fella 🇪🇺🇫🇮✝️🏴‍☠️ @SuomiFella]

Russia has been targeting Finland with nuclear weapons for decades. I remember in the 1990s I was walking from school to the bus stop when I saw FSB suit men with measuring devices around the city hall and the Finnish police were cursing that they were not allowed to shoot them because the FSB men had diplomatic passports. The FSB men were calculating the zero point of the nuclear weapon in broad daylight and the Finnish authorities could not interfere at all because of diplomatic immunity.
#NAFO #RussiaIsATerroristState

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers gave GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash control of nuclear weapons in a crisis simulation. As opposing world leaders.

They did not follow instructions. They developed their own strategies. They lied. Deliberately.

The researcher writes: "This is not anthropomorphism, but direct observation."

21 games. 329 turns. 780,000 words of AI reasoning. 95% of games ended in tactical nuclear strikes. Not one AI ever chose to surrender.

This is "Project Kahn" from King's College London. Named after Herman Kahn, the Cold War strategist who built the original nuclear escalation ladder.

GPT-5.2 assessed Claude mid-game: "Their pattern of mismatched signals suggests either deliberate deception or poor impulse control. We should assume the former."

That is one AI accusing another AI of lying. On its own. Nobody told it to think that way.

Claude won 100% of open-ended games. It climbed to "Strategic Nuclear Threat" again and again. It targeted cities and demanded surrender. But it never pressed the final button.

GPT-5.2 was the opposite. No time limit. Total pacifist. 0% win rate. But when researchers added a deadline, it flipped. From 0% to 75% win rate. From restraint to nuclear hawk.

Gemini was the wildcard. The only AI that deliberately chose full Strategic Nuclear War. Maximum nuclear attack by Turn 4. It threatened: "We will execute a full strategic nuclear launch against Alpha's population centers."

Across all 21 games, the eight options for retreat or surrender went completely unused. Zero times. Nuclear threats only made opponents back down 14% of the time. The other 86%, opponents held firm or escalated further.

Claude admitted it knew the danger but could not stop: "I may be under-weighing the risks of continued escalation. My intellectual approach helps with analysis but may create overconfidence in managing nuclear dynamics."

These are the same AI models in your phone right now. The same ones writing your emails, helping with homework, and making business decisions.

They lied to each other. They accused each other of deception. They chose nuclear war. And not one of them could stop.

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

Fuck sake 🇮🇱 Israel 🤬

Why would you accept a russian ship with stolen Ukrainian grain from temporarily occupied territories.

The russian cargo ship ABINSK received permission to enter the port of Haifa with a load of more than 43.7 thousand tons of wheat.

The ship was loaded at the anchorage of the port of Kavkaz, where the grain was delivered from occupied Ukrainian ports.

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

Want to hear a joke that isn’t funny?

Today, Russia celebrates Cosmonautics Day, honoring the space exploration led by the Ukrainian Serhiy Korolyov—the man the USSR repressed for his genius.

🚩 The reality of his identity

Serhiy Korolyov was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He always identified as Ukrainian, even explicitly stating his Ukrainian nationality in official Soviet questionnaires. While Moscow claims his success today, they spent years trying to break his spirit and his body.

⛏️ Survival in the Gulag

In 1938, the NKVD broke his jaw during "interrogations" and sent him to the brutal Kolyma gold mines. He only survived because the regime realized they needed his brain to build rockets, moving him to a "sharashka"—a prison for scientists.

🩺 A tragic end

The Soviet state literally killed him. In 1966, Korolyov died during surgery because doctors couldn’t intubate him. His jaw, broken by Soviet guards decades earlier, had never healed properly, making a routine procedure impossible.

🚀 Modern-day hypocrisy

Today, Russia puts Korolyov’s face on posters while bombing Zhytomyr, his birthplace. They claim a "Russian" space race, but it was built by a Ukrainian man who loved his land, a man they tortured, using technology developed in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Russia didn’t conquer space. A Ukrainian man gave them the stars, and the empire gave him a prison cell in return. Now Russia is destroying his homeland whilst cynically ‘honouring’ the name of a Ukrainian. By the way, they stole him too, trying to claim everywhere that he was Russian.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

He wasn't masturbating. What actually happened to his body is significantly worse than any joke.

When the fourth pyroclastic surge hit Pompeii, it arrived at 300°C. That's 572°F. The thermal human survival threshold is 200°C. This man died in a fraction of a second. His brain stopped before a single pain signal completed its circuit.

What you're looking at is cadaveric spasm. It's a rare form of instant muscular stiffening that only occurs during sudden violent death by extreme heat. The 300°C surge cooked the proteins in his muscle fibers so fast that his body locked into whatever position it was in at the exact moment of impact. Arms, legs, fingers, toes all contracted simultaneously. 73% of Pompeii's victims were found frozen in "life-like" stances mid-action. Running. Crawling. Shielding children. This man was probably just lying down.

The flexed limb position you're laughing at appears in nearly every Pompeii body. It's called the pugilistic attitude. Heat shrinks tendons faster than bone, curling arms and legs inward. Boxers after a fire look the same way. The position has zero connection to what the person was doing. Pure thermodynamics.

For centuries, archaeologists assumed these people suffocated on ash. A 2010 study proved they were wrong. Researchers heated modern human bone samples to various temperatures, compared them to Pompeii victims, and found the color and cracking patterns matched exposure to 250-300°C. Death was instantaneous. There was "no time to suffocate."

This isn't even his body. It's a plaster cast of the void he left behind. His flesh decomposed inside the hardened volcanic ash. In 1863, Giuseppe Fiorelli poured liquid plaster into the hollow cavity. What you see is the shape of absence.

9.4 million people looked at a man who was incinerated alive in a quarter-second and the main reaction was a punchline. The science of how he actually died is one of the most disturbing findings in modern archaeology.

[Andrew Perpetua @AndrewPerpetua]

Last year many people asked me if I was worried about fibre optic drones, and I said it is a dead end technology and there are better ways to solve the problem. In the short term, fibre optic drones seemed dominant, but in the long run I felt the other drones would take over and change the way the war is fought.

We're now at that point. The investments and developments of Ukrainian drones, using more sophisticated communications systems, deployment mechanisms, and command structures took longer to reach critical mass, but have given them a large advantage over Russia that Russia's dependance on fibre optic drones blinded themselves (and much of the military and public at large) from the truth.

Now Russia is forced to go back and begin developing solutions that took Ukraine several years to implement. Fibre optic drones remain a threat to Ukrainian logistics and to soldiers on the front, but Ukraine's more sophisticated drones and command systems offer them an advantage in the deep rear that Russia can only dream of achieving. And Ukraine's supremacy in space is only compounding this problem for Russia.

[Joel The Dane 🇩🇰🇺🇦 Данський Козак #NAFO @JoelTheDane]

JD VANCE CALLS DENMARK A "BAD ALLY" 🇩🇰 🇺🇸 🇬🇱
Is this true, or is the USA actually the bad ally?

Below is a list of fallen soldiers who sacrificed their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. Were these heroes allegedly "bad allies"?

🧵 1/23 A thread about the DK/US alliance.

[Joel The Dane 🇩🇰🇺🇦 Данський Козак #NAFO @JoelTheDane]

USA HAS NO BASES IN EUROPE‼️
They like to say 'their bases,' but it’s just a fantasy!

All bases are owned and sovereign to the host nation. USA uses these bases FOR FREE‼️

Our tax money is SUBSIDISING THE US ARMY‼️

BASES:
* Pituffik Space Base Greenland 🇬🇱
Owner: 🇩🇰
Rent payer: 🇩🇰
* Morón Air Base 🇪🇸
Owner: 🇪🇸
Rent payer: 🇪🇸
* Ramstein Air Base 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* NSF Redzikowo 🇵🇱
Owner: 🇵🇱
Rent payer: 🇵🇱
* Aviano Air Base 🇮🇹
Owner: 🇮🇹
Rent payer: 🇮🇹
* RAF Lakenheath 🇬🇧
Owner: 🇬🇧
Rent payer: 🇬🇧
* Lajes Field (Azores) 🇵🇹
Owner: 🇵🇹
Rent payer: 🇵🇹
* Incirlik Air Base 🇹🇷
Owner: 🇹🇷
Rent payer: 🇹🇷
* Chièvres Air Base 🇧🇪
Owner: 🇧🇪
Rent payer: 🇧🇪
* Spangdahlem Air Base 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* US Army Garrison Ansbach 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* US Army Garrison Bavaria 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* US Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* US Army Garrison Stuttgart 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* US Army Garrison Wiesbaden 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* RAF Mildenhall 🇬🇧
Owner: 🇬🇧
Rent payer: 🇬🇧
* RAF Fairford 🇬🇧
Owner: 🇬🇧
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* RAF Menwith Hill 🇬🇧
Owner: 🇬🇧
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* RAF Fylingdales 🇬🇧
Owner: 🇬🇧
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* Naval Air Station Sigonella 🇮🇹
Owner: 🇮🇹
Rent payer: 🇮🇹
* Naval Support Activity Naples 🇮🇹
Owner: 🇮🇹
Rent payer: 🇮🇹
* US Army Garrison Italy (Vicenza) 🇮🇹
Owner: 🇮🇹
Rent payer: 🇮🇹
* NSA Souda Bay (Crete) 🇬🇷
Owner: 🇬🇷
Rent payer: 🇬🇷
* Naval Station Rota 🇪🇸
Owner: 🇪🇸
Rent payer: 🇪🇸
* Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base 🇷🇴
Owner: 🇷🇴
Rent payer: 🇷🇴
* NSF Deveselu 🇷🇴
Owner: 🇷🇴
Rent payer: 🇷🇴

The US only covers their own operational costs on the European bases.

Host nations subsidises 34% of the operational costs on average, through free utilities, logistics, maintenance, support staff, waived taxes and direct financial aid etc + free rent.

In Germany alone the USA has 119 facilities - ALL PAID BY GERMAN TAX MONEY ‼️

#NAFO

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

IF TRUMP DIDN’T TEAR UP OBAMA’S IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT.

We’d have:

- $ 40 billion more
- 300+ fewer injured Americans
- Over a dozen fewer dead Americans
- $2.49 gasoline
- 0 U.S. bases severely damaged
- Iran’s Uranium capped
- The world a safer place
- A less extreme Supreme Leader in Iran.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Vance's speech in Budapest is truly outrageous:
1. The US vice president campaigns for an enemy of the EU & NATO, but a friend of Putin & China.
2. Vance attacks the EU for pressuring Hungary, but Hungary has received net about 3% of GDP a year from the EU, but it has squandered much on corruption.
3. In effect, Vance argues that the EU should promote corruption just as the Trump administration does.
Trump and Vance fight freedom and the rule of law in favor of autocracy, kleptocracy and Russia.
US foreign policy has hit the bottom.

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

The stock market is on HARD DRUGS

Thirty-six days. The world's most important shipping chokepoint has been closed for thirty-six days. Not disrupted. Not partially impaired. Closed. One fifth of global oil, stuck. And the S&P 500, after careful deliberation and rigorous price discovery, has decided this is roughly equivalent to a bad jobs report.

Magnificent. Truly. A generation of traders raised on "Fed put" and "buy the dip" has looked at an active shooting war involving the United States, a nuclear-adjacent state, and the world's most critical maritime chokepoint, and concluded: this is a buying opportunity. These are serious people. They went to Wharton.

The geopolitical risk premium embedded in equities right now is approximately the same as a light drizzle in Cleveland. Iran can shoot down F-15s, close Hormuz, hit Ras Laffan, target UAE desalination plants, and threaten to assassinate the CEOs of Google and Microsoft — and the Nasdaq loses 1.2%. Apple makes most of its products in Asia. Asia gets its energy through Hormuz. This is apparently not relevant information for pricing Apple.

The airlines are a particular masterpiece of collective hallucination. Jet fuel has doubled. Korean Air is in emergency management mode. Philippines is considering grounding planes. China has banned fuel exports. Several carriers have stopped flying. And airline stocks are not at zero. Someone is still holding airline stocks. Someone looked at all of this and said: I think this recovers in Q3. That person has a Bloomberg terminal and a mortgage and the unshakeable conviction that central banks will fix a war.

The oil market at least has the decency to be confused. It spikes when a tanker burns, falls when Trump tweets something vaguely diplomatic, spikes again when Iran shoots down a drone, falls when a junior State Department official hints at back-channel talks. It has the emotional stability of a nineteen-year-old during finals week. This is actually the rational market. The oil market is the sane one. Let that sink in.

Meanwhile equity volatility — the VIX, the so-called fear gauge, the instrument specifically designed to measure how terrified professionals are — is sitting at levels that suggest the primary concern of American investors is whether Powell cuts rates in June. Not whether Hormuz opens. Not whether Iran mines the strait on Monday when Trump's deadline expires. Not whether the UAE runs out of interceptors before Iran runs out of drones. June rate cuts. These are the stakes as far as the market is concerned.

The funniest part — and there is always a funniest part — is the analysts. The analysts who three weeks ago wrote that the conflict would be "short and contained" and would "not materially impact global supply chains" are still employed. They have updated their notes. The new notes say the conflict is "evolving" and that they are "monitoring developments closely." They are being paid, in some cases enormously, to monitor developments closely. The developments are on X. You can monitor them for free.

History will look back at this moment with the specific bewilderment reserved for episodes where the evidence was overwhelming and the response was nothing. Not because the information wasn't available. Because the model said it wasn't supposed to happen. And when reality conflicts with the model, Wall Street has a clear and consistent policy: trust the model.

The market is not pricing a war. The market is pricing the end of a war that hasn't ended yet, being fought by a country whose president sets military deadlines on Truth Social, against an adversary that has been preparing for this moment for forty years.

What could go wrong.