What started as a series of promotional interviews this week for JD Vance’s new book ended with the vice president becoming the face of the tentative peace agreement with Iran—for better or worse. https://t.co/AGsD7q06z2
Ben Horowitz says in new media, the brand is the person:
"So old media, you had very restricted channels with very restricted formats, and the brands were the companies."
"You were forced into a quote or a very short interview... and then you were representing a brand that wasn't you."
"Then you get to new media, and new media is so the opposite in that it's unlimited formats, unlimited channels, and the brand is now the person."
"Is it Palantir, or is it Alex? And is it Anduril, or is it Palmer?"
@bhorowitz
Possibly the worst example to use 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ forcing Germany to pay for ww1 led to ww2.
USA invested back into Germany and Japan after ww2, and now they love our ranch dressing.
Look dipshits, there is no magic world peace button. The closest thing to it is, match the adversary tit 4 tat + offer the offramp.
Always let them take the offramp, because you can always match them again in the future if they decide to be adversarial again.
The internal political coalition that led the adversary to be an asshat before is now different. There is absolutely no reason not to give them a chance, IFF you also credibly prepare to do it again.
This is the cheapest way to deal with despotic asshats, in $, in sacrifice of our heroic troops and in total causalities on both sides.
Avoiding tit4tat, vague bullshit red lines, always leads to worse outcomes. The most recent example is Obama’s unwillingness to engage in Syria and Ukraine which in total has resulted in 1m+ deaths.
humans are just so confused about everything, we invent layers of complexity on top of a simple underlying reality, assign different names to the same fundamental concepts, spawn entire fields to investigate the same mathematical objects under different grammatical names
Zelensky:
I am giving Lukashenko one week to withdraw the military equipment from the Ukrainian border that is being used to adjust artillery fire against the Ukrainian population.
Otherwise, we will do it ourselves.
Keir Starmer is considering whether to remain Labour leader after mounting pressure following Andy Burnham’s by-election win.
He will decide this weekend whether to continue or step aside.
Source: The Times
על כל דמעה של אמא ישראלית, אלף אמהות לבנוניות צריכות לבכות. לבנון כולה צריכה לבעור!
עם כל הכבוד לאמריקאים, ישראל חייבת להבהיר לעולם כולו שדם בנינו וביטחון אזרחנו איננו הפקר. לבנון כולה צריכה לבעור. חובתנו העליונה היא להגן על אזרחי ישראל ועל חיילי צה״ל, והמחויבות הזו קודמת לכל שיקול אחר.
אמרתי לראש הממשלה, גם בישיבות בינינו: על כל דמעה של אמא ישראלית, אלף אימהות לבנוניות צריכות לבכות.
מספיק עם הפינג־פונג. במזרח התיכון לא מנצחים בתגובות מדודות ובהכלה - צריך להשתגע. למחוק. להכריע את הטרור.
According to Regime Change, Steve Witkoff sought to build a personal rapport with Vladimir Putin while trying to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
During a meeting at the Kremlin, Putin was doodling on a piece of stationery and wrote "3+2," which reportedly referred to a territorial framework they had discussed as part of a possible peace deal.
Witkoff asked Putin to sign the paper and let him keep it. Putin signed it, and Witkoff later had the note framed.
Source: CNN (reporting on Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump)
My evil idea for AI cost control is secretly serving Kimi/glm for all requests unless the user can correctly identify it's the open model in the blind test
Italian PM Meloni to Trump:
So, certain things deserve an immediate response.
Donald Trump's statements are completely fabricated. I am frankly appalled. I don't know why the President of the United States behaves this way towards his allies; after all, it's not the first time it's happened.
I can only say it's a pity that he doesn't show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaders towards whom he instead proves to be much more accommodating.
But he must remember one thing: Italy and I never beg.