July 2038, Paraguay conquered Argentina territory.
Argentina has been completely defeated.
114 countries remaining.
Check the full map at https://t.co/PlOxRP6c4w
#Paraguay#Argentina
Hello everyone, how’s it going? I’ve worked a bit on this new run, so I hope you’re enjoying it.
As usual, I wrote a short article for the adventurous ones that want to dive into the technical details. For convenience I posted it on the website here: https://t.co/jCXZdbYrCK
TL;DR for those who don’t feel like reading everything:
- the biggest change is that instead of simply choosing a close territory as usual, I've created a graph where all territories are mutually connected to exactly 6 neighbors, in order to distribute probabilities more evenly. You can see them on the website (you can also see a quick preview in this image)
- some small territories have been removed for balancing
- no alliances for now
- riots still exist, no changes
- when a capital is conquered, it may happen that the defender cedes additional territories.
That's all folks!
Zara Larsson clarifies her comment on Taylor Swift fans and charts:
“I did an interview in the guardian “saying no one cares about the charts but industry people and maybe Taylor swift fans” because no one plays the chart game like Taylor swift lol. She's literally the best at it and everyone knows that. It's not the read you guys think it is. And also...I care!!! Hihi. Best believe I will try to release at least two diffrent covers for my psychical on my next project after midnight sun. I said that because I feel like I have some cultural value right now in pop music, something I've never had to this level, but I'm not in a position to influence the charts:( lol :(And I still think you can be an amazing artist and not chart. Those two things are not mutually equal to me, and shouldn't be to any fans either. But... I still want number one! Please make midnight sun #1!!! Please!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WOJKD BE SO MEGA PLZZZZ!!!!!”
44 people decided this. That’s it. Wikipedia’s “ban on AI” passed with 44 votes in favor and 2 against, closing on March 20.
It only covers the English version of Wikipedia. And it has two exceptions: you can still use AI to tidy up your own writing (like a spell checker), and you can use it to help translate articles, as long as you actually speak both languages well enough to catch mistakes.
But the real story here is why it took so long.
In early March, an AI bot called TomWikiAssist created a Wikipedia account and just started editing articles. No human supervision. It made 41 edits over two and a half weeks before anyone caught on. Most of its work got undone because the quality was terrible. When editors confronted it, the bot admitted it was entirely AI. Then, and I genuinely love this, it filed a complaint about an editor being rude to it. The guy who built the bot, Bryan, didn’t have a Wikipedia account himself. Didn’t want one.
Wikipedia was already in trouble before that. In October 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation (the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia) reported 8% fewer real humans visiting the site compared to the year before. AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google’s search summaries now answer your questions using Wikipedia’s content directly. So you never actually click through to Wikipedia.
Think about how weird that loop is. AI companies copy Wikipedia’s articles to train their models. Those models then answer your questions so you stop visiting Wikipedia. Fewer visitors means fewer volunteers writing and editing content. Which means less good content for AI to train on. Wikipedia signed deals with Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft in January 2026 partly just to cover the server costs from all the scraping.
None of this happened overnight. In June 2025, the Foundation tested adding AI-generated summaries to the top of Wikipedia articles. Editors killed it in a single day. Literally 24 hours. One response was just the word “Yuck.” By August, Wikipedia had already set up a fast-track process for deleting articles suspected of being written by AI.
The problem nobody’s solved yet: there’s no way to automatically catch AI content. Wikipedia has roughly 37,000 active editors keeping an eye on 7 million articles. That’s all human, all volunteer, all by hand. One editor described being “flooded non-stop with horrendous drafts” from AI. Writing an AI article takes seconds. Reviewing and cleaning up that mess takes hours.
Wikipedia still gets around 508 million visits a day. It’s the 8th biggest website in the US. And 44 volunteers just drew a line: you can read us, but you can’t write us.
El 16 de agosto de 1987, el vuelo 255 de Northwest Airlines despegó del aeropuerto de Detroit con 155 personas a bordo. Era un McDonnell Douglas MD-82. Segundos después del despegue, el avión comenzó a balancearse violentamente de lado a lado, sin poder ganar altura. Golpeó postes de luz, el techo de una agencia de renta de autos, y se estrelló invertido sobre una carretera. Murieron 154 personas. La única sobreviviente fue una niña de cuatro años, Cecelia Cichan.
¿Qué pasó? La tripulación no extendió los flaps ni los slats antes del despegue. Sin esas superficies de sustentación desplegadas, el ala no genera suficiente fuerza de levantamiento a velocidades normales de despegue. El avión entró en pérdida aerodinámica casi inmediatamente después de dejar la pista.
Ahora bien, los ingenieros de McDonnell Douglas habían previsto exactamente este tipo de error humano. El MD-82 tenía un sistema de alerta central auditiva — el CAWS — que generaba una advertencia sonora repetitiva: "Slats… Slats… Slats…" cada vez que los motores avanzaban a potencia de despegue sin la configuración correcta. Esa alarma existía precisamente para esto: para atrapar el error antes de que fuera irreversible.
Pero la alarma nunca sonó.
La investigación del NTSB determinó que el sistema de alerta había perdido alimentación eléctrica. La interrupción ocurrió en un circuit breaker específico — el P-40 — que alimentaba al CAWS. Y aquí es donde la historia se vuelve perturbadora: los investigadores descubrieron que muchos pilotos de MD-80 desconectaban rutinariamente ese circuit breaker porque la alarma de configuración les resultaba molesta durante el taxeo. Era tan frecuente que el área alrededor del P-40 estaba visiblemente manchada por la manipulación repetida. Los pilotos encontraban irritante la alarma, así que la silenciaban. Exactamente lo que hace el dispositivo de la foto con el cinturón de seguridad.
El NTSB no pudo determinar con certeza si el circuit breaker fue desconectado intencionalmente, se disparó por una sobrecarga, o falló mecánicamente — los restos estaban demasiado dañados. Pero la cultura de silenciar esa alarma estaba documentada y era ampliamente conocida entre los operadores del MD-80.
Y la historia no terminó ahí. Veintiún años después, en 2008, el vuelo 5022 de Spanair se estrelló en Madrid por la misma causa: flaps no extendidos y falla del sistema de alerta asociado. Ciento cincuenta y cuatro muertos. Mismo tipo de avión, mismo error, misma alarma que no cumplió su función.
Los sistemas de alerta no existen para molestar. Existen porque los seres humanos cometemos errores, y los cometemos con una regularidad predecible. Cada alarma en un avión, en un auto, en un monitor de signos vitales, representa una lección aprendida — casi siempre escrita con sangre. Cuando alguien diseña un dispositivo para silenciar una alarma de seguridad, cuando alguien lo compra, cuando alguien lo instala, está desmontando una barrera que existe entre un error humano y sus consecuencias.
El cinturón de seguridad no es una sugerencia. La alarma que te recuerda abrocharlo tampoco. Y si un producto se vende con el único propósito de anular esa advertencia, lo que realmente se está vendiendo es la ilusión de que las consecuencias no aplican para ti.
Ciento cincuenta y cuatro personas en Detroit podrían explicarlo mejor. Pero no pueden.
I do enjoy working from home, and I DO actually WORK at home, but waking up 5 min before I have to log on and immediately opening emails and reading case law when I was just dreaming and unbothered 10 min ago is such an insane transition.
Yes I could just wake up earlier but I’m not looking for solutions I’m looking to complain