Ukraine is continuing to push forward in #Kursk while also conducting a difficult defensive campaign in the Donbas. On the Russian side, the Russians are continuing to push on their main effort – the advance towards Pokrovsk – while seeking to redeploy forces from other areas to

Due to the change in leadership in Bangladesh, this book I co-authored a chapter in can now be advertised: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

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But as Harvard’s E.O. Wilson, father of sociobiology, said: “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” 16/25

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Throughout the #Ukraine war, adaptation has been a critical national & battlefield function for #Ukraine, and for the Russians. This is a process that pulses & pauses, and is distributed unevenly throughout combat units & the bureaucratic institutions of state. What observations

As one local Ukrainian official told us, we’re fighting “like the Tuareg”, just piling over the border in pickups.

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"cyber security incident", which I take it refers to some incident of cyber insecurity

Excited to welcome fantastic colleagues to Queen's University Belfast 🎓 for a workshop on imaginaries of 'future war', thanks to The British Academy support. Ishmael Bhila 🕊 mark lacy Marijn Hoijtink Michael Mulvihill Aditi Gupta Scientists for Global Responsibility Dr. Lindsay Clark Ciaran Gillespie Vicky Karyoti, Dr + more

I still find it insane that the soviets got literal images of the surface of Venus.

9. Johnny Mnemonic (1995) Critics scoffed at Reeves’s portrayal of a mnemonic courier who has 24 hours to download 320GB of data from his brain before his head explodes. But practical effects, a cult cast and a prescient scenario co-scripted by the cyberpunk guru William Gibson

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‘You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.’ No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy The older I get, the more this seems the best perspective to have.

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The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years. Flight rate will

Whenever I visit a Gaudi structure, I feel at home, in a rich, highly dimensional world (though endowed with a fractal structure), similar to a cave. Unfortunately modernism moved to smooth surfaces & sharp Euclidian corners, something we never encountered in our ancestral past.