I had to run out at lunch time because there was nothing to eat in the house (well, nothing we wanted to eat), and I had a hankering for this Middle Eastern restaurant that puts some sort of addictive agent in the tabouli that makes you crave it fortnightly. My teenage daughter is flopping around …
Prescience, or Claude Shannon Anticipates Sen. McConnell’s Procedural Maneuver (Open Thread)
Claude Shannon is best known as the founding titan of information theory — which was an idea of such pervasive impact, some have ranked it along side relativity theory as the most significant intellectual creation of the 20th century. He wasn’t simply a brilliant mathematician and logical thinker though. He was as well a lifelong …
War for Ukraine Day 793: Russia Continues Its Bombardment of Ukraine
(Image by NEIVANMADE) Russia continues to bombard Ukrainian civilian targets ahead of the arrival of the newly announced US military aid. ‼️ russia used a powerful glide bomb to attack Sumy today. Earlier they started terrorizing Kharkiv with those KABs. That is a big escalation against civilians — Olena Halushka (@OlenaHalushka) April 25, 2024 Ukraine's …
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War for Ukraine Day 788: Kharkiv Is Attacked Again
(Image by NEIVANMADE) The three foreign and military aid supplementals and the GOP sort of wishlist bill have now passed the House. The House then immediately went into recess. The Senate will not take them up till Tuesday at the earliest. By not simply bringing the Senate supplemental to a vote, Johnson has instead wasted …
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War for Ukraine Day 783: The GOP House Majority’s Dysfunction Is Actively Harming Ukraine
We know what “they doin ova der,” they’re making things worse. I’m going to try to keep this brief tonight, but we have a lot to cover and a significant chunk is the GOP majority in the House of Representatives is eating itself. Ukraine has "no chance of winning" its war with Russia, if it …
War for Ukraine Day 777: Air Raid Alerts Are Up, Once Again, Over Almost All of Ukraine
(Air raid alert map of Ukraine, 8:58 PM EDT, 10 APR 2024) As you can see above, almost all of Ukraine is once again under an air raid alert. The Ukrainian Air Force is reporting at least seven russian Tu-95 bombers taking off, indicating that early this morning Ukraine is likely to be under massive …
War for Ukraine Day 775: Russia Is Destroying Ukraine’s Energy Generation & Transmission Capacity!
(Image by NEIVANMADE) As I begin tonight’s update – 7:55 PM EDT – all of southern and central Ukraine is under air raid alert. And as I get ready to hit publish it is only the westernmost provinces. While we’ll get to the last night’s/this morning’s butcher’s bill from Russia’s bombardment of Kharkiv and other …