I now have my own NAFO fella. NAFO is the North Atlantic Fellas Organization, an organization of shitposters who attack Russian disinformation and raise money for the Ukrainian military. Wikipedia has
Apparently the south of Ukraine (or the Kherson area?) is known as watermelon county. There’s activity there today. This is all unconfirmed, but there are enough reports coming through that it&#
The Globe and Mail’s “The Decibel” podcast interviewed me on nuclear weapons and such. I think it’s a pretty good primer on nuclear weapons effects. *** I will not link to William Arkin’s ar
Like Emptywheel, I don’t want to spend a lot of time on Maggie Haberman’s journalism, nor the New York Times’s handling of it. But Dan Drezner got into the mix yesterday with a bunch of things t
At 6 pm Eastern Time, NASA will livestream the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). If you’re worried about another asteroid impact like the one that killed the dinosaurs, you won’t want to mi
One of the more demoralizing things that the internet vomits up is Google’s offering interpretations of poetry when I look for a line. Poetry I’ve read often returns to my mind in fragments – li
I’ve been saying these things on Twitter, but I probably should provide a more stationary, all-in-one-place form for those not on Twitter. Classification is a system for dealing with sensitive infor
What effect will Putin’s war have on Russia? There’s an active trade in historical analogies, but the more I look at those analogies, the more I become convinced that few of them work. They don’