Two drones were aimed at the Kremlin. Moscow claims they were shot down, but video seems to show one of them setting a flag on fire. https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1653734870252650500 Russia has hit Ukraine with missile and drone strikes the last two nights, and Ukraine air defense has...
Author: Cheryl Rofer
Bluesky on Tuesday: Can we talk about something beyond the impending federation and whether we need a block button? Bluesky on Thursday: Wow, you’re here? Hey look over there, it’s.
Debbie Stabenow, official photo from her website Isaac Chotiner interviews Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) on whether it is sexist to argue that Dianne Feinstein should retire from the Senate now..
I see that poetry is a theme today. One of the things people have asked the chatbots to do is to write poetry. Perhaps the University of Michigan Development Office will find one to do its bidding. I will admit to not reading every chatbot...
credit The United States is offering grants and tax credits to help develop technology to remove carbon dioxide from the air. This is the most difficult way to deal with.
Last fall, the Stanley Foundation held a meeting in Santa Fe to collect stories of nuclear adventures. It was great fun, with us old talky folks and younger enthusiastic listeners..
I signed up for Substack’s Notes last week, which may have been a mistake. My inbox was immediately spammed with emails from the Substacks I was forced to sign up to as part of joining Notes. Several judicious unsubscribes and one spam identifier later, my...
Two not entirely parallel threads this morning, on nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence. The question came up again https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1647618314158448641 It’s been answered by historians, but Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.
It looks like the leaker of those documents via Discord was a twentyish employee of the military trying to impress a group of (mostly male) teenagers. A good story in.
Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár I haven’t seen the film “Tár” and might not. I would much prefer to watch it in a theater, but I am not willing to breathe virus soup for a couple of hours. And now that I’ve watched a couple...
credit More than 250 executives said that the decision ignored both scientific and legal precedent and, if it stands, would create uncertainty for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. We have.
This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what it says is a ballistic missile in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, on March 19, 2023. North Korea says that.