The Nova Kakhovka Dam on the Dnipro River has been breached. Russian milbloggers are blaming Ukraine, but Russian military occupiers are believed to have mined the dam six months or so ago. The dam holds back an enormous reservoir that supplies drinking and agricultural water,...
Author: Cheryl Rofer
For the past week or so, a couple of groups of allegedly Russian resisters against the Putin regime have been fighting their way into Russia from Ukraine. Now some other.
Every argument that the US is in danger of losing out to China, that the US needs more weapons to deter China, that the US can't afford to help arm.
View across the Narva River, from the Narva Castle, of the Russian border station and homes in Ivangorod. Cheryl Rofer, 2011. I’ve had this article in a tab for a couple of weeks. It’s a long read, and I wanted to enjoy reading about the...
The MAARS is one of three robotic, unmanned vehicles demonstrated to Soldiers from the 519th Military Police Battalion, 1st Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Aug. 5, 2015. It is equipped with non-lethal.
Zooey on top of the office bookcases Dan tried it a while back, and it didn't take off. But maybe it will work this time. Right? Right? If you want.
Recently, the Russian government published a list of 500 more people it was sanctioning. Shockingly, they skipped over LGM! They included state attorneys general past and present (New Mexico’s Hector Balderas), a few governors, federal government agencies, the Russia analysis units and boards of trustees...
This is bullshit. Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. Back in 1975, the biology.
It's unusual for a scientific magazine to support or condemn political candidates, but Scientific American supported Joe Biden against Donald Trump in 2020 because of the clearcut case that Trump.
If you supervise people moving quantities of soil and debris with big machines, or people doing things with plutonium in glove boxes, questions of safety quickly become important. Software developers have been much less aware of safety issues. What can go wrong besides lacking an...
Belgorod is a region of Russia adjacent to Ukraine. Kharkiv is the closest Ukrainian city. The Kozinka border crossing has been attacked, and military action is moving up the road.
Since joining Bluesky, I’ve learned more about developers (coders, programmers, tech bros, whatever they're calling themselves these days) than I ever imagined. Let me make clear, up front, what I.