It’s hard to see how Russia’s war on Ukraine ends. It could end today, with an edict from Vladimir Putin that the Russian military stand down and begin a withdrawal from all Ukrainian territories. Negotiation would be needed to assure safe passage back to Russia,...
Author: Cheryl Rofer
This is…not good. The United States is “furiously” writing a new nuclear deterrence theory that simultaneously faces Russia and China, said the top commander of America’s nuclear arsenal—and needs more.
Volga-Don Canal in Volgograd Kazakhstan is isolated from the world’s oceans, but borders the Caspian Sea on its west. The Soviet Union completed the Volga-Don Canal in 1952 to allow.
The latest bolus of revelation hawked up by Elon Musk’s pet journalists is that, shockingly, the United States government urged Twitter to try to keep information about the Covid epidemic scientifically accurate. This, of course, is an offense against the free speech rights of Russia’s...
Dan did a cat post a while back. That didn't catch on, so here are some crows. I noticed that the suet block was disappearing from one of the suet.
Representatives of the nations negotiating the JCPOA, just before its announcement on July 15, 2015. State Department photo. Presiden Biden said it, but it’s seemed to me for some time.
Is this illustration what Rebellion Defense is building? Who knows. One more Musk-related post today, and then I have other tabs I want to write about. We are all shareholders in Musk’s enterprises. Not Twitter, perhaps, but certainly SpaceX, StarLink, and Tesla for the government...
Several decades back, Claude Shannon defined information theory. Here’s a short description that partakes of some of the hype that has always surrounded information theory. Back in the 1950s and.
Between temper tantrums, it appears that Elon Musk has some coherence to his worldview. There’s the rightwing stuff, but there’s also a distinctive Silicon Valley contribution. Jason Steinhauer explicates that.
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm vacated the 1954 decision of the Atomic Energy Commission, the predecessor of the Department of Energy, to revoke J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance. Many people have worked to remove this unfair judgment against Oppenheimer for many years. Senator Patrick Leahy...
Representation of laser fusion. The central sphere is the target, also called the capsule or pellet, that contains the deuterium and tritium whose nuclei are to be fused. The blue.
I am moving into Phase 2 of my three-phase strategy for dealing with the destruction of Twitter. Phase 1 was to set up accounts on alternative platforms. Mastodon. A quirky.