BattleRoesing

Genuinely torn on this one. AOC running for President would galvanize the left like nothing we've seen. But it's still a long shot. And if she loses, then what? Senate is a guaranteed win. And it gets rid of Schumer. Sometimes the guaranteed game changer beats the long shot revolution.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

The argument against international law on the basis that it is hard to enforce and a vehicle for great power interests is superficially plausible but intellectually bankrupt. There is a collective virtue in hypocrisy if it involves us forcing each other to use a language with which we can try to create accountability in the long run and which is necessary to organise opposition before and after the fact. It is an important basis for winning power and thus for social transformation in general. The world that is emerging now is the just the kind of world you get when you insist on 'vulgar realism'. On the left, it is indicative of us not having any serious theory of geopolitics.

Anthropic is now testing on smart contract exploits and discovering zero-days. This stuff is going from theoretical to practical scarily fast.