Mathias Sundin

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WOW! This is the first time we've ever been able to see Starship in space from another object. This view comes from modified Starlink satellite they just deployed that has a camera and a light on it. Super cool!

The iPhone was probably the innovation that defined the past two decades. Starship, with its successful test flight yesterday, might well define the next ones.

@RBrattstrom Prexis det jag föreslog för 20 år sedan som ny kommunpolitiker i Nkpg.

Jag har intervjuat Houstons planeringsenhet🧵 – Det som är speciellt är att vi inte har något planmonopol. Ägaren kan när som helst ändra tomtens användningsområde. Vi kollar bara om nybyggnation överensstämmer med byggreglerna, att vi inte lägger oss håller nere priserna.

They said @tonyseba was crazy when he published Solar Trillions in 2010

An AI model that analyzes and predicts cell movement was reportedly able to spot pancreatic cancer three years before doctors reading scans could. Other progress has been shown in detecting other organ diseases, diabetes, high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s.

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Gah

The latest IQ test involves data centers and water.

La Suède a fait le choix de la frégate de défense et d'intervention de Naval Group pour moderniser sa marine. Je remercie la Suède et je mesure la confiance faite à la France. Après le choix fait par la France de se doter du Global Eye de Saab pour renouveler sa flotte d'avions radar Awacs, c'est une décision stratégique majeure, qui traduit la confiance mutuelle entre nos deux pays. Notre partenariat n’a en effet cessé de se renforcer ces dernières années jusqu’à la participation de la Suède à la dissuasion avancée. Une Europe forte et souveraine au sein de l'OTAN : voilà notre conception de notre défense et de notre sécurité commune. Elle se bâtit chaque jour.

I’ve been watching Ukraine’s drone production curve for two years, and the 2026 numbers just crossed a structural threshold. In February 2022, Ukraine produced 3,000 drones, 99% of them imported from China as complete systems. By 2023 the curve crossed 800,000, then 2.2 million in 2024, more than 4 million in 2025, and the 2026 target now sits at 7 million units with capacity to scale to 10 million. That output is roughly 70 times current US combat drone production (Bloomberg, January 2026), and assembly is now 99% domestic. Monthly FPV output went from 20,000 in summer 2024 to over 200,000 in 2025. The largest producers (Ukraine has no traditional defense primes) build tens of thousands of units per month inside underground bunker factories at SpaceX Starlink scale. My read: the center of European military industrial gravity has shifted 1,200 km east of Berlin since 2022, while EU defense planning still procures as if it has not. That gap is going to become a strategic liability if it is not closed within the next 24 months.

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Rolling Stone ranks The Wire the second-best TV show ever made. Entertainment Weekly named it the best in 2013. The man who made it spent six years fighting HBO to keep it on the air. They were trying to cancel it after every single season. The ratings never came. Season 2 peaked at 3.71 million viewers an episode. By the final season the average was under a million. The 2008 series finale pulled around 1 million, against The Sopranos finale's 11.9 million nine months earlier. After Season 3, HBO was ready to end it. Two of the show's biggest characters had been killed off or sent to prison. To the network, that was a natural finish. David Simon disagreed. He spent two years pushing HBO to renew, which is why Season 4 didn't premiere until 21 months after Season 3 ended. He'd wanted Season 4 to cover immigration in Baltimore. By the time HBO finally said yes, there was no time to research it, so he switched to the public schools, where his writing partner Ed Burns had taught for years. He also pitched HBO a spinoff about Tommy Carcetti, the politician character. Simon later said HBO boss Chris Albrecht looked at him like, "Dude, I'm trying to figure out how to cancel the one show." Season 5 was supposed to be 13 episodes. HBO cut it to 10. The first episode of the shorter season is called "More with Less." The casting almost fell apart for another reason. Idris Elba faked an American accent through four auditions to get Stringer Bell. He's from East London. The casting director coached him to lie. Dominic West, who played lead detective Jimmy McNulty, was also British, from Yorkshire. Simon didn't find out until the actors first read the script together. He'd specifically asked for Americans. Carolyn Strauss, the HBO executive who approved The Wire (and The Sopranos, and Six Feet Under), also saved one of its main characters. Simon had written Detective Kima Greggs to die in Season 1, episode 10. Strauss told him no. The awards did nothing for it. Two Emmy nominations across five seasons, both for writing. Zero wins. None of the actors were ever nominated, not even Idris Elba, Michael K. Williams, or Michael B. Jordan. Zero Golden Globe nominations either. One HBO executive said the network blamed the East Coast setting and the LA-based Emmy voters. The show that beat it every Sunday in the ratings was Desperate Housewives, originally pitched to HBO and turned down by Carolyn Strauss. Two things kept The Wire alive. Simon refused to give up. The show built a reputation that only paid off after it had ended. People bought the DVDs and told their friends. The show that almost died five times became the one everyone said you had to watch. The greatest show in television history got five seasons out of a network trying to cancel it after every one.

@paulg ”We should be optimistic not because our problems are smaller than we thought, but because our capacity to solve them is larger than we thought.” warpnews.org/premium-conten…

There is nothing more powerful than well-informed optimism. It has to be well-informed though. The "everything will be fine" type of optimism may also be somewhat useful, but it's not as useful as the "Hmm, what if we tried x?" kind.

For the first time, Ukraine has managed to hit the Moscow oil refinery, the most protected facility in the country - multiple strikes.

Fulltankad för under 100 lappen. Elbil är överlägset i dom flesta anseenden. Och man slipper dessutom vara beroende av skurkstats juice.

@RaminNasibov ”Ocean view”

better than nothing

The Draghi Report is taken around the Aachen Cathedral

Nothing under the sun is new

"We do not, however, find statistically significant evidence supporting the hypothesis that an increased rate of AI-generated text on the internet decreases factual accuracy or stylistic diversity." ai-on-the-internet.github.io