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@WojPawelczyk 1. Not expansion but enlargement.
2. The answer why all those countries wanted to join NATO is here:
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We had the model (Sonnet 4.5) read stories where characters experienced emotions. By looking at which neurons activated, we identified emotion vectors: patterns of neural activity for concepts like “happy” or “calm.” These vectors clustered in ways that mirror human psychology.
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We studied one of our recent models and found that it draws on emotion concepts learned from human text to inhabit its role as “Claude, the AI Assistant”. These representations influence its behavior the way emotions might influence a human.
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Chordify just taught me how to play along with "The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore"! chordify.net/chords/the-who…
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Crazy footage shows the moment a Russian FPV drone intercepted a Ukrainian DARTS recon drone by impaling the battery pack and causing a mid-air fire.
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Prezident Zelenskyj přistál v Abú Zabí a podepsal s prezidentem MBZ dohodu o obranné spolupráci, která otřese celou ekonomikou moderní války.
Ukrajina nabízí státům Perského zálivu **1 000 dronových interceptorů Sting denně** za 2 100 USD za kus. Každý z nich nahrazuje Patriot, který stojí 3,9 milionu USD a který SAE (i ostatní) pálí proti íránským Shahedům jako o život.
Přečtěte si to znovu. Země, kterou Amerika odmítala vyzbrojit dost rychle, teď vyzbrojuje americké spojence zbraní, která je **1 857× levnější** než ta, kterou Amerika nedokáže vyrábět dost rychle.
Zelenskyj řekl novinářům (The National, 27. 3.): „Rádi bychom tiše dostali Patrioty, kterých máme nedostatek, a dali jim odpovídající počet interceptorů.“ Dohoda s UAE byla potvrzena 28. března. Jedenáct zemí už oficiálně žádalo ukrajinskou expertizu na drony. Přes 228 ukrajinských vojenských specialistů je už nasazeno v UAE, Kataru, Saúdské Arábii, Kuvajtu a Jordánsku.
**Matematika, která by měla vyděsit každého nákupčího v Pentagonu:**
USA vystřílely 943 Patriotů během prvních čtyř dnů íránské války – to je 18 měsíců roční produkce Lockheed Martinu za 96 hodin. Náklady: 3,68 miliardy USD jen na obranu. Írán vyrábí 10 000 Shahedů měsíčně (Reuters). Každý za 20–50 tisíc USD. Poměr nákladů 114:1 ve prospěch Íránu (Military Times).
Ukrajinský Sting to úplně obrací. Za 2 100 USD klesá poměr z 114:1 proti USA na přibližně 10:1 proti Íránu. Ukrajina dokáže dodat 30 000 kusů měsíčně proti íránským 10 000. Poprvé v této válce má obránce vyšší výrobní kapacitu než útočník – a za zlomek ceny.
A země, která tuhle zbraň vyvinula, je přesně ta, kterou Trump veřejně odmítl: „Ne, nepomáhají. Nepotřebujeme jejich pomoc. O dronech víme víc než kdokoli jiný.“ A znovu: „Poslední člověk, od kterého potřebujeme pomoc, je Zelenskyj.“
Zatímco Pentagon přesměrovává 750 milionů USD v Patriotech určených pro Ukrajinu do Zálivu, Zelenskyj nabízí stejný výsledek za 2 100 USD a s výrobou 1 000 kusů denně.
**2 100dolarový dron je nejdůležitější zbraň této války.**
A země, která ho vyrobila, je přesně ta, kterou Amerika řekla, že nepotřebuje.
Ukrajina se z žadatele o pomoc stala dodavatelem řešení, které Západ zoufale potřebuje. To není jen obchod – to je geopolitický game-changer.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
BREAKING: Zelensky just landed in the UAE and signed a defence cooperation agreement with President MBZ. The deal on the table changes everything about this war. Ukraine is offering Gulf states 1,000 drone interceptors per day. Each Sting interceptor costs $2,100. Each Patriot missile it replaces costs $3.9 million. In exchange, Ukraine wants the Patriot missiles the Gulf states are burning through, because Kyiv cannot get enough of them to stop Russian missiles. Read that again. The country America refused to arm fast enough is now arming America’s allies with a weapon that costs 1,857 times less than the one America cannot produce fast enough. The National reported on March 27 that Zelensky told reporters: “We’d like to quietly receive the Patriot missiles we have a deficit of, and give them a corresponding number of interceptors.” AFP confirmed the UAE agreement on March 28. Eleven countries have formally requested Ukraine’s drone defence expertise per Zelensky’s own count. Over 200 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan. Here is the arithmetic that should terrify every Pentagon procurement officer on earth. The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors in the first four days of the Iran war per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post. That is eighteen months of Lockheed Martin’s annual production consumed in 96 hours. Each of those 943 shots cost $3.9 million. Total expenditure: $3.68 billion in four days on defensive interceptions alone. Iran produces 10,000 Shahed drones per month per Reuters. Each drone costs $20,000 to $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Ukraine’s Sting interceptor inverts this arithmetic entirely. At $2,100, the cost ratio flips from 114-to-1 against America to roughly 10-to-1 against Iran. Ukraine can supply 1,000 per day. That is 30,000 per month against Iran’s 10,000 Shaheds per month. For the first time in this war, the defender’s production rate exceeds the attacker’s production rate at a fraction of the cost. And the country that built this weapon is the same country that Trump publicly rejected. “No, they are not helping. We do not need their help. We know more about drones than anyone else” per Fox News. He doubled down: “The last person we need help from is Zelensky.” Meanwhile the Pentagon notified Congress of plans to redirect $750 million in Ukraine-bound Patriot missiles to Gulf states per House of Saud reporting. America is simultaneously refusing Ukraine’s cheap solution and cannibalising Ukraine’s expensive one. Zelensky framed this explicitly. He told The National: “No matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air-defence systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defence.” He told the UK Parliament: “When it comes to shooting down massive Shahed attacks, only Ukrainian experience can really help with this today.” The Pentagon is spending $3.9 million per interception, raiding Swiss fighter jet accounts to cover shortfalls, and diverting Ukraine’s own Patriot supply to the Gulf. Zelensky is offering the same result for $2,100 and producing 1,000 units per day. The market has a word for this kind of disruption. The $2,100 drone is the most important weapon in this war. And the country that built it is the one America said it did not need. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Maternity ward in Odesa. Again.
The hardest was evacuating newborn twins on ventilators.
When Russian Shaheds attacked, doctors moved 33 pregnant women and 19 newborns to safety in a bomb shelter.
Then helped put out the fire.
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Nová vláda přináší nové šance. Té své se chopila i agrární, myslivecká, rybářská a dřevařská lobby a svolává jednání v parlamentu k debatě o přiškrcení ochrany přírody.
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Ukrainian interceptor drones come with names you won’t find in any branding guidelines.
When the environment gets brutal, humor gets brutal too – because it’s what keeps people going.
It seems Ukrainian companies are now competing in dark humor when it comes to naming. Here are a few examples of popular interceptor drones:
• P1-SUN (Pisun – literally “dick” in Ukrainian slang) – SkyFall
• UEB-1 (from slang meaning fucker or someone who will fuck you up / hit you hard) – OSIRIS AI
• D1L-Duck (wordplay referencing a big dildo – yeah, exactly that) – Falcons
At first glance, this might seem like a very specific approach to branding. But in reality, it reflects the environment they’re built in – fast, brutal, and very real.
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Průjezd Hormuzem funguje. Ale jinak než dřív.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
JUST IN: The Strait of Hormuz is open. It has been open every day since February 28. The IRGC never closed it. What the IRGC did is convert 21 miles of international waterway into a permissioned gate with a toll booth, a vetting process, and a guest list. Traffic has collapsed 70 to 80 percent. But the handful of tankers that transit each day do so with IRGC clearance, paid in yuan or USDT, at $2 million to $4 million per vessel. The process is now documented. A tanker operator contacts an IRGC-linked intermediary. The operator submits vessel ownership, flag state, cargo manifest, destination, crew list, and AIS transponder data. The IRGC runs background checks: no US-linked ownership, no Israeli cargo, no flagging to aggressor states. If approved, a toll is negotiated. Payment is executed in cash, Chinese yuan, or USDT on the Tron network. The IRGC issues VHF radio clearance with a specific time window and route through Iranian territorial waters near Larak Island, where IRGC Navy performs visual confirmation. The vessel transits. No physical escort is provided. The “protection” is the removal of the interdiction threat. You are safe because the entity that would attack you has decided not to. China passes. India passes. Pakistan, Turkey, Malaysia, Iraq, Bangladesh pass. Shadow fleet operators aligned with Russia pass. Not all pay the full toll. Some receive exemptions through government-to-government arrangements. Some pay reduced rates. Some pay nothing because the geopolitical alignment is payment enough. The system is not a blockade. It is a membership club with a cover charge denominated in currencies that are not the US dollar. And here is what nobody is covering. Lloyd’s of London and the international insurance market have withdrawn standard hull and machinery coverage for Hormuz transits. War-risk policies now carry premiums of up to 5 percent of vessel value, $5 million for a $100 million tanker, per voyage. But the actuarial models that price those premiums now incorporate IRGC vetting status as a risk-reduction variable. If a vessel can prove it has paid the toll and received VHF clearance, the probability of loss drops from above 20 percent to below 5 percent. The same models that price hurricane risk and earthquake exposure are now pricing IRGC compliance as a safety factor. The insurance industry has done something no government intended: it has formalised IRGC authority over the strait in actuarial mathematics. A tanker that pays the toll is insurable. A tanker that does not is stranded. Dozens of vessels sit outside the strait right now, unable to transit because no underwriter will cover them. The insurance withdrawal is not a market reaction. It is a structural enforcement mechanism that makes IRGC permission the prerequisite for commercial shipping. Every toll paid in yuan is a barrel that settled outside the dollar system. Every USDT transaction on Tron is a 3-second settlement bypassing SWIFT and sanctions. Iran’s parliament is drafting legislation to formalise the toll as “security compensation.” If that bill passes, ad-hoc extortion becomes sovereign law, and the precedent for chokepoint monetisation enters the international legal framework. Gold watches from the side. Spot prices muted at $5,000 to $5,400 by dollar strength and rising yields, while central banks in China, Russia, and India quietly accumulate on every dip. The short-term safe-haven has not fired. The long-term de-dollarization trade is loading. The strait is open. The molecules move. But only for those who pay the toll, in the currency the toll booth accepts, after the vetting the toll booth requires. The rest wait. The clocks tick. Saturday arrives. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Anyone who thought creating the largest internal security force in the country, answering only to the president, was for anything else hasn’t been paying attention.
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Steve Bannon: “We can use this, ICE helping at airports, as a test run, a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms. Mike Davis: “I think we should have ICE agents at the polling places” Saying the quiet part out loud.
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