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Many experts in Europe didn't see Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine coming and are now once again making the false claim about Russia's kinetic war on Europe. Russia doesn't have the military might to wage war on Europe. Yet, Putin regards Europe is a weak opponent which can be beaten by full-scale hybrid warfare. Putin officially launched this hybrid warfare on February 24, 2022. Whether many Europeans like to admit it or not, it's irrelevant, as we have been in this non-kinetic war (war by other means) with Russia since then. Here are some concrete examples how Russia is fighting against Europe. There are many more tools on the plate. It's time for Europeans to get their act together. 👇

A Oxford PhD student got flagged for submitting AI-generated work. His advisor called it the most sophisticated research process he had seen in 20 years. The student had not used AI to write a single word. Here is the workflow that got him reported. He starts every essay with a diagnostic he calls brutal. He dumps his rough argument into Claude and asks one question: what are the three weakest logical jumps in this reasoning, and where would a hostile examiner attack first? The AI does not write his essay. It destroys his draft, and then he rebuilds from whatever survives. Most students using AI are doing the opposite. They hand Claude a topic and ask it to write. He hands Claude his thinking and asks it to find every place where that thinking falls apart. The difference between those two approaches is the difference between outsourcing your brain and sharpening it. The second step is the one that made his advisor go quiet. He uploads the five most important papers in his field alongside his draft and asks Claude what claims in his argument contradict or oversimplify what these authors actually found. Most PhD students cite papers they have skimmed once. He cites papers he has been forced to genuinely reckon with, because Claude keeps catching the places where he got them wrong. The final move is almost unfair. Before he submits anything, he pastes his conclusion and runs one more prompt. He asks what a philosopher of science would say is missing from this argument and what assumptions he is making that he has not defended. His essays come back from reviewers with phrases like unusually rigorous and demonstrates rare critical depth, and his committee has no idea that the depth came from a machine asking him harder questions than any human in his department was willing to ask. The academic integrity hearing lasted three hours. The panel asked him to rebuild his methodology from scratch in the room. He opened his laptop and showed them exactly how the workflow ran, prompt by prompt. They did not just clear him. They gave him the highest grade in the department's history and asked him to present the process to faculty. Here is what that story actually means. What took most PhD candidates six months of back-and-forth with advisors, he was compressing into a single session because he had figured out something almost nobody else has. AI does not make your thinking better by replacing it. It makes your thinking better by attacking it faster than any human critic ever would. He was not using AI to write. He was using it to think harder than he could alone. The tool is the same one everyone has. The workflow is the part nobody is teaching.

Trumps is the new Nancy Pelosi

Maddow: So in January, Trump buys hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Nvidia. Then a week later, his commerce department approves the sale of Nvidia chips to China.  Also in January, Trump buys between 50,000 and $100,000 worth of stock in AMD. One week after he buys it, his commerce department approves AMD doing business in China as well.  The following month, in February, Trump buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell. Nine days after he buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell, Trump veers off script in a speech in Georgia to tell the crowd literally, quote, go out and buy a Dell computer.  Then in March, Judd Legum at Popular Information reports that Trump repeatedly buys up Thermo Fisher stock, and then he goes and visits Thermo Fisher on a presidential visit and praises the company. That same day, Trump bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Apple. And then that same day he bought the stock, he did another event where he singled out Apple and Apple CEO Tim cook for praise. Apple a great company. Then after that, Trump buys Micron stock. The very next day, he calls into the Fox News channel and tells them Micron is one of the hottest companies. CNBC reporting Trump makes seven separate purchases of Palantir stock. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Palantir stock. Then he gets on truth social and praises Palantir.

BREAKING: Trump just told you exactly what happens when this war ends. "The stock market will go through the roof." "Inflation will go way down." > Hormuz reopens. Oil crashes. > Oil crashes. Inflation drops. > Inflation drops. Rate cuts accelerate. > Rate cuts accelerate. Liquidity floods markets. > Liquidity floods markets. Everything pumps. Trump has been playing chess this entire time. Close Hormuz. Break Iran. Open Hormuz. Collect the reward. The war is 70-75% complete. The finish line is closer than anyone realizes. When it ends. Everything reprices at once. Stocks. Crypto. Risk assets. All of it. Through the roof.

Europe is swinging from Arctic frosts to near-35°C heat within days. Some parts will warm by ~15°C in a week. Agriculture does not thrive under violent thermal instability. Ecosystems depend on stability, not a whiplash. This is what climate instability looks like in practice.

JD Vance tells a Polish reporter he's "overreacting" to news that Trump is scrapping a planned deployment to his country and tells him to "look in the mirror"