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One does not simply become a drone housewife
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iGor
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iGor รีทวีตแล้ว
The West already tried this approach between 1991 and 2022. It didn’t work.
Post-war russia needs a Nuremberg, not connectivity and EU visas.
Article: foreignaffairs.com/russia/europes…
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iGor รีทวีตแล้ว
BREAKING: Qatar and Ukraine sign defense cooperation agreement
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/pg663c?update=…
GIF
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Turns out Zelenskyy has so many cards, he can open a shop.
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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Ukraine answered our call for help after the 9/11 attacks and deployed 5,000 soldiers despite not being in NATO.
18 Ukrainian soldiers perished.
Now while defending Europe alone from Russia, Ukraine sent drone specialists to help protect our soldiers in the Middle East.
Painful.
Department of State@StateDept
SECRETARY RUBIO: The U.S. is constantly asked to help in wars and we have. But when we had a need, it didn’t get positive responses from NATO. A couple leaders said that Iran was not Europe’s war. Well, Ukraine isn’t our war, yet we’ve contributed more to that fight than anyone.
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iGor รีทวีตแล้ว
😡 The Russian army bombed a dam on the Siversky Donets River near Raihorodok. It was part of a hydraulic structure that fed the Siversky Donets-Donbas Canal.
Now Kramatorsk, Slovyansk, and Druzhkivka will experience serious water shortages.
The destruction of the dam served no military purpose. It was another act of terror against civilians in the Donetsk region.
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Dear @UNESCO, the word you’re searching for is Russian.
UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳@UNESCO
UNESCO is deeply alarmed by the 24 March strikes that hit a building in the area of Bernardine Monastery within the World Heritage property of ‘L’viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre’. @UNESCO recalls that cultural property is protected under the 1954 Hague Convention and the 1972 #WorldHeritage Convention. All parties must safeguard heritage and refrain from any acts harming cultural property. #UNESCO stands ready to support the authorities with assessments, protection measures and emergency assistance. unesco.org/en/articles/un…
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The Ukrainian labour market’s ability to keep functioning through years of active conflict is an impressive feat, writes Sarah O’Connor — and the data shows how. ft.trib.al/wobJ7az
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@mitsuhiko Produced in India, bought in UK, company is from Sweden with HQ in Netherlands, but label in ru
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We wanted a curtain that is no longer in production from IKEA. Wife bought one from the UK. This is what arrived. Taking educated guesses how that happened.
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@NinaDSchick I mean if for team of 8 ppl, you have scrum master, ppl manager and team lead - something is definitely off
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It is hard to believe the damage this is doing to the West’s structural advantage in the AI race.
There is a strong case to be made that ASML is the primary roadblock to Chinese chip sovereignty. They are the crown jewel in the West’s (as of yet) silicon supremacy.
A few points:
1/ ASML is the ultimate geopolitical chokepoint. Without their EUV machines, the Western lead in the advanced compute race stalls.
2/ Instead of doubling down on the specialized, high-trust engineering culture that built their monopoly, leadership brought in McKinsey (!)
3/ But you cannot ‘spreadsheet’ atomic-scale physics. Stripping out this deep institutional culture for short-term efficiency metrics alienates the only engineers on earth capable of building these machines.
4/ While Washington and Beijing treat silicon as a high-stakes geopolitical arms race, the single most important company in the Western silicon supply chain is destroying itself with management consultants.
What an own goal.
Omer Cheema@OmerCheeema
I live in Eindhoven, ASML town. Heard this from folks inside... Over the years ASML promoted a lot of strong EUV people into architect roles, group leads, management tracks. Built up serious layers. Classic growth pain. Then McKinsey comes in , says cut the management layers to speed things up. So now those same high performers, real good EUV experts, who got promoted are the ones on the block. About 3400 roles targeted, mostly management. Half will be reassigned, rest gone. Big hit in Veldhoven/Eindhoven area (~1400), some in US. Unncertainty is high, unions talking, details probably land around April. At the same time, ASML is still planning massive growth. The new campus near the airport just got final green light from city council. Construction starts soon, phased build-out. Long term they talk ~20,000 new jobs in the region (first wave ~5k by 2028). And the layoff packages are subpar. Philips is also based in the same town. And they had layoffs due to serious financial issues last year. Their layoff packages were much better than what ASML is offering. What a way to kill tje company culture. Especially at a time when the company is printing money.
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iGor รีทวีตแล้ว
Robotics lacks infrastructure, not intelligence.
Everyone wants to build bigger robot models, but most Physical AI papers complain about the same things:
data collection is slow, sim-to-real is fragile, teleop is painful, evaluation is messy, long-horizon control still breaks.
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By providing drone support to the Israeli regime, failed Ukraine has effectively become involved in the War and, under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, has turned its entire territory into a legitimate target for Iran.
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@mitsuhiko Oh yeah, that’s the problem I’ve encountered,
Simple but effective solution for me - agenr to witch non-engineers have access via email/slack
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If you are succeeding or failing with using coding agents at companies I would love to talk to you and share experiences. Mail or DM me!
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@SGTWipper1Each And he’s getting paid to do that job. Talk about living your best life.
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When they ask you "how low can you go?"
This is it.
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