T. Brams

Trump administration has put a 10 percent tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands…. which has a population of 0 people and is inhabited only by penguins.

The airspace between St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad, which includes the most parts of the Baltic countries, southern Finland, northern Poland and south-eastern Baltic Sea, has been exposed to strong GPS jamming and spoofing for 60 days in a row. GPS jamming map and information: flightradar24.com/data/gps-jammi…

🇬🇧UK ARRESTS MORE PEOPLE THAN RUSSIA FOR SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS Wait…what?! Source: @KonstantinKisin

Nothing to see here. Just perfectly normal russian bottom trawling back and forth repeatedly just on top of the main fiber optic internet cable between Svalbard and the Norwegian mainland. From NRK.

He knows what he’s talking about

How do you incubate a mind virus? How do you cause a culture to self-destruct? In 1984, this KGB defector exposed the 4-stages identified by Soviet intelligence as the necessary steps to cause the psychological implosion of American society. Stage 1: Demoralization (15–20 yrs)

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000 years, we can finally read the scrolls: This image was produced by @Youssef_M_Nader, @LukeFarritor, and @JuliSchillij, who have now won the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000. Congratulations!! These fifteen columns come from the very end of the first scroll we have been able to read and contain new text from the ancient world that has never been seen before. The author – probably Epicurean philosopher Philodemus – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life's pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who "have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular." This year, the Vesuvius Challenge continues. The text that we revealed so far represents just 5% of one scroll. In 2024, our goal is to from reading a few passages of text to entire scrolls, and we're announcing a new $100,000 grand prize for the first team that is able to read at least 90% of all four scrolls that we have scanned. The scrolls stored in Naples that remain to be read represent more than 16 megabytes of ancient text. But the villa where the scrolls were found was only partially excavated, and scholars tell us that there may be thousands more scrolls underground. Our hope is that the success of the Vesuvius Challenge catalyzes the excavation of the villa, that the main library is discovered, and that whatever we find there rewrites history and inspires all of us. It's been a great joy to work on this strange and amazing project. Thanks to Brent Seales for laying the foundation for this work over so many years, thanks to the friends and Twitter users whose donations powered our effort, and thanks to the many contestants whose contributions have made the Vesuvius Challenge successful! Read more in our announcement: scrollprize.org/grandprize

Japan Airlines flight JL516, an Airbus A350-941, collided with a Coast Guard plane at Haneda Airport: twitter.com/i/status/17421…

I wrote this comic on July 12, 1989 (the first year of Dilbert).

@hiragananinja Believe it or not - I miss that...

台風 taifu is coming

i miss whatever foreign policy this was

What we need is TruthGPT

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Every Japanese has family crest (家紋 kamon) 🇯🇵😎 Which family crest do you like??

Ho-ly shit! Russian propaganda about Russians moving to the U.S… It’s too fucking much 🤣😅

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What new series is a “must watch” right now and why? Need to distract my mind. Go!

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