Khazbi Budunov

It’s striking how we’ve come to think of free trade as a right-wing idea, when in fact it was the left that originally championed it as a project that was supposed to put an end to endless wars and empires. Even the Communist Manifesto itself reads as a genuine paean to free trade. A remarkably interesting book with a far from conventional take on the history of free trade.

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Why AI is No Longer Just a Tool | Branko Milanovic on the Future of Labor youtube.com/shorts/1hZy1_8…

A former model has revealed she is having an affair with Italy’s interior minister Find more about the new crisis Giorgia Meloni has to navigate a week after she lost a referendum ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Italian prosecutors just uncovered that Dior pays only $57 to produce bags retailing for $2,780!!! Anyone buying “luxury” bags is an idiot 🤣

I cannot fully understand this. There is no doubt in my mind that black-and-white movies are more powerful than color movies. But while the film is going on, I simply do not notice it. It is only when it is over and I think of it that I realize that black-and-white is stronger. Yet why would less information be better than more?

@BrankoMilan Less information can produce a stronger effect because it reduces noise and enhances interpretation.

The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday

Невероятно, сколько разнообразных качественных высокотехнологичных товаров производит Яндекс Фабрика 🏭 …в Китае.

1972 ➡️2026 Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II

The UK is no longer a serious country. How did that happen?

''In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.'' -John Maynard Keynes

This pic of Chair Jerome and Prof Katz (and @jasonfurman!) has so much meme potential (👀@KhoaVuUmn)

Если честно, я считаю приемлемыми уже примерно все варианты развития событий, не включающие применение ядерного оружия или создание условий для его применения в результате старых или поводов для эскалации. Мои стандарты упали на самое дно, ни о каком светлом будущем и речи нет.

Students of the Leningrad Polytechnic. Sudak, summer 1957. Soviet students preferred to spend their vacations by the sea; their stipends were enough for everything. Simple, pleasant faces, simple yet stylish clothing.

GPT-5.4 Pro continues to be the only model of its class. For anything really hard & complex, I throw it into the maw with every bit of context I can think of. More often than not, something very useful comes out. I can't get the same results from Codex or Code or anything else.

Cognitive dissonance in the European media is extraordinary. They run on the very same day articles showing total incompetence, corruption and huge losses of the Russian Army. and then... on the same site, articles how Europe must get militarized, prepared & spend billions because otherwise Russians will conquer them in a week.

everything is programming

EBITDA (2026 edition): Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs, and Donald Announcements.