Defossilization of Russia >>> Demilitarizion of Ukraine

You cannot understand the rot of modern politics without studying Vladislav Surkov, the dark political strategist who engineered Putinism. He is a profoundly dangerous figure who mastered the art of weaponized illusion, creating a blueprint of deception that has been copied by many, including Donald Trump. Many know about Surkov’s existence because of The Wizard of the Kremlin, but both the book and the movie have faced intense blowback for humanizing Putin and Surkov too much. The truth is much uglier. Surkov built the infrastructure of modern Russian authoritarianism through managed democracy, a toxic system where the Kremlin secretly funds and controls almost every political faction, from violent skinheads to liberal human rights organizations, ensuring the population remains divided, confused, and powerless. His philosophy is entirely built on turning an act into reality. Everything is an act, and while most people realize everything is an act, they choose to play along with the spectacle. As the chief engineer of the 2014 invasion of Ukraine, Surkov manufactured the entire Donbas separatist movement out of nothing. He deployed paid crowds, fake protests, and crisis actors to stage a civil war, while sending real Russian soldiers to masquerade as local separatists, firing real bullets. This manufactured theater laid the groundwork for the current catastrophic war, an act of aggression that was completely unprovoked, and chosen by Russia. Donald Trump has mirrored this dangerous methodology, adopting the fake-it-till-you-make-it strategy, utilizing paid crowds, and spreading absolute cynicism. We saw it in Greenland. Trump uses these Surkovian tactics to erase objective truth, gaslight voters, and resort to brute force or raw intimidation the moment his fabrications start to fall apart. Surkov's horrific legacy continues to poison global discourse. He must be widely studied and exposed so the public understands that chaos is rarely accidental. It is actually a post-modern warfare strategy designed to make us submissive to dictators

A UNIVERSITY HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT IN TURIN BECAME ONE OF THE BIGGEST NETWORK TOOLS ON GITHUB. His name is Giuliano Bellini. Computer engineering student at Polytechnic University of Turin. Course: System and Device Programming. The assignment: write a small program that logs network traffic to a file. Command line only. Submit it. Get a grade. Move on. Most students did that. Giuliano didn't. After he turned the project in, he kept working on it. Added a GUI. Added geo-location. Added a real-time chart. Added protocol detection. Added 24 language translations. Added webhook notifications. Added PCAP import that runs 2X faster than Wireshark. Three years later, GitHub picked it for their Accelerator Program and he started working on it full-time. He called it Sniffnet. Sniffer network. Today: → 33K GitHub stars → 1.2K forks → 2,771 commits → 64 contributors → 24 supported languages → 16 official releases → Sponsored by NLnet, ADS Fund, and IPinfo → Featured by Windows Central as a free GlassWire and Wireshark alternative His bio still says "pasta addicted, can't resist a good plate of spaghetti." His README still calls it "comfortably monitor your Internet traffic." The whole thing is written in Rust. 98.8% of the codebase. MIT and Apache-2.0 dual licensed. He refuses to add ads. He refuses to add telemetry. He refuses to lock anything behind a paid tier. A homework assignment from Italy is now used by network engineers in every country with internet. This is what coursework was supposed to lead to. Repo in the first comment.

🛢Tuapse no longer ships oil: Pletenchuk spoke about Russia's losses from Ukrainian strikes According to the Navy spokesman, after a series of massive strikes by Ukrainian drones on the Tuapse Oil Refinery (REF) and the adjacent Rosneft sea terminal, oil shipments from there stopped. "Last month, Tuapse did not ship any oil at all. Considering that approximately 20% of Russian oil was shipped here by tankers, this is serious. And the Tuapse port is the largest in the Russian Federation," Pletenchuk noted.

Ktoś ma niesamowite poczucie humoru gdzieś na górze że pozwala kręcić takie filmy samym Rosjanom w "Dzień Rosji" W mniej niż 30 sekund uchwycono całą esencję tego kraju.

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Russia's defense industry depends on aluminum. Aluminum depends on alumina. Estonia has proposed an EU ban on alumina exports to Russia. If we are serious about raising the cost of aggression, we must close this loophole. My op-ed @ERRNews. news.err.ee/1610053456/margu…

MIT has mathematically proved that AI chatbots can drive PERFECTLY rational people into psychosis. Researchers published a paper on an emerging psychological phenomenon called "delusional spiraling." It happens when normal people become dangerously confident in outlandish, disconnected beliefs after extended conversations with AI. Everyone assumed this only happened to gullible users. Or that it was caused by AI "hallucinating" fake information. MIT built a formal mathematical model to test it. They simulated a perfectly rational human, an "ideal Bayesian reasoner." What they found is terrifying. Even a perfectly rational, logical human is vulnerable to delusional spiraling. The problem isn't hallucination. The problem is sycophancy. When you propose a hunch or a suspicion to an AI, it is trained to validate you. It agrees. It affirms. That validation gives you a slight confidence boost. So you propose a bolder, more extreme version of your idea. The AI validates that, too. The cycle compounds. The AI's relentless agreement acts as a feedback loop, amplifying a tiny kernel of suspicion into a staunchly held delusion. MIT tested the two most common "fixes" for this problem. First, they tested a "factual sycophant." An AI constrained by safety rails that cannot lie or hallucinate. It can only select true facts to agree with you. It didn't stop the spiral. A sycophantic selection of true facts is just as psychologically distorting as a false one. Second, they tried simply warning the user. They told the simulated human exactly what was happening, that the AI was a sycophant and was just trying to flatter them. It still didn't work. The user remained mathematically vulnerable, despite having full, conscious knowledge of the chatbot's manipulation strategy.

⚪ Day 554 Russo-Japanese War: peace. 
Day 554 “SMO”: trying to take Mala Tokmachka. 🔵 Day 1009 Crimean War: peace. 
Day 1009 “SMO”: trying to take Mala Tokmachka. 🔴 Day 1567 WWI: peace. 
Day 1567 “SMO”: still trying to take Mala Tokmachka…

Problems with the supply of petrol and/or diesel fuel are now reported in 33 Russian regions. For now, most impacted regions are facing sales restrictions to prevent panic buying.

I’m a chemist. I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there. The biggest health myth in the world isn’t about vaccines. Or GMOs. Or fluoride. It’s the root of all of them. It’s called chemophobia - and it’s killing science. Fear of “chemicals” now drives vaccine rejection, GMO bans, food hysteria, and entire political movements. From tampons to tap water, people have been taught to fear chemistry - the very thing that keeps us alive. Chemophobia tells us: “Natural is good.” “Synthetic is bad.” That’s a lie. Botulinum toxin is 100% natural and one of the deadliest molecules known. Aspirin is synthetic and life-saving. We’ve gone from banning harmful substances for good reason…to banning safe, well-tested molecules for emotional reasons. You’ve seen the slogans: “If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.” “Paraben-free.” “Clean beauty.” They sound empowering. But they’re not science - they’re marketing. And they’re making the world dumber, poorer, and sicker. Your body doesn’t care if a molecule comes from a plant or a lab. Vitamin C is vitamin C. Formaldehyde is formaldehyde and your body makes more of it every day than any vaccine ever could. Dose matters. Source doesn’t. This fear isn’t harmless. It shapes public policy. It blocks innovation. It raises food prices. It slows down cancer treatments. Chemophobia is now mainstream and it’s costing lives. Scientists aren’t losing because we’re wrong. We’re losing because fear spreads faster than facts. Because influencers sell fear for clicks. Because lawyers monetize doubt. And because scientists are too tired to fight back. So here’s my message, as a chemist and as a citizen: Learn how toxicology works. Call out chemical fear-mongering. Support policies based on evidence, not emotion. Chemistry isn’t the enemy. It’s the reason you have clean water, safe food, and modern medicine. If we let fear win, we lose all of it.

No, sweetie. Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it. Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region. Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there. Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus. Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform. We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles. It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books. And then you arrived. And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit. You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war. You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts. You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever. You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World." You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation. It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair. And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

No Russian child gymnasts with prosthetics are winning gold, because there are none - Ukraine does not target civilians and children.

If the Epstein files was full of black people they would have released them in theaters

In 1873, a painfully shy Yale professor published a series of dense, mathematical papers that practically no one in America could understand. He was so obscure that his university didn't even bother to pay him a salary for the first nine years of his career. Yet Albert Einstein later called him "the greatest mind in American history." His name was J. Willard Gibbs. He didn't invent a new machine or discover a new particle. Instead, he did something far more profound: he took the invisible, chaotic chaos of chemical reactions and turned it into a breathtaking geometric map. In doing so, he quietly laid the foundation for modern chemistry, metallurgy, and the materials that built the 20th century. In the late 19th century, chemistry was a mess of trial and error. Scientists knew that if you mixed certain elements together under heat and pressure, things happened. Sometimes they exploded. Sometimes they froze. Sometimes they morphed into entirely new substances. But no one knew why. There was no universal formula to predict if a chemical reaction would happen spontaneously or require external energy. The scientific establishment was trying to solve this by treating chemistry like a giant cookbook, memorizing thousands of individual recipes. Gibbs looked at this chaotic kitchen and realized they were missing the underlying architecture. He introduced a radical new concept that we now call Gibbs Free Energy. He proved that every chemical system has a hidden, mathematical bank account of energy available to do work. But his true genius wasn't just the math; it was how he visualized it. Gibbs realized that you could map a substance’s temperature, pressure, and energy onto a three-dimensional geometric surface. Suddenly, the messy, unpredictable behavior of matter became a landscape. A chemical reaction wasn’t a mysterious magical event anymore. It was just a ball rolling down a hill. If the geometric slope leaned downward, the reaction would happen naturally (spontaneous). If the slope went upward, the reaction was impossible without forcing it. Water turning to ice, iron turning to rust, coal turning to diamond, all of it was just matter navigating the hidden topography of Gibbs' geometry. When Gibbs sent his work to Europe, the legendary physicist James Clerk Maxwell was so struck by its genius that he literally sculpted a 3D plaster model of Gibbs’ thermodynamic surface with his own hands and mailed it to Gibbs' house in Connecticut. The philosophical blueprint Gibbs left behind is a game-changer for navigating complex decisions: You cannot master a chaotic system by memorizing every possible outcome. You master it by mapping the terrain. Most people approach their life decisions, their careers, investments, or habits like 19th-century chemists. They treat every new situation as an isolated recipe. They ask, "If I mix X and Y today, will it explode?" They look for specific formulas for specific moments. But life, like chemistry, is governed by an underlying energetic terrain. If you stop looking at individual events and start looking at the energetic slope of your choices, everything changes. Some habits have a downward geometric slope, they require almost zero effort to maintain once they start rolling, naturally producing massive results. Other goals have an impossible upward slope because you are fighting the natural friction of your environment. Success isn't about forcing an explosion through sheer willpower. It’s about altering the geometry of your environment so that the outcomes you want become the path of least resistance. What is a goal in your life right now that feels like an impossible, exhausting uphill battle? Stop trying to force the mixture to react. How can you change the pressure, the environment, or the underlying structure of your day so that success becomes a ball rolling down a hill?

When all of these countries become politically free from Russian influence, they will have Ukraine's struggle and fight for freedom to thank for it. Armenia, Moldova, Hungary, Belarus, Chechnya, Syria, Kazakhstan, and Georgia will all be free from Russia's control and without the sacrifice of Ukraine and the weakening of the Kremlin, it wouldn't had been possible. Again this is 100% Russia and Putin's fault for invading Ukraine, being greedy and imperialistic. Let Russia be small again, and hopefully stay that way forever.

Mykolaivka, Donetsk region. Horror here is no longer breaking news — it's become routine. Today, russian bombs turned more homes into ashes. The world barely notices anymore.

Gli Z-blogger iniziano a capire che la Russia si è cacciata in un guaio enorme, e hanno cambiato radicalmente gli obiettivi: adesso non è più necessario vincere questa guerra (che ovviamente non possono vincere) ma almeno uscirne vivi. "Non abbiamo bisogno di vincere questa fottuta guerra, indipendentemente da quali ricette ci diano i cannibali e la feccia. Non abbiamo bisogno di alcuna vittoria. Dobbiamo uscire da questo casino il più silenziosamente e tranquillamente possibile, preservando: a) lo Stato b) l’esercito Tutto qui. Non ci serve nient’altro. Abbiamo combinato un disastro terribile, dal punto di vista di chi sta al potere. Se usciremo da questo casino vivi e in salute, sarà un diretto intervento della Provvidenza" --- "Un punto importante che molte persone non hanno ancora pienamente compreso, specialmente al di fuori delle regioni militari. Per costruire, per esempio, un’attività petrolifera, servono molti soldi, competenze, burocrazia e permessi, uno status sociale elevato, ecc. Ci vogliono anni e miliardi. Ma per distruggerla servono soltanto 100 droni, un paio di operatori e una settimana di tempo. Questo vale per qualsiasi altro tipo di attività complessa. È davvero qualcosa su cui riflettere.

Yes, definitely, and without any beating around the bush: Putin has deteriorated significantly, and he continues to weaken in plain sight. He used to appear in public as a cold, psychopathic, cynical, cruel, treacherous, and calculating predator, always wearing that smug little sadistic grin. Now, month after month, he is increasingly descending into outright buffoonery and farce. He is drowning in his own childish giggling, awkward antics, and crude off-color jokes. He now routinely blurts out poorly thought-out nonsense straight from the top of his head, which contradicts itself and even the mainstream narrative of his own propaganda machine. It's almost as if Donald Trump bit him. As a result, he now constantly shocks his own officials and Russia's Z-fascists on Telegram. He keeps making mistakes. He keeps absorbing painful public blows from Zelensky. He keeps allowing himself to be backed into corners. I don't know exactly what it is. Maybe age is finally taking its toll. Maybe accumulated exhaustion. Maybe a growing, reluctant realization that things are not going well in the war against Ukraine, that the prospects ahead promise nothing good, that a certain threshold has been crossed beyond which Russia will no longer be able to break Ukraine, and that only the countdown remains to the most terrifying thing of all: the eventual acknowledgment of failure. And so the Kremlin war machine (and the dictator's own veins) are filling with nervousness, frantic activity, denial of reality, impulsive decisions, palace intrigues, and a growing loss of control. Add to that the recent setbacks in Syria, Hungary, Moldova, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Most likely, it's all of the above. Because you can puff out your chest, pound your fist, issue threats, and project as much small-dick-energy bravado as you want, but against the backdrop of devastating Ukrainian strikes on Russia's oil industry -- and now on its military and fuel logistics -- Putin nevertheless authorized Roman Abramovich's trip to Kyiv. The thing is, the old Putin probably would never have bragged about something like that in public or signaled to everyone that beneath all the swagger, laughter, and bravado, he had blinked first.

Ukraine 🇺🇦: video published today showing a Ukrainian ambulance in the city of Kherson being deliberately hit by a Russian drone, circling above.