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When he goes to confession, his priest has a security clearance.
His kompromat on the KGB is the reason they had to rebrand.
Customs officers declare things to him.
His cover is so deep, his handlers ask him who they work for.
The Russian winter checks his forecast.
He has been sanctioned by three countries. Two of them apologized.
He once bought a small European nation. On layaway.
His enemies have photographed him in many compromising positions. All of them flattering.
He is the most interesting asset in Russia.
Stay liquid, my friends.
I guess this would be a real fear for most people. I can't even imagine. My SAHM is gonna be making $90/hr as my personal assistant at the family business (which my kids may or may not also work for). I'll make us both filthy rich together. WTF would she need to job search for?
Learning Spanish will help you understand Russian better.
In Russian, завут (zavoot) and нравится (nravitsya) work the same as Spanish "llamo" and "gusta".
You don't say "I like X" you say "X pleases me". And you don't say "My name is X" you say "I'm called X".
Another prediction you can bookmark:
You're going to see a massive divide in the computer science profession. We can't let go of automation, it's too profitable. But open connectivity is just too risky.
Obviously the frontier of AI will continue forever. This is the growing sector that will not slow down. Businesses will push more AI-first production, especially in media production, and later into robotics.
But the more physical it gets, and the more it interacts with sensitive things like finances or classified info, the risk will get too great. Energy companies are off-the-table. They can't do it. Companies will be using air-gapped systems that need admins that know how to maintain things WITHOUT AI. That means knowing how to do (almost) everything BY HAND, even if Claude could fix it for you if you asked. No "Claude, stand me up a new Linux server." No, YOU do it. Claude isn't here. This is too specialized to be useful to AI-first companies, and it's unlikely anyone can effectively pursue both effectively. This will divide the career paths.
I do NOT predict that all companies will just run local models, even if open-weight Chinese AI puts all the closed-source stuff out of business. Air-gapped self-hosted models might be used, but to do this on the same level is simply not cost-effective. For all the shit Sam Altman gets for saying it, he is correct: It's wildly inefficient for people to own their own RAM rather than just pay for using datacenter cycles on-demand.
I STRONGLY recommend in either case that you avoid investing in learning programming. This career path is nearly dead. All code will be written by AI soon. But systems still need administrated, networks need run, physical hardware needs plugged. Networking may or may not be able to be managed by local AI models. it's not super complicated. So I'd treat that as important background, not high-priority.
From the 🇷🇺 spy dispatches:
I had a similar experience when asking a language teacher about the words for cuts of meat, since I want to go to a butcher and get some good steak and pork chops. She wasn't sure what I was asking when I asked about flank stakes and top sirloin. So I ran a couple examples through the translator and brought her the English and Russian words together. "I want to learn these words in Russian." I said. She just shrugged and said she didn't know what those Russian words were either. Apparently she doesn't cook with beef very often.
I don't fault her for that, but it does kind of show the advantages to working with not just a good teacher but also a master of the target language. I can't teach low-level English (yet) because my Russian is still too poor. I have to teach classes in English. However, I can teach EXTREMELY high-level English because I'm not just "fluent". I'm also quite familiar with a lot of English etymology, I know the jargon for a number of professions and trades and specialty subjects, and I have a decently sized thesaurus in my head. Someone can be "fluent" in English but still not be that level.
I have an English student these days, and I was going over different words we can use to generate a different tone or have different implications. We were talking about, for example, different ways to talk about your children. I brought up the word "descendants". I asked him what he thought it meant. I asked him if he knew the word "descend", which literally means "to come down from". That's where the word comes. It's the people what "come down from" you. By knowing these details we can use words he already knows to teach other words and sometimes identify their meaning without needing a dictionary. You won't get things like this from just an average English speaker.
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Y'all know what "break ranks" means, right?
It comes from military terminology. It means to leave your position in a formation, either to maverick or run away. It was punished severely because breaking the formation causes everyone who says to fucking DIE.
That's literally what these mutineers are advocating. They're running away to make sure the rest of us who stay fighting end up dead while they enjoy safety, and even mock us for staying in the fight and getting slaughtered (because of them).
I’ve seen what happens when Republican sit out elections to “teach us a lesson.”
Democrats take power and start passing the most insane legislation you never thought possible and then those same people who sat out the election get furious and want to know what someone else is going to do about it.
Every. Single. Time.
I told you I'd make a great puppet emperor of Estonia. Look what has happened under my rule. Become world-renowned.
We might have one year left before nobody has ever even heard of a 'citation', let along received information directly from a source.
Better hope AI stops making mistakes, because it's all anyone will know in six months.
Good job security for those with existing BG knowledge.
For all its evil flaws, Anthropic has been PHENOMENAL at helping users cut down on usage. I'll bet it's literally using 10% the compute it was 10 months ago for the same results.
Anyone who thinks that doing nice things for people gets you anywhere should hold some sort of public position. You have to be truly altruistic, legacy-driven, or autistic. Because it's a truly thankless job no matter how good or evil you are.
People love you for having things they want. That's not necessarily the same as giving it to them. To be loved is to become irreplacable.
This an more here:
teapawt.org/HighRiskAsset/status/2…
AI is being used as intended: To make increasingly addictive viral unverified clickbait about real-world disasters for attention-farm profiteering.
As a side effect, it's also been hijacked to make plane crash truther videos for Groypers to copy-paste under news reports.
I asked Grok @bot to explain what happened to the Learjet 60 that crashed in Palm Beach County.
It synced the real flight data to the MAYDAY call on the ATC audio, showing a descent of about 20,000 feet per minute.
Nine people were lost. Praying for their families.
The NTSB hasn't named a cause yet.
What do you think happened?
From the 🇷🇺 spy dispatches:
I like fried sweet potatoes. It's kind of a southern thing in the USA. I'm from the north, but I found that they're really tasty.
In Russia, I tried to ask of they have fried sweet potatoes instead of french fries at some restaurants. "Sweet potato" literally would be something like "sladkiy kartofel". Everyone asks me "What's that?" Okay, so they don't use those terms here. So I asked around. Nobody knew what a sweet potato was to translate it for me. So I finally found them in a store. They were next to regular potatoes. And the sign over the sweet potatoes said "Batat". Okay, so the Russian word for "sweet potato" is "batat". Got it.
So I start asking people if they have batat. "What is batat?" they all ask.
It turns out that sweet potato is so uncommonly used that even using the correct Russian word for it most people STILL don't know what it is!
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Christianity had an answer for this.
The Almighty rules the universe and is under no obligation to anyone or anything- except Himself. God bends the universe to matches His word. Ever consistent and always reliable. This is the example to follow.
Modern dating has a character problem. And I think last night perfectly illustrates why.
Last Sunday, I made dinner plans with a girl for Friday at 7:30.
Friday afternoon, I texted to confirm. She said we were still on.
Great. I got off work, washed my car, and got ready for the evening.
One problem. She still hadn’t sent me her address.
At 6, I texted. Nothing.
At 7, thirty minutes before our date, I called.
She answered. Turns out she was out shopping for a Halloween costume with friends, preparing to hit the bars that very night.
Naturally, I asked about our dinner plans.
Her solution? I could join her at the bars, or she could come over to my house later.
I declined.
Now, here’s what fascinates me.
At what point did we become so obsessed with what we don’t owe other people that we forgot how we ought to treat them?
You don’t owe me affection. You don’t owe me a relationship. You don’t even owe me a second date.
But surely, somewhere between personal freedom and personal responsibility, we can agree that another person’s time deserves a little consideration.
We’ve cultivated a dating culture that celebrates independence, demands respect, preaches emotional maturity, and then treats basic courtesy as an extraordinary act of generosity.
And we wonder why people are becoming so cynical.
The tragedy isn’t that people change their minds. It’s that we’ve become increasingly comfortable disregarding others in the process.
You are free to do as you please. But freedom from obligation is not freedom from moral responsibility.
And if your decency disappears the moment it becomes inconvenient, perhaps it was never decency at all.
Perhaps it was simply convenience.
From the 🇷🇺 spy dispatches:
Here's something funny about loan-words. You know the term "Flat iron steak"? Well in Russian, they apparently call it "Флэт-айрон". If you know the Cyrilic alphabet, you'll see something odd about how they copied it. Do you see it?
They copied it letter-for-letter. So what does that mean when they go to pronounce "iron"?
That's right, they Russified the letters, not the exact pronunciation. The letter 'r' in English 'iron' is silent. But the Russians included it. So they actually say it with the 'r' sound.
I've noticed this twice now with silent 'r' words. I wonder how this happened. This is basically the same mistake made when Immigration Services translated my name to Russian. They did it letter-by-letter rather than how my name actually sounds, so now everyone mispronounces my last name when they read it off of my documents. I still need to get that fixed, but I gave up on finding an easy way to do it, so now I'm waiting til I have more money to pay a lawyer to do the work for me.
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