The Russia Guy

There are many qualities Russians and Americans share (some uncomfortable and others benign), but one thing that isn’t shared is Russians’ profound interest in their neighbors. In the U.S., events in Canada and Mexico barely register. (Maybe that’s a good thing, I dunno.)

it’s my dream that, one day, i’ll be hunted down by a CIA psychiatrist because one of my shitposts exposed a government conspiracy, and only julia roberts can save me

Михаил Мишустин, как и ожидали авторы подкаста «Вид на Кремль», останется премьер-министром России на пятом президентском сроке Владимира Путина. Кандидатуру премьера 10 мая утвердила Госдума. После этого Мишустин представил Думе список вице-премьеров и министров, а Путин, согласно обновленной в 2020 году Конституции, предложил Совету Федерации кандидатов в силовые ведомства.

Unless something unexpected happens on the battlefield, the next year seems like easy street in Putin’s cabinet. With govt spending still in overdrive, it ain’t hard to appear active and capable. After all, Mishustin has been riding COVID and invasion cash since his appointment.

Attached: 1 image I'm old enough to remember when not sending NATO troops to Ukraine for direct combat with Russian soldiers was the whole plan instead of "backing down."

In March 2024, Victoria Nuland stepped down as State Department under-secretary for political affairs, ending her tenure as the third-highest-ranking U.S. diplomat. Early in her career, from 1991 to 1993, Nuland worked at the American embassy in Moscow and was responsible for relations with Boris Yeltsin's government. Later, as America’s assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, she visited the center of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity and publicly supported the demonstrators. Standing in the Maidan in Kyiv, Nuland even handed out cookies, which soon became a meme in Russia symbolizing supposed U.S. political interference. From the first days of the war in Ukraine, she helped develop Washington’s response to the Russian invasion. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described Nuland’s work as “indispensable to confronting” Russian aggression. Meduza special correspondent Lilia Yapparova spoke to Victoria Nuland about the current state of the war in Ukraine, Russia’s claimed justifications…

today’s theory: when LLMs start failing as they begin to learn from their own output, developers will be forced to train them on pre-LLM data, effectively halting progress in human earth science. conclusion: chatgpt is a sophon.

A humble request to those reading today about what the appointment of a new defense minister means for Russia’s military and Russian statecraft as we know it: when everything said now eventually proves to be wrong, just do a friendly shrug and don’t be mean about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Чиновник, которого Путин предложил сделать новым министром обороны, затронул темы социального обеспечения участников военной операции: медицинское обслуживание, денежное довольствование, поддержка