Trump has begun many recent mornings watching video clips compiled by military officials of battlefield successes.
He has told advisers that being the commander in chief to eliminate the nuclear threat posed by Iran could be one of his signature achievements.
But Susan Wiles, according to two White House sources, was concerned aides were giving the President a rose-colored view of how the war was being perceived domestically,
telling Trump what he wanted to hear instead o…
My mp3 player tonight:
find /mnt/nas/public/Shared\ Music/brendan/nonclassic/Tom\ Waits/Beautiful_Maladies_-_The_Island_Years/ -type f -exec ffplay -autoexit {} \;
#linux
Coordinated conflict: how the Ukraine and Iran wars are starting to overlap
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/coordinated-conflict-how-the-ukraine-and-iran-wars-are-starting-to-over…
Coordinated conflict: how the Ukraine and Iran wars are starting to overlap
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/coordinated-conflict-how-the-ukraine-and-iran-wars-are-starting-to-over…
What's interesting is that this exact set of technologies leads to decision paralysis in centralized organizations:
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/cognitive-fratricide-how-the-transparent-battlefield-creates-decision-paralysis/
The problem here is a structural one, a function of hierarchy, where the direction of the flow of power determines what technology can do and how it can e used.
In a distributed network, this information is used by a central system to distribute data back to people so they can make the most informed decision. In a centralized network, this information is used to increase the power of central control node. It's a question of who is helping whom, who is autonomous and who is support.
I forgot I sent a letter to the editor of the Irish Times on Thursday: they printed it
#mastodaoine
https://www.irishtim…
I saw this on Reddit, and having the data to hand, I thought I'd replicate it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1s61cou/how_european_cities_stack_up_in_density/#lightbox
RE: https://chaos.social/@plyspomitox/116495604011394919
That is a hell of a good point. Ideas are not property: we do not forgo them by giving them to someone else.