"why Europe needs to take its own defence more seriously. Russia is still a long way from winning on the battlefield, despite devoting half its budget to the war... If the West chooses to let its enemies win, history will not judge its leaders kindly"
https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/01/22/a-chilling-yet-plausible-scenario-what-if-putin-wins?giftId=NGQzZmU5MGEtOTY3YS00NmNlLWIzOWEtMzM4ZDNlNWE5NTk2&utm_campaign=gifted_article
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
A$AP Rocky:
🎵 Robbery
#NowPlaying #A$APRocky
https://beedollbeats.bandcamp.com/track/free-a-ap-rocky-x-rittz-type-beat-bank-robbery-prod-beedoll-beats
https://open.spotify.com/track/5FYaSV8TLF7qvonB1BDOw0
I'm sitting on my couch, coding on my modest laptop, and I have a file with 216,783,180 rows open in #Stata, and it's ... a little sluggish.
200 million obs, and it's taking seconds. Unimaginable a few years ago.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116143059609151643
America is nuts. Very keen on UFOs, this could work v well as a distraction.
What's all this fuss about #StormChandra? I got to work and back today without getting more than trivially damp. #Mastodaoine
(Judicious timing informed by
Instant classic: Springsteen just wrote a song about Minneapolis
Echoes of Guthrie or Dylan singing about past atrocities, but it's happening right now.
https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w