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The near deadlock on land has led to an alternative Ukrainian effort to win by economic means.
While Russia has stepped up bombing of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
and residents of the country’s cities endure electricity outages,
Kyiv is still able to get power to the front,
its defences not obviously impaired.
And despite the regularity of Russian drone and missile attacks,
civilian morale appears not to have been significantly affected.
In retu…

Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that investments in data centers and information-processing software accounted for 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025 (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/data-centers-gdp-g…

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says
Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

Sneaking unemployment rate means the U.S. economy is inching closer to triggering Sahm Rule | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/sneaking-unemployment-rate-sahm-rule-recession-indicator-trigger/

I consider Peter #Thiel to be a power-hungry and ruthless egomaniac with a religious streak, which he tactically brings to the fore in order to hide his true character. Thiel himself is a great danger to peace and freedom and to a future in which all people and all of creation can participate.
Thiel is a negative #monomaniac

"If there is one magic ingredient for Switzerland’s enduring economic success, I found, it is that its businesses often combine blue-collar know-how with white-collar innovation. Switzerland, like Germany, built its 20th-century industrial economy on training and valuing all types of workers—those that work with their hands and those that work at a desk."

Mesh of Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices with Programmable Intensity Nulls
Jinxin Wu, Dan Wang, Qingqing Liang, Jianhua Hu, Jiahao Dong, Jijun Feng, Yi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18087 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18087 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18087
arXiv:2511.18087v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Light carrying transverse orbital angular momentum (T-OAM) in the form of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) is opening new degrees of freedom for structured light manipulation. Such spatiotemporal wavepackets hold significant potential for optical trapping, analog optical computing, studying photonic symmetry and topology, among others. Up to now, synthesizing of such vortices is limited in one dimension, either in temporal or spatial domain. In this work, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a two-dimensional flexible mesh of spatiotemporal optical vortices (M-STOV) with programmable intensity nulls, and analyze their diffraction patterns for detection. Furthermore, we extend the spectral range of M-STOV via second-harmonic generation while examining the transfer of OAM in this nonlinear process. This study establishes a foundational framework for designing higher dimensional spatiotemporal vortex fields and promises a high-capacity information carrier based on ST optical vortices.
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The more I study capitalism, the more I realize it is a system structured to divide people. It uses the state and economic institutions strategically to keep the working majority fragmented and powerless, preventing them from uniting against their common exploitation.
It’s wrong, deeply wrong, that capitalism enslaves people not only economically but socially and politically. It steals freedom and dignity, forcing the overwhelming majority to serve the selfish interests of a tiny rulin…

Giving up territory in Ukraine is also condemning people living there to live under Russian rule, a harsh dictatorship with limited freedoms, no room for opposition, bad economy etcetera. I don't think many people prefer Russia above living in Ukraine as part of the EU in the near future.
#russia #ukraine

"At best, some investors lose their shirts while the lucky ones make fortunes. At worst, the bubble bursts and takes everyone down with it — not just its investors, but the entire economy...
I’m deeply concerned that two opaque industries are creating giant bubbles on the verge of bursting.
One is AI" -- @…

Beware the Oligarch's AI Bubble
They’re likely to burst.