Russia bombs Ukrainian steel plant in Mariupol as Zelenskyy prepares to meet with U.S. officials  Happy Pascha.

Russian Airlines Told To Prepare For World Without GPS   I would find that entertaining.

Russian Meddling in Slovenia

China Would Support Russia Even If It Used Tactical Nuclear Weapons In Ukraine War: Former Defense Official

How Much Are We Prepared To Sacrifice To Help The US Win A Propaganda War Against Putin?

My Energy Is Your Problem – The Birth Of A New Europe

UK’s Largest Supermarket Begins Rationing Cooking Oil Amid Supply Disruption 

Nuclear Winter

Germany Borrows Another 40 Billion Euros To Cushion Fallout From War In Ukraine

Trashing The Constitution To Seize Russians’ Property

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While remote work has enabled some people to relocate from expensive metro areas, many of the smaller cities and towns they went to have quickly developed housing shortages of their own.

America wasn’t always like this — we once built all those countless cities and towns, after all.

A common thread: American towns and cities are no longer able to adapt to new residents as they once were, thanks to rigid zoning codes and tangled bureaucracy that makes infrastructure cost far more than it does in Europe or Asia. Even a simple bus lane can take over a decade to implement. And trying to change this can result in endless political fights.

So what if we just started new cities?

What if we just got rid of zoning regulations? Houston demonstrates that not even big cities really need them.

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Union + Minimum Wage -> Automation

Pretty soon the Democrat base will be all robots.

Zelenskyy says Ukraine invasion only the beginning; another apparent mass grave found near Mariupol (CNBC)

Russian General Lets Slip a Secret Plan to Invade Moldova and Seize Ukraine’s Entire Coastline (Daily Beast) My rule of thumb is, if the Daily Beast says it, you know it isn’t true.

Despite U.S. sanctions, oil traders help Russian oil reach global markets (NPR)

Why the U.S. is going after yachts and mansions of Russian billionaire oligarchs (CNBC) Because that’s where the money is?

Putin Tells EU Chief That Kiev Not Allowing Azov Militants To Surrender In Mariupol

Ukrainian Tennis Star Demands Russian Players Be Subjected To Ideological Purity Test

The city stopping the fall of south Ukraine

Indonesia Bans Edible Oil Exports, Sparks “Mayhem” As Global Food Crisis Ahead 

Kill the Tank: America’s Javelin Missile Is Second to None

Russian Diamond Flow To India Stops As US Sanctions Cause Gem Chaos 

Finland Says Will Likely Submit Application For NATO Membership In Coming Weeks  And Putin has only himself to blame.

The Russia-NATO Cyber War Is Escalating Fast

NATO & Russian Military Presence In Mediterranean Sea At Cold War Levels

Germany’s Scholz Resists Sending “Quickly Available” Tanks To Ukraine: ‘Could Lead To Nuclear War’

Liberals, Conservatives, and Russia: the Drama Triangle

Buchanan: First Priority – Avoid US War With Russia

“It is important to be open minded, but not so open minded that one’s brain falls out.” – Richard Feynman

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Imagine a world in which we could take care of our friends’ kids when they need to pop out, because our friends live a stone’s throw away. A world where any time you wanted to head out for a quick drink there would be a friend within ten minutes’ walk to go with. A world where you can easily get a pal over to set up a barbecue, or where you can play board games or have supper with friends on the slightest whim. Why don’t we live in that world already?

I live in London, a pretty large city. When I want to see my friends I often have to travel 45 minutes or an hour across town to do so. This level of latency is pretty annoying. Imagine how many Friends plotlines would have been broken if they hadn’t always been agglomerating across the hall from one another or in Central Perk.

This is much easier to do if everybody is renting in a dense urban area instead of owning homes in the suburbs, which is more usually the case.

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Now that’s comedy.

Against my natural inclination I’m starting to like Justin Hammer Elon Musk.

*sigh* I ought not to need to do this but …

• If it’s Right, it isn’t New. The whole point of Right is to be not-New.
• If it’s New, it isn’t Right. Yes, I’m looking at YOU, Jonah Goldberg.

That’s all you really need to know.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Eggs or yogurt, veggies or potato chips? We make decisions about what to eat every day, but those choices may not be fully our own. New University of Pittsburgh research on mice shows for the first time that the microbes in animals’ guts influence what they choose to eat, making substances that prompt cravings for different kinds of foods.

“We all have those urges — like if you ever you just feel like you need to eat a salad or you really need to eat meat,” said Kevin Kohl, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. “Our work shows that animals with different compositions of gut microbes choose different kinds of diets.”

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I am not making this up.

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This essay represents a “conspiracy theory” (or better, a conspiracy hypothesis) about the uses of the term “conspiracy theory” itself. I acknowledge that the term is one of the most potent epithets that can be hurled at a writer or speaker, that it is mostly used to delegitimize and dismiss its target, and that it serves not only to discredit the claim that a writer or speaker makes but also the very investigation into purported conspiracies. The phrase represents a condensed, shorthand means of labeling a claim negatively and humiliating the claimant, disqualifying the claimant and the claim a priori. Likewise, in writing of the “conspiracy” behind the use of the phrase, I am hereby opening myself up to the charge of “conspiracy theory.”

Not all actions-in-concert are the result of conscious conspiracy. People who hold the same values and believe the same lies about their opponents will pretty much always act the same way in any particular situation. This is why doing otherwise is so remarkable.

US Treasury secretary and other finance ministers walk out of G20 meeting with Russia (CNN) Russia is the New South Africa.

US congressman urges Biden to ban six UK lawyers for ‘enabling’ oligarchs (The Guardian) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Russian billionaire blasts Putin’s invasion (CNN) That won’t stop them from stealing his stuff.

US “Always Preparing The Next” Weapons Package For Ukraine: Biden Official

MSNBC: DeSantis, Youngkin Just Like Russians Who ‘Rape Children’ in Ukraine

Ukraine Attacks Civilian Targets in Russia?

Five Eyes nations fear wave of Russian attacks against critical infrastructure

China & Russia Pledge Deepened Strategic Ties ‘No Matter What’

Greenwald: Former Intel Officials, Citing Russia, Say Big-Tech Monopoly Power Vital To National Security

To Fight Russia, Europe’s Regimes Risk Impoverishment & Recession

China Doubles Russian Coking Coal Imports As Rest Of World Shuns Moscow

Germans Told To Take Fewer Showers As Energy Costs Bite

On Facebook, Denying Russian Atrocities in Bucha Is More Popular Than the Truth

Russia Expels 36 EU Diplomats After About 400 Russian Officials Booted From Europe

WINNING: A Trillion Dollar Tragedy

‘Black Hole’ – White House Doesn’t Know Where US Weapons Go After Entering Ukraine

Apple Pay in Russia: Suspension of service leads to lawsuit against iPhone maker

SpaceX shut down a Russian electromagnetic warfare attack in Ukraine

Russian law firm plans to sue Apple over removal of Apple Pay

“So Not Even A Fly Can Escape”: Putin Declares Mariupol ‘Liberated’ – Orders Besieged Steel Plant Sealed Off

Oil Jumps As “Second Wave Of Russian Oil Shock” Begins

Meet ‘Phoenix Ghost,’ the US Air Force’s new drone designed for Ukraine’s war with Russia

UPDATE: Sports Media Reacts To Wimbledon Ban Of Russians

Russia Closes Multiple Baltic Consulates – Cites Arms Transfers To Ukraine  What took them so long?

The Antiplanner is a wet blanket.

Sightline Institute researcher Michael Andersen offers Willamette Week readers “five ways to make [housing] cheaper.” Sounds good, except none of them will work.

Russia planned to invade Belarus after election, Ukraine claims The available evidence suggests that they don’t need to.

U.S. trying to seize $325 million superyacht reportedly owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov (NBC News) It’s all about the oligarchs and stealing their stuff.

G20 ministers urged to use oligarch crackdown to tackle tax havens (The Guardian) Never let a crisis go to waste! Steal everybody’s stuff, not just the oligarchs’!

Economists urge G20 set up register to track oligarchs (Jakarta Post) Maybe we could put a chip in them, like dogs and cats.

German Industry Fears Immediate Russian Gas Ban

Passover in war-torn Odessa

Biden Prepping Yet Another Huge Ukraine Arms Package As Total Military Aid Nears $3BN

Russia becomes a lost cause

“I’m Done Talking” – MSNBC Analyst Quits To Fight Russians In Ukraine   Judging by what I’ve seen, the Ukrainians ought to send him back.

Under pressure, SAP shuts down Russian operations

FORCES: REFORGER In Poland

One-Third Of Ukraine Farmland May Go Unplanted As Russia Begins ‘Second Phase’ Of War  Starving Ukrainians is nothing new for the Russian state.

Ukraine war shows America could be outgunned without investing in energetics

Ukraine Has Received Fighter Jets From Unnamed US Ally: Pentagon

US Says ‘No Major Territorial Gains’ By Russians In Donbas So Far

Russian Tennis Stars Banned From Competing In Wimbledon  Russia is the New South Africa.

SpaceX beating Russian jamming attack was ‘eyewatering’: DoD official

Tell the truth: You’ve always wanted to do that.

Armor: Tanks As Weapons Not Targets

Former Russian foreign minister reveals precisely when Putin may pull trigger on nuclear weapons

Natural gas surges to highest level since 2008 as Russia’s war upends energy markets (CNBC)

Inside The Ukraine-Induced Defense Contractor ‘Gold Rush’ At The Pentagon

To Arm or Not to Arm?

Wargame Simulating the Sinking of the Moskva

Explaining Germany’s Russian Gas Problem

IMF Slashes Global Growth Outlook, Blames Putin; Fears ‘Social Unrest’ & ‘Global Instability’

Lavrov Denies Russia Could Use Nukes In Ukraine

AirPods looted by Russians giving away their location via Find My  Now that’s comedy.

“Battle Of Donbas” In Full Swing As Russia Launches ‘Hellish’ All-Out Assault

EU’s Hope To Rely On LNG Is Weak Point In Plan To Wean Off Of Russian Gas

Russia Must Prepare For “Possible Aggressive Action” From NATO, Putin Advisor Says

EU To Impose Full Embargo On Russian Oil Next Week, Will Send Price Above $185 According To JPMorgan  Those of us who own shares in oil MLPs appreciate the heads-up, so we can stock up.

Russian Ambassador To US Says Biden Officials Won’t Speak With Him  Of course not – not until Biden’s poll numbers start going back up.

On Ukraine: being wrong over and over doesn’t seem to stop Colonel Macgregor

Russia Tells Azov Fighters Trapped In Giant ‘Fortress’ Steel Plant: “Lay Down Arms Or We’ll Level Everything”

The Tank Is Dead: Long Live the Javelin, the Switchblade, the … ?

Climateer blows the whistle.

My topic for today: All numbers are wrong.

Like, seriously. Whenever you see a number – in a tweet, newspaper headline, office email, technical report, textbook, anywhere – assume it is wrong. Treat it as enemy misinformation, deliberate sabotage of your understanding of the world, and disregard it.

You’re thinking, ha ha, I’m exaggerating for effect. I’m not. Seriously I am not. I mean, of course not not all numbers are literally incorrect; but it happens so very, very much more often than your intuition, that I do literally mean it is a good practice to treat all numbers as incorrect by default.

I’ve come to this position slowly, over the years, one screwup at a time. But now that I’ve really started paying attention, the mistakes are everywhere.

Read it.

Easy to say – but who gets to pay for it? The taxpayer, of course.

Fund your own damned research.

Some days are better than others. We take our victories where we can.

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For many people nowadays, the first port of call upon discovering an unusual rash or feeling a worrying pain is not the doctor, but rather Google.

Considering the behavior of doctors throughout the Pandemic Panic, can you blame them?

Fareed Zakaria: We must stop Putin’s plan B (CNN) And, of course, a talking head at CNN knows what Putin’s Plan B is. Never doubt it.

Biden and US allies face new dilemma on Ukraine aid (CNN)

Dusty Johnson among hundreds of U.S. Representatives sanctioned by Kremlin, calls it a ‘badge of honor’

‘They mean nothing to me,’ Langevin says of Russia’s sanctions on members of Congress  I mean, it’s not as if people are fighting to go to Russia the way they’re fighting to come to America.

Germany’s Economic Minister Warned Of Unrest If Russian Gas Is Immediately Cut Off

James Lileks: Vladophilia

Shades Of Gray In The Russia-Ukraine War

R.I.P., Another Russian General

US, EU Sacrificing Ukraine To “Weaken Russia”: Former NATO Adviser

Austrian Chancellor: Putin “Believes He Is Winning The War”

LOGISTICS: The War Reserve Stockpile War

FORCES: Ukraine Must Decide

Russia Expands ‘Powerful’ Cruise Missile Strikes To Western City Of Lviv

Willing Victims

British Elite SAS Soldiers Are Training Troops On Ukrainian Territory

Captured Britons Appear On Russian TV Urging Boris Johnson To Negotiate Ukraine Prisoner Swap

It isn’t just Putin — Russia vs. Ukraine

A current sticking point of the Iran deal (also, how the Deal and the Ukraine War intersect)

Top Democratic Senator Favors Sending US Troops To Ukraine  But not to the southern border.

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Small, deployable nuclear reactors, an idea that the United States military has been experimenting with for decades, will receive new life under a program the Defense Department announced Thursday.

And unlike previous efforts to deploy alternatives to diesel and other fossil-fuel generators, which were stalled by high costs and little political support, this new effort may succeed in helping the military, and eventually commercial energy providers, wean themselves off carbon-intensive power. As one expert explained, while the physics haven’t changed, increasing concerns about the geopolitics of fossil fuels coupled with growing concerns about climate change have made the effort more critical.

Imagine the fights when localities try to set up one of these and the NIMBY/EcoNazi crowd attempt to regulate it to death:

But a number of nuclear scientists and watchdogs have questioned the need for such a device. In recent years, they have publishing scathing reports, commentary and analyses about the potential contamination should the reactor or its fuel be damaged during an attack, stolen or experience a catastrophic failure.

“Not only have my concerns not been alleviated, they’ve actually grown,” Professor Alan J. Kuperman told Military Times.

Calls for US to issue visa bans for UK lawyers enabling Russian oligarchs (The Guardian) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Russia’s Oil Industry Is Suffering As The West Shuns Its Crude

Europe has yet to hit Russia where it would hurt the most: banning its oil and gas  I guess some ‘journalists’ didn’t get the memo.

INTELLIGENCE: Epic Fails

Blinken: Ukraine War Will Last Through 2022

Mariupol Has Been “Wiped Off The Face Of The Earth,” Ukrainian Governor Says

Scott Adams (on his Locals podcast COFFEE WITH SCOTT ADAMS, which I highly recommend) points out that the reason Twitter has power in this world is that it has both Left and Right arguing with each other. If one side went away, it would just be one side talking to themselves and it would fail. (This is why the various right-wing alternatives to Twitter never succeed; nobody from the Left ever goes there, or ever will go there, so there is no chance of it ever having power.) This is why the Elon Musk thing is seen as such a threat — Mommeee! Billy hit me back!

Why do ‘right-wing’ people fight so hard not to Get Canceled on Twitter? Because they want to be on Twitter so badly that they’ll fight to be there, even when they are being regularly and routinely abused. It reminds me of the classic story of the guy whose job was shoveling up elephant shit all day. When somebody suggested that he go into another line of work, he responed ‘What? And give up show business?’ If this kind of ‘show business’ is so important to you that you are willing to spend your days shoveling up elephant shit, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU>

This is psychotic. Twitter (in its present form) is an stage for left-wing people to abuse right-wing people; the right-wing people are necessary for this process because their Role In Life is to serve as whipping-boys for the proglodytes. The same can be said of alleged ‘conservatives’ who accept invitations to appear on networks like CNN and MSNBC when everybody and his dog knows that the only reason for such an invitation is that it provides the Usual Suspects with a target for abuse. Why put up with that? A character defect is the only reason I can think of.

Conservatives, stop using Twitter. If you did, it would die, and yet another arena for the Left to abuse their natural victims would cease to exist. You have the key to Hell in your own hands; leave whenever you decide to do so. That’s all it takes.

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he central bank of France has covertly repatriated 221 tonnes of gold between 2013 and 2016. Since then, all its monetary gold is stored in La Souterraine in Paris. Repatriating all gold is related to France’s aim to revamp Paris as a gold trading center.

They used to keep their gold in New York just in case the Soviets invaded Western Europe. I guess that’s no longer a concern.

What form Putin’s revenge against the US could take (CNN)

Russia believed the West was weak and decadent. So it invaded. (Washington Post)

Zelensky Warns Russia May Use Nukes After CIA Says Putin Desperate to Win (Newsweek)

Sanctioned Russian oligarchs linked to £800m worth of UK property (BBC) Linked!

ON POINT: Ukraine’s Warrior State A Fact

What should the US Navy learn from Moskva’s demise?  The Russian Navy sucks.

Putin’s war is a cross to bear for all Russians

“Z” Must Go!

4.6 Million Seeking Refuge From Russian Invasion

Nuclear weapons are not as destructive as you think

Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in first few hours (2019)  Mostly in Blue states, so it’s not like it’s a bad thing.

Freeberg nails it.

So, Elon has made his move on Twitter. And now we’re all talking about free speech, and those awful terrible billionaires doing…stuff.

This debate over “free speech” is about to drift over into “Yeah but what about truth?” The narrative is going to be that we can’t have speech that’s so free that people can sling about untrue things. So it’s like a hose, you see? Or a coffee filter. You can constrict it and be anti-free-speech, but if you open it up too much, a bunch of “disinformation” gets in there…so we have to find a happy medium.

Back up the truck. Before we even get there, let’s inspect this.

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“What happened to that guy?” A lot of us have asked this question in the past few years about columnists, pundits, and thinkers we’ve always agreed with, only to see them taking a wildly different tack. Next, we’ll ask, “Did I change or did they?” I know I’ve changed quite a bit, but to see influential conservatives pushing “the conservative case for voting Democrat/Promoting CRT and Queer Theory/censoring Republicans/etc.” remains tough to stomach.

Every time I see “The Conservative Case For [insert proglodyte scheme here]” I want to barf.

Outrage over comedian called ‘Putin’s joker’ holding San Francisco show (S.F.Gate) After all, Putin is the New Trump.

Protesters confront San Francisco audience attending show by comedian who appears on Russian TV (KGO-TV) Oh, no! Russian TV cooties!

How a mysterious Putin ally, the ‘Russian Gatsby,’ moves his billions (NBC) Ooooooo! Mysterious Putin Ally!

U.S. hunt for Russian oligarchs’ huge fortunes faces barriers offshore (Washington Post) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Kremlin-connected children grew up in the very countries whose societies their parents claim to reject Ooooooo! Kremlin-connected!

Team Biden scrambles to respond to claims of Russia chemical weapon use (Politico)

Putin purges more than 100 FSB agents in apparent retaliation amid Ukraine invasion quagmire

The next phase of the Ukraine war will be bloody

Taibbi: Straight Out Of Dr. Strangelove

Slovakia In Talks With NATO Allies To Send MiG-29 Jets To Ukraine

With Le Pen Closing Gap In French Election Polls, Macron Smears Opponent As Russian Sympathizer

China Used NATO Airspace To Deliver Missiles To Serbia

Americans Are “In Charge” Of The War Says French Journalist Who Returned From Ukraine  No wonder the Ukrainians are doing well.

Sweden To Apply For NATO Membership – Finland To Decide “Within Weeks”

Kremlin Again Warns US-NATO Weapons Transports Into Ukraine Will Be Attacked

Pentagon Convenes ‘Classified’ Meeting Of Top 8 US Arms Makers As They Reap Ukraine Windfall

Western Dissent from US/NATO Policy on Ukraine is Small, Yet the Censorship Campaign is Extreme

Which Oil Giant Stands To Lose The Most In The Exodus From Russia?

Roker Frets to Obama That Ukraine Is Distracting From Climate Agenda

Could A Full Oil Embargo Stop The War In Ukraine?

For first time, Ukraine to get US artillery in new $800M weapons package

ZMan does some detecting.

When Trump famously came down the escalator to declare his candidacy, many assumed it was just a publicity stunt from a guy known for showmanship. Some went a bit far in criticizing it but Trump is one of those guys who can rub some people the wrong way. Once it was clear that he was a serious threat to be nominated, it also became clear that those harsh critics had contracted this new mind virus.

Granted, we did not know it was a mind virus. When Bill Kristol started waving around Hillary Clinton signs, it was just assumed he was bitter. In fact, that was the assumption about all of the neocons who were ranting about Trump. He had torpedoed their guy Jeb Bush so their attacks were just sour grapes. Jonah Goldberg was sure his old lady was going to land a job in the next Republican administration so Trump was a huge blow to his plans.

We now think that Trump triggered the forgotten Trotsky gene. All of those old neoconservatives and their progeny who had been posing as conservatives for fifty years have the Trotsky gene. Trump triggered it and as a result they instinctively returned to their natural state as hyper-violent leftists. At least it was assumed that Trump triggered it. Further evidence suggests that a virus of some sort was in the air that was the real cause of the neocon reaction.

Putin’s war shows autocracies and fossil fuels go hand in hand. Here’s how to tackle both (The Guardian) Let us not permit a pesky little war distract us from what is Really Important: Climate change!

France’s Societe Generale sells Russian bank to oligarch Vladimir Potanin (CNN) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt, says S&P (CNN)

Hidden wealth of one of Putin’s ‘inner circle’ revealed (BBC) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Russia Threatens Legal Action If US Treasury Forces It Into Sovereign Debt Default

Bankruptcy or bombs: Sprawling defense budget sets US up for financial and military ruin

Ukraine, Russia, and Israel

Home Before Christmas?

8-Mile Long Russian Convoy Signals Huge Assault Readied To Take Donbas: Pentagon

Ex-CIA Ray McGovern: Corporate Media Deploys The Big Guns On Ukraine

Message From Ukraine — Nukes Do Deter

Putin’s imperialism in Africa  All Putin, all the time.

War-Risk Premiums Make Ships Entering Black Sea Uninsurable

Ukraine Is Already Fading On Television News

AIR DEFENSE: Ukraine, Germany And Arrow 3

Finnish network kitmaker Nokia quits Russia over Ukraine invasion

Russia Steps Up Efforts To Jam US-Provided GPS In Ukraine: Pentagon

Nobody Knows What The US Would Do In A Chemical Weapons Situation

The uses of Putin

White House: Our Critics Are Pro-Putin  Apparently Putin is the New Trump.

Washington’s dirtiest war at last goes silent

Pentagon Treats Azov Claims Of Russian Chemical Attack With Caution After UK Amplified Them

Lost: The Truth About the War in Ukraine. If Found, Please Return ASAP.

“It’s only a matter of time before the people with guns feel entitled to tell the people without guns what to do. That’s why the Second Amendment is so important.”  — Charlie Kirk

Joel Kotkin.

In 1946, the American author John Gunther described Houston as “mostly ugly and barren, without a single good restaurant and hotels with cockroaches”. The only reasons to live in the city, he claimed, were financial; it was a place “where few people think about anything but money”.

This view was widespread at the time, and has lingered well into the 21st century. Forget Houston. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are the cities most frequently associated with the urban American dream.

Fast forward to today, however, and a new urban renaissance is taking shape — and this time, it’s in the heart of Texas. Never before in American history have two metros in one state — Houston and Dallas-Ft. Worth — been in the nation’s five largest. So much for its cockroaches; at its current rate of growth, Houston could replace Chicago as the nation’s third largest municipality by 2030.

Why Putin’s invasion failed

More Than 100 Russian Jets Stranded In Dubai After Being Flown There To Escape Sanctions

Zelensky on NATO: ‘no longer interested in their diplomacy’ (The Hill)

Name the eight oligarchs given ‘golden visas’, demands Labour (The Guardian) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Bucha & Truth

China Undercuts Sanctions On Russia: Where Are The “Consequences”?

Russian Oil Continues To Flow To India And China

WINNING: Russian Recruiting Ruined

Ericsson pulls out of Russia ‘indefinitely’ to protest war in Ukraine

Russian Military Says It Successfully Destroyed S-300 Systems Provided By EU State

Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer

Finland Set For NATO Entry As Soon As Summer – Russian Official Warns “Destruction Of Their Country” Coming

Ukraine War Meant To Stop US World Domination, Russia’s Top Diplomat Says

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Economists, politicians and business leaders, it seems, have given up on trying to imagine completely different economic systems. But we have not.

And neither has a small group of brainy, visionary science fiction authors: Cory Doctorow (peer production and abundance in Walkaway), Bruce Sterling (nomads + cheap open source technology + reputation servers in Distraction), Neal Stephenson (phyla in The Diamond Age), Peter Watts (tons of insights from biology in the Rifters trilogy), and others.

We organize a meeting of minds where we can learn from each other what future economies might look like. And maybe even how we can help bring them into the world.

Cory Doctorow is a proglodyte, and I’ve never heard of Peter Watts, but I’ll listen to whatever Bruce Sterling or Neal Stephenson have to say on any subject.

“All disinformation comes from either the media or the government. That’s it.”  — ZMan