THE BIOSINGULARITY IS NEAR
I have completed the "Noocelerationist Manifesto". Basic thesis: Solve human intelligence, then solve all the other problems - from development gaps and declining innovation rates, to making death optional and AI alignment.
Morbidly amusing how Israel (8M) is mooobilizing more men against a flyspeck impoverished exclave than Russia (150M) brought to bear in total against Ukraine at the start, and proudly poasting apartment blocks getting blown up while Russia hesitated to even hit UAF barracks.
Elena Bunina, CEO/HR-director within the Russia division of Yandex, resigns and leaves for Israel.
"I will not return. I cannot work in a country that wages war against its neighbors."
A Russian meets up with an American.
"We have freedom of speech," the Russian says. "I can post that Russian elections are falsified on social media."
"What's the big deal?" asks the American. "I too can write that Russian elections are falsified on social media."
Yejin, a 30-year-old TV producer, has decided not to get married and have children.
"It's hard to find a dateable man in Korea - one who will share the chores and the childcare equally" she says.
“And women who have babies alone are not judged kindly."
MAGA protesters trespassed onto elite's premises, while BLM and Antifa destroyed commoners' property. This is the most fundamental fact to consider when looking at people's responses to the two (either equating them, or priveleging one or the other).
US Embassy in Moscow. "1999.03.24 - 78 days. We will not forget, we will not forgive, we will not allow it to happen again. We are 200 million together with Serbs."
🇷🇺🤝🇷🇸
RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR UPDATE
Russia's primary problem is lack of manpower. Since Russians have no combat effectiveness advantage over Ukrainians, this meant old SMO was to be a static war of attrition trading Russian munitions advantage for Ukrainian manpower advantage. 🧵
Ukrainian refugees in Moldova pick school language of instruction for their children:
6%: 🇷🇴
6%: 🇺🇦
88%: 🇷🇺
Rather telling, considering the Zelensky regime shut down Russian language instruction in 2020.
> We are now living in a world where American cultural influence is rapidly declining.
Say a couple of Russian nationalists, Tweeting in English to an American audience on an American platform.
We are now living in a world where American cultural influence is rapidly declining. And the Americans themselves have become less insular and self-absorbed than they were even a few years ago
The popularity of exclusively American entertainment and sports is dwindling.…
Looks like Nord Stream 1 as well as Nord Stream 2 has now been destroyed or as good as within a day.
More than a decade of "debate" (aka limitrophic whining) and physical capital (~$30B) annulled just like that. Kudos to the US, can certainly act decisively.
POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS
Water flowing through Crimean Canal, previously blocked by Ukraine, for the first time in eight years.
No more water terrorism problem.
"In Kiev, Chernigov, there are proper Ukrainians, they gave Russian positions to us. Here [in Donbass], they’re giving our positions to the Russians, tell them where to hit. They’re collaborators, subhumans."
Ukrainian nationalists' powers of introspection never fail to impress.
I think severing Trans-Atlantic Internet cables with cable-cutting submarines would be an appropriate and minimal reasonably Russian reaction if American permanent sabotage of Nord Stream was to be confirmed. "The sharks ate them."
Scanning /r/worldnews you'd think the Ukrainians were beating the Russians back on all fronts and taking prisoners and the Putin regime was getting rattled by anti-war protests.
Melitopol under its new head Vladimir Rogov:
* Debt jubilee
* Gas/utilities prices lowered to Russian levels
* Temp tax holiday
* Russian market opened to farmers
* Local militia to support Rosgvardiya
> Suggests Russia is here to stay; Novorossiya, at the least, will be annexed.
@Indian_Bronson
It would make sense if the world warmed by a few degrees and 100 million people moved to Alaska and Chukotka. As it is, Russia has yet to even build a bridge across the Lena.
Meanwhile, Russia opens investigation against Nike for using exclusively non-White models to advertise its wares (in Russia).
Distancing from the West bearing fruit.
Huawei closes offices in Russia & drops app support for Mir payments system (even Google hasn't done this). Imagine being Huawei CEO, your daughter gets imprisoned for 2 years on American orders and your reaction is to crawl to the white mastaz and ask how high. Buck broken.
Military sitrep from a long-time member of my Discord who predicted
#UkraineWar
back in late November.
Massive selection bias + Western MSM/OSINT privileging Ukrainian narratives => highly mistaken consensus views on who's winning => "shock and disbelief" is inevitable.
DNR soldier studies the literature ("Divisions of the Waffen SS") at the Azov base in Mariupol.
Meanwhile armed Ukranian queers promise to destroy Moskovian imperialism.
Certainly a powerful country it cannot be denied.
@KyivIndependent
It's amusing Ukrainian and Polish nationalists have this Intermarium geopolitical fantasy thing going on, but reality is the Ukrainians are too autistic to let the Bandera thing go, so when the current war is done, they'll just go back to gnawing each other.
Meanwhile, not only did Vucic win in Serbia by a landslide, but the more Russophile nationalist forces collectively did better (18% of the vote) than pro-EU ones (17%) for the first time in history. Crushing 🇷🇸 victory, Atlanticists in shock and disbelief!
There's a wave of unprecedented Russophobia in the West, from the cat bans to demands to disavow to restaurant bans to kicking (anti-war!) Russians out of chess tournaments just for being Russian. What would have been quite shocking a few years ago I now unapologetically endorse.
For the first time possibly since some random year in the late Middle Ages, Moscow (right) will have lower homicide rate than prestigious London (left) in 2021.
London: 1.4/100k murders in 2020, no change this year.
Moscow: 1.4/100k murders in 2020, down 21% this year to date.
Canada is this schizo country with some of the biggest legal constraints on Far Right free speech in the Western world, while not just harboring but proudly platforming actual, unironic Ukrainian Nazis - not to mention violent Sikh separatists, as we recently learned.
A 98-year old was given standing ovation by the Canadian parliament during Zelensky's speech.
He was hailed as a hero for fighting against the Russians.
Yaroslav Hunk fought for the 14th division of the Waffen SS.
Eighth anniversary of the abortive Kharkov People's Republic. I know an KhNR supporter who is also active in the transhumanism scene who later moved to Voronezh to escape SBU reprisals. A lot of pain could have been avoided if Russia had moved in the troops back in 2014.
This guy is supposed to be a historian? Precise opposite of reality. The Allies had a vast materiel and manpower preponderance over the Nazis, and it was only far superior German combat effectiveness that allowed them to fight all the way to 1945.
Some military historians believe that one reason Hitler’s army fell apart in 1944-1945 Europe was that, unlike the Allied officers and soldiers trained in democracies, the troops schooled under the Nazis could not, when necessary, think for themselves on the battlefield.
The White Emigration consisted of world-renowned philosophers & scientists who loved Russia. The current one consists of a few marginal journalists, activists, and sundry freaks who hate and despise their own country. It's the precise opposite of the philosophers' ships.
Friend after friend fleeing Russia. Five today alone. The best and the brightest, the journalists who were telling people the truth about their country—gone. Emigres, like the white Russians of a century ago. Putin is destroying two countries at once.
Again, if you consider this plausible - that a modern military with air/artillery dominance is sustaining 2x the German loss rate during Normandy as % of troops engaged - then you might want to consider wrapping up your war commentary, as it is negative value added.
A senior NATO military officer says the alliance estimates that Russia has suffered between 30,000 and 40,000 battlefield casualties in Ukraine through the first month of the war, including between 7,000 and 15,000 killed (via AP)
Give lectures on crypto in North Korea? Prison. 🚔
Write code for a mixer? Prison. 🚔
Run an online library with pirated books? Extradition, prison. ✈️🚔
Gamble away billions literally stolen from your exchange's customers and give millions to politicians? Handshakeworthy. 🤝
SHOIGU IS ETERNAL
Presidents come and go, but Shoigu remains in place and keeps failing upwards, even as his tenure contributes to accelerating demoralization within the Russian Armed Forces that has now translated into an abortive coup.
How does he do it?
Russia's 6 demands to stop the war (first 5 need to go into 🇺🇦 Constitution):
1. Neutrality/no NATO.
2. Russian language as 2nd state.
3. Recognize Crimea as 🇷🇺
4. & LDNR within administrative borders.
5. Denazification
6. Demilitarization
Navalny's FBK compiles list of 200 main pro-war people "at the request of the UK Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
At the same time, they constantly whine about being designated "foreign agents."
Just bizarre. Suggests either an agreement not to try to kill Zelensky (his Russian hit squad fantasies aside) or a totally broken OODA loop & zero Russian military initiative.
NATO/US never had issues striking whichever palace/residence Milosevic and Saddam were reportedly in.
Zelensky & friends are in Izyum doing PR photoshoots. No one is firing at them. When Deputy Head of the RU Presidential Administration Kirienko visited the town, the AFU fired full MLRS volleys into Izyum. Does that make Russia look nice? No, it makes Russia look weak and stupid.
VCIOM poll: 68% of Russians approve (22% oppose) of the "special military operation" in Ukraine. As I said, there is no meaningful distinction between Putin and the Russian people on this question.
Kherson to change its coat of arms from the 1995 version to that of the Kherson governorate of 1803.
In other news, all Khersonites can now apply for Russian citizenship.
* Russia-Ukraine War within 48 hours (70%).
* Serious resistance will last <week (90%), perhaps only 1-2 days (40%).
* Eventually integrated into RF: Donbass: 90%; Novorossiya: 70%; Ukraine in ~1939 borders: 40%; +Volhynia: 20%; +Galicia 15%.
#prediction
> Mariupol taken
> Naval landings in Odessa
> Entering Kharkov
> Airborne operation to take Kiev Airport
> BayREKTar fanbois roping
I thought Ukrainian resistance would be weak & takeover measured in days, looks like it might actually be just hours.
Have to say that one of the funnier things about this conflict is Jihadi Julian's adherence to objectivity in the military realm, while many Western military analysts like Rob Lee are drinking the Ukrainian Kool-Aid heavily to the point of self-satire.
Chronicles of total American supremacy:
* US 4th year computer science students performed better than peers in China, Russia, India by 0.75 S.D.
* In fact, non-elite US students performed slightly better than CN/IN/RU at "elite" institutions.
* India actually overrated here as…
LMAO, I dismissed this as trolling (China/Russia) and/or schizo (/pol/) talk.
This isn't a deep fake? Why is the US doing "biological research" in Ukraine?
Western leaders applauded Yeltsin as a great democrat when he sent tanks vs. popularly elected Duma which opposed his reforms in 1993. Hundreds of Russian patriots from Left and Right were martyred. This is what an actual assault on a "sacred temple of our democracy" looks like.
Western journalists, Blue Checks, and svidomy were seething so hard about
@RWApodcast
blowing up to 100k+ followers in the space of a month and they have finally had their revenge.
You can follow them at
At this point, I'm unironically wondering what has done more damage to UAF, the Russian Air Force in the past 7 months ($100B? of investment over the past decade) or the Shaheds in the past month ($0.1B?).
One interesting observation about this war is that the DNR/LNR solders have greater combat effectiveness than Russian troops, despite worse equipment, there are even memes about it now (h/t
@L77hoy
).
I don't think there'll be rapprochement between Russia and Europe for a long time, if ever. There'll be significant excess mortality and economic pain in the EU this winter. At that point, the hate will become visceral, not just ideological.
It's pretty funny how Westoids now cite low Ukrainian civilian casualty rates from Russia's missile strikes as evidence of Russian incompetence, what should Russia do, should it seek to maximize them instead, do they now demand blood for the blood god.
The Russian missile attacks that killed at least 19 people across Ukraine on Monday were wide-ranging, but they were not as deadly as they could have been. That has renewed questions over the quality of Russia’s weapons.
I sometimes browse /r/worldnews to check up on what normie Westoids are thinking, find it amusing how thoroughly Poland has been rehabilitated from the fascist clerical state it was prior to 22/2/22 to the based champion of Western values and thorn in Russia's foot it is now.
@SecBlinken
World annual grain production is 2,300M tons. Exports under the Grain Deal to date constituted 33M tons (1.4%), of which 18M tons went to Western countries. Only 725,000 tons (0.03%) went to poor countries under the UN World Food Program.
#communitynotes
~36 hours. While taking great pains to limit Ukrainian civilian and even military casualties.
This widely RT'ed thread is from a parallel reality.
(map source: Julian Roepcke, not known for pro-Russian sympathies to put it mildly)
Russia will simple seize these hundreds of aircraft and internal tourism will boom. Iranian aviation sector non-existent before 1980, had to be jury rigged from scratch, if Iran managed Russia certainly can.
I work in the aviation sector, and I can tell you that for all intents and purposes Russian aviation has - at best - about three weeks before it’s show over.
One aspect is the fact that airspace available to Russian aircraft is very, very limited now. However, there is more:
Chinese Y-20 transport planes observed arriving in Moscow over the past few days. But yes I'm sure Xi is seeking to ditch Russia because American tech & markets (which it is getting cut off from) is so much more important to it, after all that's what the all the experts here say.
The US is literally occupying parts of Syria and it was not invited there by its internationally recognized government. No sanctions of course, since power is respected.
The Assad regime’s recognition of the so-called Luhansk and Donetsk “People’s Republics” reveals the regime’s isolation. It also shows the regime’s disdain for international norms of behavior and hypocrisy regarding claims of sovereignty.
Chinese media instructed to cover Russia positively and avoid pro-Western framing.
"In the future, China will also need Russia's understanding and support when wrestling with America to solve the Taiwan issue once and for all."
Signaling aside, the Israeli approach is objectively superior. Putin choosing war but hypocritically avoiding the early brutality needed to win it quickly has, all else aside, ensured that it would be much longer and result in vastly more suffering than under true shock and awe.
"He who does not love his mother more than other mothers and his country more than other countries, loves neither his mother nor his country." - Charles de Gaulle.
Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By putting our own interests first, with no regard for others, we erase the very thing that a nation holds dearest, and the thing that keeps it alive: its moral values.
As I keep saying, the West has a social credit system just like China, though it's not called that. But while China's is optimized for strengthening society & country (family values, epidemic control, etc.), the West's is tailored to serve globalist elites & Bioleninist detritus.