NunoSempere
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NunoSempere
3d ago
Some items I'm looking at:
Geopolitics
United States
Trump announces new class of U.S. battleships named after himself
Rest of the Americas
Iran and Venezuela Strengthen Alliance Against US Actions: Cooperation to Combat Caribbean Piracy
U.S. strikes another alleged drug-smuggling boat in eastern Pacific
US pursuing third oil tanker near Venezuela, officials say | Reuters
Great Satan US Steals Tanker Off Venezuela in Another Act of Piracy
Russia evacuates diplomats' families from Venezuela as US seizes oil tankers
Europe
EU anti-Russian influence operations, also decried as censorship
Pair convicted of plotting gun attack on mass gathering of Jews in Machester
Middle East
Israel plans to invest $110 billion to develop its indigenous defense industry.
Iran
Iran: 357 Executed Since November 22
Iran refuses inspection of nuclear sites until IAEA provides new guidelines after bombing
Gaza
Government announces 19 new West Bank settlements and legalized outposts | The Times of Israel
Land Grab: Inside Israel's Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank
Yemen
Asia
Japan's attempt to 'go nuclear' must be prevented, says North Korea
India announces USD 450 million reconstruction package for Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah
India/Pakistan
Pollution in New Delhi is so bad that people's DNA is getting damaged
Air Pollution in New Delhi,India: Effecting: DNA, Reproduction, Grand Children
Africa
Summary of Sudan toll in numbers
Hundreds of thousands newly displaced as Islamic State insurgency expands in Mozambique
President Trump announces strike on ISIS targets in Nigeria
Biorisks
Resistance to antifungal therapies
Artificial Intelligence
Google 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year
ARC-AGI 2: Poetiq reaches 75% at less $8 / task
More tech
Russia's new anti-satellite weapon project would target Starlink with space shrapnel | AP News
Drones causing alarm in Thailand airport
Economy
Climate and Nature
Others
NunoSempere
24d ago
I also gained the ability to parse reddit, from which:
Serbia’s Krušik arms plant sees second explosion in 3 months https://old.reddit.com/r/serbia/comments/1pe6sc3/druga_eksplozija_u_kru%C5%A1iku_u_3_meseca/
US travel ban from selected countries https://old.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/1pd6ix5/uscis_pause_and_review_megathread/
GPS spoofing in Eastern Europe. I don't understand what the significance of this is. https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1pdqpdm/comment/ns7kc2h/
4.3M Chrome users infected in malware campaign https://www.koi.ai/blog/4-million-browsers-infected-inside-shadypanda-7-year-malware-campaign
Marine algal stuff https://old.reddit.com/r/Adelaide/comments/1pc2nl3/marine_harmful_algal_symposium_5th_december_2025/
NunoSempere
24d ago
Some headlines:
Latin America
The Angry Tide of the Latin American Far Right
Trump Warns of Expanded Military Operations Against Venezuela
Europe
UK slams Putin 'sabre rattling' after he says Russia ready for Europe war and digs in on Ukraine peace talks
Ukraine talks 'productive' but more work needed, Rubio says - BBC News
Middle East
Iran
Iran’s Escalating Air Pollution Crisis
(they use mazut)
Gaza
Israel launches airstrike in southern Gaza after earlier attack by militants wounded 5 soldiers
Over 350 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since ceasefire, authorities say. Is this high?
Asia
HK housing complex fire a warning for Taiwan, since they can observe the repression of protesters afterwards.
Wang Yi and Lavrov jointly emphasized safeguarding the outcomes of World War II. Putin also signed a visa-free order for Chinese citizens.
India/Pakistan
Bangladesh sentences UK Labour MP Tulip Siddiq in absentia to two years in jail for corruption
25% increase in terror incidents in 2025 in Pakistan, think tank report says
India rejected Pakistan's claim that New Delhi denied overflight clearance to Pakistani aircraft carrying humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka
Africa
UN warns Sudan's Kordofan faces mass atrocities as fighting spreads
200,000 children to die this year because of foreign aid cuts
Tanzanian activist blocked from Instagram after mobilising election protests
Tanzania: US Reviews Ties With Tanzania Over Repression, Post-Election Violence
EU split on Tanzania aid after violent crackdown
Trump hosts signing of peace deal between leaders of DR Congo and Rwanda
E.U Parliament Halts $174 Million Aid to Tanzania
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon agents as a service
OpenAI becomes for-profit, gives Microsoft 27% stake. Microsoft will retain rights to OpenAI’s confidential research methods until either an independent expert panel verifies that AGI has been reached or through 2030, whichever comes first, and will keep some post‑AGI commercial rights.
OpenAI's GPT-5.2 'code red' response to Google is coming next week
TPUv7: Google Takes a Swing at the King
Google has moved from internal TPU usage to aggressively commercializing TPUv7 “Ironwood” systems: it is selling complete racks to customers and renting capacity via GCP, with Anthropic as the marquee customer. Google is prioritizing external adoption by ramping TPU software support: efforts include a native PyTorch TPU backend.
Anthropic's Claude 'Soul Document' extracted from Opus 4.5 weights
More tech
China has its own autarkik and probably superior version of Android now. The US is afraid of it.
NunoSempere
29d ago
The drafts I sometimes post on Thursday are by myself, but I have a larger team that does other things (e.g., parsing Twitter, reddit, making sense of stuff when wars start, etc.) We also wanted to have an emergency response team.
I've been reading King, Warrior, Magician, Lover, on Jungian psychology. It makes the point that there are positive mature masculine patterns/archetypes/stereotypes, and the book goes over how they look like. I'm probably aiming at the Magician pattern and coming from the precocious child pattern.
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