NunoSempere
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NunoSempere
2d 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
7d 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.
NunoSempere
8d ago
I am interacting with Paraguayans, which have a simplified and in a sense more rational version of Spanish with consistent verb endings. Despite being landlocked, it does have a navy, which patrols its rivers.
NunoSempere
16d ago
NunoSempere
17d ago
The Motte is a pretty good intelligence agency though :), I wonder how we'd do in the case of another covid/world war/civil war/memetic strain/AI bamboozlement/whatever
NunoSempere
19d ago
The crisis is in the connection to the broader context, for instance, the Houthis might start attacking tankers again if this gets back enough. But probably not.
NunoSempere
20d ago
I fundraised $500K for the nonprofit I'm running; it arrived a few days ago in our bank account. This means I get to run my small intelligence agency for another year.
NunoSempere
23d ago
Some headlines:
Geopolitics
United States
Rest of the Americas
US escalates its campaign against 'narco-terrorism' in Latin America with the launch of Operation Southern Spear
cuban government acknowledges out-of-control dengue and chikungunya outbreaks, responds with slogans and propaganda
Europe
DR Congo and M23 rebel group sign a framework agreement for a peace deal in Qatar
Middle East
Trump hosts Syria's new ruler in dramatic turnaround
Iran
Gaza
Hamas says fighters holed up in Rafah will not surrender | Reuters
Yemen
Yemen’s Houthis appear to pull back from Red Sea shipping attacks Houthis News Al Jazeera
Asia
China was able to detect the need for an implement a measure to avoid a Chinese and American satellite from colliding, indicating that it now has greater situational awareness in space
Japanese Prime Minister Koshi Sanae's stated that a crisis in Taiwan could justify Japan's collective self-defense
Former Bangladeshi minister accused USAID and the Bill Clinton family of supporting the riots in 2024 that led to the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Thailand suspends Cambodia 'peace deal' after soldiers injured
At least 12 martyred, 21 injured in suicide bombing outside Islamabad court
India/Pakistan
'We are in a state of war': Pakistan minister sounds alarm after suicide bombing kills 12; blames Kabul
Smaller terrorist attack in India
Ex-Bangladesh leader charged with crimes against humanity wants vote ban lifted
Africa
Sudanese leader rules out any truce or peace with paramilitary RSF unless it lays down arms
Sudan conflict: RSF's ceasefire move seen as tactical deception
U.N. migration agency warns Sudan relief operations are 'on the brink of collapse' - Washington Times
TikTok star publicly executed by al-Qaeda jihadists in Mali as ANOTHER African country is gripped by Islamist bloodshed
Over 200 killed as Boko Haram, ISWAP fight for Supremacy in Lake Chad
Biorisks
Ukraine, Gaza, Syria...: Thanks to wars, bacteria turning antibiotics useless
Deaths linked to antibiotic-resistant superbugs rose 17% in England in 2024
Chronic kidney disease continues rising in prevalence.
Another person is hospitalized in the U.S. with bird flu
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/
Asia floods https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/02/global-heating-and-other-human-activity-are-making-asias-floods-more-lethal
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/
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